Page 90 from the Huhes Home Brew Beer Book - not adding anything aditional
Split brew day on Grainfather and BIAB
Setup
28 litres of water in buckets heating up overnight inside. Went from 15 degrees to 19 degrees.
Water treatment
No water treatment as am doing a split brew - want to check my water treatment before I do more. It is usually:
- AMS (CRS) / Lactic acid: 24ml for 20 litres (I added 20ml)
- DWB: 10g for 20 litres in the mash
Mash
- Pilsner Malt 4.66kg (I got 4.6kg so will see if I hit the OG)
- Temp - 65C
- Time - 1 hour
Boil
- Saaz at start
- 1 Protafloc tablet (3g) at 15mins
1 hour boil
Cool
got to around outside temp - 18 ish with the cooler
leaving other 12 litres to cool naturally in fermentation bucket, and pitch around this temp.
Ferment
OG was fine in BIAB at around 1046
OG was 1030 in the grainfather. - was aiming for 1046, so added 400g of sugar and this brought it up to 1040
Fermenting at 13 degrees.
FG was 1008 on 4th Aug. so 2.5 weeks fermenting
Condition
At 3 degrees
Drink
6 weeks later. It’s still cloudy. But on 2nd Sept it is coming good. previous to that there was a fruity taste which I didn’t like. Maybe just young beer.
In the fridge and not shaking up the keg is good way to serve.
8 weeks and really good. Everybody’s favourite at my party! First one to get finished.
Interestingly the fruity flavours I was worried about were just young beer.
The split brew was good - people preferred the beer made in the Grainfather.
Next time
- do a rest at 72
