AG#6 Vulcan Bomber APA

[adm]

Today we (myself and my assistant brewer, Mr Fritz Great-Lakes) are attempting an American style IPA:

5kg Maris Otter
250g Crystal
150g Torrefied wheat

25g Cascade 90 mins
25g Cascade 30 mins
25g Cascade 15 mins
25g Cascade 1 min

Safale US 05
Protafloc

This is called Vulcan Bomber as we have an airshow right near to the house on 24th August - complete with an appearance by the aforesaid aircraft. This beer's for that day - too short really, but it should still be drinkable. If it isn't, I've got lots of others in already! 9 days in FV then a week carbonating and conditioning in a corny?


Here's the grain bill



Set up ready to go. First ever outside brew, but we've got friends here and the missus needs the kitchn. I had a problem here - the extension lead on the right couldn't take the power requirements of the two kettle elements, and melted! I had to quickly wire up a spur from the ring main in the garage and a double socket box!



The Assistant brewer begins the mash in.



Mashed in!



Temperature seems good.....off we go!

That's all for now.

[maxashton]

Looks good. What a fantastic view to brew with!

[Horden Hillbilly]

Good luck with your brew, have a good one!

[Vossy1]

Hope all's going well with the brew day

So that's a barby at yours with refreshements supplied by you on the 24th....got it

[Bongo]

great pics and top view too,these are really helpful i look forward to my first ag or mini mash when i can.

[ECR]

Looks great. Hope it turned out well

[Garth]

yeah, what a great view while you're brewing, good work adm

[adm]

Here's the rest of the pics....got a bit too "relaxed"yesterday to get them up!



Relax, don't worry and have a homebrew.....



First runnings



Batch sparging. I could really use a separate HLT and boiler......



Cascade hops. 100g in total. 4 additions.....



Boiling away nicely



This is the sample of the sweet wort - 1042 before boil



More hoppiness.....



Running off to FV


and the sample from the finished product - now 1050 OG after the boil.



Finished up just in time for sunset, another brew and a visiting hot air balloon. Must have been attracted to the smell....


So - as per Vossy....barbie and beers at mine on the 24th!

[Horden Hillbilly]

That's a nice looking clear wort you have there, nice one!

[coatesg]

Hmmm - good effort - US-05 in 1050OG too! Gonna come in at about 6% if it does it's normal trick of keeping going and going in the FV!

Nowt wrong with that though

Definitely found that finings help with this yeast when I used it for a Townes - dropped bright in a keg with kieselol finings in about a week.

[adm]

How would you recommend fining? I was thinking about it for this beer anyway as i want it ready for the 24th.

You mentioned kieselsol - do you use that alone, or in conjunction with something like gelatin or chitosan? And if so......what's the process and timing?

[brewzone]

Wow!

What a great brewday!

Love the scenery!

[coatesg]

How would you recommend fining? I was thinking about it for this beer anyway as i want it ready for the 24th.

You mentioned kieselsol - do you use that alone, or in conjunction with something like gelatin or chitosan? And if so......what's the process and timing?

When I made my Townes (which is all cascade, but some wheat and no crystal) I used "Kwikclear" (which is a two part kieselol and gelatine finings) and it seemed to work well - some have said that US-05 is hard to clear, and others say it will clear given time to rest.

Waited for it to finish fermenting down (it took a week or so to finish out - you have to measure the gravity - US05 leaves a thick crust so it's not obvious when it's done...). I skimmed the head off, and added the kieselol first when racking into a keg, and then added the gelatine finings after 30 min giving it a good stir. Then I left it to sit still in a corner for a week or two (taking the odd quality control sample ). It looked crystal clear after a week to two weeks.

[Buzz]

Great shots adm, looks like one hell of a brewday.

[Jim]

Looking good!