ag #3 old peculiar

[danb]

planning ag #3 for tomorrow morning, theakston old peculiar from gw book scaled to 21l.
recipe -
maris otter 4.985kg
crystal - 0.269kg
chocolate - 0.196kg

challenger 26g - 90 mins
fuggles 13g - 90 mins
goldings 13g - 10mins with half protofloc tablet
stryian goldings 18g - dry hop

66'c mash 90 mins
boil 90 mins

all set to go, this will be the biggest grain bill and hop amount ive done but looking forward to it. just worried about the boiler cutting out again not knowing why it happened. at what point should I dry hop and for how long?
thanks

 

[joe1002]

What boiler do you have?

 

[danb]

I have just posted about it in the equipment section. its a 30l buffalo boiler with thermal cutout moved out the way.

 

[danb]

all finished and in the fv now. hit target og bang on but 1l extra again, going to have to look into the boiler tripping business.
few pics
grain shot

mash started - impressed with new insulation held temp to 0.1'c over 90 minutes

90 min hop addition

chiller in at 15 min

10 min hop addition

mucky shot

sample

 

[EskiBrew]

Looking good

 

[danb]

its certainly gets easier the more you do, not as worried something has been missed or not going right. the first brew killed me it took 6 hours and didn't sit down or leave the boilers side till finished and couldn't stand that night. got into a bit of a routine and find theres plenty of time to do other things now.

 

[carl_saint]

This was one of the first AG recipes I did. It tastes fantastic! Done it another 2 times since!

 

[danb]

good to hear it definitely smells good and the sample tasted promising.

 

[danb]

any advice on when and for how long to dry hop would be great? thanks

 

[Sandimas]

I did an Extract version of this, dry hopped after the initial frothing had died down a bit (after 3-4 days) then left the hops in there until I moved it out of the FV, 10 days later. Worked well, lovely beer

 

[PD]

quote from danb
its certainly gets easier the more you do, not as worried something has been missed or not going right. the first brew killed me it took 6 hours and didn't sit down or leave the boilers side till finished and couldn't stand that night. got into a bit of a routine and find theres plenty of time to do other things now.

Oh how true....... My first brews left me wondering if I could cope doing all grain ! A brew day knackered me. 6-7 hours

Last brew I did with the help of o/night mash, timers to switch the water boiler on and general improvements, meant I was working from 0900 and all cleaned up by 1100.

 

[danb]

the main problem for me at the minute is my shoulder has recently been injured and im waiting for surgery. so even lifting my arm up with no weight it keeps dislocating. so lifting the bag of wet grain is tough with just my left arm in use. so I put a fv next to boiler with a colinder setup in the bottom and lift straight to fv and let it drain on its own without me having to hold it up.