Wet Spaniel Brewery AG No.1

[JontyR]

Well, with thanks to the fantastic information resource on Jims' and to all on here who've answered by daft questions, I've managed to get all my gear together and have got AG 1 mashing as I type.

It's Haz66's Golden Pippin recipe as this beer is a particular favourite of mine

Fermentable Colour lb: oz Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 7 lbs. 11.4 oz 3500 grams 89.7%
Wheat Malt 3.5 EBC 0 lbs. 14.0 oz 400 grams 10.3%


Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
Cascade Whole 5.5 % 60 mins 0 lbs. 1.4 oz 40 grams 57.1%
Cascade Whole 5.4 % 20 mins 0 lbs. 0.5 oz 15 grams 21.4%
Cascade Whole 5.4 % 10 mins 0 lbs. 0.5 oz 15 grams 21.4%


Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.038
Final Gravity: 1.009
Alcohol Content: 3.8% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.2 Litres
Mash Liquor: 9.8 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 33.3046182473629 EBU
Colour: 6 EBC


Here's my kit - it ain't pretty but it was cheap!!



I haven't built a stand in my garage yet so I'm afraid it's a heath robinson affair in the utility room at the moment



Grain bill



Doughing in - smells bloody lovely! I got 66 degrees on the nose



the mash will be done at 11.30

[JontyR]

The mash tun retained 66 degrees so very happy there.

Here's my dodgy sparging device in action



Hops



Start of boil additions

[monkeyboy]

looks great. hope it goes well.

[JontyR]

Thanks Monkeyboy

Boil finished - I allowed 25% for evaporation etc and ended up with 24l over my target 23l so I'm pretty pleased with that. I left it to stand for half an hour befor draining and the wort was nice and clear on run off



Here's the filth



OG was predicted at 1.038 and I got 1.039 so I'm happy enough with that.

I don't have an IC so it'll be getting left overnight before pitching the yeast tomorrow.

That was bloody good fun!!!

[leedsbrew]

Looks cracking that jonty! Welldone mate!

[TheMumbler]

Sounds like it went well. I bet you can't wait to try one

[Kev888]

Thats all very impressive - went a smoother than my first trials of new kit, too. Good stuff!!

Cheers
Kev

[WishboneBrewery]

Nice work No turning back now!!

[JontyR]

This has been in the FV for 7 days now, I checked the gravity and it's 1 point off the estimated FG so a few more days should see it. Obviously I had a slurp from the trial jar and oh boy, am I a happy man!! I could quite happily have supped a pint of it. Finfers crossed it looks like it should turn out ok.

[Frothy]

sounds great, you certainly don't need beautiful kit to brew beautiful beer

Frothy