Hello,
What a great name. Going to look out some space themed pics for the labels.
Anyway, wife was away overnight Friday, so I got up early with the littl'uns at 6.30 and thought on the spur of the moment that it was time to brew.
5kg MO Extra Pale
25g Galaxy 60mins
30g Galaxy 0mins
45g Galaxy dry-hop from days 9-14
All went well. Boys dug out the mash tun for me with only a little bit of spillage. Then had a lot of fun damming and releasing the "steaming stream" from the chiller hose as it made its way down the lane.
21l into FV at 1.047, which is perfect, albeit a litre short on the numbers. I had very cloudy wort, too, which many be due to the manifold not sitting properly in the exit pipe. I didn't check it. Lautered about 10l but it was still cloudy, so just left it.
Tastes really good into FV, too.
Update on the trub loss and high exit from the Burco Cygnet - I had the set up where I had the male thread of the tap inside the boiler, then a female to female adaptor, then the male thread of the bazooka hop filter. Last brew the male thread came off the bazooka and stayed inside the adaptor. I can still thread the bazooka on to it, and did so for this brew. When cleaning down, however, I realised that the bazooka will thread straight onto the tap thread, cutting out about an inch and a half, and hence meaning I can get more out and reduce waste.
The other thing I did was to use a large fine kitchen sieve and set it over a large plastic jug, both sterilised, and tipped the end of the wort, hops and all, into the seive. The hops formed a filter bed, which I recirculated the initial runnings through, and then gradually topped up with wort as it slowly filtered through. I got about 2.5l more out than previously, which is a big 5 bottles. Result!
Final thought, re dry hopping - I may instead make a hop tea in a cafetière instead, to add to the bottling bucket. Less mess, no need to dangle weighted muslin bags into the FV with the associated infection risk, and less prep sterilising it all beforehand. Has anyone else used this method before, and how does it compare to dry-hopping?
Right. Time to do some work.
Dog.
What a great name. Going to look out some space themed pics for the labels.
Anyway, wife was away overnight Friday, so I got up early with the littl'uns at 6.30 and thought on the spur of the moment that it was time to brew.
5kg MO Extra Pale
25g Galaxy 60mins
30g Galaxy 0mins
45g Galaxy dry-hop from days 9-14
All went well. Boys dug out the mash tun for me with only a little bit of spillage. Then had a lot of fun damming and releasing the "steaming stream" from the chiller hose as it made its way down the lane.
21l into FV at 1.047, which is perfect, albeit a litre short on the numbers. I had very cloudy wort, too, which many be due to the manifold not sitting properly in the exit pipe. I didn't check it. Lautered about 10l but it was still cloudy, so just left it.
Tastes really good into FV, too.
Update on the trub loss and high exit from the Burco Cygnet - I had the set up where I had the male thread of the tap inside the boiler, then a female to female adaptor, then the male thread of the bazooka hop filter. Last brew the male thread came off the bazooka and stayed inside the adaptor. I can still thread the bazooka on to it, and did so for this brew. When cleaning down, however, I realised that the bazooka will thread straight onto the tap thread, cutting out about an inch and a half, and hence meaning I can get more out and reduce waste.
The other thing I did was to use a large fine kitchen sieve and set it over a large plastic jug, both sterilised, and tipped the end of the wort, hops and all, into the seive. The hops formed a filter bed, which I recirculated the initial runnings through, and then gradually topped up with wort as it slowly filtered through. I got about 2.5l more out than previously, which is a big 5 bottles. Result!
Final thought, re dry hopping - I may instead make a hop tea in a cafetière instead, to add to the bottling bucket. Less mess, no need to dangle weighted muslin bags into the FV with the associated infection risk, and less prep sterilising it all beforehand. Has anyone else used this method before, and how does it compare to dry-hopping?
Right. Time to do some work.
Dog.