So what to brew, I am a bit of a pale ale fan myself with plenty of hops, but I thought I might have a change this time.. This is the schedule:
40litres Black sheep
20litres London pride
20litres Summer lightning
Details below.
Black sheep
7.00 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter
0.50 kg Crystal Malt
0.40 kg Wheat, Torrified
0.10 kg Roasted Barley
51.80 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.50 %] (90 min)
62.10 gm Fuggles [4.50 %] (90 min)
20.71 gm Fuggles [4.50 %] (15 min) H
20.71 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.50 %] (15 min)
14.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.50 %] (0 min)
2.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min)
2 Pkgs Safale So4
OG 1.049
London pride (poetic licence for what I had in stock
3.70 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter
0.50 kg Crystal Malt
0.10 kg Wheat, Torrified
0.05 kg Black (Patent) Malt
25.00 gm Fuggles [4.00 %] (90 min)
25.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.60 %] (90 min)
10.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.60 %] (15 min)
10.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.60 %] (0 min)
1.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs London Ale (White Labs #WLP013)
OG 1.047
Summer Lightning
4.50 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter
0.11 kg Wheat, Torrified
50.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.50 %] (90 min)
50.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.50 %] (15 min)
7.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.50 %] (0 min) Hops -
1.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Hop Back yeast(Cultured from bottle)
OG 1.049
And for all these brews for the first time I used Daab's water test kit and Graham Wheeler's spreadsheet and this:
Water treatment chemicals added.
The mash tun with Black sheep grain bill.
Mashing in.
About to boil...the wort smiles at me
Grain Bill for the London pride.
and finally the SL gets under steam.
Culturing the SL yeast stage 1.
Stage 2
The Black sheep..put to bed.
and who was too idle to set up the FV cooler (which can be seen in the background.
MOI
But 12 hours later ...looks good
And so to bed...knackered...will tidy up in the morning ...
and I did.
And for next week-end Coniston Bluebird and finally that Boddingtons clone.
