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CNC 2.8 is going to be a Hoppy low ABV, AmeriZealand Pale-ish Hopped with NS and 2 of the C's
Hemp Bitter is going to be a Goldings based bitter with 200g of ground hemp seed in the last 15mins of the boil
Couple of pictures from today's prep for tomorrows double Brewday and the Recipes, I'm probably not going to do much in the way of water treatment though might add an odd Tsp of Gypsum here and there
The Grist; Maris Otter, Munich Malt, Oat malt, Crystal Malt, Caramalt, Wheat malt, Chocolate malt:

CNC 2.8

Fermentables:
Maris Otter 1740 grams 54.5%
Oat Malt 500 grams 15.7%
Munich Malt 400 grams 12.5%
Crystal Malt 200 grams 6.3%
Caramalt 200 grams 6.3%
Wheat Malt 100 grams 3.1%
Chocolate Malt 50 grams 1.6%

Hops:
Centennial @ 60 mins 5g (FWH)
Cascade @ 60 mins 5g (FWH)
Nelson Sauvin @ 60 mins 5g (FWH)
Centennial @ 15 mins 10g
Cascade @ 15 mins 10g
Nelson Sauvin @ 15 mins 10g
Cascade @ 0 mins 10g
Centennial e @ 0 mins 10g
Nelson Sauvin @ 0 mins 10g

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.030
Final Gravity: 1.008
Alcohol Content: 2.8% ABV
Total Liquor: 31.5 Litres
Mash Liquor: 8 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 33 EBU
Colour: 30 EBC

Malts; Golden Promise, Crystal malt, Wheat malt; 200g of ground hemp seed for the last 15mins of the boil:

Hemp Bitter

Fermentables:
Golden Promise 2080 grams 85%
Crystal Malt 240 grams 10%
Wheat Malt 120 grams 5%

Hops:
Fuggle @ 60 mins 30g (FWH)
First Gold @ 20 mins 10g
East Kent Golding @ 0 mins 20g
Hemp Seed, Ground @ 15 mins 200g

Final Volume: 12 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.045
Final Gravity: 1.011
Alcohol Content: 4.4% ABV
Total Liquor: 18.6 Litres
Mash Liquor: 6.1 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 35 EBU
Colour: 25 EBC

Both brews will be 60mins, Mash will be 90mins, CNC will be 67-68c, Hemp will be 65-66c, yeast will be US-05 for both.

Mashes on:

First real use of the new HLT, worked a treat and didn't hang around at heating the water:

First Wort Hops:

Sparge water in the 2nd mash:

Running off the Mash:

I'll get organised, eventually:

Coming to a good boil:

Lots more lovely hops:

Pretty much Bang on the money:

The sweet wort:

US-05 Yeast:

FWH:

More hops:

Raw Sewage, Hemp seed Floaters!:

I seemed to boil the crap out of it, and had to liquor back 1.3L:

Hemp seed causes practically NO foaming when running off! Goodbye head retention:


Lots of pictures!! I got tempted by a big bag of Bobek in the freezer so added 1 small handfull every 5 mins in the last 20 mins of the boil (Might do an all Bobek IPA in the 'Dogfish head 60 minute IPA' style doing 2 good handfull every 5 minutes)
I also bottled last weekends Bramling XB around the end of boil/ cooling/running off.

1 degree low on my first mash, not going to fuss, might add a kettle of boiling water half way through.
Used my stock pot boiler to heat the first mash liquor, hlt got my mash liquor to temp in no time, going to use this on my next mash.

hemp beer sounds interesting. have you done it before? the hemp/cannabis family is closely related to hops.....are you dry hopping with a bag of weed?

KJ

Looking good matey! You can't beat a double brew day!

What will the hemp seed add to the beer? Sounds interesting

Cheers guys. Hopefully the hemp seed will give a good flavour, though its very oily stuff so I'm not sure if it will promote or kill any head retention.
About half an hour into first boil and second wort sparged and waiting.

interested in the hemp idea.
what gave you the idea of adding that.

I think I've heard of that in a commercial brew, but cant think which one?

is the 60min boil your norm?
thinking of trying that out myself.

Yep 60min boil is my usual.
The commercial hemp ale is from Little Valley Brewery, and probably some others, that is where the idea came from and Hemp seed has lots of good stuff in it.

Just about to Pitch the yeast (Change of mind, US-05) to the first FV then have a quick copper clean and get the next one in the boiler.

I did a 60 time before last on a porter, and it seemed to be ok.

All done...
The Hemp seed makes a mess when you throw that in.

Running off the Hemp Bitter to FV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQX8YXe_olo

CNC FV is smelling nice

You guys probably don't get (or care about) news from the states but the crazies in California are seriously talking about legalizing pot. If that ever goes through, I suspect it won't be long before we start seeing some interesting spices added to beers. Anybody for a cannibus saison?

Space cakes and space beer LOL

Yep, just grind it in 15 mins before flame out, forget the whirlfloc, you wont really be that bothered anyway LOL

ha ha