No Regrets (Marc Olloson) 12/06/08 with pics!

[scarer]

I made a yeast starter the other day from the dregs of a couple of hopback summer lightning bottles along with dregs from a couple of bottles from the Oakleaf Brewery in Gosport, and as the starter seems to be going well I thought I should have a go and brew something with it.

I also wanted to use up some of my older hops and this recipe seemed to tick all the boxes. Plus if the yeast doesn't turn out very well and I have to throw the batch away then I won't feel too bad about the waste of hops, being the price they are at the moment.

This is the recipe for a total of 19lts at 85% efficiancy

Recipe Overview
Wort Volume Before Boil: 30.00 l
Wort Volume After Boil: 21.50 l
Volume Transferred: 19.00 l
Water Added To Fermenter: 0.00 l
Volume At Pitching: 19.00 l
Volume Of Finished Beer: 19.00 l
Expected Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.031 SG
Expected OG: 1.048 SG
Expected FG: 1.012 SG
Apparent Attenuation: 74.9 %
Expected ABV: 4.8 %
Expected ABW: 3.8 %
Expected IBU (using Tinseth): 39.7 IBU
Expected Color (using Morey): 23.9 EBC
BU:GU ratio: 0.82
Mash Efficiency: 85.0 %
Boil Duration: 90.0 mins
Fermentation Temperature: 18 degC


Fermentables
Ingredient Amount
UK Pale Ale Malt 3.164 kg 89.8 % In Mash/Steeped
UK Medium Crystal 0.352 kg 10.0 % In Mash/Steeped
UK Chocolate Malt 0.007 kg 0.2 % In Mash/Steeped


Hops
Variety
UK Challenger 6.6 % 24 g Loose Whole Hops All Of Boil
UK Target 8.7 % 17 g Loose Whole Hops 15 Min From End
UK Northdown 8.0 % 8 g Loose Whole Hops 15 Min From End


Other Ingredients
Ingredient
Irish Moss 2 g In Boil


Yeast
Live Brewery Yeast

I'm mashing at 66C with 2.4Lts/Kg grain and currently waiting for the enzymes to do their thing


I've added a touch of chocolate malt to darken it down about because all I've been brewing lately are golden ales and I fancied a change!

Pics to follow.......

[scarer]

Here are the weighed out grains,



And this is the current situation,



A peek inside,





It's been an hour since I closed the lid so I'm just going to check the conversion.....

[Matt]

Looks like a nice recipe Scarer. The Challenger + Northdown combo is one I'm hoping to try soon.

Hope all goes well

Matt

[scarer]

Ok all converted so start to run off, getting it nice and clear first



Pouring back into mash to be refiltered



And then into the copper



Nice colour, just what I wanted!

[scarer]

Still sparging....



Action shot, not a bent sparge arm!

[scarer]

Got my first hops ready, challenger 24g



A bit brown some of them

[scarer]

Thanks Daab

The tun not as neat as some but I'm going over the gaffer with some silver duck tape as some of the gaffer as already starting to come unstuck, it should look very nice then!

[scarer]

Nearly at the end now



Finished with 29.5lts stopped sparging at 1008.

OG 9brix 1035 aiming for 1031 so not bad

Now to get it boiling

[scarer]

In go the first hops

[scarer]

Your beer wont care what it looks like

I knew you'd say that as I was writing it

[scarer]

I've got time to pop to the shop now to get my Dad a fathers day card.

Don't forget!!!

[SiHoltye]

Nice tidy set up and clear run off there scarer. A good looking signature too. If this is another good'un will you be keeping a bottle or six for Sutton, or is a bit early to think of that yet?
Thanks for the heads up on Father's Day!

[scarer]

Thanks Si

Well it's a bit of an unknown 'cos of the yeast I'm using. I'm looking at it as a kind of an adventure

[scarer]

Well on monitoring the gravity I decided to go the full 90 on the boil which meant my hops went in with 25mins to go rather than 15 so I added a further 10g of Northdown with 5 mins left just for good luck

Here's the chiller in for sanitizing



And this is my 500ml yeast starter



I have a 7g packet of Coopers Ale yeast that I might chuck in as well 'cos I'm not sure that a 500ml starter will be enough.......any comments?

[scarer]

So the boil is finished and I have 22.5lts (before cooling shrinkage) at 12 brix 1047 which i'm very pleased with.

At the moment I'm resisting the temptation to chuck more hops in for extra aroma as it reaches 80C, maybe 14g Goldings that I've got left in a bag? Oh what's a girl to do

Shall I?

Doh! it's down to 40C so I don't think so