Dark Thingy brewday 06/16/08

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Dark Thingy brewday 06/16/08

Post by PGSteamer » Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:12 pm

Taking the day off work so today is a brewday :D

Currently heating the mash water for this recipe:

Brew length around 15 litres.

2.27kg pale malt
110g black patent malt
110g roasted barley
220g flaked wheat

I have 28g Saaz and 56g East Kent Goldings to play around with. Think I might just stick with the EKGs, around 45g worth.

For yeast I have S-04, Nottingham, S-33 and US-05. Thinking I'll give US-05 a try.

Pics to come...
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Vossy1

Post by Vossy1 » Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:46 pm

Have a gooden PGS :wink:
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Post by Jim » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:15 pm

Enjoy - it's going to be a late one! :=P
NURSE!! He's out of bed again!

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Buzz

Post by Buzz » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:17 pm

Good luck, I might try my hand at an evening brew this week too :)
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Post by PGSteamer » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:38 pm

3 hours later and still mashing. Had to run some errands so heating up the sparge water now.

Ingredients ready
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Heating the mash water
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Doughing in
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Overhit the mash temp I was aiming so letting it cool off a bit
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Post by Buzz » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:41 pm

I'd add a bit of cold water to bring the mash temp down to get it sorted a bit more quickly. Oh, and I've just realised where you are and its not an evening brew :oops:
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Post by Jim » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:47 pm

Buzz wrote:I'd add a bit of cold water to bring the mash temp down to get it sorted a bit more quickly. Oh, and I've just realised where you are and its not an evening brew :oops:
Oops! I made the same wrong assumption. :oops:
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Post by Vossy1 » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:55 pm

:lol: :lol:
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Post by ECR » Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:20 pm

Hope it's going well :D
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Post by PGSteamer » Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:34 pm

It all went very well. I'm feeling very contented and worry free about this beer. The wort was cooled and aerated well and the yeast took off a couple of hours after pitching.

Trying to get a workable method down on my system, I tried a couple of new little things. Used my new hop strainer to great effect. Worked a treat.

O.G. of 1.056 is good. I'll upload the rest of the pics when I can.
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