Been intending to do this all week, but the Biblical rain on Wednesday and Thursday put me off (my 'brewery' is out in the shed.)
Having ordered a Corny and wanting something to dispense from it, I checked the weather forecast, which predicted a clear day. So, at just after 11:00 I cleaned the kettle with some citric acid as the element was a bit grubby, and treated the 20l of liquor with some campden.
Recipe was thus:
Batch size - 11l
ABV: 6.04%
OG: 1.061
FG: 1.015
IBU: 51
Colour: 8.8 EBC
1.59 kg Lager (UK): 51.0%
550 g Wheat Malt (Bel): 17.6%
490 g - Flaked Wheat (UK): 15.7%
240 g Munich I (Ger): 7.8%
120 g Flaked Oats (UK): 4.0%
90 g Carapils (Ger): 2.9%
30 g Acidulated Malt (Ger): 1.0%
Handful of oat husks.
7.0 g Mosaic - First Wort Addition: 16.4 IBU
7.0 g Magnum - 60 mins: 13.6 IBU
8.0g Mosaic - 10 mins: 6.2 IBU
11.0 g Amarillo - 10 mins: 6.3 IBU
2.0 g Coriander Seed - 5 mins
6.0 g Dried Orange Peel - 5 mins (I dried the peel of a whole orange in the oven for 15 mins @ 100úc)
11.0 g Mosaic - Steep 10 mins: 4.2 IBU
15.0 g Amarillo - Steep10 mins: 4.3 IBU
11.0 g Mosaic - Dry Hop 4 Days
11.0 g Amarillo - Dry Hop 4 Days
11.0 g Galaxy - Dry Hop 4 Days
1 Whirlfloc tablet - 15 mins
Brewferm Blanche
Obligatory grist shot
By 11:45 the HLT was on. This was going to be the first time using the hop filter I knocked up a week or so ago.
Liquor coming up to temp
I mashed in half an hour later. 11.51l of water at 71.3úc was added for the main infusion at 66.7úc for 90 minutes. Following this I had one batch sparge addition of 8.23l at 71.3úc.
Hop and flavour additions
First wort hops
Immersion Chiller and 10 min hops added
I decided to add the juice from the orange for the last 5 minutes, rather than waste. Was only about 40ml so doubt it will make much difference.
Post-boil FG - temp adjusted this was 1.061 - bang on
Unfortunately the holes in my hop filter are too big, and they allowed substantial trub and the odd bit of hop leaf through. I have some more copper pipe so will either drill some smaller holes and keep the same design, or make a manifold.
I'm in trub-le
Unfortunately I ended up 2.5l short on my desired volume - this was a combination of not draining the tun fully, a more aggressive boil (due to lower boil volume) and higher quantity of hops than previous. So 8.5l at 1.061. Yeast pitched at 20úc.
Happy with the colour
After cleaning up, I was inside by 16:50, just before the Heavens opened.
Having ordered a Corny and wanting something to dispense from it, I checked the weather forecast, which predicted a clear day. So, at just after 11:00 I cleaned the kettle with some citric acid as the element was a bit grubby, and treated the 20l of liquor with some campden.
Recipe was thus:
Batch size - 11l
ABV: 6.04%
OG: 1.061
FG: 1.015
IBU: 51
Colour: 8.8 EBC
1.59 kg Lager (UK): 51.0%
550 g Wheat Malt (Bel): 17.6%
490 g - Flaked Wheat (UK): 15.7%
240 g Munich I (Ger): 7.8%
120 g Flaked Oats (UK): 4.0%
90 g Carapils (Ger): 2.9%
30 g Acidulated Malt (Ger): 1.0%
Handful of oat husks.
7.0 g Mosaic - First Wort Addition: 16.4 IBU
7.0 g Magnum - 60 mins: 13.6 IBU
8.0g Mosaic - 10 mins: 6.2 IBU
11.0 g Amarillo - 10 mins: 6.3 IBU
2.0 g Coriander Seed - 5 mins
6.0 g Dried Orange Peel - 5 mins (I dried the peel of a whole orange in the oven for 15 mins @ 100úc)
11.0 g Mosaic - Steep 10 mins: 4.2 IBU
15.0 g Amarillo - Steep10 mins: 4.3 IBU
11.0 g Mosaic - Dry Hop 4 Days
11.0 g Amarillo - Dry Hop 4 Days
11.0 g Galaxy - Dry Hop 4 Days
1 Whirlfloc tablet - 15 mins
Brewferm Blanche
Obligatory grist shot
By 11:45 the HLT was on. This was going to be the first time using the hop filter I knocked up a week or so ago.
Liquor coming up to temp
I mashed in half an hour later. 11.51l of water at 71.3úc was added for the main infusion at 66.7úc for 90 minutes. Following this I had one batch sparge addition of 8.23l at 71.3úc.
Hop and flavour additions
First wort hops
Immersion Chiller and 10 min hops added
I decided to add the juice from the orange for the last 5 minutes, rather than waste. Was only about 40ml so doubt it will make much difference.
Post-boil FG - temp adjusted this was 1.061 - bang on
Unfortunately the holes in my hop filter are too big, and they allowed substantial trub and the odd bit of hop leaf through. I have some more copper pipe so will either drill some smaller holes and keep the same design, or make a manifold.
I'm in trub-le
Unfortunately I ended up 2.5l short on my desired volume - this was a combination of not draining the tun fully, a more aggressive boil (due to lower boil volume) and higher quantity of hops than previous. So 8.5l at 1.061. Yeast pitched at 20úc.
Happy with the colour
After cleaning up, I was inside by 16:50, just before the Heavens opened.