28/12/2009 TTLish

[Jymbo]

Threw this together today. Its based on my last TTL which was a cracker but I threw in a little bit of Crystal for taste and colour and a few extra Styrians for flavour. I ended up with 25L @1044 as opposed to the planned 23L @1042 which means my brewhouse efficiency has rocketed to 81% - think I'm getting the hang of this water treatment business

Went smoothly enough until I went to use the IC and found that my hosepipe and outside water tap had completely frozen through so I had to carry the copper outside and plug the IC directly onto the outside tap which I managed to defrost with a few kettles of boiling water! It was -2C out there at 2 o'clock this afternoon Anyway, it's bubbling away nicely already. Sadly I didn't have any Whitelabs Edinburgh yeast which worked very well last time, but I'm sure S-04 will do a decent enough job.


Brewlength 23L
Target OG 1042
90 min Mash

MO 4300g
Crystal 150g

90 min boil

EKG (4.3%) 36g 90 mins
Styrians (3.5%) 30g 90 mins
Styrians (3.5%) 25g 10 mins

1 packet S-04

[roger the dog]

Sounds like a good one Jymbo

[WishboneBrewery]

No messing around with caramelisation then... best served fresh I found so the Styrians kick stays
When I get round to doing another TTL I might try a bit of Munich malt in it

[Jymbo]

Caramelisation is a right PITA I've found - plus you need to boil a very large amount to notice the difference. Every time I've tried it it's bubbled over onto the ceramic hob and got me in trouble with the missus I'm sure the Crystal won't give the same flavour but it'll be nice all the same. I didn't use too much so it should just deepen the malt flavour a bit and darken the colour slightly.