Hi all
A slightly damp but not too cold late autumn day just begging for a brew, so I unselfishly obliged !
This brew will be an IPA, adapted from a recipe I found whilst looking for a most elusive recipe for Fuller's Bengal Lancer. Suffice it to say I didn't find a recipe directly but stumbled upon one "in the style of" it, which is as close as I came to finding it.
The recipe called for some 125g of Fuggles hops, with a late addition of the same at 20 minutes and flame out. I didn't want it quite so bitter so used 76g up front, with Styrian Goldings at 20 minutes and the rest of my Fuggles pack at flame out, 20g.
Grain
4500g Maris Otter pale malt
150g Amber Malt
150g Flaked Barley
150g Torrefied Wheat
Mash
Mash temperature: I went for 68'C and lost about half a degree over the 90 minutes which is great! Mash tun decided to dress up for Halloween ...
Hops
76g Fuggles @ 90mins
20g Styrian Goldings @ 20mins
20g Fuggles @ 0mins
Ended up like this :)
Boil
The sparge this time only eventually got down to a hydrometer reading of .990 when I'd drained the HLT, and I liquored back a little during the boil due to evaporation loss, so expecting this to be fairly strong, close to the 5.3% Bengal Lancer gets in the bottle. Good old trusty Electrim boiler maintained a solid 99.6'C to 100'C for the whole boil. If only it was 30Lcapacity instead of 25L :) Touch and go again with the pre-boil foam up, but quick a blast from the hose, on sprinkle rather than power-hose this time, sorted that out.
Yeast
White Labs WLP002 English Ale yeast pitched at 23.5'C
Gravity
QBrew said the OG should be up around 1.061, but I got a temperature corrected 1.053, so looking for it to come ferment down to 1.013 to give an ABV of 5.3%. Must look into why the gravity is always quite a lot lower than expected. It could be due to too much liquoring back during the boil, or perhaps, as previously stated, too fast a sparge though this time it was 1L per minute which should be fine.
Quite a nice colour this one. Amber, due most probably to the amber malt I would imagine :)
A slightly damp but not too cold late autumn day just begging for a brew, so I unselfishly obliged !
This brew will be an IPA, adapted from a recipe I found whilst looking for a most elusive recipe for Fuller's Bengal Lancer. Suffice it to say I didn't find a recipe directly but stumbled upon one "in the style of" it, which is as close as I came to finding it.
The recipe called for some 125g of Fuggles hops, with a late addition of the same at 20 minutes and flame out. I didn't want it quite so bitter so used 76g up front, with Styrian Goldings at 20 minutes and the rest of my Fuggles pack at flame out, 20g.
Grain
4500g Maris Otter pale malt
150g Amber Malt
150g Flaked Barley
150g Torrefied Wheat
Mash
Mash temperature: I went for 68'C and lost about half a degree over the 90 minutes which is great! Mash tun decided to dress up for Halloween ...
Hops
76g Fuggles @ 90mins
20g Styrian Goldings @ 20mins
20g Fuggles @ 0mins
Ended up like this :)
Boil
The sparge this time only eventually got down to a hydrometer reading of .990 when I'd drained the HLT, and I liquored back a little during the boil due to evaporation loss, so expecting this to be fairly strong, close to the 5.3% Bengal Lancer gets in the bottle. Good old trusty Electrim boiler maintained a solid 99.6'C to 100'C for the whole boil. If only it was 30Lcapacity instead of 25L :) Touch and go again with the pre-boil foam up, but quick a blast from the hose, on sprinkle rather than power-hose this time, sorted that out.
Yeast
White Labs WLP002 English Ale yeast pitched at 23.5'C
Gravity
QBrew said the OG should be up around 1.061, but I got a temperature corrected 1.053, so looking for it to come ferment down to 1.013 to give an ABV of 5.3%. Must look into why the gravity is always quite a lot lower than expected. It could be due to too much liquoring back during the boil, or perhaps, as previously stated, too fast a sparge though this time it was 1L per minute which should be fine.
Quite a nice colour this one. Amber, due most probably to the amber malt I would imagine :)
