Aiming for around 12 litres in the fermenter.
Mash water:
73 degrees (it's a cold day)
10 litres
1.5g gypsum, 0.5 g CaCl, 1/2 campden tablet
Sparge water
75 degrees
10 litres
1.5g gypsum, 0.5 g CaCl, 1/4 campden tablet
Mash:
5 mins: 68 and 5.45 pH (hot)
60 mins: 64
Sparge:
after draining, added sparge water, mix and wait 10 mins.
recirculated and drained
got out 18l
78%
Boil
mixed both worts then heated
60 min hop addition
Cool
Hops added once cooled to 90 (i.e. turn on coil for 10 secs). Then. left for 5/10 mins, before turning on coil. Cooled to 20 in around 30 mins
Tipped straight into fermenter through sieve and shook fermenter.
Left in NEW FRIDGE then pitched S-04 at 17 degrees
Gravity was 1.056 and final volume was around 14l
Fermented
fermented steadily in fridge with probe stuck to side of fermenter and controller set to 16 with tolerance of +1degree. i.e. it ranged between 16-17. Had finished fermenting pretty much after 5 days.
Dry hopped after 8 days
Bottled
after 11 days. forgot to check gravity. bottled with new thinner syphon (no auto syphon) which went very slowly. Used priming drops. And CO2 cannister