AG#2 Sarah Hughes Dark Mild

[PD]

after a few holdbacks I've started the above brew this morning.
As stated its a Sarah Hughes Mild from Graham Wheelers book
Described as a dark ruby strong ale at 5.7%
Only difference is due to concerns re my boiler I'm doing a 60 min boil ( more if I'm lucky )
Pics to follow later
Hit 67C on mash temperature and its now down to waiting on its first one hour batch sparge.
Coffee time.

 

[Muddydisco]

Good Luck PD :thumb:

 

[graysalchemy]

Good luck pd I lookforward to reading about this one :thumb:

 

[PD]

cant be any worse an experience than the first brew !
But things seem nice and relaxed today, I was suffering from a bit of the " old mans problem " last brew :sick: which didn't make for a comfortable day.

 

[PD]

wort collected 31 litres just cooling a sample to toke gravity reading.

Yet another lesson learned............collect your wort in a bucket that has no tap fitted ! 3 litres over the floor when the tap assembly popped out ! :?

 

[Andyhull]

Well apart from that all sounds good.
I bet it's going much more smothly than AG#1?

 

[PD]

Well its done.
Brew went a lot better than No.1 ha ha
Still had problems with my false bottom ( the other clip came loose this time ! so again I had a lot of problems getting clear runnings I need a further stainless steel jubilee clip to hold it...again my silly fault.
Then I lost about 4 litres after a tap popped out while collecting the wort...anyone want some soggy sticky slippers !
Then onto the boil....After my previous problems with the boiler and many thanks to the electricians out there who helped...the boil was perfect no sign of it cutting out. Hop socks were hung in on time ( no hop strainer fitted as yet ) and I remembered the protoflock half tablet...
Its now chilling and I'm resting my poor feet..
Even managed some pictures this time

My set up

Grains and Hops

False bottom that's caused me all the problems,mash tun warming up

Reaching the boil

We got a boil

Hop socks..guess who forgot his marbles !

 

[Runwell-Steve]

Looks like a succesful brew day. It is a good recipe too so should make you an excellent batch of beer.

just think how easy the next brew day will be.

 

[PD]

quote
just think how easy the next brew day will be.

I said that last time....

 

[PD]

well as was expected I am well down on the gravity. I ended up with 23 litres at 1.042 instead of 1.058... not good.
Has anyone ever made a session drinking Sarah Hughes... by my calculations its going to come out around 4.2 to 4.5%
So back to the drawing board for brew No.3 ! have to get this mashing sorted out

 

[gurtpint]

quote
just think how easy the next brew day will be.

I said that last time....

Have faith, brother piddle! :thumb:

 

[PD]

at least its bubbling in the fermenter..... :hat:

 

[caerleon]

Well done!

Just been modifying this recipe for my next brew, but at 11.7% :

 

[PD]

11.7%........ now that's a " Session Beer "

 

[zgoda]

11.7%........ now that's a " Session Beer "

For short session - ideal.

 

[Wendy1971]

Well done brian looks great :clap: :thumb:

 

[Baldbrewer]

well done Brian,
do you need another clip?

 

[PD]

Oh please please, another clip would be very much appreciated.

Is it ok to have a false bottom just laid on the floor of the mash tun, or does it need to be raised a little by something like a split ring of tubing ?

 

[Green Ninja]

I did this one as my AG#2

Turned out superb!

You'll not go wrong with this one mate.


Enjoy!

 

[Craven Brewer]

Hope it's third time lucky PD :thumb: