Landlubber (TTL Style) ~ 05Mar09

[fivetide]

Mash on!

A TTL style brew, based upon Graham's calculation and my hop reserves, plus a little more aroma on the finish. I'm using homegrown WGV hops for Goldings and Bobek for Styrians, which I'm also adding at flameout to steep. Yeast is either S-04 or S-05 as I have plenty of both.

Here's the recipe anyway. Any comments during the evening very welcome as always.


Landlubber
Style: English Best
Batch Size: 25.50 L
Boil Volume: 36 L
Boil Time: 90 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.0 %

Ingredients
4.65Kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC) 99.4%
35g Black Malt 40L (985 EBC) 0.6%

Protofloc Tablet (15 min)
1 Pkgs S-04

Hop profile
WGV, 6%AA, 33g at 90 min
Bobek, 5.4%AA, 33g at 90 min
Bobek, 5.4%AA, 25g at 10 min
Bobek, 17g at flame out

Batch Sparge
Mash Grain Weight: 4.68kg Mash PH: 5.4 PH
Grain Temperature: 13.0 C
Mash In Add 11.6L of water at 72.8C (66C) 90 min
Step Add 9.8L of water at 80.2 (72C) 10 min
Step Add 15.76L of water at 81.9C (76C) 10 min

Beer Profile
Estimated Original Gravity: 1.042
Estimated Final Gravity: 1.011
Estimated Color: 13.9 EBC
Bitterness: 48 IBU
Alpha Acid Units: 2.0 AAU
Estimated Alcohol by Volume: 4%


(more details and ultimately photos, on my blog as and when)

 

[Vossy1]

Have a good one ft :thumb:

 

[fivetide]

04 or 05, do you reckon? I'm provisionally planning 04...

 

[A T]

Have a good one FT, :thumb: I'd go for 05 but then again i would choose that over 04 all the time

 

[llannige]

Looks good FT
I likes Bobek me. :thumb:

 

[fivetide]

I'll get some US-05 out of the freezer then.

Mash run off and first batch sparge in the boiler, just letting the final batch settle, then we're off.

 

[Wez]

Good luck with the rest of the brew five :thumb:

 

[fivetide]

I reduced the coppering hops by 10g to reduce the IBUs a little.

And I'm going for US-05.

 

[fivetide]

Managed to get 25L at 1.043 safely in the fermenter. Nothing much of interest during the brew - Bobek's were quite powdery like leaf tea in parts, but smelled very nice indeed.

Used US-05 and a power drill paddle for first time.

 

[A T]

Keep us posted on this, i'll be interested to hear how it turns out :thumb:

 

[Vossy1]

Used US-05 and a power drill paddle for first time.

Sounds like a winning combo
I've only used US-05 once before, and swore never again, due to it's lack of 'floccing' and just plain giving up :shock:
It wouldn't be me then, that has a 'strong' pale in the fv, getting the undivided attention of 05 as we speak......would it :lol:

 

[tubby_shaw]

Sounds like a good day fivetide :)

 

[fivetide]

I lost patience with US-05's lethargic glugging and gave the whole thing a good stir about an hour ago. Seems to be responding well. Smelly old stuff (in a good way)

 

[fivetide]

Oodles of photos for this brewday are now up on the blog if you can handle any more shots of brown stuff in boilers!

 

[fivetide]

Now below 1.010 and transferred into a clean secondary.

 

[Bru4u]

When I first looked at the photo I thought, why has Fivetide put a cutting disc floating in the beer, then I thought it is some clever skimming device connected to a tap, then I realised the lid is on

 

[fivetide]

Aha yes, it still had the circular swirl and slight head from the siphon. It's as still as mill pond now, although hopefully with better flavour... Will keg it at the end of the week.