simon.sillitoe
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Today a special package arrived in the mail:
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Basically I'm looking at doing the Nelson Sauvin Summer Ale as is (so as not to over-complicate my first batch), but I've substituted with BB Ale Malt instead because it's cheap and I've heard that it's decent anyway. Also slightly less of it as I'm looking to hit 20L in the fermenter instead of 23.
The other part of the plan is to brew slightly over-gravity as I have but a 30L urn and a cube that holds only 15.8L, which previously held a FWK. (I accurately measured that capacity today). I've read up on high-grav+dilution at various sources including here and have come to the conclusion that 20% dilution in the fermenter will not be too much of a problem, especially considering that's what the FWKs are anyway. If the worst does happen I'll either buy a bigger cube or just brew 16L batches in future (probably the former. Moar = better).
To counteract the lower hop utilisation which apparently results from a higher gravity boil I'll scale the hop additions up to 90g in total, with the added benefit that I won't have 10g sitting around afterwards. Beer Engine tells me that I'll end up with 50 IBU in 16L, so 40 IBU in 20L, which is pretty close.
Stupidly I forgot to buy a thermometer (the wall one only goes up to 50C, i.e. useless) so I'll have to head to the shopping centre in the morning and pick one up. But hopefully the urn thermostat is accurate anyway.
Without knowing the evaporation rate of my urn I'm going in blind in terms of how much water to use. If anyone has a better idea (and literally anyone will, lol) let me know, but the plan so far is 25 liters. At this stage I suspect I may need a bit more, especially considering it's a 90 min boil. But I'll have additional boiling water on hand to add towards the end if need be.
Anyway that's all a bit of a rant; apologies. Wish me luck tomorrow~! I'll be sure to take plenty of photos!
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Basically I'm looking at doing the Nelson Sauvin Summer Ale as is (so as not to over-complicate my first batch), but I've substituted with BB Ale Malt instead because it's cheap and I've heard that it's decent anyway. Also slightly less of it as I'm looking to hit 20L in the fermenter instead of 23.
The other part of the plan is to brew slightly over-gravity as I have but a 30L urn and a cube that holds only 15.8L, which previously held a FWK. (I accurately measured that capacity today). I've read up on high-grav+dilution at various sources including here and have come to the conclusion that 20% dilution in the fermenter will not be too much of a problem, especially considering that's what the FWKs are anyway. If the worst does happen I'll either buy a bigger cube or just brew 16L batches in future (probably the former. Moar = better).
To counteract the lower hop utilisation which apparently results from a higher gravity boil I'll scale the hop additions up to 90g in total, with the added benefit that I won't have 10g sitting around afterwards. Beer Engine tells me that I'll end up with 50 IBU in 16L, so 40 IBU in 20L, which is pretty close.
Stupidly I forgot to buy a thermometer (the wall one only goes up to 50C, i.e. useless) so I'll have to head to the shopping centre in the morning and pick one up. But hopefully the urn thermostat is accurate anyway.
Without knowing the evaporation rate of my urn I'm going in blind in terms of how much water to use. If anyone has a better idea (and literally anyone will, lol) let me know, but the plan so far is 25 liters. At this stage I suspect I may need a bit more, especially considering it's a 90 min boil. But I'll have additional boiling water on hand to add towards the end if need be.
Anyway that's all a bit of a rant; apologies. Wish me luck tomorrow~! I'll be sure to take plenty of photos!