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Thought I’d keep all my brewdays on one thread from now on
Purchased a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Clone from The Malt Miller. First brew using my SS Brewbucket, thought I’d chuck a kit onto the order too. Service from TMM was excellent
Brewed this on 23rd Jan.
5.45kg lager malt
450g pale crystal malt.
30g Northern brewer @60m
30g Cascade @ 30m
Protofloc@15m
70g Cascade @ 0m
1/2 Camden, 1tsp gypsum & 25ml CRS added to mash water.
5ml CRS added to sparge water (7l)
Heated up 27l of water in the peco to 72 degrees, aiming for a mash temp of 66. The grain come straight from the garage and was very cold so ended up at 64. So I had to quickly boil up some of the sparge water and to the mash to get to 66.
100minute mash, wrapped in some camping gear, it ended up at 64 at the end.
Quick dunk sparge using the now depleted quantity of sparge water.
pre boil gravity of 1.055.
The OG for this recipe is 23l @1.057, so a bit high here, and maybe short on volume. Should have topped up here, but had a few other things on and didn’t check the gravity until the sample had cooled and I was well into the boil.
boil went off with no issues.
Ended up with 20L in the fermenter, a bit short. I think this is because I didn’t take into account the larger than usual grain bill.
cooled to 22 degrees and pitched the yeast (NBS West Coast Ale).Put in brewfridge and set to 19 degrees to ferment.
Volume into fermentor was 20L at an OG OF 1.061.
Checked the gravity on 30th Jan and it had reached target FG of 1.010. Making this 6.7-6.9% depending on what calculator is used. Definitely a sipper!
Added Wilko beer finings and cold crashed for two days.
Kegged it today and put it in the kegerator @30psi. I’ll turn it down to 14 in a day or two.
The brew bucket came into its own with the kegging, it was so quick and easy. The conical bottom also compacts the yeast and Trub nicely so I didn’t lose too much to the fermenter.
the beer looks and smells really good,a pale straw colour. Had a taste out of the trial jar and no surprise it tasted flat and alcoholic. However I reckon this will be nice with some
carbonation and a couple of weeks to condition.
Next brews are a Bramling Cross SHA and a Mandarina Bavaria SHA from DIY Dog and a Vacant a gesture clone.
Purchased a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Clone from The Malt Miller. First brew using my SS Brewbucket, thought I’d chuck a kit onto the order too. Service from TMM was excellent
Brewed this on 23rd Jan.
5.45kg lager malt
450g pale crystal malt.
30g Northern brewer @60m
30g Cascade @ 30m
Protofloc@15m
70g Cascade @ 0m
1/2 Camden, 1tsp gypsum & 25ml CRS added to mash water.
5ml CRS added to sparge water (7l)
Heated up 27l of water in the peco to 72 degrees, aiming for a mash temp of 66. The grain come straight from the garage and was very cold so ended up at 64. So I had to quickly boil up some of the sparge water and to the mash to get to 66.
100minute mash, wrapped in some camping gear, it ended up at 64 at the end.
Quick dunk sparge using the now depleted quantity of sparge water.
pre boil gravity of 1.055.
The OG for this recipe is 23l @1.057, so a bit high here, and maybe short on volume. Should have topped up here, but had a few other things on and didn’t check the gravity until the sample had cooled and I was well into the boil.
boil went off with no issues.
Ended up with 20L in the fermenter, a bit short. I think this is because I didn’t take into account the larger than usual grain bill.
cooled to 22 degrees and pitched the yeast (NBS West Coast Ale).Put in brewfridge and set to 19 degrees to ferment.
Volume into fermentor was 20L at an OG OF 1.061.
Checked the gravity on 30th Jan and it had reached target FG of 1.010. Making this 6.7-6.9% depending on what calculator is used. Definitely a sipper!
Added Wilko beer finings and cold crashed for two days.
Kegged it today and put it in the kegerator @30psi. I’ll turn it down to 14 in a day or two.
The brew bucket came into its own with the kegging, it was so quick and easy. The conical bottom also compacts the yeast and Trub nicely so I didn’t lose too much to the fermenter.
the beer looks and smells really good,a pale straw colour. Had a taste out of the trial jar and no surprise it tasted flat and alcoholic. However I reckon this will be nice with some
carbonation and a couple of weeks to condition.
Next brews are a Bramling Cross SHA and a Mandarina Bavaria SHA from DIY Dog and a Vacant a gesture clone.
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