Mittelfrueh delight

[Vossy1]

Clearer runnings, ph pretty good, temperature spot on

1st runnings....pale, 1st batch sparge high and dry. Due to the nature of my return manifold I could only top up batch 1 by 10 ltrs instead of the 20ltr required. I thought I'd add the extra 10ltr with batch 2, the tun was pushed to the limit :shock:

Above the gear part of the reason the brew was postponed, it needed to be covered before being poached by the boil...I don't fancy re boarding it again , hops close to top.

 

[A T]

Great pictures V, what happened the roof :shock:

 

[BrewStew]

my mash tun looks like that every time i do a run :lol:

i thought you were brewing outside cos of the ceiling? it's supposed to be the warmest day of the year so far down here... decided to use it to mow the lawn and tidy the garage/brewery

 

[Vossy1]

what happened the roof

It's part of the reason I've not been around on the forum much. We were having the back bedroom and front box room carpets replaced 3 weeks last monday. On the Sunday night I cleared the rooms prior to the fitters coming and on lifting the carpet found the floor boards to be soaking and the underlay perished. We suspected a central heating leak as the boiler had been losing pressure, so I lifted nearly every floor board to find the leak...all to no avail. I went in the kitchen to make a brew and noticed the ceiling was bowing (only slightly though) and a drop of water had landed on my fv cupboard. I went to push the ceiling up with my finger (to see how bad it was) and the whole lot came down :evil:
It turned out the bathroom sink had been leaking, for a long time by the look of it. Where the water had been collecting in the roof/floor void was exactly where the central heating and hot water pipes run. It looks like the pipes were causing the escaped water to steam. The steam was travelling along the joists/floor boards, and it was 'escaping' where boards have been previously replaced, ie, where there is no 'tongue and groove'.

Just bad luck swimbos dad said, he's just retired after 44 years as a plumber and he'd never seen anything like it....just my luck
The bare board needs skimming now...but that's a job for a plasterer.

 

[Wez]

Nice pics V - :thumb:

Bummer about the ceiling

 

[Vossy1]

Ta bud ...right last pics

I collected 80ltr pre boil. I let the mash rest after draining and collected a further 2 ltrs, which I added to the pot.
I recirc the boil through the pump and cfc to sanitise it for 10 mins at the end of the boil.
A quick shot of the cooling coils attached to my fv lid
I collected exactly 60 ltrs , glad I added the 2 extra ltrs of wort at the start of the boil...phew
Half of the quad IC chillers which will see use on the next brew. A bottle of Pepsi is an ideal former :lol:

I missed target of 1.064 by 6 points. I think this was a combo of upping the efficiency from 74 to 75% and the lack of an equal batch sparge. I'm still happy with the result though
I think when I start doing the DP recipes I will have to go back to fly sparging, no real pain though, as I've been meaning to do it for a while.

 

[A T]

Bad luck about the plumbing V :cry: Looks like you had a good productive brewday though :thumb:

 

[Vossy1]

Bubbling away nicely this morning

 

[Wez]

Lovely :thumb:

 

[Vossy1]

Until this am I needed to control the fermenting beer temp using my beer chiller, as leaving the fv door open to the colder kitchen temps didn't keep the US-05 critters at bay :lol:
I had a very fast horses canter of C02 being produced with the odd mega burp, but no yeast escaped this time
The temp started to drop from 20.6 deg c to 19.9 today, so I set the ATC 800 to 21 and now the yeast have speeded up a little, at a constant 20.4 deg for the moment. The beer looks very pale in the fv and it's begging for a straw :lol:

The big question is, will it be finished for the weekend so I can brew again :hmm:

 

[Vossy1]

Thought I'd check the gravity on this pale tonight as the bubbles had slowed to once every 6 seconds

This is the first brew that's hit the right attenuation for me in quite some time. 1.058 to 1.011, 6.1% abv and a high attenuation figure. As with my previous experience of US-05 the beer is yellow with yeast, and I'm sure it would carry on fermenting, if I would let it. I've lowered the ATC 800 temp to 10 deg and once it hits that mark it will be down to 5 for a while. Hopefully that will drop some ot the yeasty critters out of solution....It's quite bitter and has a citrus aroma at the moment :drink:

 

[Oblivious]

Vossy that does look like some sweet beer :clap:

 

[llannige]

Looking good Vossy
Nice one :thumb:

 

[Bru4u]

That is some truly beautiful work there V :thumb:

 

[Vossy1]

This ere beer has been sat at 5 deg c for the last 4 days and tonight I took a crafty sample.
As usual US-05 has not failed...in a bad kind of way :evil: The FG hasn't budged (bonus), but the beer remains as cloudy as hell and floaters are still abundant I took a trial jar sample on Monday and added some reconned dried issinglass soln. You should have seen the affect of the IG :sick: 1 day later clear beer but 1cm of sludge in a 25cm high sample. I should stress that clear beer was evident after 1 hour but the floccs took some time to clear.Tomorrow I'm going to rack the majority of the beer to corny, but I'm going to keep 10ltr back for bottling. I'm going to fine into corny as per usual, and also fine the bottling bucket, I'll rack to bottles after a few days, to let the majority of the yeast drop out of solution.

The ATC 800 didn't disappoint either. I was awoken by an alarm on Monday to tell me the beer had surpassed it's set cooling value limit of 5 deg c.....and was now at 2.4deg c :shock: When I checked the set value, previously set to 5 deg c it as now reading 2 deg c :lol: ...ATC's...bless em :hmm:

 

[Vossy1]

Racked this beauty to corny earlier this afternoon with some IG added to the corny, pre beer addidtion. As usual, floccs were starting to form even before the corny was full...I wonder how long it will take to clear :hmm: might have to sample every now and then to check the progress :whistle: :lol:
That means the fv's free.....I feel a brew coming on :party:

 

[Wez]

Hmmm, my FV's rumble like an empty tummy...

Fiillllll Meeeeeeee, Filllllll Meeeeeeeee


Get a brew on Voss :thumb:

 

[Vossy1]

Well it's had 10 days aging and the temptation has gotten too much :whistle:
1st corny has been tapped, a wee taster has been drawn, and the man from the V1 brewery says yeahhhhhhh :drink:
I am going to keep a corny aside to age, but the other 2 :drink:

 

[Wez]

You're lucky that wasn't on tap last Saturday :lol:

 

[Vossy1]

:lol:

It's way to bitter for you jessies anyway :rofl: ...it's lovely...but that bloody US-05 has over powered my IG finings again I'm beginning to believe (for me) that 05 needs secondarying with IG, and then IG again in the corny

EDIT, forgot you guys have done DP recipes already, you'd like this brew :thumb: