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johnno

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I am making my first full size (22 litres) AG tomorrow. I am excited!! (Evil Dr No laugh). Mash in at about 10 am.
Brew fridge is ready to go.
Started some yeast up (Wyeast 2007) last Thursday. It just started waking up a few hours ago and there is now a good 1cm of krausen on it. I was sweating it there for a bit.
I decided to make a Pilsner style beer. I want to make a few lagers over the next few months.
I basically got the recipe from Clone Brews.

Here it is.

Shaky rat lager
Bohemian Pilsner


Type: All Grain
Date: 31/03/2005
Batch Size: 22.00 L
Brewer: Johnno
Boil Size: 29.31 L Asst Brewer: The 3 destroyers
Boil Time: 90 min Equipment: Johnno's equipment
Taste Rating(out of 50): 35.0 Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.0
Taste Notes:

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.25 kg Pilsner (Hoepfner) (1.7 SRM) Grain 89.3 %
0.45 kg Caramel Malt Light (Hoepfner) (13.0 SRM) Grain 9.5 %
0.06 kg Munich Malt (Hoepfner) (9.0 SRM) Grain 1.3 %
65.00 gm Saaz [3.50%] (90 min) Hops 28.3 IBU
35.00 gm Saaz [3.50%] (40 min) Hops 12.5 IBU
0.50 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
28.00 gm Saaz [3.00%] (3 min) Hops 1.2 IBU
1 Pkgs Pilsen Lager (Wyeast Labs #2007) Yeast-Lager



Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.050 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.010 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.013 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.005 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.9 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 0.6 %
Bitterness: 42.1 IBU Calories: 90 cal/l
Est Color: 4.6 SRM Color: Color


Mash Profile

Mash Name: Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge Total Grain Weight: 4.76 kg
Sparge Water: 22.61 L Grain Temperature: 22.2 C
Sparge Temperature: 75.6 C TunTemperature: 22.2 C
Adjust Temp for Equipment: TRUE Mash PH: 5.4 PH


cheers
johnno
 
Welcome to the club johnno -

only just started full AG myself - it's the bloody biz.... :beer:
 
Hi Ross,
Nice pics of the setup you picked up in that other thread.

cheers
johnno
 
good luck tommorrow Johnno.
May the force be with you.
 
only 60 grams of munich? Surely that wont make much of a difference, considering you could use it as a base malt.

Apart from that one puzzle, the rest looks great :)
Good luck with it
 
barfridge said:
only 60 grams of munich? Surely that wont make much of a difference, considering you could use it as a base malt.

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Dont know barfridge.
I should have looked into the recipe a bit more.
Like I mentioned this is out of Clone Brews.
Maybe the authors should have cloned themselves first. :lol:

cheers
johnno
 
Top stuff Johnno.
Hopefully I can mash-in in the next hour or so, too many beers last night ^_^

Hoops
 
How'd mash-in go Johnno?

Hope it's all going well for you.
 
Boots said:
How'd mash-in go Johnno?

Hope it's all going well for you.
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Johnno - Sitting back relaxed with a smile? or have you a story to tell?...
 
OK,
My first attempt at a full volume (22 litres) AG did not go as well as expected.
If you notice the recipe above it has a boil time of 90 minutes. Wel I was stuffing around with beersmith before making it up and accidently changed the time to 60 minutes.
To cut a long story short I eneded up with about 15 litres of higher gravity wort so I had to dilute with water.
Forgot to attach the pickup tube in the kettle :D so I also ended up with all the trub in the fermenter. I let it sit for about 4 hours then transferred again.
All up I got 19 litres at 1044. It is overly bitter but hopefully will settle down in time.
Its been bubbling away at 9C since Monday morning.
Will nail it next time.

cheers
johnno

PS apologies for the late replies.
 
Well done Johno...

Could have been Worse you know...like;
- the kettle boiling over
- the make shift table upending itself and 11 trs of 1200 wort gone
- same time 13.8kgs of grain in the mash tun on the floor
- a broken brick step
- some one putting your kids on the roof
- could have been pissed and slam dunked hops in there
- could have done your first all grain in front of 15 AHB members - most who u just met...

I think so far that is my list of disasters...dont want to remeber anymore.
 
Hi johnno,
first up top stuff on getting your system and first brew down.
I think a pils at 42 IBU would taste overly bitter right now anyway, missing the gravity by 6 points wouldn't have helped but it does look like you didn't mess up to badly.

Jayse
ps GMK putting the kids on the roof was their idea. :p after I talked them into it of course :blink:
 
Thanks Jayse....

That makes so much better and easier to Understand Now...

:lol:
 
jayse said:
ps GMK putting the kids on the roof was their idea. :p after I talked them into it of course :blink:
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But they enjoyed hey Jayse?

Batz
 
Welcome to the AG club Johnno.
It's all up hill from here :)
The learning curve never ends.
 
wee stu said:
Welcome to the AG club Johnno.
It's all up hill from here :)
The learning curve never ends.
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Yes I suppose I should have said something like that too Johnno :p

Great too see mate , all you need to do now is spend another couple of hundred bucks on nice gear and you will think you have it all......till you see something else that's shiny that is.

I bet the beer will be great anyway , different but good

Batz
 
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