AdeDunn
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Ok, well I didn't realise that doing a small 5 litre stove top brew would turn out to be more work than a 19 litre one.... Especially as like a muppet I did this yesterday whilst deep in the midst of a migraine! I was in bed in a dark and cool room by 9:30pm and couldn't even manage to eat 1/4 of a pot of yoghurt....
Anyway, rubbish efficiency once again. Pre-boil SG 1.032, into the demi-john at a rather bonkers OG of 1.070. Beersmith 2 gave me an efficiency of 52.03%. Starting to think the only way I am going to be able to do this long term is with a proper mash tun. Also made the decision to purchase a peco boiler. My wife has had enough of me hogging the stove, and my diabetes would prefer it if I stopped messing meal times up.... :lol:
Anyway, recipe was one I found on Beersmith 2 app, and scaled down:-
Grain:-
1.78kg Pale malt - used IREKS Pale Ale Malt
Hops:-
7.7g Mosaic at start of boil (90 minutes)
3.9g Mosaic at 20 mins
6.8g Mosaic at flame out.
3.4g Mosaic dry hop.
Yeast: 1 packet CMS US Pale Ale yeast (dry, as I did re-hydrate a packet and just as I went to give it a stir ready to pitch a fruit fly appeared from out of nowhere and landed right in it....). Pitched at 24 degrees C (head was hurting too much to wait longer).
Mash: Strike temp 72 degrees, then held at 66.7c for 75 minutes (been a small amount of grain I had to add heat a couple of times). Then mash out, raising temp to 75.6c over 7 minutes and holding there for 10 minutes.
90 minute boil left barely enough wort above the trub to fill the demijohn, so need to tweak the equipment profile for a bigger trub loss.
Poured it into the demijohn (well, siphoned...) via sanitised funnel. Gave it a good shake to aerate, pitched the yeast. Bung and blow off tube fitted (good job too...). By early am was fermenting like a beast blowing foam down the blow off.
My wife agrees with me that this had best be an amazing beer, the effort that went into it and the pain it caused me. It's nice to be able to see the yeasties at work though, our youngest sat watching it for at least 10 minutes this morning. :thumb: A good educational aid (we home ed DD no 2 and DD no 4. DD no 3 goes to and autism specialist school, DD no1 has her own place with her fiance and is expecting grandchild no1 in March. lol).
Anyway, rubbish efficiency once again. Pre-boil SG 1.032, into the demi-john at a rather bonkers OG of 1.070. Beersmith 2 gave me an efficiency of 52.03%.
Starting to think the only way I am going to be able to do this long term is with a proper mash tun. Also made the decision to purchase a peco boiler. My wife has had enough of me hogging the stove, and my diabetes would prefer it if I stopped messing meal times up.... :lol:Anyway, recipe was one I found on Beersmith 2 app, and scaled down:-
Grain:-
1.78kg Pale malt - used IREKS Pale Ale Malt
Hops:-
7.7g Mosaic at start of boil (90 minutes)
3.9g Mosaic at 20 mins
6.8g Mosaic at flame out.
3.4g Mosaic dry hop.
Yeast: 1 packet CMS US Pale Ale yeast (dry, as I did re-hydrate a packet and just as I went to give it a stir ready to pitch a fruit fly appeared from out of nowhere and landed right in it....
). Pitched at 24 degrees C (head was hurting too much to wait longer).Mash: Strike temp 72 degrees, then held at 66.7c for 75 minutes (been a small amount of grain I had to add heat a couple of times). Then mash out, raising temp to 75.6c over 7 minutes and holding there for 10 minutes.
90 minute boil left barely enough wort above the trub to fill the demijohn, so need to tweak the equipment profile for a bigger trub loss.
Poured it into the demijohn (well, siphoned...) via sanitised funnel. Gave it a good shake to aerate, pitched the yeast. Bung and blow off tube fitted (good job too...). By early am was fermenting like a beast blowing foam down the blow off.
My wife agrees with me that this had best be an amazing beer, the effort that went into it and the pain it caused me.
It's nice to be able to see the yeasties at work though, our youngest sat watching it for at least 10 minutes this morning. :thumb: A good educational aid (we home ed DD no 2 and DD no 4. DD no 3 goes to and autism specialist school, DD no1 has her own place with her fiance and is expecting grandchild no1 in March. lol).
