Eyup,
Used my Peco boiler today, for the second time - brewed the 'Apollo' whole grain mashkit from the Home Brew Company.
Made some big steps forward with my equipment from my first brew with the Peco boiler a couple of weeks ago.
Firstly, the Apollo kit comes with a wacking 5.9kg of MO/Crystal grain - too much for me with a published SG of 1061 and ABV of 6.3%
I put 1 kg of grain to one side and used circa 4.9kg.
The hops (Apollo, Columbus) are provided in 3 bags. Forgot to weigh each hop bag :-| but there were plenty and the last bag for flame out had 25g in it and was the smallest of the bags. Each bag added as per instructions at:
60 minutes (start of rolling boil)
15 minutes
0 minutes (flame out).
Mashed in 26litres of water for 60 minutes at 67ðC (water heated to 71ðC before popping the grains in)
Dunk sparged in 3 kettlefuls of boiled water in a seperate FV.
Ended up with 25litres at the start of the boil. Topped up to 26l with kettle water, topped up again part way through the boil to 26l
All went smoothly, big steps forward included:
1. My Brupaks universal hop strainer worked brilliantly, I marked on the boiler where to position the wort chiller so id didn't rest on and potentially dislodge the push in the back of the tap strainer.
2. Got the boiler off the concrete floor and onto a pallet with some chipboard screwed on top - made a massive difference to heat loss during the mash. Only lost one degree over 60 minute mash.
3. Got the cool time down to 45 minutes from 75 minutes. Connected the cold inlet to the upper tube of the chiller ad stirred the wort lots. Got down to 50ð in 15 minutes, then used an iced water bath in a builders trub and a small pump to get it the rest of the way to 23ðC before transferring to FV.
Ended up with 21 litres in the FV - 1052 Starting Gravity
Added 1 litre of tap water so 22 litres - 1048 Startinng Gravity.
Pitched US05 yeast supplied at 22ðC. Will ferment out at around 18ðC.
Very happy with how it went :party:, now the waiting game.
Here are some piccies:
Used my Peco boiler today, for the second time - brewed the 'Apollo' whole grain mashkit from the Home Brew Company.
Made some big steps forward with my equipment from my first brew with the Peco boiler a couple of weeks ago.
Firstly, the Apollo kit comes with a wacking 5.9kg of MO/Crystal grain - too much for me with a published SG of 1061 and ABV of 6.3%
I put 1 kg of grain to one side and used circa 4.9kg.
The hops (Apollo, Columbus) are provided in 3 bags. Forgot to weigh each hop bag :-| but there were plenty and the last bag for flame out had 25g in it and was the smallest of the bags. Each bag added as per instructions at:
60 minutes (start of rolling boil)
15 minutes
0 minutes (flame out).
Mashed in 26litres of water for 60 minutes at 67ðC (water heated to 71ðC before popping the grains in)
Dunk sparged in 3 kettlefuls of boiled water in a seperate FV.
Ended up with 25litres at the start of the boil. Topped up to 26l with kettle water, topped up again part way through the boil to 26l
All went smoothly, big steps forward included:
1. My Brupaks universal hop strainer worked brilliantly, I marked on the boiler where to position the wort chiller so id didn't rest on and potentially dislodge the push in the back of the tap strainer.
2. Got the boiler off the concrete floor and onto a pallet with some chipboard screwed on top - made a massive difference to heat loss during the mash. Only lost one degree over 60 minute mash.
3. Got the cool time down to 45 minutes from 75 minutes. Connected the cold inlet to the upper tube of the chiller ad stirred the wort lots. Got down to 50ð in 15 minutes, then used an iced water bath in a builders trub and a small pump to get it the rest of the way to 23ðC before transferring to FV.
Ended up with 21 litres in the FV - 1052 Starting Gravity
Added 1 litre of tap water so 22 litres - 1048 Startinng Gravity.
Pitched US05 yeast supplied at 22ðC. Will ferment out at around 18ðC.
Very happy with how it went :party:, now the waiting game.
Here are some piccies: