Brewed a nice english bitter on friday loads of pics on my twitter @streetbrewer28
23 litres
Sg 1.044 fg 1.010
Ebc 13
Ibu 42
4.4%abv
Grain
4000 bairds marris otter mix
280 carawheat (a must try malt for anyone that hasnt used it)
100 crisp amber
100 terrified wheat
Hops
Ill be honest at this point i won these from a bushel of hops but the quality ill deffo be visiting again.
Old english blend 5.7% flower FWH at 80c 35.4 ibu
Old english blend 5.7% flower 15 mins 7 ibu
Old english blend 5.7% flower 0 mins apprently 0 ibu
One packet of wilkos ale yeast fermented at 18c for 4 days then bumped to 20c then dropped to 5c
The brewday
Well it was a late start getting everything together for about 1pm. I was mashed in by 1.35pm got it 69c then by time id wrapped up boiler it was at a nice 66.7c, i was aiming for 66c so all good. After a 60 minute mash it had settled to 65c this warm weather is helping as i normally lose about 3 degrees ( i biab and have a 100ltr ss pot and about 36 litres of water in there).
So once id lifted the grain bag of cleaned it down etc etc the kettle was at a nice 80c so fwh went in and let it come to a nice boil.
I let it get to an hour in then started connecting up my new cfc with 20 mins left i turned it on now this is were i encountered my first issue my boil kettle struggled to get back up to boil, it could be the gas bottle being almost empty but it did kinda get back but i added an extra 5 mins on just to be safe.
Once i got to 0 mins i started the chiller this took about 15-20minutes to get to 27c i imagine in the winter it will be faster. The next slow part was filling the fv it took a long slow 25 minutes to get it in the fv. Id disconnected the cfc and dropped it straight from boiler to get nice aireation i may try drive it with pump next time.
I got 23 litres in fv and is nicely sitting in fv fridge as we speak
Any questions please feel free to ask
Cheers sean
23 litres
Sg 1.044 fg 1.010
Ebc 13
Ibu 42
4.4%abv
Grain
4000 bairds marris otter mix
280 carawheat (a must try malt for anyone that hasnt used it)
100 crisp amber
100 terrified wheat
Hops
Ill be honest at this point i won these from a bushel of hops but the quality ill deffo be visiting again.
Old english blend 5.7% flower FWH at 80c 35.4 ibu
Old english blend 5.7% flower 15 mins 7 ibu
Old english blend 5.7% flower 0 mins apprently 0 ibu
One packet of wilkos ale yeast fermented at 18c for 4 days then bumped to 20c then dropped to 5c
The brewday
Well it was a late start getting everything together for about 1pm. I was mashed in by 1.35pm got it 69c then by time id wrapped up boiler it was at a nice 66.7c, i was aiming for 66c so all good. After a 60 minute mash it had settled to 65c this warm weather is helping as i normally lose about 3 degrees ( i biab and have a 100ltr ss pot and about 36 litres of water in there).
So once id lifted the grain bag of cleaned it down etc etc the kettle was at a nice 80c so fwh went in and let it come to a nice boil.
I let it get to an hour in then started connecting up my new cfc with 20 mins left i turned it on now this is were i encountered my first issue my boil kettle struggled to get back up to boil, it could be the gas bottle being almost empty but it did kinda get back but i added an extra 5 mins on just to be safe.
Once i got to 0 mins i started the chiller this took about 15-20minutes to get to 27c i imagine in the winter it will be faster. The next slow part was filling the fv it took a long slow 25 minutes to get it in the fv. Id disconnected the cfc and dropped it straight from boiler to get nice aireation i may try drive it with pump next time.
I got 23 litres in fv and is nicely sitting in fv fridge as we speak
Any questions please feel free to ask
Cheers sean
