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#6 AG-BIAB - Tony's Twibute
Brew on this afternoon.
Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 19.00 L
Boil Size: 21.75 L
Estimated OG: 1.054 SG
Estimated Color: 7.7 SRM
Estimated IBU: 25.8 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes
Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.00 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 86.02 %
0.25 kg Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 5.38 %
0.20 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 4.30 %
0.20 kg Wheat Malt, Bel (2.0 SRM) Grain 4.30 %
20.00 gm Fuggles [4.50 %] (60 min) Hops 10.1 IBU
10.00 gm Williamette [5.50 %] (60 min) Hops 6.2 IBU
12.00 gm Styrian Goldings [5.40 %] (30 min) (AromaHops -
12.00 gm Williamette [5.50 %] (30 min) (Aroma Hop-Hops -
18.00 gm Williamette [5.50 %] (10 min) Hops 4.0 IBU
25.00 gm Styrian Goldings [5.40 %] (10 min) Hops 5.5 IBU
Using BIAB for the first time so fingers crossed.
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Responses
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Go on! Woooooooo!
Have a great brewday buddy.
Any piccys comin'??????
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Posted 1 year ago by Member
Oh yesh!
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Grain Bill
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Water's up to temp
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Voile and Bag in the boiler/mash tun
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Everyone's in the pool!
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Mash in temp is a bit high. I was aiming at 65 but I'm not going to sweat it.
More pics on the way....
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Looks great so far, that temp will be fine. Keep em coming!
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Posted 1 year ago by Member
Bag's out and I kind of sparged with 75 degree water with the bag in a FV. Poured that back into the boiler.
Got 1040 gravity with the wort. Not sure if that's good bad or mediocre yet.
The bag wasn't too much of an issue. Didn't weigh too much and I managed to get most of the liquid out of it.
No dramas so far!
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Boil on. I didn't think this Lidl's boiler would be able to do it but, fair play, it's a rolling boil.
Using a hop back because I've no hop strainer on the boiler yet.
Not long left now.
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
If ya got 1.040 at about 60c (guess of temp) that works out at 1.055 so with boil off, water lost to hops and a bit of top up it should be spot on or a bit higher, nice one!
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Posted 1 year ago by Member
Measured it at 54 degrees. I was distracted for a minute.
It's a lot lighter that I wanted 'cos I was short on the Crystal Malt.
Any idea how I measure the efficiency?
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
@ 54c thats 1052 so i think you will be spot on in the end.
Im not too sure on efficiency but if you get the desired amount at the right gravity it will be about the same as the recipie states on top (70%)
Smeone else may be able to help you more though
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Posted 1 year ago by Admin
Looking good Simon.
Fermenting:
Conditioning:Pale with Styrians
Drinking:Cascade Pale Ale, Summer Lightning
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Hit an OG of 1060 but only got 15 litres out. Diluted to 1044.
Colour is a lot lighter that expected so I'll use a darker Crystal next time.
Hard work in places but good fun. just need to work out how to get closer to 19 litres.
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
I presume you ran the recipe through some software & it allowed for the grains to soak up their equivalent weight in water?.
Just a thought.
Nice job, should taste good.
Fermenting: Wheat beer
Maturing/Conditioning:
Drinking: Pseudo-Lager, Oatmeal stout & Shop bought stuff
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Yeap. Used Beersmith but I've done something wrong somewhere. I included the dead space in the boiler but I'm probably underestimating the evaporation. The boiler has a pretty big girth, Ooh er! Or I may not have squeezed as much liquid out as I could have.
Will go through it again.
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
I suppose next time if this happens (as I have never brewed in a bag) again and you get the same result you could add a certain amount of dme to compensate to begin with?
Having a look on various sites it does say that raising the temp before taking the grains out will give you better effienciency but you say that you kinda sparged with warrmer water anyway - how did you do that?
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Posted 1 year ago by Member
I did a mash out. Raised the temp to 75 degrees with the grains still in the bag for 15 minutes. I took the bag out and put it in a FV then poured over about 4 litres of water I reserved from the treated water. Then poured back into the boiler.
Next time I think I'll just brim the boiler with water at the start and draw off into another pan until I get to a safe level into which I can put the bag and grain (about 19 litres). Then sparge with the reserved water. Hopefully next time it'll be enough.
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Looking good.
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
What temp was the water you passed over the grains? Was it heated or just room temp ish?
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Posted 1 year ago by Member
Nath
It was heated to 75 degrees in another pot.
I think I've sussed what might have happened.
When I calibrated the boiler I forgot the 1.5 litres of dead space. So, when I thought I had 19 litres I only had 17.5 litres of usable water.
Next time I'll do what I said above and put as much water in as possible, treat it then draw off until I have a safe amount of water in which to mash the grains. Then, when the mash is over, use that water to sparge and then pour back in the boiler.
I can only mash safely with about 19 litres but I can boil with a lot more. Maybe 25 or 26 litres.
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Sweet, so a great brew day and you know how to sort the minor problem next time
UBER_RESULT!
Nice one!
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Posted 1 year ago by Member
Nice .. well done Simon. I never manage to hit the right mark with quantity, but get close sometimes!
Well done, I think you were right to drop it back to 1044, you'll have a lovely brew there.
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Got back from hols yesterday and moved the Twibute to a secondary and added Styrians for dry hopping. Made a hop tea and threw the lot in.
Dropped to 1.016 so only 3.6% abv so good session beer.
Looking pretty clear but much paler than wanted but I'm not complaining. Sneeky sip tasted nice and I'm hoping the dry hopping will give it more character.
Will bottle later this week.
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Oh woe is me!
Tried to bottle this last night and had a bit of a disaster. I dry hopped and decided to bottle straight from the FV. What a mistaka to maka. Hop debris everywhere. In the bottles, in the line, in the tap. Got 12 bottles filled and then thought better of it. Emptied the FV through a sieve into another. Emptied all the bottles in the new FV and started again. More air in the beer than there is in between a super model's ears!
I'll be amazed if this turns out drinkable. My first AG brew as well. What a Muppet!
Oh woe is me!
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Popped open one of these last night and it tastes extremely good. Really nice hop aroma and taste and a nice mild bitterness.
It's not cleared but given my bottling disaster I'm just grateful that it's drinkable.
Now is it better than the extract version I did way back? Er well. It was way back and, um, I may have drunk all that a little while ago and,er, I may have forgotten what it was like. So, er, not sure.
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Nice one Simon!
Good for you, it'll get better with age too ... so well done!
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Admin
I'm fairly certain it would have won in a face to face taste off with the extract version!
Fermenting:
Conditioning:Pale with Styrians
Drinking:Cascade Pale Ale, Summer Lightning
Posted 1 year ago by Member
There's only one way to find out..... Figh.? ... No hang on that wouldn't work. I would have to brew another extract version and conduct a blind tasting test with a random test group using the Normal Distribution statistical technique. Oh bug**r that! Fiiiight!
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
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