Shamus O'Sean Posted October 5 Share Posted October 5 Brew day was Part 1 of a 2 part series: An all grain version of Coopers Australian Lager. Part 2 will be the extract version in a few weeks time. Interestingly, the all grain version cost me just over $25. Whereas the extract version will cost around $60. @ozdevil, I poured the whole bucket of crushed grain into the malt pipe and used the Kegland mash stirrer to mix in the grain. It worked very well. No dough balls. Probably only took a few minutes to fully wet the grain. See the photo below. A possible drawback was a bit of a stuck mash/sparge. Maybe the stirrer broke up the grain and made more finer particles, that made drainage through the mash very slow. I have not had it that bad in a barley-only grain bill before. Next time, after stirring up the grains, I will scrape the bottom of the malt pipe/screen to make sure the fine matter has not blocked the screen holes. There was also heaps of cold break in the fermenter, suggesting the mash did not filter the wort very much. Today's was one of my usual 22 litres of concentrated wort, diluted with 8 litres of water to a 30 litre batch. Actually got 22.5 litres out of the Grainfather. However, I missed the OG by a point. Predicted ABV 3.9%. Predicted OG 1.040, actual 1.039. Predicted FG 1.010. EBC 5. IBU 21. 5.0kg Coopers Pilsner Malt 250g Carapils 7g Galaxy 30 minute boil (9 IBU) 6g Centennial 30 minute boil (4 IBU) 30g Lemondrop 20 minute hop steep at 85 (3 IBU) 19g Galaxy 20 minute hop steep at 85 (5 IBU) 15g of Coopers German Lager in a 1.6 litre starter with 160g LDM to roughly double the number of yeast cells 1g of Sodium Metabisulfite spread across my mash, sparge and top-up water to neutralise chlorine and chloramines 6ml Lactic Acid to get mash pH to 5.3 I will also use Biofine to clarify the finished beer Stirring up the grain with the Kegland Mash Stirrer Sparge tunes Very milky wort - I put this down to the mash stirrer Transferring the wort to the fermenter. You can still see how milky the wort was. I am going to ferment at 20°C and 12-15psi 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brauhaus Fritz II Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 (edited) On Saturday I started my Little Creatures Pale Ale AG Clone and I used @Back Brewing’s recommendation of doing a mini boil the next day instead of a hopstand, as I hotcube. I followed the 3 litre and 12 degree recommendation and also got a pitching temperature of 19 degrees. The Nottingham started its work some 10 hours later. So curious how it will turn out Edited October 9 by Brauhaus Fritz II 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Back Brewing Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Brauhaus Fritz II said: On Saturday I started my Little Creatures Pale Ale AG Clone and I used @Back Brewing’s recommendation of doing a mini boil the next day instead of a hopstand, as I hotcube. I followed the 3 litre and 12 degree recommendation and also got a pitching temperature of 19 degrees. The Nottingham started its work some 10 hours later. So curious how it will turn out Looks good will be interesting on what your thoughts are on aroma and flavour did you use a hop sock or straight in and strain into the FV? Edited October 9 by Back Brewing 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brauhaus Fritz II Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 (edited) 39 minutes ago, Back Brewing said: Looks good will be interesting on what your thoughts are on aroma and flavour did you use a hop sock or straight in and strain into the FV? I boiled it straight in a pot (3rd and 2nd last pictures ) but poured it through a sanitised hop spider into the FV Edited October 9 by Brauhaus Fritz II 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Back Brewing Posted October 11 Share Posted October 11 My chocolate oatmeal stout is probably about to blow so thought I better put another one down because it's a bloody lovely stout 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brauhaus Fritz II Posted October 12 Share Posted October 12 (edited) Today is time for a Hefeweizen and the first time using rice hulls, let’s see how the sparge will go. I am also doing a step mash for the first time. As I do it manually it has one advantage for sure, it keeps me busy. The recipe and the generic step mash schedule are from www.wildabouthops.nz . I mentioned these guys before, but more about it later. Edited October 12 by Brauhaus Fritz II 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brauhaus Fritz II Posted October 12 Share Posted October 12 On 10/9/2024 at 4:51 PM, Brauhaus Fritz II said: On Saturday I started my Little Creatures Pale Ale AG Clone and I used @Back Brewing’s recommendation of doing a mini boil the next day instead of a hopstand, as I hotcube. I followed the 3 litre and 12 degree recommendation and also got a pitching temperature of 19 degrees. The Nottingham started its work some 10 hours later. So curious how it will turn out Update: OG was 1052 and today on day 6 of fermentation it is 1008. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now