Confessor OG 1.042

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Madbrewer

Confessor OG 1.042

Post by Madbrewer » Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:01 am

For my first Brew since April & amended from GW recipe, May I present 'Confessor'?

Recipe:-
OG 1.042 / 23Litres
4.5 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter
24.00 gm Fuggles [4.95 %] (90 min) Hops 12.6 IBU
49.00 gm Styrian Goldings [3.10 %] (90 min) Hops 16.0 IBU
15.00 gm Goldings [5.17 %] (5 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
Muntons Gold Yeast

Early Start:-
It's a special day for my newest brewing gadget pictured here
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Hops Weighed out ready to go
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Boiler excited
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Mashing as we speak ... It's going to be a batch sparge for me so I need to take a gravity reading and calculate the gravity of my first run off to calculate how much of my sugars I already have before topping up with the batch_sparge-Liqor.
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Madbrewer

Post by Madbrewer » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:42 pm

Well it's all in the boiler now. 18litres @ 1.058 is more than enough sugar points. I am getting a liking for batch sparging u know ....
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booldawg

Post by booldawg » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:49 pm

Sounds a tasty one. I pretty short on a nice pale one, something similar will be next up! Hope alls going well
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Re: Confessor OG 1.042

Post by jamesb » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:06 pm

Madbrewer wrote: It's a special day for my newest brewing gadget pictured here
What on earth is that?
James

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Hilaire Belloc, Preface to The Four Men (1911) ...
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Madbrewer

Post by Madbrewer » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:06 pm

Come over for a sample ;-)

If theres a location clue in one of your beer titles I am only 14 miles away!
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adm

Post by adm » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:30 pm

Looks nice! Enjoy the rest of the day.

It's a glorious day for brewing here....
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Madbrewer

Re: Confessor OG 1.042

Post by Madbrewer » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:41 pm

jamesb wrote:
Madbrewer wrote: It's a special day for my newest brewing gadget pictured here
What on earth is that?
Although it may look kinky it's not. It's a refractometer. It measures the amount of sugar suspended in the liquid and reports it on the 'brix' scale. Beersmith then has a conversion to give you it in a gravity reading. Supposedly much more accuarate than my £3 hydrometer and a darn-site quicker too! (to get from Brix to OG it's is very roughly a multipliaction of 4, but BS does it better!)
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fivetide

Post by fivetide » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:49 pm

All the best with it! I'm not jealous at all. I have a huge whitepaper to write. Oh yes.
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Re: Confessor OG 1.042

Post by jamesb » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:53 pm

Madbrewer wrote:
jamesb wrote:
Madbrewer wrote: It's a special day for my newest brewing gadget pictured here
What on earth is that?
Although it may look kinky it's not. It's a refractometer. It measures the amount of sugar suspended in the liquid and reports it on the 'brix' scale. Beersmith then has a conversion to give you it in a gravity reading. Supposedly much more accuarate than my £3 hydrometer and a darn-site quicker too! (to get from Brix to OG it's is very roughly a multipliaction of 4, but BS does it better!)
Are they temperature sensitive? Wikipedia isn't particularly useful as usual.
James

"When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England."
Hilaire Belloc, Preface to The Four Men (1911) ...
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ChrisG

Post by ChrisG » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:53 pm

Looking really good.

Doing my 1st tomorrow! ;)
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Madbrewer

Post by Madbrewer » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:10 pm

ChrisG wrote:Looking really good.

Doing my 1st tomorrow! ;)
Aye I am excited for you too. If I weren't travelling to a footy match tomorrow I'd probably have PM'd you my phone number incase you wanted a sounding board with any last minute questions.
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Madbrewer

Re: Confessor OG 1.042

Post by Madbrewer » Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:22 pm

jamesb wrote:
Are they temperature sensitive? Wikipedia isn't particularly useful as usual.
Look on ebay - if it says ATC it means it has auto temperature conversion. Actually in reality you are puttign 1mm of wort onto a cold glass panel to view it - it would only take seconds to cool anyway.
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Re: Confessor OG 1.042

Post by Aleman » Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:27 pm

Madbrewer wrote:
jamesb wrote:
Are they temperature sensitive? Wikipedia isn't particularly useful as usual.
Look on ebay - if it says ATC it means it has auto temperature conversion. Actually in reality you are puttign 1mm of wort onto a cold glass panel to view it - it would only take seconds to cool anyway.
It actually does have an effect though, give it 30 seconds to a minute to stabilise before taking the reading as gospel.

I didn't believe this at first and was lucky enough to play with an electronic one this summer ( =P~ 8) 8) =P~ ) . . . It was distinctly unreliable until it had cooled down
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andyp

Post by andyp » Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:52 pm

Nice recipe that, you don't fancy keeping a handful of those Styrians for a late steep? EDIT - just looked at the time you kicked off so too late anyhow -

Spent a minute trying to work out what that thing is on the first pic. Thought you might have nicked a handle bar off some poor lad's bike.
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Madbrewer

Post by Madbrewer » Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:39 pm

... Fermented down to 1.010 in three days and the sample I tested tasted quite yummy for a green beer. I think i'll be repeating this one!
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