De Koninck

[TheMumbler]

First brew in ages, nearly arsed up the CaCO3 calcs by being out by an order of magnitude. Luckily I couldn't believe the water was that hard and read the instructions again. Use 1ml not 0.1ml ...doh
Water is heated, time to get the mash on. Pics should follow barring disaster.

Recipe Gravity 1.051 OG
Estimated FG 1.013 FG
Recipe Bitterness 26 IBU
Alcohol by Volume 4.9%
Recipe Color 7° SRM (~17 EBC)

Grain
1.50 kg Belgian two-row
1.50 kg Golden Promise
2.00 kg German vienna

Quantity Hop Type Time
55.00 g Saaz (3.8) Whole 90 minutes
20.00 g Saaz (3.8) Whole 15 minutes
25.00 g Saaz (3.8) Whole 0 minutes

Quantity Misc Notes
1.00 unit WLP 515 antwerp ale yeast
1.00 unit Protofloc Fining last 15 mins

Recipe Notes
pitch at 18 rising to 25
condition 2-3 weeks at -1*C (will have to be as cold as the fridge will go)

Batch Notes
alkilinity (salifert) = 0.33 therefore CaCo3 = 0.33x50 = 16.5 ppm
Water additions Calculated as a Pale Ale using thbf calculator

MASH - no additions 36l
BATCH1 - Strike Temp 72*C
mash 13l
top up 9l
BATCH2
14l

Boil
18.15g gypsum
1.45g salt
6.75g epsom salts
0.23g CaCl

 

[TheMumbler]

preboil 1044 so maybe going to be a little weaker but that is OK. Enjoying a pint of Bobek ale courtesy of Jake from the NCBA meet at Saltaire Brewery (swapped for one of my Steam Hat beers).

The Bobek ale is clear as a bell and I think has improved with a little time in the cellar from my memory of it at Skipton. Citrussy nose and taste as you would expect, quite crisp with a pleasant bitterness lovely for summer. Nice to have a bit of variety :

 

[TheMumbler]

The day in pictures, everything went pretty smoothly, although i did forget to turn the switch for the cooling circuit on (there is always someting) so the wort was a little warmer than I would have liked (20 degrees). Still fine for the yeast according to whitelabs, so no big deal.

Grain temp

mash temp

run off

90 min hops 57g

Boil

The wort makes like Bob Dylan

The Hop Bed

Gravity

The yeast, a 3l starter in a demijohn. Most of the wort in the demi was poured off. Fermenting away this morning, 22l @1049 so a touch short and a touch under gravity but nothing alarming.

 

[Good Ed]

Looks good, well done :thumb: