Saturday Summer Lightning - 27-09-08

coatesg · Post by **coatesg** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:40 pm

Tomorrow morning is gonna be an early start for a brew - looking to do a summer lightning style beer.

I have some yeast recultured from a SL bottle in the fridge ready to be woken up (hopefully it'll be OK - I hear it needs rousing after a day or two?), and the recipe I will use as follows:

5.5kg Maris Otter (75% brewhouse efficiency, based on 25L post boil)

44g Challenger (5.6%, 90min) - 27IBU
26g EKG (3.9%, 90min) - 11IBU
15g EKG (15min)
10g EKG (0 min Steep)

Treat boil water with 1.5tsp gypsum.

OG: 1050ish
Ferment at 17-18C using Hopback yeast.

Get everything setup tonight with the water and weigh the grain so we're ready to go first thing (or as soon as I get out of bed - though need to be up early - I have a pile (35kg+?!) of apples to sort through and start making some wine with...!

ChrisG · Post by **ChrisG** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:02 pm

Good luck, I'm doing my 1st tomorrow morning, early for me too 6am i hope.

fivetide · Post by **fivetide** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:20 pm

Hey coatesey -- the only bit of info I can add other than the hop profile you've calculated, is that Hopback uses that reduced colour version of pale malt. H&G stock it.

coatesg · Post by **coatesg** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:28 pm

fivetide wrote:Hey coatesey -- the only bit of info I can add other than the hop profile you've calculated, is that Hopback uses that reduced colour version of pale malt. H&G stock it.

Thought they used Optic in SL, and MO in GFB?

Gonna be MO for me - it's all I have

fivetide · Post by **fivetide** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:54 pm

Well that's that sorted.

Grahame · Post by **Grahame** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:00 pm

ChrisG wrote:Good luck, I'm doing my 1st tomorrow morning, early for me too 6am i hope.

Looking forward to loads of pictures tomorrow, ChrisG!!

G.

coatesg · Post by **coatesg** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 8:22 am

Mash is away - took a bit of time to get the strike temp right.

Strike water in the tun:

Weighed out grain:

Garth · Post by **Garth** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 8:31 am

looking good Graeme, anything similar to Summer Lightening should be great

ECR · Post by **ECR** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:33 am

Hope it's going well

coatesg · Post by **coatesg** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:19 am

OK - Sparge all done - and by my reckoning I have 31L at 1043 pre-boil.

The sparge:

Bittering hops - challenger and EKGs in there:

Hops in just before the boil:

Boil just starting:

Dennis King · Post by **Dennis King** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:33 am

nice pics. looking good.

The Mighty Badger · Post by **The Mighty Badger** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:44 am

Looks like a good one - a cracking beer too.

coatesg · Post by **coatesg** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:39 pm

Last few minutes of the boil now - have run off a litre or so of wort and cooled it and whacked it in with the yeast to wake it up a little - may put it on the stirrer plate briefly to rouse it in the demijohn before I pitch it.

prolix · Post by **prolix** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:33 pm

very nice. great pics btw

coatesg · Post by **coatesg** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:52 pm

OK - so all done (just a bit of tidying to do...)

23L @ 1050 so exactly as planned which is nice

It's pitched (chucked in 1/2 tsp brew-vit for good measure) and in the fridge - just need to sanitise the temp probe and set the ATC up.

CFC setup:

Temperature of the wort

Remaining wort in the boiler with the hop/protein stuff settled out:

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Saturday Summer Lightning - 27-09-08

Saturday Summer Lightning - 27-09-08