AG#5 A complete kin TaRd

[Frisp]

Today Im doing this little beauty Clicky
Its going well so far except the camera had died so its words only Im afraid.
Im trying a fly sparge today as an alternative to Batch, Im using my nice shiney 100 L boiler as a HLT and I will be sparging at 85c onto a perforated plastic sheet at a rate of 1L/Min so wish me well.
I doghed in about an hour ago and the Liquor was at 76C and as I was aiming for a mash of 66c. I was horrified to find it was down near 62. I added a few extra Litrs of 76c and its now happily sitting at 64C. The PH strip came out at 5.2 so all in all Im a happy bunny

I have made one change from the recipe and that is the hops what I thought was Northern brewer in my freezer turns out to be northdown so it will be 35 IBU of Northdown.

 

[Wez]

Great to hear that you're brewing F :thumb:

Have a great one

 

[A T]

Have a good brew day Frisp

 

[Frisp]

Bollox this really is a tard recipe. I just realised I under weighed the flaked barley its 500gm Light. Oh well here's to a new recipe.

 

[BrewStew]

Bollox this really is a tard recipe. I just realised I under weighed the flaked barley its 500gm Light. Oh well here's to a new recipe.

:lol:


it's jinxed!! should be fine though mate :thumb:

 

[Frisp]

Well that was my first go at Fly Sparging and I have to say what a peice of ****.
The one downside is that my worktop isnt high enough to get HLT, Mt and boiler at the right heights to cascade down through and I had to faff around with a dripping hose. I reccon I lost about half a ltr of wort befor I started using a 3 L jug to catch it coming out of the MT
I have a plastic lid from an old tub with a myriad of holes in it and I sat that on top of the grain for a diffuser when sparging. Worked a treat.
I must say when I was finnished the grain which is left looks so much cleaner, less claggy
I have managed to get 26.5L of lovely black shiney clean wort from 5.25Kg of grain. The adjusted og going into the boiler is 1049 ( it was 1040 @48C when tested) Brewsmith tells me that As im aiming for 22L to ferment I am 81.76% efficient going into the boiler.
I stopped the sparge at 1.000 @ 58C which adjusts to 1.014 when I stopped the runnings.
The wort tastes like heaven itself.

Cause this was a 2 hour mash and I have a fridge full of ale to drink Im going to take advantage of the wife being at work to put on a shameless DVD and I shall boil up the wort on the morrow. Who knows I might have time to pop out and get a battery for the camera and show you my lovely shiney wort which is blacker than the earl of hell's waistcoat....
:thumb:

 

[Vossy1]

Glad to hear you overcame your brew day obstacals in style F :thumb:

 

[BrewStew]

Frisp that is fantastic mate!!!

i'm glad you got it sorted despite a slight glitch on strike temps... my bad! but i honestly only lose 10'c to the grain. did you preheat your mashtun?

i cant wait to hear your tasting notes on this one.. you're one of (if not the) first to have a crack at one of my recipes. though this one isn't entirely mine as it was adapted (and has evolved since) from the BBLTYB book

 

[MEB]

Sounds like your a fly sparge convert F You'll be wanting a V arm next...

If i could get some F-ing Flaked barley i'd be having a bash at this one. But i'm not buying 25kg's of the freaking stuff to use 500g in a brew...

 

[BrewStew]

its 1kg in tard mate... so only 25 brews worth :lol:

 

[MEB]

its 1kg in tard mate... so only 25 brews worth :lol:

Oh! I'll rush out and buy a sack then...

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[BrewStew]

:lol:

seriously though, flaked barley will keep longer than grain IIRC, and you can use flaked barley in more than just stouts.

 

[MEB]

I've not used it yet. I bought 5 kg crystal nearly a year ago and i've still got about 2kg. Plus then i've got to get crushed roasted barley.

 

[BrewStew]

you can make roasted barley yourself.

Read This

 

[MEB]

And you can rest assured that i will be
Along with getting that sack of steam rolled barley suitable for ruminants and taRd.

Won't you be a bit gutted that my superior brewing skills will produce a beer far superior to your own though? :rofl:

 

[BrewStew]

:thumb:

 

[Frisp]

Jeez
Just checked on my baby I think she shall be henceforth kanown as "Duh".
Took an og reading with the wort at 20C and its sat at 1.051 before the boiler which according to beersmith is a whopping 85% efficiency .
methinks she needs diluting a little.
The target atthis stage should be 33 L at 1.043 . If Im going to dilute the wort I take It now is the time to do it. before the boil

 

[Aleman]

Absolutely, by far best time to dilute the wort

 

[BrewStew]

great stuff frisp :thumb:

 

[Frisp]

Beersmith says that 5 L of Liquor will give me 31.5 L at 1.043 , Can someone check my figures. is 1.043 a bit low pre boil, what should I be looking as a post boil SG at with a 15% loss rate at 90 mins