Chose the lucky name as:
- this is my 13th brew.
- I'm combining the additions of one recipe with the grain bill and hops of another.
- I'm reusing yeast for the first time (that has already chewed through a 1.060 brew )
- I was planning to brew a bit long and therefore reduce the head space in my FV
- I needed the weather to hold off during the duration of my mash, sparge and boil.
(Not sure if I can share the GH grain bill, so won't unless a mod tells me it's worth doing).
I BIAB using the HBC peco boiler kit.
Mixing just over 7kg of various malt - doughing in single handed was quite slow. 22 litres of strike water dropped from 72 to 62 degrees, so i topped up with 2 kettle loads (3.5 litres) of boiling water to get back up to 65 degrees. Temperature held well during the 60min mash.
Had to move inside as the rain started up again, before sparging with another 10 litres of water (which I collected in my 15 litre pot I got for my first 2 ags) which cooled to 80 degrees boiling the kettle throughout the mash.
- Draining the mash liquor to my bottling bucket.
- Collected 27litres according to the bottling bucket's scale and transferred this back to the boiler to give 29litres with the dead space left in the boiler.
- Yeast - US-05 reclaimed from my last AG batch, a first for me!
- Cooled wort reading
- Yeast pitched in just under 25 litres - fingers crossed for a clean ferment, I've started with a blow off tube just in case.
Thanks for reading - good luck with your brews!
