30/05/2011 - Bank Holiday Bitter, Tale of Two Yeasts

[coatesg]

Brewed this one yesterday - a bit of a user-upper hence the slightly odd bittering additions, but also beer for drinking in the coming month or two.

5.8kg Pale
0.4kg Wheat
0.4kg Crystal 120EBC
0.2kg Amber 100EBC

Pilgrim 9.4% 13g 90min (FWH)
Boadicea 7.6% 41g 90min (FWH)
Goldings [Home grown, 2010] 14g 15min
Pioneer 9% 14g 15min
Bobek 35g 0min
Pioneer 35g 0min

Got 38L @ 1041, but lost a fair bit to the hops on the way. WLP002 got 18L, Windsor got 20L. Both were going great guns after only 10 hours last night. The Windsor has started to drop (it's always a really quick worker the Windsor) and the WLP002 has just about gone past maximum krausen so it's all looking good, and all having some lovely hoppy, fruity smells from the late additions.

The equipment worked beautifully again with the pump working excellently with the new hop strainer - even with all those late hops. I think I have cracked the problems with the pump and runoff:

[WishboneBrewery]

I'll have to make something similar before I can use all the interesting pellet hops in the freezer.

[coatesg]

Worked pretty flawlessly for leaf hops. Perhaps go for a #40 mesh for pellets rather than #30 (or use leaves with pellets to filter them).

[WishboneBrewery]

On a recipe note, I find the user-uppers are usually pretty good

[coatesg]

The wlp002 finished at 1010. The Windsor finished at 1014. I forget how distinctive amber malt is, even at low amounts. The WLP beer is ready to go, the Windsor is clear (crash cooled ), but force carbing.

Here's the WLP:

http://graemecoates-xtjf.posterous.com/57449178