Uk Brewday - Shive Talkin'

[THBF Wez]

I managed to get a brew in today - a nice pale & hoppy brew, missed my OG by 4 points ... so not happy with that but hey - hopefully it will be a good one.

60L Batch
Target OG 1.052
Target IBU 39-40
Mash 2.5L/kg 67c 90 mins
Boil 90 mins

87% Pale Malt (Maris Otter)
10% Wheat Malt
3% Cara-Pils

Pearle 90 mins to ~13 IBU
Cascade 90 mins to ~13 IBU

Pearle 15 mins to ~7 IBU
Cascade 15 mins to ~7 IBU

60g Cascade added to the boiler during cooling and steeped at 70c for 30 mins

I deliberately lowered my efficiency today to see if there is a difference - effectively it meant that I stopped sparging at 1.040.

We will see...

I got 3 x FV's with 20 L in each - 2 have s04 one has us-05

Some pics:

HLT plastic 60L 2x 2.4kw elements camping mat insulation:

Tun - 66L coolbox with copper manifold & ball valve tap

14.1kg Grain just waiting to hand over the goodies

Mash On

Tun Wrapped up on sleeping bag

End of the mash

Jasper getting used to being an assistant brewer

Recirculating the first few litres

Sparging (spinny sparger fitted under tun lid)

First collections of wort

more to follow...

 

[THBF Wez]

Pearle & Cascade in the bottom of the 100L SS boiler (FWH)

Waiting for the boil (lid off for pic)

Post boil trub - uck!

Trial Jar - You can just about see the floccing

Waiting for them to start now.... :thumb:

 

[Screwtop]

Pearle & Cascade in the bottom of the 100L SS boiler (FWH)

Waiting for the boil (lid off for pic)

Post boil trub - uck!

Trial Jar - You can just about see the floccing

Waiting for them to start now.... :thumb:

Nice Wez, shame you couldn't have fitted a few more litres in the tun :lol:

Screwy

 

[Barry]

Seems to have been a very busy and rewarding day. Be intereseting to get your feedback on the US05 and s04.

 

[warrenlw63]

Looks like you've been productive Wez. Jasper doesn't look too excited though. Is he a Cocker? (Got 2 myself).

Thanks for the great pics. :beer:

Warren -

 

[THBF Wez]

Yep - good spot - Blue Roan Cocker (almost 6 months old) - don't let that pic kid ya. He's just about to short foot it with a wine cork in his mouth !!

Cockers are climbers & theives - but great dogs B)

You can see pics of him growing up here on our UK forum:

http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/viewtopi...f=10&t=1019

 

[Bribie G]

Good work, Wes. I'm interested to see that UK brewers seem to be getting onto those Colonial Troublemaker's hops such as Cascade despite the Boston Tea Party.

I'm also swapping between US-05 and S-04 with my ale brews at the moment. I've had a fair run of US-05 and find they go on forever with a lingering bubbly pond scum on the top, but clean up nicely in secondary / cold conditioning. I hadn't used S-04 for about 8 months and last week did a strong old style UK Mild (around 1054 OG) and it's done and dusted in five days, haven't done a SG reading yet as I'm off to work today but very impressed so far.

So I'll be interested indeed to find out how you went on with the two yeasts.

Cheers
Michael (Yorkshire Geordie crossbreed )

 

[kook]

I'm interested to see that UK brewers seem to be getting onto those Colonial Troublemaker's hops such as Cascade despite the Boston Tea Party.

:icon_offtopic: Just before I left in 2006, I took a tour of Fullers. Guess what they had boxes of in their hop cool room? US Cascade!

Interesting to see a regional experimenting with US hops rather than a micro like Crouch Vale or Dark Star.

 

[chappo1970]

Nice work Wez. Gunna have to catch up with guys soon. Thanks for the photo's mate!

 

[hoohaaman]

:icon_offtopic: Just before I left in 2006, I took a tour of Fullers. Guess what they had boxes of in their hop cool room? US Cascade!

Interesting to see a regional experimenting with US hops rather than a micro like Crouch Vale or Dark Star.

But cascade! I hope they use it more frugal(Fuggle) then me

 

[hoohaaman]

sorry yes master

 

[MEB]

Crikey Wez-you get everywhere

 

[THBF Wez]

I'm sampling the s-04 corny of this now and i'm liking it

i'm not convinced about my hop utilisation I don't think that this is 40 IBU

it's nice and clear(ish) will be better in another week clarity wise. I really like the Pearle/Cascade combo they work well together this reminds me a bit of SNPA I may give the other corny (US-05) a higher carb and serve it through the tap rather than the beer engine.

Will post a pic when I'm happy with the clarity

Chappo - hope you got to brew this and hope it turns out well

 

[chappo1970]

Chappo - hope you got to brew this and hope it turns out well

Not yet Wez but it and Fools Gold are slated for the 23rd of this month on my Brew, Beers and Bra's day. I'll keep ya posted mate.

 

[THBF Wez]

Nice one, keep us posted !!

Be good to see you on THBF this weekend for a beer/coffee

Wez

 

[THBF Wez]

Here's the in the glass pic.

It's quite clear but not 100% still early days for this one though

It's rather nice - think i'll do it again :thumb:

 

[christmasbender]

looks tasty wez......... but i heard from a few of the other guys on thbf that it gives YOU gas.........!

 

[Barry]

Thanks for feed back Wes. The beer looks really tasty.