Something, Something, Something...Goldings.

[Jon474]

Inspired by Peter Griffin.

Sunday morning brewing.

Water treatment: KH test 0.86 = 0.80 meq/L…x 50 = 40mg/L of CaCO3.

This gives 4ml of CRS (is it worth it?) and 21g of gypsum in the HLT…always worth it!

2.6g of calcium chloride in the mash.

5g of epsom salts in the copper.

Up at 7:20am to find strike water at 89C. Mashed in at 8:35am! Why so long…because I overslept by 20 minutes. Took over an hour for the water temperature to drop to 70.5C Mash temperature was exactly 66C. Used the time wisely though…cleaned the copper and ran boiling water through the pump and pipe work.

Fermentable Colour Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 5070 grams 94.70%
Crystal Malt 130 EBC 265 grams 5.00%
Roasted Barley 1350 EBC 16 grams 0.30%

Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
Golding Whole 5.20% 60 mins 0 lbs. 0.9 oz 26 grams 10%
Golding Whole 5.20% 10 mins 0 lbs. 8.4 oz 238 grams 90%

This is either a good idea which produces a beer with huge hop character or just insanely stupid!

Mash went well. Mashed out with a grist temperature of…66C. I love my twin-bucket mash tun.

Sparge went well too. Ended up with 35 litres at 1.038. I always hope that my 75 minute boil will raise the SG by just two points...but I know it will be six.

Is this a stupid amount of late hops?

This whole brew went remarkably well.

Still very happy using my Heath-Robinson kit...I have got to know exactly how this kit works.

As you can see, I had just tipped a bucket of water over!

Those 264g of hops produced a lot of trub…excellent cold break filter though. Pretty clear on transfer to the FV.

The spent hops half-filled my ten litre bucket…

Ended up with approximately 23 litres of a beer at OG 1.044 and it is now tucked up with some restarted WLP023. There is a good head forming on this already.

Nice looking beer already…

Update 23 May 2011: lots of beery smells coming from the FV…almost sulphur-like…the morning after a night on Pedigree. I suppose that is the WLP023? I'm sure I have read somewhere that it produces this aroma. SG down to 1.038 this morning so the yeast is doing something. I’ll measure it again in the morning.

Loving it.
Take care
Jon

 

[battwave]

Looks Good John,

In my opinion, you can never have too many late hops - esepcially Goldings. Had a fairly good crop last year so I've gone quite heavy on flavour and aroma, but mine don't seem to make a very good bitteing hop. Utilitiy bittering hop of the year for me has been Magnum; a 100g bag has contributed to umpteen good lagers and ales.

Wouldn't knock your kit; we all do it differently and, as you say, get comfortable with the way it works. I do both mash and boil (separately of course) in a 6 gallon stainless electic boiler with a false bottom. I just use a lot of bubble wrap for the mash period.

 

[rickthebrew]

Great looking brew Jon I`m all for loads of late hopping - worked really well in my proper job clone What IBU does this come out at? (sorry if its in the post but I couldn`t see it :thumb: )