Galena
Landlord.
I decided to resume my Brewday diary having let it slip into disuse, if only for my own benefit of recording my brews, a fair few missed but hey ho.
12th March 2021
Adnams Broadside Clone (Bottled version)
I previously tried a batch of Broadside, not listed here but recorded in some detail HERE the first attempt was a split batch with half being harvested Adnams Dual Strain Yeast and half being Ringwood. The brew was a failure in that 1) I forgot to add the Whirfloc, 2) The Ringwood never cleared and several months later (yesterday) I chucked it down the drain as it was extremely cloudy and also a spectacular fizz bomb (what causes that?) Luckily only 10 litres to bin. 3) The Adnams strain was quite nice but missed target ABV by quite a lot (2% at least), Adnams specify a high mash temperature and perhaps I got it a bit too high, who knows.
So, back to today.
I started early (for me) and had the kettle filled last night so on waking I added the water treatment and turned on the heat whilst having breakfast. Very civilised.
I have not changed the recipe much but instead of going for 70C straight off I did a kind of stepped mash, building from 67C up to 70C by 30 mins and then hold that to 60 mins. I don't know how well it will do but it should hopefully be a little more fermentable than last time if that was the issue I had.
I hit all the targets spot on so well pleased with that apart from pH which was 5.62 (target 5.2) I have no idea why but I always miss my mash pH by a fair margin. Mash efficiency was 81% so well pleased with that from Fullhorn and BIAB with batch sparge.
Pitched the yeast and all cleaned up by 1430 with time to make a starter for Mondays Brew.
Recipe
Batch Size: 15L
Boil Time: 60 mins, Mash Time: 60 mins (Build from 67 C t0 70C by 30 mins)
Targets
ABV: 6.2% OG: 1.069 FG: 1.022 EBC: 48.5 IBU: 34
Fermentables
4.5Kgs Thomas Fawcett MO
120g Chocolate
70g Black
Hops
20g First Gold @ 60
7g First Gold @ 15
20g First Gold @ 5
Yeast Nutrient @ 10
Whirfloc @ 5
Water Profile
ca: 161 Mg: 5 Na: 9 Cl: 91 SO4: 268 HCO: 18
Yeast
Adnams Dual Strain (Harvested and built up in 2 stages)
Fermentation
4 days @ 20C 1 day @ 21C 9 days @ 22C
12th March 2021
Adnams Broadside Clone (Bottled version)
I previously tried a batch of Broadside, not listed here but recorded in some detail HERE the first attempt was a split batch with half being harvested Adnams Dual Strain Yeast and half being Ringwood. The brew was a failure in that 1) I forgot to add the Whirfloc, 2) The Ringwood never cleared and several months later (yesterday) I chucked it down the drain as it was extremely cloudy and also a spectacular fizz bomb (what causes that?) Luckily only 10 litres to bin. 3) The Adnams strain was quite nice but missed target ABV by quite a lot (2% at least), Adnams specify a high mash temperature and perhaps I got it a bit too high, who knows.
So, back to today.
I started early (for me) and had the kettle filled last night so on waking I added the water treatment and turned on the heat whilst having breakfast. Very civilised.
I have not changed the recipe much but instead of going for 70C straight off I did a kind of stepped mash, building from 67C up to 70C by 30 mins and then hold that to 60 mins. I don't know how well it will do but it should hopefully be a little more fermentable than last time if that was the issue I had.
I hit all the targets spot on so well pleased with that apart from pH which was 5.62 (target 5.2) I have no idea why but I always miss my mash pH by a fair margin. Mash efficiency was 81% so well pleased with that from Fullhorn and BIAB with batch sparge.
Pitched the yeast and all cleaned up by 1430 with time to make a starter for Mondays Brew.
Recipe
Batch Size: 15L
Boil Time: 60 mins, Mash Time: 60 mins (Build from 67 C t0 70C by 30 mins)
Targets
ABV: 6.2% OG: 1.069 FG: 1.022 EBC: 48.5 IBU: 34
Fermentables
4.5Kgs Thomas Fawcett MO
120g Chocolate
70g Black
Hops
20g First Gold @ 60
7g First Gold @ 15
20g First Gold @ 5
Yeast Nutrient @ 10
Whirfloc @ 5
Water Profile
ca: 161 Mg: 5 Na: 9 Cl: 91 SO4: 268 HCO: 18
Yeast
Adnams Dual Strain (Harvested and built up in 2 stages)
Fermentation
4 days @ 20C 1 day @ 21C 9 days @ 22C