idzy said:
We usually use Waynes MLT too.
Does Cocko have instant hot water?
Mick, I am happy to source fittings for your pot. Please sms me photos of outlet and diamensions of it/tank. I can also weld up a frame for it.
We also probably need to look at a back up recipe Stu. This is an ambitious recipe for ghetto and unknown gear.
Maybe something with candi so that Martin doesn't have a cardiac arrest.
MartinOC said:
I'm having minor fibrillations now..... The Dingemanns Pils & Pale Ale malts have already been ordered. Please don't go changing things now..
The recipe is hopefully going to replicate the Wee Heavy brew day up at Kinglake.
So i'm hoping that if we replicate the gear from there, or very close to it, it *should* replicate the result - only this will be paler, use different hops, be boosted/darkened by the Candi Syrup from CB (to be added at home), and use Belgian yeasts.
Basically the targeted OG is very similar and essentially what i'm basing my assumptions on, that we simply need to replicate the Kinglake effort.
The Wee Heavy OG was ~1.088. The Westy12 clone should be ~1.078, with the syrup added to boost it to ~1.094. I think we're also using a little more malt than required (~6kg) to make it simpler, and might help with a little extra "efficiency"
I'm also working on the assumption that if it either goes tits up on the day and the OG is lower, or gear constraints etc mean we have to aim smaller, that the recipe being used should essentially still "work." The addition of the Candi syrup can either be lessened or increased, dropped, altered, etc to compensate one way or the other. That's part of the beauty of the Westy12 clone - the syrup provides a safety net variable to either compensate for Mr Cock-Up, or simply alter the wort to produce whatever other beer you want. Furthermore, the recipe is basically just Pale & Pilsner, plus a whisker of Melanoiden. So it's a fairly workable blank canvas even in a worst case scenario (i hope!! :lol: ). So i believe either way, we will make use of the ingredients Martin has lined up for it.
Ideally we'll also draw off roughly 150L to do a side-boil to reduce and caramelise while the main boil is starting/going, to be added in towards the end of the boil. This isn't absolutely necessary, but still pretty important. It's what Wayne's kettle was going to be used for - i believe we used his at Kinglake for this. So his absence shouldn't be too hard to fill on this front - whether it's done in a single or 2 smaller vessels it should be fine.
The real testicle kicker is whether we can cover his MLT. Was that a 200L?
We need to determine how to cover for that, most importantly.
Another issue that springs to mind is the slim chance we'll be able to do a lesser Westy12 batch as well. Again, similar to the Wee Heavy - i believe for that brew the sparge run-off at the end was still so high some of the guys collected wort for a second beer (?). Again, if we can pull that off, i'm not sure how we div'y it up, but probably best for everyone who might be interested to bring a second cube, and maybe some hops to cube, etc. Again, i need to converse with the brewers from Kinglake to check how they did the 2nd batch.
