Finally! AG#1 - Boddingtons clone

[john_s]

After hold ups for various reasons, I finally managed to get my brewery into action yesterday.

I'd settled on a Boddingtons clone recipe for the launch beer, as that's a beer I often resort to, and it's my father's beer of choice too.

I found the recipe on another forum (here) through Google so I won't repost it directly, as I'm unsure on the forum's rules about that.

Apologies for any missing pics, being my first brew the pics weren't the priority... here's how it went:

Put the HLT on to heat while I weighed out the grain (MO, carapils, crystal, chocolate):

Mash on:

The thermometer was still rising in the pic and settled at about 66.5C

Weighed out the Northern Brewer and EKG hops:

First wort hops into the boiler:

Mash ended at 66.3C, so lost very little (using just an Asda coolbox with an old coat over, I expected a bigger drop, TBH).

Collected the first runnings to recirculate:

The first wort in the boiler:

The spent grain after:

Boiling away, so the chiller's ready to go in for the last 15 minutes:

The brewing supervisor says it's looking like it's going well so far:

Allowed the hop steep, then set the cooler running:

Ran off a sample, OG 1.034, so a little lower than it should have been:

Sample tasted OK (I think!), but asked the BrewLab how it looked anyway.

Ran it off into the FV:

It looked well aerated from the drop:

Filth (scraped the excess foam off the FV and lobbed it in with the filth):

The BrewLab results - unconvinced:

Pitched some S04 yeast, so go yeasties! :pray:

 

Well done on the brew John, good pics.
You are lucky to have such able assistants!

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Please let us know the outcome if it's owt like Boddingtons. :thumb:

 

[unclepumble]

Looking good I especially like the Brewlab.

UP

 

[jonewer]

BrewLab :lol:

 

[graysalchemy]

I used to enjoy boddies in that late 80's. Many a friday night in the Stamford arms drinking boddies. Our sixth form class tutor moonlighted there in the evenings and took register on a friday night:rofl: :rofl:

Happy Days

Then Whitbread took it over and we all left school, Boddies was never the same

I hope this turns out like boddies of old.

:

 

It can't fail with the Labrador supervising.

 

[jamesb]

Boddies has been s**t for years. But I have found now that Hydes are brewing it it's a rather nice pint.

 

[markp]

Good to see another on the AG trail

You'll never get and change out of those assistants if they're anything like mine
BrewLab :rofl:

 

[hairybiker]

Well my BrewLab doesn't like HB
He prefers Lager maybe 'cause he's only 4 yrs old still a "teenager" yet, my old dog used to love my HB and once drunk about 1/2pt out of my glass when I wasn't watching and ended up walking into the doors :lol:

 

[31bb3]

you do realise theres no turning back now well done mate hope its a good un :

 

[rickthebrew]

great looking brewday john :clap:

whats the next brew..............and the one after that.......

 

[john_s]

whats the next brew..............and the one after that.......

I'm not sure... spoilt for choice.

I might see how this one turns out, and if it's ****, have another go and see if I can make a better job of it second time round.

 

[jonboymentalhealth]

great job looks good :

 

[highwayman]

Looks like a nice recipe...Can you report back on how it turns out John

 

[john_s]

Looks like a nice recipe...Can you report back on how it turns out John

Certainly will.

 

[john_s]

Update on the brew... the gravity is down to 1.010 this evening.

 

[john_s]

Today's update: Bottled some (for sampling :whistle: ) and kegged the rest this afternoon. It came out about 1.008, so somewhere in the region of 3.3-3.4%

I'll see how it goes as it conditions... not sure if it seemed to be a bit "thin" from the brief taster, but it might just be the lack of carbonation that was confusing the matter.