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A few days ago an unexpected opportunity came for me to brew this evening. I was unsure about what to do have a look here http://jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopi ... =5&t=27941

Originally i thought of a 15 liter brew, but the neighbour wondered if i could do 25 so he got some too.
I had a few hops but very little grain left so enede up with this ( based on 70%)


25 l
3880 pale
1000 pilsner malt ( just for the ABV)
25 bobek for 60
25 styrian golding for 60
25 styrian golding for 15
25 styrian golding for 5

This should give me a beer around the 4.1% mark that is light and fresh IBU is 28.6 and the recipe is based mainly on the Styrian Stunner recipe i found in the " award winning section"

I'll be posting pics of the day as we go. At present my efficiency has not been the same twice in a row although i think i have gotten it now. It could well be that i end up with a full 27 l in the fv all going well.

I have some recovered Nottigham slurry from the Winter Warmer i did last week, a friend of mine took the second glass yesterday in order to make a Muntons winter warmer kit. He says it went off like a rocket.

I have to decide on the nottingham ( that will go well and produce a more hop charactered beer) or play safe with S-04. some of this will be bottled, some will be in kegs.

If anyone sees anything wrong with this recipe please shout.!:) Brew day atarts at 5 pm GMT

Thanks as always

Looks great, you cant go wrong with Styrian goldings, I recently brewed an IPA that used them as the only hop and it came out sublime, It had a really sherbet dip like bitter/sweet like taste

Well the recipe changed to as is shown in the first post of this thread. Basically upped the hopps somewhat.

The brew went actually really really well and i have again gotten over 80% eff buy mu calculations. it appears that me slowing the runnings down rastically has helped me greatly. One lesson learned.

Anyway

the shed was cold when i collected the grain today as you can see by the temp.



I increased the strike temperature to account fo this

Doughing in with help of the paint mixer in the drill once again gave a great mixture andi am thankful te the folks on this forum for telling me about it.



Wilst the 90 minute mash was on i baggd up 100 grams of hops. Without doubt the most hops i have ebver used. However the IBU wasnot more than 29 and for the style his is mid range. i can alsways dry hop with some more styrians if needs be in order to give it more smell if i have to. The bobek was basically to keep it in the family and these were a higher alpha so i used thenm to add some bitterness at the start of the 60 minute boil.



The first runnings were clear almost immediately aftera sparge that was around 1.30 long. my longest sparge by far. i think my neighbour may bethe next to start this hobby. no kits but diving straight in to AG



We started the heat a little earlier than usual to try and speed things up. The hotbreak came....



and everthing went right to plan.

I decided to use frm slurry from the winter warmer. its nottinham but based on my experience of it to date i will use this over S-04.

We drained around a600 ml from the boiler. cooled it then pitched the slurry. Damn that tuff was viable and within the 45 minutes we had it created a lovely domed head on top.



the chiller went in and shilling started.



and the cold break came in the end......



we drained the boiler and hear i learned another lesson.. I REALLY NEED A STRAINER WHEN I MAKE MY OWN ONE! too much trub in the FV

SO The recipe told me that i was going to get 25 liters at 1045. i ended up with 25 liters at 1052 and then diluted to 27 liters at aroun 1048.

Here is the FV aerated and the yeast pitched.



8 hours after pitching we have massive action in the airlock. i am thinking that this will ferment out by around wednesday and hope for an FG of around the 1012 marck.

As to whether i dry hop or not only time will show.

thanks for reading.

Like the swirly mashing in action shot...
Should be a good one:)

Drill in one hand. Telephone camera in the other. Who says men can't multi task.
hoping this will be fresh and just slightly deceiving.

Had to put a blow off tube on this one asi started getting yeast head in the air lock. luckilly it has a calmed an awful lot. Will need to take a gravity today and see how far to go. this could be finished within the next day or so.

Fun this one though

Just an update on this.
i took a gravity last night and it's down from 1048 to 1012 and still going.

Airlock action is a lot slower but around once every 30 seconds or so. Would imagine that this will go toaround the 1008 maybe 1010?

I am away at the weekend so this os going to stand until at least sunday before kegging bottling.

The last brew i used with Notiingham cleared after a week in bottles so i am hoping this one will also be ready for christmas.

This was finished yesterday morning. FG at 1010 so that makes an ABV of about 4.9 according to Grahams online calculater.

It is obviosly very murky and will not be kegged until monday at the earliest. I would like it to drop as bright as possible before i prime and bottle it.

Now i need to find a standard lable template somewhere. This was fun.

Next brew is likely not til after new year ( unless i can get rid of the wife for an 8 hour period.........)

Zatoichi wrote:Looks great, you cant go wrong with Styrian goldings, I recently brewed an IPA that used them as the only hop and it came out sublime, It had a really sherbet dip like bitter/sweet like taste

I bottled this last night after it had stood for a while.

The taste is rather sharp and zingy at the moment although i suspect that a few weeks in the bottle and in the cold this will turn out a cracker.

I fear this may be deceptively fun to drink....