Today is brew day for my Get er brewed Bohemian Pilsner kit.
They annoyingly don't say what any of the amounts of the ingredients are, which seems kind of fundamental....
It's a lovely day so I thought I'd spare the kitchen and brew in the garden.
This is the debut for my new mash tun and boiler so it should be interesting.
I weighed the Bohemian Pils malt at 4kg so heated 12L of water to 75ðc in order to hopefully hit 68ðc in the mash. For some reason it only came in at 64ðc so I used my step calculator and added 1.7L of boiling water which got it to bang on 68ðc.
Mashed for 60 minutes and added about 6 L of near boiling water to raise the temp to 77ðc for sparging.
My manifold sparged well apart from being really slow. About 0.25L per minute. But it cleared up beautifully and was coming out crystal clear.
I've just finished the sparge and got 15L of my 30L total, which seems a huge loss to the mash and evaporation. But the Tesco Ashbeck water is only 20p a litre so I'm not too bothered.
The boiler is on and I'll be doing a 90 minute boil.
as I go I'll find out how how big the 4 Saaz hop additions are. I can't really weigh them while they're in their vacpacks. And Get er brewed don't say the AAs, so I'm going to have to guess the IBUs.
i'll keep you posted.
They annoyingly don't say what any of the amounts of the ingredients are, which seems kind of fundamental....
It's a lovely day so I thought I'd spare the kitchen and brew in the garden.
This is the debut for my new mash tun and boiler so it should be interesting.
I weighed the Bohemian Pils malt at 4kg so heated 12L of water to 75ðc in order to hopefully hit 68ðc in the mash. For some reason it only came in at 64ðc so I used my step calculator and added 1.7L of boiling water which got it to bang on 68ðc.
Mashed for 60 minutes and added about 6 L of near boiling water to raise the temp to 77ðc for sparging.
My manifold sparged well apart from being really slow. About 0.25L per minute. But it cleared up beautifully and was coming out crystal clear.
I've just finished the sparge and got 15L of my 30L total, which seems a huge loss to the mash and evaporation. But the Tesco Ashbeck water is only 20p a litre so I'm not too bothered.
The boiler is on and I'll be doing a 90 minute boil.
as I go I'll find out how how big the 4 Saaz hop additions are. I can't really weigh them while they're in their vacpacks. And Get er brewed don't say the AAs, so I'm going to have to guess the IBUs.
i'll keep you posted.
