Weights & Measures – A bit of a user-upper to get rid of a few bags of bits, now I’ve tried a few grains out its time to concentrate on a more general range.

 

Fermentables:
Lager Malt 1600g
Golden Promise 1400g
Rye Malt 490g
Caramalt 250g
Torrefied Wheat 245g
Vienna Malt 215g
Amber Malt 80g
Chocolate Malt, Pale 40g

Hops:
Fuggles 60 mins 75g
Bramling Cross 15 mins 28g
Saaz Whole 0 mins 17g

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.041
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 4% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.6 Litres
Mash Liquor: 10.8 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 43 EBU
Colour: 17 EBC

The Grist and 5g Gypsum:

I’m trying to guide my time with a Google Calender Timetable:

Mashed in 1 degree lower than I wanted, Grain was 16c, Strike should have been 75c… I lost a degree somewhere, so if anyones seen one its mine:

Calibrated Boiler = No more Jugging my liquor into the Tun (Even though I did this time just to check my scale):


Tucked up for 90mins:

Lots of Lovely Fuggles:

FWH in with 1st batch of Sparged wort:

Mash Paddle and floaters:

Hot Break, the 38L stock pot has just the right amount of head space for it to boil pretty much without watching it:

Bramling Cross Hops going in @ 15mins:

Saaz Hops going in at 0mins for 10min steep:

Just a point or two high, 1042/44:

Dry Sprinkled Nottingham Yeast:

Not a bad brewday, the wort tastes good enough to drink as it is

**Bottled 17th Nov ‘09