Old beer kit I got when bought the Grainfather.
Tasty Table Beer - TMM - £37
Brewing this early on a Sunday morning in January. Waiting for it to get light outside (07:15)
Batch size: 23L
OG: 1042
FG: 1011
ABV: 3.8
IBU: 26
4.66kg of grain
(Grain weights in kg * 2.7) + 3.5 = mash water in L
water needed in mash is: 16litres
Water treatment
AMS (CRS) / Lactic acid: 24ml for 20 litres (I added 20ml) DWB: 10g for 20 litres in the mash
Mash
0840 started the mash at 67 for 1 hour
-2.4 outside temp, and the grainfather power tripping. Turn off and on again fixes it.
Frosty morning and boiling water using gas as I have the left over from BIAB. May as well use the gas to heat the water.
defrosting hose pipe inside
Sparge
(28 - mash water in L) + (grain bill in kg * 0.8) = sparge water vol in L
Added 15 litres of water
Boil
1 hour
60min Magnum 6g
20min hop stand at 80degrees 20g Citra 20g Mosaic 10g Cascade 10g Chiniik
Ferment
Got 1056 as FG so added a few litres of water so it will be around maybe 1048? Got to 23 litres and 1056 was at 21 litres
at 18degrees
1024 approx on 1st Feb. got a problem with fermenter - can’t see bubbles..hole too big I drilled perhaps.
2.5 weeks. and fermentation at 1012. perfect. however my sight glass was showing 1020 / 1024
Dry Hop
9th Feb at 1400 at 14 degrees for 2 days
Using tights and steralised marble.
once fermentation is done
Citra 60g Mosaic 40g Cascade 30g Chinook 30g
48 hours
Cold Crash
keep at ?
Keg
Was okay… but didn’t last long. Classic oxygenation problem of neipa.
