FridgeSpaceBrewing
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Batch 10l
1st I put 6l of water to heat to 75c. During this time i weighed out my grains. 2kg of pale malt and 300g of wheat malt. I then poured them into my brew bag and dunked in 75c water. Stirred until lumps were ko'd. Mash Temp reading was 68c. Covered my pot in a towel and well insulated coat for 60 mins
Cleaned and sterilised all my equipment while i waited on the mash.
After 60 mins mash temp was 66c, so only lost 2c. I poured my wort into a 25l FV and ended up with 5l
I brought 8l upto 80c and dunked the bag for 15 mins. During this time i weighed my hop additions. After 15 i poured the wort into my FV and gave the bag a good old squeeze. I ended with 13l in the fv, bang on what i wanted
Poured the wort back into my pot and brought upto the boil. At 60 mins i added 10g of cascade for bittering. At 10 mins i added 25g cascade and at 5 mins inadded 30g of cascade.
I then put the pot in a sink of cold water and ice bottles. Now, it took around 3 hours to bring down to pitching temp. No idea why it took so long. My sink is quite shallow and i have a tall pot, the only excuse i have. At temp, around 23c, I transferred the wort into 2 5l demijohns. The first DJ filled up nicely. The 2nd was a different story. Even though i have an anti sediment trap on my syphon, i could see loads of hop gunk flowing through the tube. I ended up with a 2 to 3 inch layer of **** at the bottom of the fv.
Anyway, i took a gravity reading and it was 10.50. I then pitched around 5g of dry ale yeast into each dj. Bunged and air locked and lashed into a cupboard.
The brew day took an awful long time. I started at 16.35 and it was in the dj at 23.30. This is mainly due to me being on cooking duty for my 2 kids and better half. Also the time taken to cool the wort. Next time ill send them to Alton towers or something.
Even though it took all evening, i still thoroughly enjoyed my 1st AG brew.
Apologies if some of this isnt coherent. I blame it on the half a bottle of spiced rum
Batch 10l
1st I put 6l of water to heat to 75c. During this time i weighed out my grains. 2kg of pale malt and 300g of wheat malt. I then poured them into my brew bag and dunked in 75c water. Stirred until lumps were ko'd. Mash Temp reading was 68c. Covered my pot in a towel and well insulated coat for 60 mins
Cleaned and sterilised all my equipment while i waited on the mash.
After 60 mins mash temp was 66c, so only lost 2c. I poured my wort into a 25l FV and ended up with 5l
I brought 8l upto 80c and dunked the bag for 15 mins. During this time i weighed my hop additions. After 15 i poured the wort into my FV and gave the bag a good old squeeze. I ended with 13l in the fv, bang on what i wanted
Poured the wort back into my pot and brought upto the boil. At 60 mins i added 10g of cascade for bittering. At 10 mins i added 25g cascade and at 5 mins inadded 30g of cascade.
I then put the pot in a sink of cold water and ice bottles. Now, it took around 3 hours to bring down to pitching temp. No idea why it took so long. My sink is quite shallow and i have a tall pot, the only excuse i have. At temp, around 23c, I transferred the wort into 2 5l demijohns. The first DJ filled up nicely. The 2nd was a different story. Even though i have an anti sediment trap on my syphon, i could see loads of hop gunk flowing through the tube. I ended up with a 2 to 3 inch layer of **** at the bottom of the fv.
Anyway, i took a gravity reading and it was 10.50. I then pitched around 5g of dry ale yeast into each dj. Bunged and air locked and lashed into a cupboard.
The brew day took an awful long time. I started at 16.35 and it was in the dj at 23.30. This is mainly due to me being on cooking duty for my 2 kids and better half. Also the time taken to cool the wort. Next time ill send them to Alton towers or something.
Even though it took all evening, i still thoroughly enjoyed my 1st AG brew.
Apologies if some of this isnt coherent. I blame it on the half a bottle of spiced rum
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