The method will be slightly different - I will do the mash in a plastic bucket and insulate it with a blanket to hold the temperature. A slight departure from the normal route but will be easier to do if it works.
Ingredients
5Kg pale ale malt 7EBC
1Kg cara-pils malt 5EBC
500g malted wheat 3EBC
1tsp gypsum
1tsp Irish moss
Hops
37g Fuggles 4.1% alpha boiling hops
30g East Kent Goldings 6.1% alpha aroma hops
Note both hops are old and lacking character.
Method
- 09:30am Heated 10l water to 70C, too hot, 65 is enough.
- 11.10am Drained into plastic bucket wrapped in a blanket with malts crushed and in grain bag, adjusted temperature with 1l water, reached approx 56C
- Started heating 6l water to approx boiling. The mash is about the right temperature it seems.
- 11:42am added 5l water at 90C to grains, it seems this did not get the mash hot enough, it never reached the required 69C, apparently.
- 1:24pm Problem - temperature dropped too low so conversion is not complete, heated the liquid on the cooker in 3l pans and returned to grains, now at around 70C so should convert OK. I hope.
- 1:52pm Conversion still not complete, iodine still cloudy. Colour of beer looks about right, but will it ferment...
- 2:15pm Looks like I made a mess of it, conversion not complete according to iodine test, start boil anyway.
- 3:00pm Boil starting, add Fuggles hops.
- 4pm final hops added and let to sit for a moment, begin cooling
- 5pm cooled to 25C in the barrel. OG as measured just after brewing was 1060 so I added 6l water to bring it down to 1040ish. Will pitch yeast now and clear up.
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