Boxshed Hop Juggler (BHJ) ~ 19th March 2009 [w/photos]

[fivetide]

Okay, everything cleaned, water treated and boiled, rapid hop-stopper thing created, and MASH ON! 17:30


Boxshed Hop Juggler (BHJ)


Style: English Pale
Batch Size: 25 L
Boil Time: 90 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.0 %

Ingredients
4.35Kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC) 94.6%
250g Torrified Wheat (3.3 EBC) 5.4%

Protofloc Tablet (15 min)
1 Pkgs US-05

Hop profile
Challenger, 7.5%AA, 35g at 90 min
Mount Hood, 6%AA, 25g at 15 min
Willamette, 35g at flame out

Batch Sparge
Mash Grain Weight: 4.6kg Mash PH: 5.4 PH
Grain Temperature: 13.0 C
Mash In Add 11.5L of water at 71.5C (65C) 90 min
Step Add 9.5L of water at 80.2 (72C) 10 min
Step Add 15.5L of water at 81.9C (76C) 10 min

Beer Profile
Estimated Original Gravity: 1.041
Estimated Final Gravity: 1.012
Estimated Color: 8.2 EBC
Bitterness: 38.3 IBU
Alpha Acid Units: 2.2 AAU
Estimated Alcohol by Volume: 3.8%

[fivetide]

For a bit of fun, I'm going to update this brew evening in stages during the evening, because there's a pretty high chance of a cock-up.

I'll have to do it on my blog though, so that I can use the Wordpress app on my iPhone.

Nothing has gone very wrong yet...

[fivetide]

More photos than you'd ever want to look at, now up. (Had to wait for my lunch hour!)

[DarloDave]

Looks good

[fivetide]

This is down to 1.011 already - a point below target - so it will be moving into a secondary very soon.