Just drinking my JS 150 lashes all grain, bloody excellent after a fortnight bubbling in the fermenter, a week to settle and a month in the keg. Carbonates well, great, persistent head which slides all the way down the glass, same colour as the commercial brew, but more aroma and less fruit salad, a bit more lime? flavour in the finish, maybe a tad bittering hoppier finish with the Pride of Ringwood than the real deal. Great with a big hunk of smelly, crumbly matured cheddar cheese and a slab of quince jam.
Ingredients: 4.5kg Barrett Burston Pale malt; 500g Munich malt, 500g Carapils; 500 g Dry wheat malt extract, (Wheat malt grain I had was stale); 20g Pride of Ringwood; 10g Cascade, 10g Amarillo Gold, 10g Nelson Sauvin; 5 g Williamette. SO-5 yeast, M10 Workhorse yeast, 45 litres water.
Method: Crack grains medium coarse, put in a clean cotton pillow slip; Heat in 18 litres of water to 63 C over 10 min; steep and stir the grains 60 min; heat to 78 C over 10 min, stir the grains again; Drain mash tun into boiler, sparge twice with 78 C water twice to achieve total boil volume of 30 litres; SG pre-boil was 1.045 after adding the dissolved wheat spray malt; boil time 60 min, add 20g POR hops at start; 10g Cascade at 40 minutes in, 10g Amarillo Gold and 10g Nelson Sauvin at 50 minutes in; Cool wort to ferment temp. of 24 C, final volume 22 litres; add 5g Williamette steeped and leave in fermenter; Add SO-5 and M10 Workhorse yeasts; Fermented 14 days at 18-22 C , really slow start, but rapid Day 2 to 8, then slow to SG 1011 day 9, left settle for a week, then kegged day 21 at 1011 SG, force carbonated and stored in ambient for 5 days, then coldroom at 2 C for 25 days. Will it last until Xmas Day?
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