AG#7 – Munich Blauer Vogel

Posted by: pdtnc on: September 26, 2009

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Munich Blauer Vogel

This is basically a Coniston Bluebird Bitter with 500g of Munich Malt (and about 80g too much Crystal as it seemed a shame to leave such a small bag full!) and a little extra hopping. I’ll be pitching a split Whitelabs Edinburgh Ale yeast.

Fermentables:
Maris Otter 3600g
Munich Malt 500g
Crystal Malt 170g

Hops:
Boadicea 60 mins 27g (FWH)
Challenger 30 mins 30g
Challenger 20 mins 21g
Challenger 0 mins 10g

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.042
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 4.1% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.6 Litres
Mash Liquor: 10.7 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 48 EBU
Colour: 15 EBC

The Grain; Maris Otter, Munich Malt, Crystal Malt:

Mashing, thanks to my honey for the photo 😉 :

Mashed in a little high:

pH of Mash looks somewhere near:

Boiler warming Sparge water and Mash tucked up under a coat:

Hops and brew Sheet:

No sparging photos as its stuck like a B’stard again!! Not happy, even with more and larger saw cuts in the copper manifold (Using the Thermos coolbox), it might have to be net curtain time next brew.
I’m finding the grain bed is going really solid, could this be the problem, could it maybe be my stirring technique after adding the batch sparge water etc?

Boadicea and 5g Gypsom FWH:

Challenger 30 min Hops:

OG:1040 couple of points out, though it was 27 Deg C so that about right, and I collected a few litres more than I should have:

Action Shot:

Cold Break:

Aeration and hop debris catching:

Pitched yeast at 26C-ish which had half an hour or so with some Fresh cooled wort added to it after decanting the ‘beer’ off the top of the yeast split bottle.

Fingers crossed for an Úber-Bluebird;)

**This was fermenting within 24 hours, and this morning (Sunday) its going great 🙂

**Bottled Tuesday 6th October 2009 with 100g sugar

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