Finally acquired all the kit needed to brew the 5L Crafty Fox IPA All Grain Kit no.2 son bought me for Christmas.
Water Treatment
Reckoned we'd need 7L to begin with. Followed Strange-Steve's excellent guide, all fairly effortless. Required quantities of gypsum and CRS added.
Ingredients
Maris Otter and caramalt (no idea of proportions of each)
Mash
Temp: 69C
Time: 60 mins
Mash Out: 76C
Time: 10 mins
Boil
Boil Time: 60 mins
Additions:
Chinook - 0 mins
Simicoe - 45 mins
Nelson Sauvin - 55 mins
Fermentation
Sasafale US-05 at 22C
Original gravity - 1.045
Fermenter now sitting in a waterbath under a duvet in the garage, with a wonderful hoppy smell filling the air. Our only major cock up was a thermometer misread during cooling, and wert then going into the fermenter at 50C the first time round. In the faff that ensued I managed to drop the digital thermometer into to cooling bucket. Got there in the end, planning 10 days in primary before spec. grad. check and dry hopping.
Water Treatment
Reckoned we'd need 7L to begin with. Followed Strange-Steve's excellent guide, all fairly effortless. Required quantities of gypsum and CRS added.
Ingredients
Maris Otter and caramalt (no idea of proportions of each)
Mash
Temp: 69C
Time: 60 mins
Mash Out: 76C
Time: 10 mins
Boil
Boil Time: 60 mins
Additions:
Chinook - 0 mins
Simicoe - 45 mins
Nelson Sauvin - 55 mins
Fermentation
Sasafale US-05 at 22C
Original gravity - 1.045
Fermenter now sitting in a waterbath under a duvet in the garage, with a wonderful hoppy smell filling the air. Our only major cock up was a thermometer misread during cooling, and wert then going into the fermenter at 50C the first time round. In the faff that ensued I managed to drop the digital thermometer into to cooling bucket. Got there in the end, planning 10 days in primary before spec. grad. check and dry hopping.