Friday, March 21, 2008

Preparation for brewing No. 9

No. 9 will be a variation of the recipe for Adnams Bitter in Brew Your Own British Real Ale by Graham Wheeler and Roger Protz (CAMRA/Storey ISBN 1-58017-102-8). As usual I'll brew 30 litres, the recipe below is scaled up from the 25l version in the book. For the malt I've substituted pale malt for the Maris Otter because that's what I could find.

Recipe for 30l:
Pale Ale malt 4Kg 7EBC Should be Maris Otter pale ale malt
Black malt 60g 1200EBC
White sugar 450g

Boiling Hops
Start of boil:
Challenger 39g
Fuggles 34g
Goldings 14g

Last fifteen minutes:
Fuggles 12g
Irish moss 12g

Method:

Heat 20l water in boiler to 77C.
Add grains and hold at 66C for 90 minutes or when iodine test shows conversion complete.
Run off liquid into barrel with tap.
Remove grains from boiler to another barrel with tap.
Heat another 10l water in boiler to 77C and sparge grains.
Return sweet liquid to boiler, boil for 90 minutes.
Cool to 21C

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