Bridestone Magnum PI Brewday 27/04/2010 Now With Photos

[unclepumble]

Suns out no Kids etc so this is going on today, something pretty simple,


Bridstone Magnum PI

A ProMash Recipe Report

Recipe Specifics
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Batch Size (L): 23.00 Wort Size (L): 23.00
Total Grain (kg): 4.50
Anticipated OG: 1.048 Plato: 11.97
Anticipated SRM: 10.0
Anticipated IBU: 32.9
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75 %
Wort Boil Time: 60 Minutes


Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
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77.8 3.50 kg. Pale Malt(2-row) Great Britain 1.038 3
5.6 0.25 kg. Crystal 105L Great Britain 1.033 105
16.7 0.75 kg. Golden Syrup Generic 1.036 10

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.


Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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15.00 g. Magnum Pellet 13.60 29.2 60 min.
20.00 g. First Gold Whole 7.25 3.8 10 min.
23.00 g. First Gold Whole 7.25 0.0 0 min.


Yeast
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repitched BAY
Mash 66deg C 90 Mins

Will endeavour to provide some photos, later.

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[unclepumble]

All finished and put to bed

I decided the second hop addition would be for 20 mins instead of 10 therefore the IBU's are up to 35
Lovely colour & 24ltrs @ 1046OG

Some photos coming shortly.

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[Sean_Mc]

UP why only boil for 60min, is it do with using Magnum Pellets?

Looking forward to the pics :thumb:

 

[unclepumble]

UP why only boil for 60min, is it do with using Magnum Pellets?

Looking forward to the pics :thumb:

I usually only boil for 60, unless its a big gravity then I boil for 90.

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[Sean_Mc]

Thanks,
I've been watching too many American brewday videos. They always seem to use pellets and boil for 60min, just thought there was a connection

 

[unclepumble]

Photo's a bit late too tired last night.
Brewing Outside today

The Grain Bill

The Hops

Doughing In

Start Mash Temp (missed it by .3 of a deg)

Mash wrapped Up nice and snug

End Mash Temp (lost .4deg C) Pretty Good Going

Sparging

Rolling Boil

Magnum Pellets and Salts In (hard to belive that this small amount makes up most of the IBU)

First Gold In for 20 Mins Cooler went in just before & brought up to boil

Golden Syrup In 15 Mins before the end of boil

Protofloc went in just after syrup and at 60mins switched off the heat and put cooling on until hit 84Deg, I find by I need to stop at 84 to get 80deg for the steep.
In go steep hops

20 Mins then chiller back on down to 20Deg C
Getting loads of oxygen into the Wort

Filth in the Boiler, you can just about see my new S/S Mesh hop strainer in the filth

The Cold Break (Lovely Copper Colour on this Brew)

Original Gravity 1046

Fermentation well on the Way

 

[Dunfie]

Looking good Shane. Good photo's - I particularly like the dedicated housing for your PIDs (if indeed that is what it is). :thumb:

 

[rabbie]

That's a great colour, sounds like a tasty brew.

Have to say the mash tun looks a bit plain minus the "excess" expanding foam though :lol:

 

[unclepumble]

Looking good Shane. Good photo's - I particularly like the dedicated housing for your PIDs (if indeed that is what it is). :thumb:

Are you reffering to the Homemade control box or the "In the night garden" stand its on,

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[Dunfie]

That would be the former. :lol:

However the stand is kind of natty (I won't let my daughter see it).

 

[unclepumble]

That would be the former. :lol:

However the stand is kind of natty (I won't let my daughter see it).

The stands my little un's it was just handy at the time, The PID control box is not quite finished yet, It needs some sides putting on it and the lid screwing on, but works well and was much cheaper than buying one, I made it from some 6mm ply I had left over from a job, some bits of wood cut off a futon that was going out for the bin and some bits from a Kitchen carcass I ripped out a couple of years ago, So Green as you can get Recycling :thumb:


I want to get a stand built for the big brewery quick and have no access to a welder therefore am looking at going down the UNISTRUT route at the mo then the PID box will have a permanent Home.

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[unclepumble]

Well I have just had another sample of this, when i first tried it a few weeks ago I thought it was well wrong, have a funny taste A bit like Wherry, :sick: I thought it was slug food!

Just had a half & will be having a pint in a bit, its a cracking recipe its really sorted itself out, clear as a bell a bit darker than a lager but not much loads of head and a nice balanced bitterness, I think I will bottle some as I think it will make a really nice bottled beer for summer drinking.

The magnum give a really nice bitterness and the first gold a great flavour.

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