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Water treatment
No water treatment as am still testing my brew systems for off flavours
Mash
Started water heating at 0610
- Extra pale malt
- Vienna Malt
- Flaked Oats including husk
- Carapils
- CaraGold Malt
5.36kg total grain bill
- Temp - 67
- Time - should be 60 mins (started at 0655). Did 40 mins.
Was hard to stir all those oat husks
Protein Rest - am only dong this for clearer beers like lagers.
Boil
0740 started heating to boil from 67
Want to start with 26 litres as want to end with 24l then 23 in fermenter?
0810 boiling (added 4 litres of hot water)
- Magnum 6g at 60 min
- No Protofloc - usually at 15mins.
- Simcoe 20g at 0 min
- Centennial 20g at 0 min
Cool and ferment
OG should be 1045 - have got 1030 at around 23 litres in the fermenter (which is good). Am going to try stirring in the mash. Added about 500g of sugar. Probably 1040.
Yeast: Verdant IPA Yeast
Using SS Bretech silver fermenter.
Ferment at 18c degrees then diacetyl rest at 22c
Dry Hop
Typically day 4 or 5. I’m doing day 6 - Mon 9th Oct.
- dry hop Simcoe 80g
- dry hop Centennial 40g
3 day cold crash at end of fermentation (actually did 16 day cold crash)
be really careful to filter or not get detrius into keg
Keg
Kegged on 8th Nov, and put in around 20 psi of CO2
12th Dec - a bit over carbed for me, so leaving at lower pressure for a while.
Next time
Sanitise grainfather before starting - it was thoroughly cleaned.
dry hop get ready with a magnet to drop after 4 or 5 days so don’t have to open ferenter.
