Centiennial SMASH!

[Tony Dyer]

Brewed yesterday, a recipe from Mashed magazine, from the ladies at Home Brewtique. Single Malt (Maris Otter) And Single Hop (Centennial).
A nice simple list of ingredients and simple process - although of course there was one ****-up when I thought I’d sparked 13litres but actually only had 10. So I added a few litres of hot water to the sparred grain and ran this through a couple of times. I don’t think this was worth it really as the runnings were horribly cloudy and weak and I could have just topped up the boil with water and accepted a lower OG. Anyway, it’s bubbling away in my carboy now so onwards to the next brew...
10L brew...
Pale Malt : 2250g
Centennial hops: 27g (10mins), 16g (5 mins), 10g + 5g Goulding’s (I ran out of Centennial!) (flame out).
Irish Moss: 5g (15 mins)
Mangrove Jack M41 Empire Ale yeast (should be West Coast yeast but I need to use up several 1/2 packs)

Mashed at 66C for 1 hour and 70C for 10mins (meant to be 76C).
Boiled for 1 hour.
Into FV at 24C

OG 1047.

 

[Tony Dyer]

This one had more or less stopped bubbling in the FV after 8 days but I left it in for the full 2 weeks.
Not many bottles spare so I racked it into my small (15L?) polypin with 35g of priming sugar. The brew was still pretty murky - and even though I was using my wonderful new auto-siphon, I picked up quite a lot of muck. However it's now settled out and there is a healthy head of gas in the tank. I've tried it a couple of times and it's not bad but needs more conditioning. It 'officially' gets unleashed on 3-Dec.