Busters Winter Warmer

[Deebee]

Brew day is tomorrow, and despite playng with the idea of a no sparge ( see other threads) i have decided that coffee and red bull will have to surfice on saturday, so i'll be fly sparging this one.


I am a lover of youngs winter warmer, but not able to find a recipe.

The idea is to make something that is warming ( it does get extremely cold here around Christmas and the new year )

So i settled on this recipe and hope that someone might twaek it if they see it is wrong.

I am a little anxious regarding this after the possible bad batch on the last brew.

Its a 15 l brewlength,

4450 Pale
250 light crystal
50 black patent.
150 Wheat ( or torri as i don't remembered what i ordered. its only for head retention.....)

Hops.

5 g ( 7.0%)Challenger for 60
15g northdown(9.00%) for 60
15 g Challenger(7.0%) for 15
12 g Bobek (5.2%) for 5
10g Bobek(5.2% for 1

Protofloc and either Notinghem or Safeale 04 ( i don't think i have anything other that nottingham.

Based on what i hope to be a conservative guess at efficiency (70%) this should gve me an OG of 1072 ish an with the attenuation of Nottingham i would expect this might go as low as around the 1010 mark??

I intend to sparge slower than i have done before in the thought that maybe the flow was too fast last time i fly sparged.

Don't have the IBU in front of me but based on the IBU levels in beersmith a Winter Warmer should have between 0 and 70 so this is around middle of the tree at 33-35 as i recall

Brew evening tomorrow. any thoughts greatfully accepted ( cos you are all likely a damn site better than me)

[floydmeddler]

Looks good man. I would change the 15 mins hops to 10 mins though as you will extract more flavours that way. Have been doing this ever since reading Graham Wheeler's book and never looked back.

[Deebee]

Looks good man. I would change the 15 mins hops to 10 mins though as you will extract more flavours that way. Have been doing this ever since reading Graham Wheeler's book and never looked back.

On the back of some advice from another member of the board and your post i have changed the hopping slightly.

There will still be northdown and challenger at 90

i have changed the Bobek for some nice Styrians at 5.2% AA. a 20 gram load in at 10 minutes and then another 20 to steep at 80 degrees.

I have dropped a little of the pale, and a little of the crystal.

Seeing as there is a very high percentage of pale here i would ideally hope for much higher than 70 .. if i could near 75 or more i would be well pleased ( and would get slightly more beer!!)

I think that the run off flow from the MT will be a lot slower today than in the last fly sparge i did, i guess i have a better chance of getting the sugars out if the water takes a little longer getting through.

I will also be able to start warming the runnings early as i managed to get a hot plate to put under the boiler this time. It saves me having to run everything into the fv, only to then move it liter by liter into the boiler and then start the boil. All being well i should get the heat under the boier with about 6 liters in so it will at least maintain a decent temperature ( with the lid on ) whilst i run off the sparge.'

Likely gonna be a late one today for sure. Would not estimate that i'll get to start much earlier than 1830 at best....

I might get to see the sun rise!!!