Evening all,
Yesterday I brewed a Traditional Bock from Greg Hughes' book.
For my set up the grain bill in the recipe looked a bit short, when I plugged it into BeerSmith, so I upped the two pale malts by 250g, which had the added bonus of using it all up, so that I didn't have little packets of unused grain sitting about.
3kg Pale Malt - Golden Promise
3kg Munich Malt (15ebc)
550g Special B Malt
350g Carapils Malt
24g Northern Brewer at 75 mins
15g Tettnang at 30 mins.
22 and a bit litres into FV and pitched one sachet of WLP833 German Bock yeast.
All went to plan around feeding, bathing and tobedding the kids, with nothing major to report.
OG 1052, which is a bit on the low side, however I lose 1.5l plus to the boiler due to the height of the tap and the length of the adapter for the bazooka hop filter. I therefore topped up the FV a bit more to compensate.
Went out for a couple or five with the Tamworth HBC gents on Sat, too, which was a right giggle, and we discussed (amongst very many other things) a false bottom, a braided(?) hose under that right to the bottom of the boiler, and a pump, to get the most out of it. All in all 30 quid will save me about 75p per brew in wasted ingredients. Plus give me more delicious ale which would otherwise cost me a lot more from the offy.
I'm also considering getting geared up for 50l brews.... Stainless, gas, pumps, bigger fermenting fridges, kegerator. Oh, dear. The Brewbug has got its teeth well and truly embedded...
Yesterday I brewed a Traditional Bock from Greg Hughes' book.
For my set up the grain bill in the recipe looked a bit short, when I plugged it into BeerSmith, so I upped the two pale malts by 250g, which had the added bonus of using it all up, so that I didn't have little packets of unused grain sitting about.
3kg Pale Malt - Golden Promise
3kg Munich Malt (15ebc)
550g Special B Malt
350g Carapils Malt
24g Northern Brewer at 75 mins
15g Tettnang at 30 mins.
22 and a bit litres into FV and pitched one sachet of WLP833 German Bock yeast.
All went to plan around feeding, bathing and tobedding the kids, with nothing major to report.
OG 1052, which is a bit on the low side, however I lose 1.5l plus to the boiler due to the height of the tap and the length of the adapter for the bazooka hop filter. I therefore topped up the FV a bit more to compensate.
Went out for a couple or five with the Tamworth HBC gents on Sat, too, which was a right giggle, and we discussed (amongst very many other things) a false bottom, a braided(?) hose under that right to the bottom of the boiler, and a pump, to get the most out of it. All in all 30 quid will save me about 75p per brew in wasted ingredients. Plus give me more delicious ale which would otherwise cost me a lot more from the offy.
I'm also considering getting geared up for 50l brews.... Stainless, gas, pumps, bigger fermenting fridges, kegerator. Oh, dear. The Brewbug has got its teeth well and truly embedded...