Southwold 16/11/09

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Using something like Aleman's recipe for Southwold Bitter for a brew up today as I had the day off to get the car through it's MOT and tidy the garden a little...

3kg Pale (Maris Otter)
150g Light Crystal
75g Light Choc
75g Roast Barley

8g Boadicea (7.6%), 13g Fuggles (3.9%), 15g Goldings (4.6%) - 90min
15g Challenger (7%) - 45min
12g Goldings - 15min
8g Goldings - 0min

EDIT: Forgot the sugar! 250g White sugar in boil

Whirlfloc with 15min left.

Yeast is Wyeast 1335 from a 1.5l starter - all went fairly smoothly really. Got 20L @ 1041ish so diluted with a couple of litres of water back down to 22L (so 1037 I make it). In the fermenter under the ATC800 - temperature set to 21C - hoping it'll be largely done and dusted inside a week.

I finally nailed getting a good runoff with the IC in place - slowed the stirring down a lot which seemed to help, and removed the IC before allowing everything to settle. Runoff was really very clear indeed with little break being carried across.

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Ah - sod. Stuck it in the wrong category! Can an admin shift it into brewdays please? Ta!

[Deebee]

Using something like Aleman's recipe for Southwold Bitter for a brew up today as I had the day off to get the car through it's MOT and tidy the garden a little...

3kg Pale (Maris Otter)
150g Light Crystal
75g Light Choc
75g Roast Barley

8g Boadicea (7.6%), 13g Fuggles (3.9%), 15g Goldings (4.6%) - 90min
15g Challenger (7%) - 45min
12g Goldings - 15min
8g Goldings - 0min

Whirlfloc with 15min left.

Yeast is Wyeast 1335 from a 1.5l starter - all went fairly smoothly really. Got 20L @ 1041ish so diluted with a couple of litres of water back down to 22L (so 1037 I make it). In the fermenter under the ATC800 - temperature set to 21C - hoping it'll be largely done and dusted inside a week.

I finally nailed getting a good runoff with the IC in place - slowed the stirring down a lot which seemed to help, and removed the IC before allowing everything to settle. Runoff was really very clear indeed with little break being carried across.

What was the planned brewlength. this looks good although i would have to change the bodicea for challenger....

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I got 22L at the planned gravity of 1037. I could have done with more headspace though as the yeast went absolutely potty - filled the fermenter, blew out the airlock, spilled all over the lid, etc! Never seen a low gravity beer go off with such a bang before!

I wouldn't worry about subbing challenger for boadicea - I would have used challenger throughout but I only had 15g left!