Bridestone Earl of Abergavenny IPA Brewday 3/01/2011withPICS

[unclepumble]

Bridestone Earl of Abergavenny IPA
batch Size (L): 23.00

Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
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95.0 4.75 kg. Pale Malt(2-row) Great Britain 1.038 3
5.0 0.25 kg. Crystal 105L Great Britain 1.033 105

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.


Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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10.00 g. Magnum Whole 13.80 17.8 60 min.
60.00 g. Fuggle Whole 4.80 33.5 First WH
20.00 g. Goldings - E.K. Whole 4.00 3.5 20 min.
40.00 g. Goldings - E.K. Whole 4.00 4.1 10 min.
30.00 g. Goldings - E.K. Whole 4.00 0.0 Dry Hop


Yeast
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Fullers Yeast from Bottle conditioned Bengal lancer

Brew is on and here are the first Photos

The Grain Bill


HLT Temp for the strike liquor checking both PID's are in the ball park.


Mash Temp round about 67 deg C


10G of Magnum Pellets lots of bang for the Buck


60G of Fuggles with the magnum on top and salts boil for 60 Min


1/2 deg C lost over 90 mins & thats without any extra insulation around the igloo tun, These Coolboxes are the business for an easy mash tun.


Sparging


Running off from the mash tun


First runnings 1102 gravity


FWH 60g Fuggles and 10g Magnum in the copper


20g Goldings for 20mins of boil


40g Goldings for 10 mins with some old bakers yeast as nutrient and some youngs yeast nutrient too.


20g of Goldings for steeping at flame out I was going to dry hop but want to use the yeast again following this brew so decided not too.


Nice clear Wort stepping the last of the Goldings


Filth and loads of Hops for the garden


Running off into FV


Anyone Got a Flake for this


1052ish OG a bit over but i did only get 22ltrs out of this as the hops were thirsty great colour though and gin clear into the FV


Fullers yeast starter all stirred up and ready to pitch


Brew Pitched following a good vigorous stir with a sanitised balloon whisk to get plenty of oxygen in.




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[Redbloke]

Looks promising, should just about be ready when your 'new glass' arrives

Cheers

[WishboneBrewery]

Looking good
Is your Mash tun one of the 'Rubbermaid' US-style ones?

[paulcav]

Like the look of that. Where did you get the Magnum hops from?

Paul

[Horatio]

Sorry for the stupid question....What does the old yeast do when you add to the kettle? I've seen a few people do it here on Jim's and I have ni idea why?

[paulcav]

Sorry for the stupid question....What does the old yeast do when you add to the kettle? I've seen a few people do it here on Jim's and I have ni idea why?

Not a stupid question at all. Yeast has got lots of nutrients and good stuff in it, and it makes a good 'food' for the yeast used in fermentation to build up itself up and ferment the beer better.


Paul

[adm]

Looks like a nice brew......good work UP

[unclepumble]

the Tun is a US style Igloo 5 gallon coolbox 45 quid on ebay, & it holds temperature brilliantly with no mod other than a grain manifold in the bottom i didb;t need to drill a hole or bugger all.

You can get the magnum pellets from craftbrewer in australia, not sure you can get them in the uk easily, other than farams or the like, they do give a really mellow bitterness though I like them.

As above old yeast in the boiler as yeast food (nutrient) I add Youngs yeast nutrient as well, a bit over the top really but it works, I keep trying to get some food safe zinc sulphate solution @ about 6% cos about 5ml of this to 23l gives a much cleaner beer with less esters, its not easy to get in small quantities though.

Forgot to add my bigger brewery has been in action today as well

As a three tier brewstand
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[critch]

TUT,TUT!I dont know, all that hard work and graft on the big kit and you use it as a stand!


(mind you ,i do that with mine too.......)

[unclepumble]

TUT,TUT!I dont know, all that hard work and graft on the big kit and you use it as a stand!


(mind you ,i do that with mine too.......)

Well its not strictly finished yet, I have brewed a few times on it and keep changing things but am far from happy with the pipework between vessels, therefore a few mods are in order before kicking in again with it, on top of that there is my conical to finish, but I am on the case have made a spinning sparge arm this last weekend, amongst other things I'll put an update in my build post.

Well have checked on the FV this evening 24 hrs in and fermentation is well underway, the starter I made out of the dregs from a couple of bottles of bengal lancer has worked great.





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