All Grain Brew#3 - Cally 80 - 24.10.08

[ChrisG]

This was a good one!

Started after work at around 6:30pm.

Wanted to try a Caledonia 80 clone....lets see how this turns out.

Boiled down a few runnings of the wort separately, just to see if it makes much of a difference.

Thing is.... the house was smelling like Edinburgh..... I work in Edinburgh and ever since I was young I always remembered the smell of the Caledonia Brewery and sometimes when the wind blows the right direction I can smell the sweet aroma and it takes me back to when I was 6 years old walking along Princes Street, so thats gotta be a good sign!!

So on with the show........

This was the first time I have tried fly sparging and I used a empty mushroom box for the hot tun liquor to run into. Drilled loads of holes and it seemed to work well. Also worked well when taking the first runnings and pouring them back into the mash. Simple but effective. Also saves a hell of a lot of time. Batch sparging seemed to take ages.

Last running from the mash tun, a lot lighter now.

Hops in

Now thats a better colour!!! With temperature correction it works out at around 1044.

Running into the fermenter

Hmmmmm looks good!

Just before I tipped the boiler to get a little more wort.

5 gallons........thats not bad at all.

Using Windsor yeast on this one as my HBS didn't have S04 which I usually use.

Night night, its 1:05am!!!

:=P

 

[jamesb]

That's a late one Chris. Hope it all went well!

 

[Wez]

Great Pics! That is a late one :shock:

 

[Frisp]

Nice brew.
Know whatyou mean when you refer to the smell of Edinburgh. I never twigged as to why Edinburgh smelled different to Glasgow. Edinburgh has a brewery ... In recognition that a city cant have everything Glasgow does have Ibrox park which it were a brewery probably would make the best beer in the world..... Or so my bluenose cousin John says

 

[Vossy1]

Gr8 pics CG, the wort's a lovely colour :thumb:

 

[Jonnyv]

Great pics - looks like a good brewday. Like the use of the mushroom box as a sparge device. I might be doing something similar later

 

[Kingfisher]

Looks very good, you're spot on about Edinburgh, Newcastle was the same until they closed the Fed brewery.

 

[A T]

Great pics, well done

 

[ChrisG]

Fermented down to 1014 which works out to be around 4.2%, I'm happy with that.

Bottled this batch last night and got around 43 bottles. Tasted it and I have to say it was really good.

A lot darker than I thought it would be but an excellent coffee flavour. It cant really be classed as a heavy now and I would say its more of a dark ale/stout?

Will get pics sorted soon.

 

[ChrisG]

Here are a few more pics.

 

[mysterio]

Nice brew.
Know whatyou mean when you refer to the smell of Edinburgh. I never twigged as to why Edinburgh smelled different to Glasgow. Edinburgh has a brewery ... In recognition that a city cant have everything Glasgow does have Ibrox park which it were a brewery probably would make the best beer in the world..... Or so my bluenose cousin John says

You can catch a whiff of the Tennents brewery while you're driving on the M8 at a particular point... nowhere near as nice as Caledonian though...

Nice pics, looks tasty