Howdy Y'all,
I've been super busy today
Whilst I was mashing, I made some tweaks to my mansfield bitter sort-of-clone, adding A hop tea boiled for 5-10 mins consisting of 5g progress, 5g fuggles, and 5g EKG. Although the EKG isnt stylistically correct, its improved the flavour a little, and still seems realtively similar to what I wanted. This has given me a 4.5% beer that tastes pretty good.
I now started getting the boil underway for the porter, I used the supplied hops, and a few extra to keep the IBU/GP ratio about right, these were boiled for 40 mins, then the 10 min flavor addition added at flameout. Since I dont chill my beer, this equates to 60 and 20 mins respectively.
During the boil I tried to rescue a Leaky minikeg, however unfortunately It had gone bad, and down the sink it went (I also ended up losing my syphon somewhere!)
Back to the porter, I was trying to drain it, and the tap got jammed, sorting this involved pouring the brew into a FV, fixing the tap, and then pouring back into the boiler to strain through its false bottom. This was majorly faffy, and by the time I'd finished the brew had cooled a goodly way, I hope I dont end up with an infection.
The final task of the day ( after cleaning up some of my mess) was to test my corny system. I've used a fire extinguisher as my co2 supply, and all worked well! although holding the extinguisher upside down (to stop the dip tube picking up liquid co2) was sketchy, I feel a mounting bracket of some sort is in order before I start using the cornies
Anyway, apart from cleaning my boiler, I'm all done now, hopefully I can pitch my yeast tomnight or tomorrow, I'll either go with the S-04 that came with the kit, or Nottingham. I'd bene hoping to use Mangrove Jacks Dark Ale Yeast, but It hasnt arrived yet.
Ciao for now,
Ant
I've been super busy today
- Brewing a HBC all grain Brown Porter kit
- Adding a hop tea to my Mansfield-style bitter http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=55559
- Racking off from a leaky minikeg
- testing my corny system
Whilst I was mashing, I made some tweaks to my mansfield bitter sort-of-clone, adding A hop tea boiled for 5-10 mins consisting of 5g progress, 5g fuggles, and 5g EKG. Although the EKG isnt stylistically correct, its improved the flavour a little, and still seems realtively similar to what I wanted. This has given me a 4.5% beer that tastes pretty good.
I now started getting the boil underway for the porter, I used the supplied hops, and a few extra to keep the IBU/GP ratio about right, these were boiled for 40 mins, then the 10 min flavor addition added at flameout. Since I dont chill my beer, this equates to 60 and 20 mins respectively.
During the boil I tried to rescue a Leaky minikeg, however unfortunately It had gone bad, and down the sink it went (I also ended up losing my syphon somewhere!)
Back to the porter, I was trying to drain it, and the tap got jammed, sorting this involved pouring the brew into a FV, fixing the tap, and then pouring back into the boiler to strain through its false bottom. This was majorly faffy, and by the time I'd finished the brew had cooled a goodly way, I hope I dont end up with an infection.
The final task of the day ( after cleaning up some of my mess) was to test my corny system. I've used a fire extinguisher as my co2 supply, and all worked well! although holding the extinguisher upside down (to stop the dip tube picking up liquid co2) was sketchy, I feel a mounting bracket of some sort is in order before I start using the cornies
Anyway, apart from cleaning my boiler, I'm all done now, hopefully I can pitch my yeast tomnight or tomorrow, I'll either go with the S-04 that came with the kit, or Nottingham. I'd bene hoping to use Mangrove Jacks Dark Ale Yeast, but It hasnt arrived yet.
Ciao for now,
Ant
