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Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine
Brewday!!! 
Double A side this one, I'm attempting my partigyle beer! Difficult one to manage this one as I can only partly use beersmith. The idea is that I make one beer from the first mash - no sparge. 13.2kg of grain - tried to get 40 ltrs of water into the tun but with all that grain I could only get in 35. This will be the 'Big Beer'.
10.00 kg Pale Malt (2 Row)
2.00 kg Munich Malt
1.00 kg Wheat Malt
0.20 kg Roasted Barley
35.00 gm Chinook [12.70 %] (60 min)
35.00 gm Cascade [7.60 %] (30 min)
30.00 gm Challenger [7.60 %] (0 min)
1.32 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 15.0 min)
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale Yeast #S-04
Did the first mash overnight - went in at 9.30pm and stayed in until 5.30 this morning. Mash temp was 67C and AMAZINGLY the whole mash only lost .1C. I couldn't believe it so I took a pic (will post that one later.
The dough-in .. nearly broke my arms this one!
Tucked up safely for the night
Big Beer is currently running into the FV whilst Small Beer is mashing - has been for about 2 hours now.
Have taken more pics and will post later.
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Responses
Posted 1 year ago by Admin
That's a big mash! I guess the shear amount of grain helped keep the heat so well.
Hope your days goes to plan.
Fermenting:
Conditioning:Pale with Styrians
Drinking:Cascade Pale Ale, Summer Lightning
Posted 1 year ago by Member
So... pics first and details after! (note: not all stages photographed for the sake of sanity!)
I'm not sure I believe this myself, but the tun lost 1.1C in an 8 hour mash! (sorry - was tired last night, missed a whole degree on my notes!)
First runnings of the Big Beer .. recirculated
Into the boiler
35g Chinook at boil
Nice rolling boil
OK .. so Big Beer in boiler.. small beer mash time!
Back to BB (big beer) Irish moss
Into boil goes the cooler .. 15 mins from end of boil
Zero mins.. in goes the Challenger
First runnings into the FV
BB all tucked up and SO4 added
Back to SB (small beer): First runnings for recirculation:
Into the boiler (copper... whatever!)
Quick pic of the sparge - 7.5 ltrs
Chinook in again at boil
There goes that rolling boil again!
Lovely bubbles:
Look ma .. twins! Yeasties in and settling down to do their rabbit type thing!
Right some details
SG for BB = 1075. I had 1075 before the boil and added 2 ltrs liquor after boil to keep it at 1075.
SG for the SB has settled at 1065. I think I hit such a high 'efficiency' for the SB as I couldn't get enough liquor into the tun for the BB, leaving a great deal of the goodies in the grain for the SB .. also, seems the sparge went rather well (7.5 ltrs @ 75C).
All in all, 21 ltrs for the BB and 23 for the SB, 8 hours - 7 today and 1 last night - not a bad brew. Have a good feeling about this one .. although I'm not sure it's something I want to do too often!
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Oh .... sorry about the thrifty Greg ... birthday pressie (as were the grains!)
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Member
That's some serious kit there. Do you have a 2 or 3 vessel system?
Fermenting:
Condtioning: Twibute Clone
Drinking: 100% wheat, Fixby Gold
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Well .. at the moment I only have one 25ltr boiler - although I do have a 30 ltr waiting in the wings. That's the main reason for doing this partigyle really ... big mash tun and only a small boiler - oh and all of my FVs are 25/23 ltrs.
If we all ever had all we wanted, what would we do?
Brew like a maniac!!! heh heh
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
1065 sounds like a great gravity. I take it you were expecting more from the first ber (gavity around 1085-50 perhaps???) Are you using 2 yeast strains or keeping them the same, any dry hopping going on?
Conditionin' - LEB Pale
Conditionin' - Thwaits Nutty Black
Plannin' - A user upper!
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Hey Nath ... yes, the OG was about 1090 but I deliberately brought it down .. for two reasons really... I needed more beer and couldn't get enough liquor in the tun... and I don't really want a beer that strong
Quite pleased with the small beer SG though.
Used exactly the same hops for both and the same yeast... wanted to compare them really. No dry hopping planned, but I may well do ... I'll see when I rack them.
