Thought i'd bring all my brewdays together in one thread.
Had a day off today and because Foxbats Mainline beer seems to have been the most popular amongst my friends, alongside GH's Paterbeir I thought I would brew it again.
Looking for somewhere between 17-20l for the FV and am still finding my way around my cygnet water boiler so using fag packet maths I used
300og Maris Otter
120g Caramalt
40g Chocolate Wheat
100g Crystal that I found at the bottom of the box and decided to get rid of.
Mashed in a 68c, brewed outside today and temp rapidly dropped so mashed at around 63-66c.
Ran into problems at this point as the thermometer gave up the ghost so took the grain out at the hour and boiled. Grain went into bottling bucket and sparged with 4l of approximately 70c water.
I misread the Hops so in went EKG 12g and Fuggles 8g for 60mins
EKG 12g at 10mins + 1/3 protofloc tab.
Fuggles 8g at 1 min.
In with the newly bought wort chiller and chilled to 28c (though i didn't know this till it went into the FV). Popped the top on and left it outside to chill down to 22.
OG 1046 so should have a bit more kick than my last one.
Pitched Danstar Nottingham at 22c.
All in all ok, getting used to the newish equipment. Wort tasted nice so hopefully will be as good as the last one!
Had a day off today and because Foxbats Mainline beer seems to have been the most popular amongst my friends, alongside GH's Paterbeir I thought I would brew it again.
Looking for somewhere between 17-20l for the FV and am still finding my way around my cygnet water boiler so using fag packet maths I used
300og Maris Otter
120g Caramalt
40g Chocolate Wheat
100g Crystal that I found at the bottom of the box and decided to get rid of.
Mashed in a 68c, brewed outside today and temp rapidly dropped so mashed at around 63-66c.
Ran into problems at this point as the thermometer gave up the ghost so took the grain out at the hour and boiled. Grain went into bottling bucket and sparged with 4l of approximately 70c water.
I misread the Hops so in went EKG 12g and Fuggles 8g for 60mins
EKG 12g at 10mins + 1/3 protofloc tab.
Fuggles 8g at 1 min.
In with the newly bought wort chiller and chilled to 28c (though i didn't know this till it went into the FV). Popped the top on and left it outside to chill down to 22.
OG 1046 so should have a bit more kick than my last one.
Pitched Danstar Nottingham at 22c.
All in all ok, getting used to the newish equipment. Wort tasted nice so hopefully will be as good as the last one!