Righty-ho, I've got several opened bags of grains, hops, etc and only one yeast packet (Nottingham) left so to try and use them all up I re-visited my Black Sheep clone from many moons ago. Whilst brewing this I realised that I'd have to open up a new packet of Challenger hops just to get 19g's out of it so I thought I'd use an alternative of Cascade as I had some open and for some reason....they smelt nice.
Off we go, recipe is as follows :
20l batch size
3.84 kg Pale Malt (crisp)
0.46kg Torrified wheat
0.16kg Crystal
0.07kg black malt
Mashed at 65.6c for 90 mins
19g Cascade @ 90 mins
19g EKG @ 90 mins
9g Fuggles @ 90 mins
17g EKG @ 10 mins
Brew went as expected but I've somehow ended up 2.5l over my batch size?! I know I was slightly over my pre-boil volume but not by anywhere near 2.5l. The last 15 or so brews have had nearly 100g of hops in them so I've started with 30l pre-boil volume, this one has a LOT less hop material in the kettle. In addition, it wasn't a really vigorous boil so that may have impacted on boil off. As a result, I got 1043 SG and not the 1046 that I was expecting. Nevermind, will still be great beer as it smells amazing.
Here's the pics
Grains
Mash
Start and finish temps
Sparging
First addition "hop cocktail"!
Boiling
Dropped clear in 2 mins!
**** leftover
Finished 2.5 litres over my target!?
Isla checking out the "mud"....as she calls it
Colour
Off we go, recipe is as follows :
20l batch size
3.84 kg Pale Malt (crisp)
0.46kg Torrified wheat
0.16kg Crystal
0.07kg black malt
Mashed at 65.6c for 90 mins
19g Cascade @ 90 mins
19g EKG @ 90 mins
9g Fuggles @ 90 mins
17g EKG @ 10 mins
Brew went as expected but I've somehow ended up 2.5l over my batch size?! I know I was slightly over my pre-boil volume but not by anywhere near 2.5l. The last 15 or so brews have had nearly 100g of hops in them so I've started with 30l pre-boil volume, this one has a LOT less hop material in the kettle. In addition, it wasn't a really vigorous boil so that may have impacted on boil off. As a result, I got 1043 SG and not the 1046 that I was expecting. Nevermind, will still be great beer as it smells amazing.
Here's the pics
Grains
Mash
Start and finish temps
Sparging
First addition "hop cocktail"!
Boiling
Dropped clear in 2 mins!
**** leftover
Finished 2.5 litres over my target!?
Isla checking out the "mud"....as she calls it
Colour