I hit my target volume for once but was over gravity, the downside to this was I topped up with some freshwater and ended up with 26 litres. Which was nice.
Pale malt
T. wheat
Pale crystal
Black malt
white sugar
Bittering Hops:
Challenger
Target (I had to make up a shortfall of challenger to get the right bitterness)
Bramling Cross - becoming a favourite
East Kent Golding
Aroma Hops:
East Kent Golding
Irish Moss
Safale SO4 starter made from reclaimed yeast from previous brews. It kicked off like a mo-fo in the FV.
Few words for this one, a pleasant brew again. My only gripe really is the immersion chiller. It works very well but the hosepipe I bought for it gets a bit soft and easily kinks causing back pressure that hasn't yet popped a fitting but probably could do. My other gripe with the immersion chiller is it don't half bugger up the hops settling onto the hop filter in the bottom of my copper.
Anyway, some piccies.
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| Grain shot obligatoire. |
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| Nice clear run off from the Mash Tun. I only had to run off about a litre before it came clear, often it's 3 or 4 litres. |
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| Sparging, allowing the sparge liquor to circulate around over a slotted foil try. I haven't bothered with my spray bar for a while. |
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| Approaching the boil, getting ready to skim the surface crud away. |
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| Surface crud skimmings, not as much as previous brews. |
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| Rolling boil and bittering hops and debris rolling around. |
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| Chiller and 10 minute hop addition |
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| 1,046 or thereabouts. Over OG so I added water to bring it down to 1,042 giving me 26 litres :) |
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| The remains of the day. Notice the hop filter isn't entirely covered with hops! Bloody immersion chiller collects them in the centre. I need to address this, maybe some legs to lift the chiller off the base of the copper a bit. |
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| Krausen about 4 hours after pitching the yeast. Took off like a rocket! |
I've had a few glasses of this so far, it's absolutely bloody gorgeous! I haven't gotten round to any pics of pintas yet as the weather has turned a bit shitty and they just look better, taken out doors.
To date, this is my favourite beer that I've brewed.
Update: May 20th 2012 - Weather still shit, not sure if we're going to get a summer this year so here's a link to an indoor photo of this batch, pint of all grain Double Dragon. I do have a second batch in the Fv right now along with a Timothy Taylor Landlord I just really need to get my arse back in gear and blogging again.
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