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Post mash

 

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1.052 Preboil

 

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Finis.

Really need to get some distilled water to calibrate the Refractometer.

 

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Friday's beer finished on Monday, just crashing overnight. I'll pressure transfer to a keg with some findings in it tomorrow and leave it in the lagering freezer until burst carbing it overnight on Friday for the weekend.

Oddly enough the Märzen has completed, but it keeps wavering between 95-100% on the tilt. It's got another two weeks before going into the lagering freezer so I'm certain it will have made up it's mind by then.

Tomorrow it'll be yeast starter time for this weekend's Vienna Lager

 

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Successful Brewday Yesterday, possibly the clearest wort I've ever produced and all numbers exceeded barring fermenter volume.

Lager Recipe (Oh) Vienna

The Märzen has 2 days left crashing before I'll transfer to a keg and leave it in the Inkbird controlled freezer for Lagering.

The Fancie a Kviekie? IPA turned out oddly saison(y), possibly due to the age of the Kviek I used, thoroughly decent enough, it just came as a shock as it's not what I would have expected. I'll post a screenshot when it's had a little conditioning time.

Next weekend's beer/beers will likely be another Lager, I'm just wondering whether to do the Festbier and pitch it straight on top of the Märzen slurry.

 

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Brewing my standard Bohemian Pilsner today, but swapping out the usual hops for Lemon Drop.

https://share.brewfather.app/76X1YJq1zBrgCZ
Last year the Hull Melon version practically evaporated via my wife and son. 12 weeks to make and a week for them to demolish it in the sunshine.

Thanks to my wife equating my ability to use Google and read instructions with "you're good at that sort of thing" it's now a double brew day as I'm working on the sister-in-law's CCTV on Sunday.

So I'll also be brewing my entry into this month's American Pale Ale forum competition.

Yesterday I used my Kegland flow metre to fill up the Grainfather and Sparge water heater (a brilliant and accurate timesaver), weighed & crushed my grain and treated my liquor.

Currently on the first mash step. Cheers all.

 

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Today I'll be pitching my pilsner wort on my Vienna Lager slurry, so I'll decant it to a sanitised jar or two so I can clean and sanitise the fermenter first.

Given the cost of liquid yeast, the "cleaner" nature of lager trub and the usual practice of a massive starter for lagers; using the slurry just seems to make a bit more sense.

 

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Utter panic as I realize I've not sent the compliance reports for the Hospital I work for. Log in and send reports. Mental head smacks (Stupid, stupid, stupid).

I've just put the mash pH sample in the freezer, probably too late for any adjustments to take affect, but there you go.

 

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Too low and far below Brewfather's estimate.

 

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Brought the bins in (Brown today).
It's important to record ALL the details on your brew days.

 

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Purging my keg and lubing my ring *snigger*

 

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Passed the iodine test with merit.

 

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Well, that's the transfer of the Vienna Lager all done

 

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Mash out finished. Beautifully clear wort.

 

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Sparge finished an boil reached. Forgot I'd altered the recipe to fwh and panicked when I realized I had to move all the crap off the freezer...

Only two slight errors so far (touch wood) the Riptide is so quiet I thought I'd already turned it off when I removed the recirc pipe and I also kno

Not quite got the boil volume I was hoping for, but I find the GF over estimates the boil off so hopefully it'll even itself out. Definite lemon grass aroma from the aptly named hops.

 

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Whirlpool done, transfer away!

I'll take some readings when it's all finished.

 

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1.050 pretty much bang on.

Now to start brew number two, which I pretty much can't be arsed with.

 

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Now to start brew number two, which I pretty much can't be arsed with.

I hope you didn’t bother. A double brew-day is quite hard work and if your heart’s not in it, all the more so.

 

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I hope you didn’t bother. A double brew-day is quite hard work and if your heart’s not in it, all the more so.

Sadly my time is not always my own and if I want to enter the monthly competition for a change needs must

 

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Unfortunately I got scorching on the bottom of the Grainfather, so I've had to soak and scrub before starting brew number two. I've milled my grains and am now transferring my Festbier from the Fermzilla I'll need to clean for the IPA into a freshly sanitised keg.

Whilst beer number two feels a little more like hard work I am sat in a chair watching Shudder whilst things tick on, so I really can't complain.