To celebrate our first wedding anniversary an easy drinker that will hopefully go into a cask to be served on my Handpull.
I've run out of Amarillo, I'd have preferred a little more in at Flameout, I might dry hop the cask with a handful of Mittlefruh for a nice subtle floral touch.
Here's today's recipe, which is a mix of interesting malts
Fermentables:
Pale Malt - 1290g - 33.2%
Lager Malt - 1290g - 33.2%
Vienna Malt - 455g - 11.8%
Cara Red - 290g - 7.5%
Munich Malt - 185g - 4.7%
Oat Malt - 185g - 4.7%
Wheat Malt - 185g - 4.7%
Hops:
First Gold - 7.9 % @ 60 mins - 15g (FWH)
Amarillo - 9.5 % @ 60 mins - 10g (FWH)
First Gold - 7.9 % @ 10 mins - 10g
Amarillo - 9.5 % @ 10 mins - 10g
Amarillo - 9.5 % @ 0 mins - 15g (80c Steep)
First Gold - 7.9 % @ 0 mins - 10g (80c Steep)
Columbus (Tomahawk) - 16 % @ 0 mins - 10g (80c Steep)
Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.040
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 3.9% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.2 Litres
Mash Liquor: 9.3 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 80 %
Bitterness: 30 EBU
Colour: 11 EBC
Mashing at 68c for an hour
Yeast will be US-05
Malt temp:
Today's hops, I must find a use for the other 400g of First Gold:
Spargings running from the tun onto the First wort hops:
I reckon there are 2 divisions in the meniscus, making me 2 points lower than I should be, so 1038:
Got 89% Mash efficiency today, collected 31 Litres @ 1033
