The recipe changed a bit at the last minute due to not enough hops and no point in having a few grams of wheat left over etc.
Pale Malt – 1800g
Torrefied Wheat – 100g
Wheat Malt – 3010g
Munich Malt – 475g
Cara Aroma Malt – 300g
Jaggery – 250g
Fuggle – 24g at 60 mins
Hallertauer Hersbrucker – 18g at 60 mins
Styrian Goldings – 5g at 15 mins
Orange zest – 26g at 15 mins
Lemon zest – 6g at 15 mins
Crushed corriander seeds – 40g at 15 mins
Plain flour – 5g at 15 mins
Protafloc at 10 mins
Munich dry yeast
Some photos:
Some ingredients:
Bits and bobs:
The mash:
From the mash tun:
New chiller – a bargain 20m of 8mm copper in B&Q for a tenner:
From the boiler:
6L short of target, all the crap and break bunged up my mesh filter, glad it stayed in there and not in the fermenter:
Beer Engine reckoned 1.058 without the Jaggery, I ended up with 1.059. If the filter hadn’t have bunged up I think I would have been bang on my 23L length. The wort tasted devine, it smelled amazing and again I could have drunk it as it was without the ferment.
Today the yeast had kicked in and was going nicely.
I really can’t wait for this to be ready…
4 comments
Jo Pettitt says:
August 1, 2011 at 10:15 pm (UTC 0 )
Refractometer is now reading 7.3 brix which currently makes this fermenting beer at 6.7% which I can’t believe is quite right, will check again tmorrow.
Jo Pettitt says:
August 13, 2011 at 6:43 pm (UTC 0 )
Just about to bottle and final gravity was 7.1brix which makes this beer 6.87%.
Tastes great and is very clear, once bottle conditioned it will be served with the sediment to make it authentic.
pdtnc says:
August 27, 2011 at 8:50 am (UTC 0 )
How is this going? Tasting good?
Jo Pettitt says:
August 27, 2011 at 10:47 am (UTC 0 )
Really quite good. Nice and cloudy, especially when I serve it in the proper glass and done upside down. There is a definite citrus and spices tang to it but also a quite sweet taste, I guess from the Munich. The flavour does increase as I drink it so I guess sediment has quite a lot to do with that. Should probably send you some to sample.