wfr42
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Can't guarantee how up to date I'll keep this- taking pictures, particularly at the "interesting bits" wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. Anyway....
AG4 - Lucky 13 stout
I made use of geterbrewed's custom AG kit, and ordered the ingredients for GH's vanilla bourbon stout, but plan to add coffee instead of the vanilla and bourbon. I chose to brew this a bit long (was aiming for 25 litres), after bottling AG3 (the HBC's double ipa) at 7.1% (0.9% above expected strength...).
Chose the lucky name as:
- this is my 13th brew.
- I'm combining the additions of one recipe with the grain bill and hops of another.
- I'm reusing yeast for the first time (that has already chewed through a 1.060 brew )
- I was planning to brew a bit long and therefore reduce the head space in my FV
- I needed the weather to hold off during the duration of my mash, sparge and boil.
(Not sure if I can share the GH grain bill, so won't unless a mod tells me it's worth doing).
I BIAB using the HBC peco boiler kit.
Mixing just over 7kg of various malt - doughing in single handed was quite slow. 22 litres of strike water dropped from 72 to 62 degrees, so i topped up with 2 kettle loads (3.5 litres) of boiling water to get back up to 65 degrees. Temperature held well during the 60min mash.
Had to move inside as the rain started up again, before sparging with another 10 litres of water (which I collected in my 15 litre pot I got for my first 2 ags) which cooled to 80 degrees boiling the kettle throughout the mash.
Draining the mash liquor to my bottling bucket.
Getting ready to "sparge" I poured a litre of the 80 degree water at time with a jug before moving the bag onto the dish rack for squeezing.
Collected 27litres according to the bottling bucket's scale and transferred this back to the boiler to give 29litres with the dead space left in the boiler.
Hops - start of boil and half as much of a 2nd hop for a 10min addition
Yeast - US-05 reclaimed from my last AG batch, a first for me!
Cooling - boil and cooling wort, especially the last 10-15 degrees is quickly (or more correctly slowly) becoming my least favourite thing about brewing.
Cooled wort reading - GH recipe has a target gravity of 1.070 for 23 litres so quite happy with just under 25 litres at 1.060.
Just under 25 litres
Yeast pitched - fingers crossed for a clean ferment, I've started with a blow off tube just in case.
Thanks for reading - good luck with your brews!
AG4 - Lucky 13 stout
I made use of geterbrewed's custom AG kit, and ordered the ingredients for GH's vanilla bourbon stout, but plan to add coffee instead of the vanilla and bourbon. I chose to brew this a bit long (was aiming for 25 litres), after bottling AG3 (the HBC's double ipa) at 7.1% (0.9% above expected strength...).
Chose the lucky name as:
- this is my 13th brew.
- I'm combining the additions of one recipe with the grain bill and hops of another.
- I'm reusing yeast for the first time (that has already chewed through a 1.060 brew )
- I was planning to brew a bit long and therefore reduce the head space in my FV
- I needed the weather to hold off during the duration of my mash, sparge and boil.
(Not sure if I can share the GH grain bill, so won't unless a mod tells me it's worth doing).
I BIAB using the HBC peco boiler kit.
Mixing just over 7kg of various malt - doughing in single handed was quite slow. 22 litres of strike water dropped from 72 to 62 degrees, so i topped up with 2 kettle loads (3.5 litres) of boiling water to get back up to 65 degrees. Temperature held well during the 60min mash.
Had to move inside as the rain started up again, before sparging with another 10 litres of water (which I collected in my 15 litre pot I got for my first 2 ags) which cooled to 80 degrees boiling the kettle throughout the mash.
Draining the mash liquor to my bottling bucket.
Getting ready to "sparge" I poured a litre of the 80 degree water at time with a jug before moving the bag onto the dish rack for squeezing.
Collected 27litres according to the bottling bucket's scale and transferred this back to the boiler to give 29litres with the dead space left in the boiler.
Hops - start of boil and half as much of a 2nd hop for a 10min addition
Yeast - US-05 reclaimed from my last AG batch, a first for me!
Cooling - boil and cooling wort, especially the last 10-15 degrees is quickly (or more correctly slowly) becoming my least favourite thing about brewing.
Cooled wort reading - GH recipe has a target gravity of 1.070 for 23 litres so quite happy with just under 25 litres at 1.060.
Just under 25 litres
Yeast pitched - fingers crossed for a clean ferment, I've started with a blow off tube just in case.
Thanks for reading - good luck with your brews!