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As I have had a day off today I figured I should get my first brew of the year underway (in February...the shame...)
This year I am aiming to stick with mainly simple recipes so I can concentrate on working on process and technique. One of the issues I have been having previously was with clarity of wort out of the kettle. When mashing I noticed I was getting a lot of cavitation around the edges so was not getting as good a seal as I could, to try and resolve that I have
a) replaced the line around my false bottom of the mash tun which had a large gap where it had shrunk.
b) fitted a length of 1/2" silicon hose around the bottom of the mash tun joined together with a smaller diameter hose to stop it opening up. This should get a good seal where the two hoses connect and by putting the gaps in the hose on the opposite side from each other should stop it from escaping at that edge:
Test recipe is a simple pale ale with nothing but Simcoe (due to the 500g sat in my freezer that needs to be used): *edit* added Citra as a dry hop as I had some that needed using up.
Recipe: AG#14 Simcoe & Son
Style: American Pale Ale
TYPE: All Grain
Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size (fermenter): 23.00 l
Estimated OG: 1.046 SG
Estimated Color: 8.4 EBC
Estimated IBU: 48.7 IBUs
Boil Time: 90 Minutes
Ingredients:
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Amt Name
4.50 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter
0.20 kg Pale Wheat Malt
10.00 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 90.0 min 14.0 IBUs
20.00 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 20.0 min 15.8 IBUs
1.00 Item Immersion Chiller (Boil 15.0 mins)
0.25 Item Protofloc Tablet (Boil 10.0 mins)
40.00 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min 8.9 IBUs
50.00 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool
1.0 pkg California Ale (White Labs #WLP001)
50.00 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days
25.00 g Citra - Dry Hop 5.0 Days
Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Medium Body, Batch Sparge, Drain
Total Grain Weight: 4.70 kg
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Mash In Add 13.76 l of water at 74.9 C 66.7 C 90 min
Sparge: Batch sparge with 2 steps (Drain mash tun , 21.29l) of 75.6 C water
Not many pictures as my phone gave up just before I began
Lots of Simcoe:
Aftermath:
OG of 1.050 and looking nice and clear
Mash tun remains:
Given the clarity, the fact I hit pre and post boil gravities and that Beersmith gave me a mash efficiency of 85% I'm quite happy with my first test of the new mash tun setup, definitely an improvement on how I had it before.
This year I am aiming to stick with mainly simple recipes so I can concentrate on working on process and technique. One of the issues I have been having previously was with clarity of wort out of the kettle. When mashing I noticed I was getting a lot of cavitation around the edges so was not getting as good a seal as I could, to try and resolve that I have
a) replaced the line around my false bottom of the mash tun which had a large gap where it had shrunk.
b) fitted a length of 1/2" silicon hose around the bottom of the mash tun joined together with a smaller diameter hose to stop it opening up. This should get a good seal where the two hoses connect and by putting the gaps in the hose on the opposite side from each other should stop it from escaping at that edge:
Test recipe is a simple pale ale with nothing but Simcoe (due to the 500g sat in my freezer that needs to be used): *edit* added Citra as a dry hop as I had some that needed using up.
Recipe: AG#14 Simcoe & Son
Style: American Pale Ale
TYPE: All Grain
Recipe Specifications
--------------------------
Batch Size (fermenter): 23.00 l
Estimated OG: 1.046 SG
Estimated Color: 8.4 EBC
Estimated IBU: 48.7 IBUs
Boil Time: 90 Minutes
Ingredients:
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Amt Name
4.50 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter
0.20 kg Pale Wheat Malt
10.00 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 90.0 min 14.0 IBUs
20.00 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 20.0 min 15.8 IBUs
1.00 Item Immersion Chiller (Boil 15.0 mins)
0.25 Item Protofloc Tablet (Boil 10.0 mins)
40.00 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min 8.9 IBUs
50.00 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool
1.0 pkg California Ale (White Labs #WLP001)
50.00 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days
25.00 g Citra - Dry Hop 5.0 Days
Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Medium Body, Batch Sparge, Drain
Total Grain Weight: 4.70 kg
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Mash In Add 13.76 l of water at 74.9 C 66.7 C 90 min
Sparge: Batch sparge with 2 steps (Drain mash tun , 21.29l) of 75.6 C water
Not many pictures as my phone gave up just before I began
Lots of Simcoe:
Aftermath:
OG of 1.050 and looking nice and clear
Mash tun remains:
Given the clarity, the fact I hit pre and post boil gravities and that Beersmith gave me a mash efficiency of 85% I'm quite happy with my first test of the new mash tun setup, definitely an improvement on how I had it before.
