A standard bitter using Green (fresh) Hops
My first attempt at an AG lager.
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| Posted by JamesB (admin) on Sep 16 2009 |
A standard bitter to use some green Goldings hops I picked up. Use 4 times the weight listed here. AA guessed from averages at 4.3%
Batch Size: 23l Planned OG: 1042 Estimated ABV: 4.1% IBU: 35 3.9kg Pale Malt (Marris Otter) 0.2kg Crystal Malt 0.2kg Wheat Malt Goldings 30g 4.3% 90m Goldings 80g 4.3% 15m Goldings 20g 4.3% 0m (steep)
I'm also making this on Brewery mk1.5 - that's half of old one and half of the new one.
Water on, standard sodium met treatment. This is the new HLT with PID control (and timer, so I don't have to get up at silly o'clock in the morning).
The innerds:
Recirculating the water to get an even strike temperature
The Grain Bill
Got my mash temp spot on at 66degC. All tucked up now for 90 minutes.
Sparging
That's lovely clear wort
Don't pumps make things easy!
Here's the hop bine I picked up from the Hop Walk at Charles Farams. Took ages to strip the cones off.
First hops in. They're a lovely colour
Lovely. This was taken the morning after, so the worts lost it's clarity a bit.
And now it's time for the money shot
It's now happily fermenting away. I forgot the second top up in the boiler so I added 1.5l of boiled, cooled water to drop down from the OG of 1045 to 1042.
Updates to follow. I'm really looking forward to this one.
Last changed: Sep 16 2009 at 12:29 PM
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