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Just an update - bottled the small beer earlier and its tasting fab! Am a little worried about the figures though. Gravity when it went into the FV was 1065 - now its 1005. That comes out at 8% (gulp)
I'm bottling the big beer tomorrow ... hoping it's not too much higher ...
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
8% small beer......
WTF!
Whats the big beer gonna be!
Conditionin' - LEB Pale
Conditionin' - Thwaits Nutty Black
Plannin' - A user upper!
Posted 1 year ago by Admin
There's nothing small about that bad boy. Those two are take some getting through.
Fermenting:
Conditioning:Pale with Styrians
Drinking:Cascade Pale Ale, Summer Lightning
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Yes indeed .. if I get home early enough this evening I'll bottle it and let you know. When I ran the beer into the test jar for the hydrometer I kept filling it expecting the hydrometer to float... and it didn't! Don't think I've had a beer go as low as 1005 before!
Lesson number one ..... use considerably less grain. I don't know what I was thinking of using that much!
Yes indeed .... may have to put these back for Christmas. With any luck I'll be making a SNPA clone next weekend. I'll post the recipe when I've tweaked it.
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Member
I've just cracked open one of the small beers, been in the bottle a WHOLE WEEK... arrgghhh, couldn't wait any longer!
Quite sweet still .. bit of carbonation but its such a full taste it's coating the inside of my mouth (in a good way!). I think this beer may be a bit much for a Thursday ... especially after sinking a few in the pub earlier
This beer is going to need a long time in the bottle... it would have benefited from about 50g of a good dry hopping... but I errrr ummmm forgot!
The big beer came out at 9.2% btw.
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Admin
Xmas is gonna be good if you can remember it!!
Fermenting:
Conditioning:Pale with Styrians
Drinking:Cascade Pale Ale, Summer Lightning
Posted 1 year ago by Member
9.2% !!
I hope those aren't in pint bottles.
Looks like a really good brew Tony.
Where did you get the tap on the mash tun from?
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Fantastic. You must be dead chuffed.
PS - am I the only one who thinks that the tap on the mash tun is amazing. Really looks like it means business. In a tap like way.
I'll shut up now...
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Mmmmm yes you may well be right - may not remember it at all!
I bought the tap from a bloke on another forum .. it came with that tap ... and you're right, as far as taps go, it's rather special
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
There is a link somewhere to get these I think they are about £16, http://www.bes.co.uk/ part no 10397 I believe is the right one, check with them before though.
Conditionin' - LEB Pale
Conditionin' - Thwaits Nutty Black
Plannin' - A user upper!
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Just thought I'd sample the BIG beer
Nowhere near ready yet - only been in the bottle a week but I just had to try it. Was worried that it was going to be a little too sweet but it's just about right (hoping that the hops don't lose any bitterness in the time it will take to properly condition).
This may be the last coherent thing I say today.... I like this beer!
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Admin
Excellent, that's very funny
I'm gonna sample my Porter later as I finished off the summer lightning last night so I have a free tap.
Fermenting:
Conditioning:Pale with Styrians
Drinking:Cascade Pale Ale, Summer Lightning
Posted 1 year ago by Member
So how was the porter Greg?
I'm supposed to be brewing a porter for my mate's birthday (after christmas) but can't settle on a recipe. All my best porter recipes are damn near identical to the stout ones.
Can you post your recipe Greg?
I'm drinking another big beer at the moment, only been in the bottle 2 weeks so needs shed loads more time but it's a winner! If I have another I'm going to have to kiss good bye to anything else I may have wanted to do today!
Click..... hiss... glug glug.
Too late
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Admin
Hi Tony, the porter is coming along nicely. Not ready yet, needs about 4 weeks more in the keg I reckon.
I'll stick the recipe up when I get next week as I don't have it at home. It had brown malt, choc malt and Cara gold from memory with Northdown, first gold and Goldings (I think). Lots of late hops too. Its deep ruby in colour, dark but not black and around 6.5 %.
It was a recipe from FFF brewery in Alton and they make some great hoppy beers.
Fermenting:
Conditioning:Pale with Styrians
Drinking:Cascade Pale Ale, Summer Lightning
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