the recipe is as follows.
20 litre brewlength
Pale malt 3200
crystal malt 46
wheat malt 256
cara pils 256
Hops
16 g target 13% for 60
15 g fuggles (4.1% for 15
15 more at 5
Wl 007 yeast in a 1 litre starter.
OG 1044 IBY 32.7
Everything went ok again with the new kit. I have a few small issues with the speed of the run off and have to constantly adjust this butit is a learning curve. The boiler on the other hand is awesome and saves me at least 75 minuts. total time from doughing in to pitching the yeast was 4.5 hours with another 45 minutes clear up time. Everything is now cleaned on the same day and the kit put away early the nxt. no hassel and no nasty gunge to get into the following day.
and so BREWPORN!
The grain bill ready for the water to heat
and the hoppy luvlies!
Again using the forums strike calc i hit the desired mash temp of 66.1 ( you'll have to take my word for it.
and then left to rest. inside the lid of the mt is extra padded with thick camping mats, there is also a 15 mm thick foam pad on he top of the grain and towels on top of this again.
And so the sparge begins. Fly sparging as usual and i recirculated the first 2 litres until the runnings were clear and bright.
then into the boiler it trickled. I have found that a sparge of 75 minutes or so is effective at extracting the max sugar i can ( any slower and i am sure it would stick.
After the sparge was finished i had 25 litres in the boiler. I have deadspace and trub losses of 2 litres and a 15 5 evaporation meaning i should have had 20 litres in the fv.
The hot break came and then one of the elments started the thing rolling
The second element bought the brew to a boil and in went the Target
45 minutes later in went the first of the fuggles and a potofloc as always ( i love this stuff)
and 10 miuntes later the final bundle of hops along with the IC
WHilst the boil was on i took .5 litres of wort out of the boil and cooled it. i tipped the liquid from the finished starter off and re piched the wort. Aerated with a paddle and it started to fizz!!!
The chiller did its thing and i aerated the wort into the fv whilst decanting the active starter as well. This FV is a wine balloon and i used a funnle. this gave great aeration... i was amazed actualy.
And then in the boiler the amount of trub and spent hops.
I ended up with 22litres in the Fv at 1042 which is slightly more than i aimed at bu 2 points weaker. I blame this om me wondering how much was left in the MT and opening the tap fully with 25 minutes to go. Either way it seems that efficiency is once again at the 80 % mark
So in the two evenings og " man time " i had to disposition i made 45 litres ofgoodies.
in all a good weekend
The fermentation started within 45 minutes .. ever so slowly. This morning it was progressing nicely and i hope it will be finished intime for kegging during the one of the many naps the baby has during the day.... nex week....
Next brew is a clone of an adnams brew and a kentish ale.
