Batch Volume - 25l
OG - 1.041
FG - 1.007
ABV - 4.5%
IBU - 26
EBC - 12
Boil Time - 60 Minutes
Mash Water - 16.2l
Sparge Water - 17.6l
Grain
Thomas Fawcett - Maris Otter Pale malt 4.5Kg
Thomas Fawcett - Pale Crystal Malt 200g
Hops
Boil 60 minutes - Challenger whole hops 35g
Hopstand 10 minutes - East kent goldings whole hops 25g
Dry hop 4 days - Admiral pellets 50g
Yeast
WLP001 Californian Ale Yeast in a one litre starter fro 24 hours
Now for a few pictures
Boiling up 115g of Spray dried malt extract
Yeast added to flask and on the stir plate
Yeast starter after a few hours
Grainfather all wrapped up
Grainfather ready to be unpacked and put together
Before mashing in I normally fill the grainfather up with a few litres of water and heat it to about 70'c. This is then pumped around the system. This is just to give the pump a good flush out as it will have a bit of water in from last time.
Grainfather drained and filter fitted
Grainfather connect telling me to add strike water, 16.2l.
Filling up the grainfather with 16.2l of water. I do not treat my water, but this water is coming from a water filter that filters out things that cause lime scale etc.
As this was all happening a bit early in the morning its now time for COFFEE
Grainfather heating the mash water up to 65'c
Bottom plate and grain stopper fitted, I also put a tea towel around the top just to stop any bits of grain going down the side of the grain basket.
Mashing in, carefull not to knock the grain stopper pipework off. D'oh thats exactly what I did! Ah well never mind.
All mashed in
Overflow pipe fitted and top plate pushed down to rest on top of the mashed in grain
Lid and recirculation pipework fitted.
Controller showing mash temp and time left on the mash recirculation (after the 57 minutes has passed it will automatically do a mash out for 10 minutes at 75'c)
Wort looking nice and clear after mash out
Grain basket lifted ready for sparging
Sparge water going in
Controller keeping track of the volume of sparge water
Weighing out the hops
Nice rolling boil
SS Brewtech 7 gallon chronical fermenter all assembled and sanitised
Cooling and transferring the wort to the fermenter
Now for the boring bit, time to clear up
Thats it folks
Unfortunately I do not have any pictures of the final product i.e. photos of samples in hydrometer jars etc..This was dry hopped for 4 days after fermentation had finished and then bottled. The aroma of the beer when bottling was excellent, very fruity/citrusy from the admiral pellets. Taste was the same, exactly what I was after. Hopefully this will not lose much of its hop character after conditioning for 4 weeks.
Either way it was done before we moved in. I really need to get on with decorating.
