So I wasn't going to brew up for a couple of weeks or so but I bought a 30l water boiler on ebay on the spur of the moment and got my hands on a 25l fermenter so I thought I would give this one a go!
Had a few teething problems.
Firstly, the water boiler (cygnet) was great, boiled pretty quickly and held temp well. However I think i've undershot the OG by quite a bit. I got distracted and wasn't watching the boil and realised much more had boiled off than anticipated, I had a lot of clumpy wort so only got 17.5l in the fermenter. I couldn't cool it with my tiddly wort cooler so after 2 hours I tipped it into the FV at about 40c and waited till it cooled in the FV before adding the yeast.
Anyway.....
pg 175
4.2 kg Marris Otter
250g Rolled Oats
200g Crystal
160g Chocolate
70g Roasted Barley
Challenger 39g at 60
Challenger and Goldings 16g each at turn off.
Protofloc at turn off.
London Ale WLP013 at 24c I couldn't wait any longer!!!!
I'm concerned that I only got an OG of 1040 when I boiled off far more than I should have....
Had a few teething problems.
Firstly, the water boiler (cygnet) was great, boiled pretty quickly and held temp well. However I think i've undershot the OG by quite a bit. I got distracted and wasn't watching the boil and realised much more had boiled off than anticipated, I had a lot of clumpy wort so only got 17.5l in the fermenter. I couldn't cool it with my tiddly wort cooler so after 2 hours I tipped it into the FV at about 40c and waited till it cooled in the FV before adding the yeast.
Anyway.....
pg 175
4.2 kg Marris Otter
250g Rolled Oats
200g Crystal
160g Chocolate
70g Roasted Barley
Challenger 39g at 60
Challenger and Goldings 16g each at turn off.
Protofloc at turn off.
London Ale WLP013 at 24c I couldn't wait any longer!!!!
I'm concerned that I only got an OG of 1040 when I boiled off far more than I should have....
