Bad Moose

[Good Ed]

Planned for the morning, heavily influenced by Mad Goose from Purity Brewing Co

I seem to tweek it a little each time, but is a lovely brew if you like pale ales

Brew length 23L, 75% efficiency (using Crisps MO)
4194g Maris Otter (90%)
326g Caragold (7%)
140g Carapils (3%) I've run out of wheat malt
33g NZ Hallertau 8.2%AA FWH 31.2 IBU
29g Cascade 6.8%AA 10mins 7.0 IBU
32g Willamette 6.3%AA 10mins 7.2 IBU
20g Cascade 6.8%AA 30 min steep at 80C
CaCO3 to 30ppm; Ca to 180ppm with CaSO4
90min boil; 90min mash at 66C
WLP001 California Ale yeast fermented at 21C
OG 1048; FG 1010; ABV 5%; IBU (Tinseth) 45.4; EBC 7.9

 

[joe1002]

Don't forget pics :lol: :lol:

 

[Good Ed]

Don't forget pics :lol: :lol:

I've been finally banned from the kitchen, so I'm brewing outside, I've put a shelf up in the lean to next to the kitchen (where we keep the dustbin etc) and have got a solar pump and some of Vossy's hose, so there'll be plenty of Heath Robinson tomorrow, and I've got a deadline of 2pm

 

[joe1002]

I need to get myself a solar pump, just need to decide what size to go for.

Can you overnight mash to save time?

 

[Good Ed]

I'm just going to get up early :shock: I'll let you know how the pump fares

 

[bunkerbrewer]

Good name :)

 

[Good Ed]

mash on in the little brewette

underletting with the solar pump

all wrapped up for 90mins

 

[PD]

nice little cubby hole.

Have you got a brolly...

 

[Good Ed]

start of sparge

first wort hops

 

[Good Ed]

ended up with 24L at OG 1047 and finished by 2 :lol:

 

[Good Ed]

so a bit of feedback on the Solar pump used for the first time; so the pump was a 12V 8W model from Solar Project and I got a clip in socket from Maplin (no soldering) and a variable voltage adaptor from Asda. I used the pump for underletting at 4.5V and for sparging with a spinny sparge arm at 3V, and both worked well. The next project is to use it for whirlpool cooling as in Jamil's set up , which I might try to use just Vossy's hose rather than a bit of copper. Also I need to organise the brewette a small bit :lol:

 

[joe1002]

Thanks GE, that's helpful info :thumb: