First AG Brew.

[Kinleycat]

Got a 40 litre boiler a 20 litre boiler and a 28 litre mash tun, and various other necessities.
I'm going for a version of Exmoor Gold from Graham Wheelers British Real Ale book.
It looks a fairly simple recipe to start with as it's almost a SMaSH (except its got three hops!! :whistle: ) and I like my hoppy pale ale types.
Anyone done it or something equally simple, something with some citra in would be a good too?

 

[pittsy]

I hope it goes well , maybe you could list the recipe amounts but more importantly your water amounts and process . Or are you happy with how to .

 

[Titus A Duxass]

Good luck with your quest!
I hope you get the same stunning results as I have with my first two AGs.

 

[Kinleycat]

Thanks pittsy I do have a couple of questions :thumb:
I'm going for a 19 litre trial run (enough to fill a cornie)
Grain.
Pale malt 3790g
Hops.
Challenger 39g (boil)
Golding 13g (last 10 mins)
Styrian Golding (post boil)

I'm confused by the post boil reference to the Styrian Golding ??

Irish moss (last 10 mins)

Total liquor 27.1 litres
Mash liquor 9.5 litres

does that mean the sparge is 17.6?

Mash 90 mins at 66c
Boil 90 mins
FG 1010
ABV 4.6% what would that make the OG
EBU 40
EBC 8

 

[Kinleycat]

Good luck with your quest!
I hope you get the same stunning results as I have with my first two AGs.

Fingers crossed Titus!! :thumb:

 

[morethanworts]

Good luck KC!

Even though you're following a recipe, it might be worth punching it all in to something like BrewR (free on Android), running the infusion calcs through something like Brewer's Friend, and our own THBF Batch Sparge calculator (if you're batch sparging). Measure and enter your own deadspace figures, estimate your mash efficiency conservatively, and you'll then have a more dynamic way of understanding your own set up, making it easy to tweak things or recalculate as things unfold on brewday, or just for your next brew. I've found those tools to be great over my first 3 brews.

To answer your second question directly, your total liquor will include loss to grain, loss to deadspace in the tun, loss to evaporation and loss to hops and trub - but yes, it will all theoretically go in the sparge if it's not in the mash infusion. You'll normally be mashing at about 2.5L/Kg, with the rest of the liquor coming from the sparge.

You can rough guess an OG from the ABV and FG by multiplying the ABV by 7.4 and adding it on as the number of points over the FG... very approximately 1.044 for that. If the ABV includes priming (probably about 0.2% in a standard ale) then deduct that first.

EDIT/ADDED - Just checked my GW book (3rd Edition). It says the OG of 1.045 just below the title and description.

 

[jonnymorris]

I'm confused by the post boil reference to the Styrian Golding ??

Bung your hops in at flame-out (I let my wort cool to 80degC) and let them infuse for 20-30mins. Sorted.

 

[pittsy]

I would expect to use more water , for mine i need approx 32 litres for a 20 litre batch .

 

[Rolfster]

Hi

I would second running your figures through some brewing software. I use brewmate, like the above post its free.
Press the brewday button and it tells you your strike water and your sparge water amounts and temperature. I heat mine about 4degrees more other than that they seem spot on.

 

[peelman]

Yes I'd agree. My first AG was attempted from the GW book and my volumes were way out (under). AFter that I bit the bullet and downloaded Beersmith2. Since then they have been pretty much right within reason.
You could probably work it all out long hand but hey life's too short!

Good luck with it and once you've tried it you will never go back... All grain brewing that is....

 

[Kinleycat]

Equipment bought:

Another book bought, I really like the simple explanations of recipes in this book and it was an absolute steal from off Amazon via the book people.

Now to get on with planning AG#1!!! :thumb:

 

[Kinleycat]

Hi

I would second running your figures through some brewing software. I use brewmate, like the above post its free.
Press the brewday button and it tells you your strike water and your sparge water amounts and temperature. I heat mine about 4degrees more other than that they seem spot on.

Going to check brew mate out, does it work on iPad do you know?

 

[Stone Cold]

TRY BREW TOAD!

 

[Rolfster]

Hi

I would second running your figures through some brewing software. I use brewmate, like the above post its free.
Press the brewday button and it tells you your strike water and your sparge water amounts and temperature. I heat mine about 4degrees more other than that they seem spot on.

Going to check brew mate out, does it work on iPad do you know?

Yes it think so.

 

[Kinleycat]

Hi

I would second running your figures through some brewing software. I use brewmate, like the above post its free.
Press the brewday button and it tells you your strike water and your sparge water amounts and temperature. I heat mine about 4degrees more other than that they seem spot on.

Going to check brew mate out, does it work on iPad do you know?

Yes it think so.

Just checked and it doesn't want to :cry:

 

[Rolfster]

Hi.

Just found this quote
'BrewMate is a Windows application designed for Windows PCs. The publisher states that it posibly may run on Apple and Linux systems if you are running Mono.'
from this site http://beerandgarden.com/2012/03/brewin ... -brewmate/

Don't know what it means though!