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Last brew before doing Jim's ESB. This one using some Phoenix hops which I got from Wibblers Brewery. Not a great day for brewing outside as the rain has come on and to complicate matters SWMBO is off work sick (woman flu). Got man flu myself, but must soldier on in the quest for good beer.

Rise of the Phoenix

Date: 06th January 2015

Gyle Number: 29

Fermentable Colour lb: oz Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5.5 EBC 7 lbs. 11.7 oz 3510 grams 84%
Crystal Malt, Dark 240 EBC 0 lbs. 14.7 oz 420 grams 10%
Oat Flakes 2.5 EBC 0 lbs. 7.0 oz 200 grams 4.8%
Chocolate Malt 1060 EBC 0 lbs. 1.8 oz 50 grams 1.2%


Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
Phoenix Whole 13.3 % FWH 0 lbs. 0.5 oz 15 grams 37.5%
Phoenix Whole 13.3 % 10 mins 0 lbs. 0.9 oz 25 grams 62.5%


Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.044
Final Gravity: 1.011
Alcohol Content: 4.2% ABV
Total Liquor: 36.5 Litres
Mash Liquor: 16.7 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 79 %
Bitterness: 32.2 EBU
Colour: 60 EBC

Sounds like a nice beer! But how would you classify it? Oatmeal stout?

Looks delicious, can't wait to hear how it turns out!

Are you using yeast from Wibblers too?

Hi Jim,
Not sure myself. Possibly a dark ale or maybe just a dark best bitter. It's not dark enough to be a stout.

Hi Seymour,
No I didn't use Wibblers yeast, but planning do so in a future brew.

Cheers,
Charliemartin

Efficiency was down a bit on normal. I had another try at fly sparging, but still can't get the spinny sparge arm to spin. Ended up with 24 litres at 1.041 instead of 23 at 1.044.

The Grist


Vorlauf/Sparge


First Wort Hops


Running off the Wort


OG


All tucked up in the FV with 3rd Generation WLP002.

Cheers,
Charliemartin