AG BIAB #13 POTUS45 Grisette Thing
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:22 pm
First time brewing with my DIY built system. Also my first time with water treatment, and my first time using ONLY Beersmith 3 (usually used BIABacus to build the recipe and work out volumes).
It didn't going smoothly, that's for sure.... lol
POTUS 45 Grisette Thing (AKA Trump Grisette....)...
Water I starter with RO, then rebuilt it with calcium chloride, Epsom salts, calcium sulphate and a bit of lactic acid (yellow balanced water profile from BS 3). I should really have checked mash pH, but didn't bother.
Mash - 70 minutes full volume BIAB, no sparge, @ 64.4 degrees C. Mash out (yeah, didn't really work out...) over 10 minutes @75.6 (rising over 7)(need to set the rising for a good 15 minutes for future brews).
Fermentables
1000g Wheat Malt 3.0 EBC (reading about Grisette, you want a LOT of wheat malt in the malt bill to give mouth feel)
800g Munich Malt 17.7 EBC
800g Dingemans Pilsen Malt 3.2 EBC
130g Dingemans Special B 290.6 EBC
120g Weyermann Caramunich II 124.1 EBC
100g Polish mixed flower honey for last 5 minutes of boil.
Boil 60 minutes
Hops were all whole hops:-
7g Magnum 13.2% AA @ 60 minutes for bittering.
0.5 Protafloc tablet @ 15 minutes.
10g Jester 8% AA @ 15 minutes.
20g Jester 8% AA @ 5 minutes.
See honey in fermentables.
70g Jester 8% AA @ flameout.
Rehydrated 1 packet of Fermentis Safale BE-134 Belgian Saison yeast. Quite new as far as I can tell, so will be interesting to see what results I got. It certainly responded well to been rehydrated, foaming up quite a lot in the jug.
I was using an estimate brewhouse efficiency of 70% for my recipe, with the following targets:-
OG: 1.032. FG: 1.000. Colour: 17.0 EBC. Alc: 4.3% ABV Estimated. Bitterness (IBU's): 19.5 Tinseth (the goal is for it to not be overly bitter, but to be quite hoppy). Batch size into FV: 20 Litres.
So anyway, it started to go wrong even whilst I was mixing the grist, the handle snapping clean off my little plastic scoop... My wife had to use a jug to dough in... I think in future I need to not play things so close to the rim though, was getting a few drips from wicking...
The BIAB bag is horrible! A big floppy thing that just wants to float and fold in on itself all over the place... Got there in the end though. Found that the control panel worked best with the power regulator set to 50%, holding the temps nice and steady with little movement in either direction. It shows 30% in the pic, but this kept upping and downing by about .5 of a degree, 50% worked much better.
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It didn't going smoothly, that's for sure.... lol
POTUS 45 Grisette Thing (AKA Trump Grisette....)...
Water I starter with RO, then rebuilt it with calcium chloride, Epsom salts, calcium sulphate and a bit of lactic acid (yellow balanced water profile from BS 3). I should really have checked mash pH, but didn't bother.
Mash - 70 minutes full volume BIAB, no sparge, @ 64.4 degrees C. Mash out (yeah, didn't really work out...) over 10 minutes @75.6 (rising over 7)(need to set the rising for a good 15 minutes for future brews).
Fermentables
1000g Wheat Malt 3.0 EBC (reading about Grisette, you want a LOT of wheat malt in the malt bill to give mouth feel)
800g Munich Malt 17.7 EBC
800g Dingemans Pilsen Malt 3.2 EBC
130g Dingemans Special B 290.6 EBC
120g Weyermann Caramunich II 124.1 EBC
100g Polish mixed flower honey for last 5 minutes of boil.
Boil 60 minutes
Hops were all whole hops:-
7g Magnum 13.2% AA @ 60 minutes for bittering.
0.5 Protafloc tablet @ 15 minutes.
10g Jester 8% AA @ 15 minutes.
20g Jester 8% AA @ 5 minutes.
See honey in fermentables.
70g Jester 8% AA @ flameout.
Rehydrated 1 packet of Fermentis Safale BE-134 Belgian Saison yeast. Quite new as far as I can tell, so will be interesting to see what results I got. It certainly responded well to been rehydrated, foaming up quite a lot in the jug.
I was using an estimate brewhouse efficiency of 70% for my recipe, with the following targets:-
OG: 1.032. FG: 1.000. Colour: 17.0 EBC. Alc: 4.3% ABV Estimated. Bitterness (IBU's): 19.5 Tinseth (the goal is for it to not be overly bitter, but to be quite hoppy). Batch size into FV: 20 Litres.
So anyway, it started to go wrong even whilst I was mixing the grist, the handle snapping clean off my little plastic scoop... My wife had to use a jug to dough in... I think in future I need to not play things so close to the rim though, was getting a few drips from wicking...
The BIAB bag is horrible! A big floppy thing that just wants to float and fold in on itself all over the place... Got there in the end though. Found that the control panel worked best with the power regulator set to 50%, holding the temps nice and steady with little movement in either direction. It shows 30% in the pic, but this kept upping and downing by about .5 of a degree, 50% worked much better.
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