AG Pale Rider (first brew of the year - the shame!)
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:35 pm
Hi All,
I've not been on the forum much this year (if at all) due to lots of work travel etc... I haven't been brewing either for much the same reason. In fact - I've probably only drunk 10 pints or so of beer all year. The shame!!!!
Anyway, managed to get a brew on today at last. A simple Citra based pale/lager hybrid that will be ready for my lager drinking brother in law by the time his family come to stay over Easter.
I had a couple of cock ups - first my digital thermometer crapped out, second my March pump also kind of died - looks like a fixable problem with the head of the pump.
So - I made this:
Pale Rider (so called because it came out really pale....)
Grain Bill:
2.5Kg Lager Malt
2.5Kg Maris Otter
150g Wheat Malt
250g Caramalt
Hop Schedule (all Citra 2010 Whole Flowers, 13.8% AA)
First Wort: 12g
15 mins:15g
10 mins: 20g
5 mins: 22g
80C Steep: 29g (finished up the bag)
Yeast: 1 pack US-05
Here's some piccies:
Bucket 'o Grain
Lovely Citra flowers. These smelled great.
FWH plus a bit of gypsum ready for the wort
Here it comes! A lot paler than I thought it would be.
Bullfinch going full chat. I was also busy cooking Ox Cheeks braised in red wine while this boiled and I didn't really keep my eye on it so I ended up with less than I wanted. 21L at about 1.056 instead of 23L at 1.052. Oh well. I added 1.5L of boiled water to bring it down in strength a bit.
Nice cold break. I used the immersion chiller today as the pump was cream crackered and I didn't want to try gravity feed on the plate chiller.
And the money shot. This looks like about 1.060 - but it's due to the angle and the wort being about 9C.
Anyway......that's now all aerated, pitched and tucked up in the fermenting chamber at 20C.
Yippee!
I've not been on the forum much this year (if at all) due to lots of work travel etc... I haven't been brewing either for much the same reason. In fact - I've probably only drunk 10 pints or so of beer all year. The shame!!!!
Anyway, managed to get a brew on today at last. A simple Citra based pale/lager hybrid that will be ready for my lager drinking brother in law by the time his family come to stay over Easter.
I had a couple of cock ups - first my digital thermometer crapped out, second my March pump also kind of died - looks like a fixable problem with the head of the pump.
So - I made this:
Pale Rider (so called because it came out really pale....)
Grain Bill:
2.5Kg Lager Malt
2.5Kg Maris Otter
150g Wheat Malt
250g Caramalt
Hop Schedule (all Citra 2010 Whole Flowers, 13.8% AA)
First Wort: 12g
15 mins:15g
10 mins: 20g
5 mins: 22g
80C Steep: 29g (finished up the bag)
Yeast: 1 pack US-05
Here's some piccies:
Bucket 'o Grain
Lovely Citra flowers. These smelled great.
FWH plus a bit of gypsum ready for the wort
Here it comes! A lot paler than I thought it would be.
Bullfinch going full chat. I was also busy cooking Ox Cheeks braised in red wine while this boiled and I didn't really keep my eye on it so I ended up with less than I wanted. 21L at about 1.056 instead of 23L at 1.052. Oh well. I added 1.5L of boiled water to bring it down in strength a bit.
Nice cold break. I used the immersion chiller today as the pump was cream crackered and I didn't want to try gravity feed on the plate chiller.
And the money shot. This looks like about 1.060 - but it's due to the angle and the wort being about 9C.
Anyway......that's now all aerated, pitched and tucked up in the fermenting chamber at 20C.
Yippee!
