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Extract#006 – T’old Blotchy Duck
Posted on: June 17, 2009
Kind of ‘Morland – Old Speckled Hen’ meets ‘St.Austell – Admiral’s Ale’ or at least thats what I’m trying for!! 😀
T’old Blotchy Duck
Fermentables:
- Coopers Light Malt Extract   1500 grams
- Caramalt   200 grams
- Crystal Wheat Malt   190 grams
- Sugar, Household White   150 grams
- Crystal Malt   30 grams
- Roasted Barley   26 grams
Hops:
- Challenger      60 mins   13 grams (FWH)
- Cascade   60 mins   11 grams (FWH)
- Cascade   15 mins   8 grams
- Bobek   15 mins   8 grams
- Challenger   15 mins   8 grams
The Ingredients, just missing the tin of Light Coopers LME:
Getting the Gervin English Ale yeast ready, I seem to have run out of s-04:
Grains and First Wort Hops going in at about 40 C:
Final Volume:Â Â Â 13Â Â Â Litres
Original Gravity:Â Â Â 1.046
Final Gravity:Â Â Â 1.009
Alcohol Content:Â Â Â 4.8%Â Â Â ABV
Bitterness:Â Â Â 42Â Â Â EBU
Colour:Â Â Â 43Â Â Â EBC (I dare say its going to be a bit darker than planned due to the coopers Light LME)
Not a bad little brewday 🙂 I only had to add 1 Litre to dilute to get the correct OG 🙂
Extract Brew #004: Otter Dark Stout
Posted on: May 24, 2009
Extract#004: Otter Dark Stout
Brewed this yesterday, its happily fermenting away now 🙂
Here’s the ingredients:
FWH, grains & Extract in at 40 deg C:
Some Floaters!:
Hot Break, I’d actually stirred it back down before taking this:
Half time, better have a slurp, which was my first ever Extract brew (Hop back Entire Stout):
Boiler run-off, the wort was cooled in the bath upstairs over a couple of hours:
Our tiny cooker! I let this go into the 25L bucket rather than my 15L as I expect the stout to explode shortly!:
Left overs:
Fermentables:
Bulldog Blend Maris Otter Extract – 1500g
Crystal Malt – 185g
Roasted Barley – 185g
Chocolate Malt, Pale – 185g
Crystal Wheat Malt – 100g
Hops:
Fuggle – 60 mins 17g (FWH)
East Kent Golding – 60 mins 10g (FWH) *cheers for adm for the info here on First Work Hops.
Fuggle – 15 mins 10g
East Kent Golding – 15 mins 10g
Yeast:
s-04, pitched at 22 Deg C from a 2 hour fizzing starter and given a really good aeration.
Final Volume: 12 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.048 (Actual reading about 1046 after cooling to 22, also after watering down by 3L after boiler run-off)
Final Gravity: 1.016
Alcohol Content: 4.2%ABV
Total Liquor: 16.9Litres
Bitterness: 37EBU
Colour: 246EBC (Its a dark one!)
… and my first time sanitising with spray bottle and Iodophor, it feels weird not being able to smell bleach… it it really sanitised?!!!! 😀
**Bottled 4/6/09** sneaky taste, quite interesting, lots of Pale Chocolate malt coming through.
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Things went quite well, though I could have done with adding a few more litres during the boil as I only collected about half what i was supposed to, so I had to let it down with more water once in the FV. Kept running upstairs and using this www.collectionsoft.com/mybrewcollection/hc0.html until I got the Gravity to just above what it should have been.
It sat in the bath cooling off, next step has to be a immersion cooler as soon as I start making longer brew lengths.
Pitching Safale s-04 yeast.
Bulldog Blend Maris Otter Extract – 1490 grams
Crystal Malt – 96 grams
Challenger – 60 mins 14 grams
Challenger – 30 mins 17 grams
Challenger – 20 mins 11 grams
Final Volume: 13 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.036
Final Gravity: 1.008
Alcohol Content: 3.6% ABV
Bitterness: 38 EBU
Colour: 26 EBC
No pictures as it would have looked almost exactly like my last brew.
Please check out www.conistonbrewery.com for a damn fine pint!
Made Friday May 8th 2009.
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2nd Extract brew – Bramling Cross IPA 🙂
This time its a 12 litre brew, so more than a demijohn full like my first extract, this time its in a new small 15 Litre FV bucket which is a nice manageable size for lugging up and down the cellar steps!
This was a real test for my stock-pot conversion to boiler (I should blog the details) 😉
The recipe:
Malt Extract Syrup Pale – 5.5 EBC – 1500 grams
Dried Malt Extract Pale – 10 EBC – 390 grams
Wheat Malt Extract – 8 EBC – 50 grams
Crystal Wheat Malt – 125 EBC – 50 grams
Roasted Barley – 1350 EBC – 20 grams
Bramling Cross – 38 grams – 60 Mins
Bramling Cross – 26 grams – 15 Mins
Bramling Cross – 10 grams (added to steep for about 20 mins at 80 Deg C)
Final Volume: 12 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.051
Final Gravity: 1.012
Alcohol Content: 5.1% ABV
Bitterness: 61 EBU
Colour: 31 EBC
The Ingredients:
Bramling Cross Hops:
First batch of hops gone in, grain bags bobbing around:
Run-off from boiler into FV3, which was cooled in the bath:
Yeast Starter, the Safale us-05 was mad-for-it with loads of fine bubbles:
Hydro @ 35 degrees, apparently its really about 1044 (6 or 7 points below where it should have been):
15 Litre FV tucked up to bed:
Things I’d change:
The way the boiler drains off through the hop stopper could be improved, I’m thinking a short curved copper pipe.
The Linen bags for the grain are a little watertight, though they did their job, I shall have to search for muslin bags 😉
Immersion cooler wouldn’t go a miss!!
I maybe wouldn’t rinse the hops with as much liquor next time so as to keep the right gravity, I should have checked the hydro in the FV and adjusted after 🙂
**Update**
Bottled 6/5/09 with 50g Dry Spray Malt instead of sugar @ FG 1010.
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