It seems like a long time since I last had a brew day! After my annual pilgrimage to Australia to visit my daughter and grandkids I'm now back and battling jetlag. What better thing to do?
Brewery set up and cleaned yesterday so started straight away this morning. Nothing like the sound of brewing....
So today it's a Tribute clone.
3.5kg Maris Otter pale malt
1kg Munich malt.
Mashed at 66C for an hour.
1 hour boil.
Hops:
16g Fuggles 60 minutes
19g Willamette 60 minutes
15g Fuggles 15 minutes
12g Willamette 15 minutes
25g Celeia 0 minutes
25g Willamette 0 minutes
Chilled down to 25C and left for 2 hours to settle.
Now for the exciting bit. Having developed an aversion of transferring trub with the wort to the FB I made a syphon to transfer the cooled wort to the FB "sans trub".
Drawing the wort from the top resulted in no trub transfer. Gradually dropping the syphon tube until it hit trub resulted in nice clear wort in the FB
but a loss of 2-3 litres of wort. Only 4.5 gallons/21 litres in the bucket!
OG 1.047. Sachet of Nottingham yeast pitched and fermentation fridge set at 20C.