ProjectBeer
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So I got home on Saturday evening at 10:30pm and stupidly decided to start brewing. I was expecting my deliveries of hops and grains early in the morning, but they didn't turn up until about 3pm and I had to head out as I had plans.
I ended up sleeping at 4am, mainly due to the fact that I was a little tipsy when I started and it took me a while to get things going - and once they got going I couldn't really stop!
Following a comedy of errors including throwing in my 15min additions at 60mins (cue loud and prolific cursing), and almost falling asleep whilst cooling the wort, I managed to hit my OG bang on.
Recipe I was meant to brew:
Batch size 20 litres
Boil Volume: 26 litres
IBU 38.25
ABV 5.66%
Estimate OG 1.053 Estimated FG 1.010
Bitterness Ratio: 0.72
Yeast: Safale US-05
2.85kg DME
350g Caramalt
150g Carapils
150g Caragold
Hops
Magnum 12.5% (bittering only)
Simcoe 13.2%
Galaxy 13.8%
Citra 13.2%
(planned) Schedule
2g Magnum @ 60min
9g total - 3g each of Simcoe, Galaxy and Citra @15min
15g total - 5g each of Simcoe, Galaxy and Citra @10min
45g total - 15g each of Simcoe, Galaxy and Citra @5min
120g total - 40g each of Simcoe, Galaxy and Citra @ Whirlpool (below 80C) for 30 mins
111g total - 37g each of Simcoe, Galaxy and Citra @ Dry Hop 5 days (the odd number is to use up the 100g hop packs I've bought because who wants 7g of odd hops lying around?)
Actual OG = 1.054
I steeped the speciality grains in about 5 litres of water for 30 mins. I forgot about heating some separate sparge water, so I didn't bother with it and just threw it all in the kettle. I then added about half of the DME into the kettle and brought it to a boil.
After accidentally throwing in my 15min addition at 60 mins, I managed to re-calculate the hop schedule and removed 15g of the mixed 10min addition and threw those in with the flame out hops.
Apart from that mishap, the rest of the brew went well.
I got to use my newly made hop spider for the late and whirlpool hop additions. It worked really well given the ludicrous amount of hops I was using and definitely helped minimise kettle loss. I threw in my immersion chiller, brought the wort down to below 79C in a couple of minutes, added the whirlpool hops and let it sit for 30mins.
I had purchased a submersible pump and was hoping to use it with my chiller in a recirculating system with an ice bath, but annoyingly the unit I bought was defective and wouldn't switch on - I changed the fuse in the plug and it still wouldn't work so I'll have to get it exchanged. I ended up cooling normally to 20C.
I racked to the FV, pitched the yeast and stuck it in my fermentation fridge at 17C. I completely forgot to aerate the wort and this morning (28 hours later) it's bubbling very very slowly.
Takeaways:
- Even though I clearly labelled my hop additions, ALWAYS check before throwing them in
- Don't forget the sparge water
- Don't brew late at night....idiot :lol:
I ended up sleeping at 4am, mainly due to the fact that I was a little tipsy when I started and it took me a while to get things going - and once they got going I couldn't really stop!
Following a comedy of errors including throwing in my 15min additions at 60mins (cue loud and prolific cursing), and almost falling asleep whilst cooling the wort, I managed to hit my OG bang on.
Recipe I was meant to brew:
Batch size 20 litres
Boil Volume: 26 litres
IBU 38.25
ABV 5.66%
Estimate OG 1.053 Estimated FG 1.010
Bitterness Ratio: 0.72
Yeast: Safale US-05
2.85kg DME
350g Caramalt
150g Carapils
150g Caragold
Hops
Magnum 12.5% (bittering only)
Simcoe 13.2%
Galaxy 13.8%
Citra 13.2%
(planned) Schedule
2g Magnum @ 60min
9g total - 3g each of Simcoe, Galaxy and Citra @15min
15g total - 5g each of Simcoe, Galaxy and Citra @10min
45g total - 15g each of Simcoe, Galaxy and Citra @5min
120g total - 40g each of Simcoe, Galaxy and Citra @ Whirlpool (below 80C) for 30 mins
111g total - 37g each of Simcoe, Galaxy and Citra @ Dry Hop 5 days (the odd number is to use up the 100g hop packs I've bought because who wants 7g of odd hops lying around?)
Actual OG = 1.054
I steeped the speciality grains in about 5 litres of water for 30 mins. I forgot about heating some separate sparge water, so I didn't bother with it and just threw it all in the kettle. I then added about half of the DME into the kettle and brought it to a boil.
After accidentally throwing in my 15min addition at 60 mins, I managed to re-calculate the hop schedule and removed 15g of the mixed 10min addition and threw those in with the flame out hops.
Apart from that mishap, the rest of the brew went well.
I got to use my newly made hop spider for the late and whirlpool hop additions. It worked really well given the ludicrous amount of hops I was using and definitely helped minimise kettle loss. I threw in my immersion chiller, brought the wort down to below 79C in a couple of minutes, added the whirlpool hops and let it sit for 30mins.
I had purchased a submersible pump and was hoping to use it with my chiller in a recirculating system with an ice bath, but annoyingly the unit I bought was defective and wouldn't switch on - I changed the fuse in the plug and it still wouldn't work so I'll have to get it exchanged. I ended up cooling normally to 20C.
I racked to the FV, pitched the yeast and stuck it in my fermentation fridge at 17C. I completely forgot to aerate the wort and this morning (28 hours later) it's bubbling very very slowly.
Takeaways:
- Even though I clearly labelled my hop additions, ALWAYS check before throwing them in
- Don't forget the sparge water
- Don't brew late at night....idiot :lol: