Alcoholx
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Strugglers Mild
Recipe Specs----------------
Batch Size (L): 23.0
Total Grain (kg): 4.000
Total Hops (g): 50.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.037 (ðP): 9.3
Final Gravity (FG): 1.009 (ðP): 2.3
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 3.64 % Colour (SRM): 17.6 (EBC): 34.7 Bitterness (IBU): 18.0 (Tinseth)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 70
Boil Time (Minutes): 60
Grain Bill----------------
3.400 kg Pale Malt (85%)
0.400 kg Crystal 60 (10%)
0.200 kg Chocolate (5%)
Hop Bill----------------
40.0 g Fuggles Leaf (4.1% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (1.7 g/L)
10.0 g Fuggles Leaf (4.1% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (0.4 g/L)
Misc Bill----------------
Single step Infusion at 68ðC for 60 Minutes.
Fermented at 20ðC with Safale S-04
Recipe Generated with BrewMate
Woke up friday morning wanting to get a brew on the go, it was a bit cold outside but thought sod it, the recipe is based on hydes dark mild but i wanted to up the abv slightly from 3.3% so i thought i would play about a bit so i guess this is my first "own" recipe.. although i cheated by basing it on another
i was a little worried that the peco boiler might not cope in the cold weather but it didnt struggle at all getting to temp.. in fact i overshot the mash temp slightly and ended up with around 68-69C mash temp once the grains where in.
I have never made an ag beer with a smaller grain bill before and i noticed that it did make it alot easier to dough in and manipulate the bag ect.
lost very little temp with the mash and sparged by hanging the bag above the bucket to drain and pouring water into the bag using a funnel like i did on my hobgoblin clone..
boil went well and added flame out hops and turned on the chiller, i had to nip out about half an hour later so turned off the chiller, i returned about an hour later so the hops had had a good hour to steep in the wort.. gave them a squeeze and drained the wort into the fv
i had just under 23ltrs in the fv according to the scale on the side and i took a OG reading and to my surpise got 1.042, higher than expected.. looked in brewmate and adjusted the efficiency up to match the og and it worked out at about 79% efficiency, so i added another litre of water and got a reading of 1.040, if the brew ferments to around 1.010 then itl be about 3.9%.. happy with that
so my efficiency had improved, but i thought that could be down to the fact that there was more water per kg of grain than my previous brews possably making my mash more efficient and i definately didnt loose as much water as i only used 3 litres for the sparge.
makes me wonder if downsizing the grain bills lowering abv would make me more efficient in general.. without loosing alot of abv but saving on grain
anyway.. a good day.. but a bit nippy , no pictures this time... ill save it for the finished product :)
Recipe Specs----------------
Batch Size (L): 23.0
Total Grain (kg): 4.000
Total Hops (g): 50.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.037 (ðP): 9.3
Final Gravity (FG): 1.009 (ðP): 2.3
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 3.64 % Colour (SRM): 17.6 (EBC): 34.7 Bitterness (IBU): 18.0 (Tinseth)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 70
Boil Time (Minutes): 60
Grain Bill----------------
3.400 kg Pale Malt (85%)
0.400 kg Crystal 60 (10%)
0.200 kg Chocolate (5%)
Hop Bill----------------
40.0 g Fuggles Leaf (4.1% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (1.7 g/L)
10.0 g Fuggles Leaf (4.1% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (0.4 g/L)
Misc Bill----------------
Single step Infusion at 68ðC for 60 Minutes.
Fermented at 20ðC with Safale S-04
Recipe Generated with BrewMate
Woke up friday morning wanting to get a brew on the go, it was a bit cold outside but thought sod it, the recipe is based on hydes dark mild but i wanted to up the abv slightly from 3.3% so i thought i would play about a bit so i guess this is my first "own" recipe.. although i cheated by basing it on another
i was a little worried that the peco boiler might not cope in the cold weather but it didnt struggle at all getting to temp.. in fact i overshot the mash temp slightly and ended up with around 68-69C mash temp once the grains where in.
I have never made an ag beer with a smaller grain bill before and i noticed that it did make it alot easier to dough in and manipulate the bag ect.
lost very little temp with the mash and sparged by hanging the bag above the bucket to drain and pouring water into the bag using a funnel like i did on my hobgoblin clone..
boil went well and added flame out hops and turned on the chiller, i had to nip out about half an hour later so turned off the chiller, i returned about an hour later so the hops had had a good hour to steep in the wort.. gave them a squeeze and drained the wort into the fv
i had just under 23ltrs in the fv according to the scale on the side and i took a OG reading and to my surpise got 1.042, higher than expected.. looked in brewmate and adjusted the efficiency up to match the og and it worked out at about 79% efficiency, so i added another litre of water and got a reading of 1.040, if the brew ferments to around 1.010 then itl be about 3.9%.. happy with that
so my efficiency had improved, but i thought that could be down to the fact that there was more water per kg of grain than my previous brews possably making my mash more efficient and i definately didnt loose as much water as i only used 3 litres for the sparge.
makes me wonder if downsizing the grain bills lowering abv would make me more efficient in general.. without loosing alot of abv but saving on grain
anyway.. a good day.. but a bit nippy , no pictures this time... ill save it for the finished product :)
