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AG#19 - Orkney Dark Island - a 'red wine coloured ale' - and the first brew I've done that involves adding sugar to the boil.. be interesting o see how it comes out :drink:

The mash is on just now - slightly weird brewing midweek when there's no chat room available.. sure I'll cope though!!
 
Grain :

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Copied this out of my brewing spreadsheet

KG
pale malt 4.170
Chocolate Malt 0.150
crystal malt 0.150
Torrified Wheat 0.150

g mins remaining
Omega (8.5%) 32 90
White Cane Sugar 294 45
Challenger 6 15

Of course the forum doesn't line all the figures up... try quoting this post and it all lines up nicely in the editor..
 
First runnings..

First runnings - is the red wine colour starting to show?
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hot wort - certainly looks dark enough..
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sparge arm spreads the hot liquor evenly across the grain bed
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Bittering hops, sugar (first time I've used sugar in a brew), and aroma hops weighed out and ready
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Boiler filled and bittering hops in
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All done - some more pics :D


Last 15 minutes of the boil - aroma hops in, protofloc tablet crushed and added, and chiller in to be sanitised by the boiling wort
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Boil done, and chiller has been doing its work - wort now down to 24c
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Recipe target OG was 1045, we have 1053 instead :D
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Either develop muscle like Arnie, or use a drill and paint paddle (sanitised of course) to give the wort the stirring it needs
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Empty boiler, just the hops left behind
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The hops drained out of the boiler - I like to get as much of the liquid out of them as I can before adding them to the composter.
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Cleaning the elements up with a solution of citric acid - this has kept my cheapo kettle elements working beautifully for 19 brews and counting, vs a mate at work who didn't think it worth following my advice to clean the elements - his one lasted just 5 brews and failed...
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And that's it - just under 26 litres tucked away in the fermenter - If I hit the target FG it comes out at 5.8% instead of 4.7%, and the larger volume plus the higher OG gives me a calculated efficiency of around 91% - possibly because my brew sheet calcs aren't taking into account the effect of the added sugar....
 
About to keg and bottle this today - came out at 5.4% ABV - a bit above the target of 4.7% - no bad thing in my book :mrgreen:

Will fill one cornie and put the rest in bottles.
 
That's it done, one very full cornie and 6 bottles. Fermenter cleaned out ready for the next Orkney Brewery recipe - the SkullSplitter.... :twisted:
 

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