27/09/08 - Whitbread Bitter

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:58 am

I've been trying to get this brewed for weeks now, but I've got the starter all ready to pitch, the ingredients weighed out, and will start as early as is feasible tomorrow.

Camera is, this time, charged and working, and proper flash has batteries.

This is an experimental brew, I've never used Whitbread before.

Whitbread Bitter
8-B Special/Best/Premium Bitter

Size: 5 imp gal
Efficiency: 65.0%
Attenuation: 75.0%
Calories: 157.12 per 12.0 fl oz

Original Gravity: 1.047 (1.040 - 1.048)
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Terminal Gravity: 1.012 (1.008 - 1.012)
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Color: 24.0 (5.0 - 16.0)
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Alcohol: 4.64% (3.8% - 4.6%)
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Bitterness: 38.27 (25.0 - 40.0)
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Ingredients:
5000 g Maris Otter
250 g English Wheat Malt
250 g Crystal Malt 80Â°L
40 g Whitbread Golding (WGV) (6.0%) - added during boil, boiled 90 min
15 g Whitbread Golding (WGV) (6.0%) - added during boil, boiled 30 min
15 g Whitbread Golding (WGV) (6.0%) - added during boil, boiled 15 min
1.0 ea Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss) - added during boil, boiled 15 min
1 L WYeast 1335 British Ale II

Schedule:
Ambient Air: 21.11 Â°C
Source Water: 15.56 Â°C
Elevation: 0.0 m

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Garth · Post by **Garth** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:07 am

have a good one Max, sounds great

adm · Post by **adm** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:36 am

Come on Max, you should be up and at it already! Where's the pics?

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:26 am

Hey, I'm tired, here! Was up playing Wipeout HD all night. Nightmare.

ECR · Post by **ECR** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:30 am

Hope it's going well

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:26 pm

Hop strainer in, lautering manifold in, mash tun preheating, grist in a bag ready to go...

Buggered up mash preheat, temperature far too low, only 72 degrees. Raising to 80 and allowing to cool naturally back to 72.

coatesg · Post by **coatesg** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:44 pm

Have a good one - hop strainer in - tick!

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:14 pm

Mashed in 1:00, grain bed at a nice even 65 degrees. Will start sparging at 2:30. Going to have a go at fly sparging, never done it before, but thought it might be a giggle.

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 4:09 pm

Sparge took ages, and my extraction wasn't so good.
But then, it never is.

Boil is starting up, first hop addition as soon as boil is going properly. Thinking my efficiency is going to be pretty terrible!

We shall see how much i get after boil.

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 1:58 pm

Pics up:

http://picasaweb.google.com/Nicodiemus/ ... readBitter#

Blinky · Post by **Blinky** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:54 pm

Great pics!
Did you make that little trolley yourself or can you buy them?

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:56 pm

Got it from Lidl for about 3 quid. It'd be easy to knock one up, though.

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:07 pm

Pretty disappointed with this brew overall. Probably mucked up the fly sparge, only got 22 litres of 1042 wort. I know that's not too far off from my target, but considering the grist was 6kg.. heh

Perhaps need to invest in a spinny sparger and some water chemistry.

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27/09/08 - Whitbread Bitter

27/09/08 - Whitbread Bitter