cresta pale ale mashing now

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ColinKeb

cresta pale ale mashing now

Post by ColinKeb » Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:19 am

ive got my latest offering to the brewing world mashing at the moment , i said to hop and grape that i was brewing today and needed my grain by then, nothing had turned up yesterday so this morning i cleaned everything and got the liquor up to temp in the boiler. just as it hit the magic mark the doorbell rings and there is my grain. fair play to them.
todays recipe is:

7lb pale malt
3/4 lb demerara sugar
2oz hallertau hops
1 1/4 oz goldings hops

nice and simple now its going to mash for 3 hours!

Calum

Post by Calum » Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:59 am

I was impressed with Hop and Grape when I used them a few weeks ago. When I phoned they were up front and said there was a backlog however I told them when I was planning to brew and they made sure it arrived on time. I'll certainly use them again when I want to make something that requires ingredients that my local shop doesn't stock.

Thats quite interesting using demerera sugar in a Pale Ale. How much do you expect this to effect the colour?

ColinKeb

Post by ColinKeb » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:12 pm

i have no idea to be honest this is a dave line recipie and ive never made it before. i expect it will just darken it and add a bit of strength.

ColinKeb

Post by ColinKeb » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:34 pm

youre making me thristy now Daab :D

ColinKeb

Post by ColinKeb » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:15 pm

who were the ones that used to get "fizzycal" ?

mysterio

Post by mysterio » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:21 pm

Are you implying that us youngsters have never heard of Cresta or never heard of Happy Days?? :P

When I saw the thread title I thought you were making some kind of turbo lemonade :shock:

ColinKeb

Post by ColinKeb » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:25 pm

oh bugger! the problem with a 3 hour mash is that you get bored, then you look at something like youtube, then you get transfixed by this black girl shaking her ..... well you forget the time anyway and dont check the temp. my mash has been too high for the last half an hour (about 73 deg) so now ive added some cold water and will have to wait even longer .
serves me right.
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ColinKeb

Post by ColinKeb » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:40 pm

yeah should be okay, well im not starting again anyway :D i worry about the accuracy of my thermomenter, its one of those probe ones from leyland . i will test it in some boiling water in a mo just to see.

ColinKeb

Post by ColinKeb » Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:28 am

its done and ive even blogged the whole lot for posterity, this has caused even more head shaking from my other half
http://colinstrangebrew.blogspot.com/
they just dont understand do they :D

Vossy1

Post by Vossy1 » Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:12 am

Nice blog CK 8)

ColinKeb

Post by ColinKeb » Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:21 pm

:lol: i just have a pint to cope with the emotional trauma her rejection causes me :lol:

Orfy

Post by Orfy » Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:56 pm

Good brew session. :D

bod

Post by bod » Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:38 pm

that must have been a pretty big ladder! :lol: :wink:

ColinKeb

Post by ColinKeb » Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:08 pm

you can say that again, jumping over fences with armed police pointing guns at you is bad enough but doing it while carrying this wasnt fun at all :lol:
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