Brewday 09/04/2007: Mini mash #2

[wooyay]

I thought I'd try DaaB's mini mash recpie again since I had the ingredients left over from last time.

It's certainly easier second time around and I (hopefully) learnt from my mistakes last time: prepare more liquor at the start, pay closer attention to the temperature of the grains during the mash and use slightly more water when sparging.

After sparging, I'd collected 8.6 litres (up 0.6 from last time) with an 86% efficiency, so I must be doing something right. According to my figures, I had a 96% efficiency last time which doesn't seem right for a first attempt so I must've written down a wrong number or something...

Of course, the real test will come in a few weeks time. I'm going to try and keep a bottle from attempt #1 aside to compare against, but it could be tricky

[Vossy1]

I'm going to try and keep a bottle from attempt #1 aside to compare against, but it could be tricky

[notassuch]

Nice one, Wooyay!

Hoopla!

[wooyay]

Got around to bottling this one last night. Getting a bottling stick is certainly worth the money - it was so much easier than using a syphon...

It's also nice to see that what felt like a good brew day seems to have made what seems like a really good beer. The FG is 1.006 (6 lower than the previous batch) and, although both were crystal clear when bottling, this batch tasted so much nicer. So nice, I could've drunk it there and then! Can't imagine what it'll be like in four week's time.

I decided to use one clear bottle just to see what it looked like when bottled and it does look rather inviting:

[subsub]

Well done and welcome to the darkside

[eskimobob]

Very nice