AG9 - WeihenStagJohn

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Scotty

AG9 - WeihenStagJohn

Post by Scotty » Mon May 30, 2011 8:18 am

This is my first brewday for nearly 4 months! :shock:

It is for a mate's stag do and he is a big fan of Wiehenstephan so I thought I'd attempt a clone of it.
It has been aptly named 'WiehenStagJohn'. One of our mates is a graphic designer and he is making up some labels, hopefully I'll get a picture of them soon.

Liqour is heating up at the moment and I hope to get mashed in by 8.30am.

Ingredients.

FERMENTABLES.

Lager Malt - 3.45kg
Wheat Malt - 3.45kg

HOPS.

Hallertauer Hersbrucker - 55g added at 60 mins

YEAST.

WLP300 from a 1.5l starter

Mash - 60mins @ 66c
Boil - 60mmins
Est SG - 1.054
Est FG - 1.013
Est ABV - 5.4%
Est IBU - 14.1
Est EBC - 7.3
Last edited by Scotty on Thu Jun 09, 2011 2:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: AG9 - WiehenStagJohn

Post by WishboneBrewery » Mon May 30, 2011 11:45 am

Its certainly the Hefe-season lately :)
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Re: AG9 - WiehenStagJohn

Post by Scotty » Mon May 30, 2011 1:11 pm

Too right it is!

Although I've had a bit of a 'mare with this one.....

one element wasn't enough to keep a rolling boil so I had to keep topping up to keep the 2nd element covered. Obviously this was going to water it down, luckily I had 200g of extra-light DME spare from the yeast starter. This appears to have brought the SG back upto somewhere decent enough.

Bugger.
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Re: AG9 - WiehenStagJohn

Post by WishboneBrewery » Mon May 30, 2011 5:40 pm

Bugger, last couple of my brews have been a bit short on Gravity and too much volume in the FV which I think is to do with the windy weather blowing my burner about so not getting as good a boil as I normally get, either that or I've screwed a setting up when doing sparge calculations on my phone App or BeerEngine setting.
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Re: AG9 - WiehenStagJohn

Post by Scotty » Mon May 30, 2011 7:13 pm

As long as I get drinkable beer at the end of it, I'm happy. Plus, it has given me the brewing bug again.
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Re: AG9 - WiehenStagJohn

Post by Scotty » Wed Jun 01, 2011 5:20 pm

The smell from the FV fridge has been nothing short of foul. I've taken a gravity reading today and it has dropped to 1.026 in 48hrs. The aroma and flavour at the moment is more banana than clove.
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Re: AG9 - WeihenStagJohn

Post by Scotty » Thu Jun 09, 2011 2:09 pm

I kegged and bottled this yesterday after gravity dropped to 1.016. It stayed around 1.022 for ages until I took a reading yesterday so I've adjusted the priming sugar incase there are fermentables still present in the wort.

I currently have the bottles in my fridge with the ATC set to 25c. Any ideas how long I should leave it like this?
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