Brewday 16/09/09 Kentish Harvest Bitter

[mysterio]

Back to uni tomorrow after a 4 month break This is my fourth and last year so 4 month breaks are a thing of the past

Nothing for it but to get a brew on

Not only did Subsonic send me a generous portion of hand picked Fuggles from Kent (which smell amazing), he was also kind enough to send me 9 kilos of MO and a kilo of Crystal to make a batch! What a guy!

Kentish Harvest Bitter
Special/Best/Premium Bitter

Type: All Grain
Date: 09/09/2009
Batch Size: 12.00 gal
Boil Size: 13.74 gal
Boil Time: 90 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
7.80 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 88.84 %
0.50 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (118.2 EBC) Grain 5.69 %
0.40 kg White Wheat Malt (4.7 EBC) Grain 4.56 %
0.08 kg Roasted Barley (591.0 EBC) Grain 0.91 %
120.00 gm Fuggles [4.00 %] (60 min) Hops 24.3 IBU
55.00 gm Fuggles [4.00 %] (15 min) Hops 5.5 IBU
55.00 gm Fuggles [4.00 %] (1 min) Hops 0.5 IBU

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.044 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.044 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.011 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.010 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.21 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 4.43 %
Bitterness: 30.3 IBU Calories: 193 cal/pint
Est Color: 18.3 EBC Color: Color

Mash @ 67C

[fivetide]

Why didn't I have friends with 12 gallon breweries when I was at university?

[mysterio]

Cheers Chris!

Why didn't I have friends with 12 gallon breweries when I was at university?

Eh. you think i'm sharing this?

Either my pump or transformer is knackered , so i'm using an underback system at the moment, just tipping the wort into the copper manually.

[oblivious]

Looks great and whay a kind gift of the malt, what yeast are you using?

[mysterio]

And, one of the kettle elements is knackered too, boil is going at a snails pace

Good point chris i'll unscrew the head, proabably all sorts living in there

Oblivious, re-pitching some British Ale yeast from white labs

[delboy]

All those hops are wasted on you soft as sh*t brewing water mysterio

V. generous of subsonic, good luck on the brew and the final year of uni.

[mysterio]

Pump head was fine, I don't think it would have been a problem as it's magnetically coupled. Probably (hopefully) the transformer.

Got some wild efficiency with this grain, I think it was a finer crush than my usual. Ended up with 13 - 14 gallons, wasn't fun carrying that up the stairs

[196osh]

Sounds great.

Any pictures going on?

The Pale ale ive got has really come on. Hopefully it will be not too bad for you to drink, .

[mysterio]

No, I don't have a camera anymore sadly, ebayed it - times are tough

[WishboneBrewery]

how very generous.. fingers crossed it turns out good

[196osh]

That sucks.

Well only one more year for you, then you'll be able to get a decent job. I still have 5 and a bit to go at least....

Sad times.

On a more positive note. Fancy bottling one, and we can do a two bottle swap?

[mysterio]

The thought of doing 5 more years would both delight and terrify me in equal measures.

I'll bottle one of these for you when its ready. I know I said i'd give you a brown ale but i'm not altogether impressed with the hops I used. I was expecting a decent hoppy kick (100g of late Glacier hops in a 5g batch), but the hops are non existent. It tastes, and looks a lot like Black Cat Mild, which is nice but a little underwhelming.

[196osh]

Well its up to you. But I am up for swaping anything.

Just so that I can have another brewer have a look at what i have made.

[oblivious]

The thought of doing 5 more years would both delight and terrify me in equal measures.

There is always the PhD

[DarloDave]

bloody taxdodgers *shakes fist*