Black Sheep Ale MkI

[leedsbrew]

Had a bash at a BSA clone today! My first attempt at fly sparging as well

recipe was

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Fermentables
Ingredient	Amount	%	MCU	When
UK Pale Ale Malt	 3.327 kg	 82.7 %	 3.8	 In Mash/Steeped
UK Wheat Malt	 0.370 kg	 9.2 %	 0.3	 In Mash/Steeped
UK Medium Crystal	 0.277 kg	 6.9 %	 6.3	 In Mash/Steeped
UK Roasted Barley	 0.048 kg	 1.2 %	 11.7	 In Mash/Steeped


Hops
Variety	Alpha	Amount	IBU	Form	When
UK Golding	 4.6 %	 45 g	 26.3	 Loose Whole Hops	 First Wort Hopped
UK Golding	 6.1 %	 15 g	 6.5	 Loose Whole Hops	 20 Min From End
UK Fuggle	 3.9 %	 15 g	 4.2	 Loose Whole Hops	 20 Min From End
UK Fuggle	 3.9 %	 15 g	 1.4	 Loose Whole Hops	 5 Min From End
UK Golding	 6.8 %	 15 g	 2.4	 Loose Whole Hops	 5 Min From End


Other Ingredients
Ingredient	Amount	When
Protafloc	 5 g	 In Boil


Yeast
White Labs WLP005-British Ale

Will post the rest later!

LB

[leedsbrew]

All went smoothly. got 19L @ 1.050 instead if 20L @ 1.046 but the recipe was formulated for batch sparging and I decided to experiment with fly! I recon I'm a convert as It was not much more hassle and I got my pre boil amount and an efficiency of 91.6%

It has taken 26 hours lag time but it's finally shown some signs of life. I pitched with 3 splits of wlp005 as it was an impromptu brewday so no starter and I didn't ant to use S04!

I took some pics but will get them up ASAP!

LB

[WishboneBrewery]

Hope it turns out good, I drank my last bottled of my AG4 Black Sheep Ale last night which had aged well though didn't taste much like a real Black Sheep.

[coatesg]

All went smoothly. got 19L @ 1.050 instead if 20L @ 1.046

Not much difference then - 19L@1050 is 20L@1047.5 after diluting it back. That's pretty much what others have found too when comparing batch to continuous/fly. Of course, you can squeeze more grain into a tun with continuous sparging if you try a little

[leedsbrew]

Just had a hydro sample out of the FV. It should be all done at 1.015. 69.9% attenuation from a predicted 70.4%, so not too bad. It has come out at 4.7% ABV but that probably has something to do with BeerAlchemy's figure for my mash efficiency........91.6%. Think i'll be fly sparging more often!

Taste wise it's pretty good. Still a little yeast haze in it, it;s only 8 days old I ran out of Goldings after the FWH (need to re asses my stock control policy! ) so replaced with first gold. It is a very good lightish ale. Not 100% true to commersial form flavour wise but after 3-4 weeks I reckon it's going to be tip top. Next time I brew this i'll mash slightly cooler, maybe 63/64 as the mouth feel/body is a bit much for this type of ale. Other than that well happy. Gonna dig out the nikon later and finally get the photos up!

laters!

[DarloDave]

Nice one