Positive comments on Homebrewtalk - extremely smooth.
Ferment 2 weeks in primary. Age in bottle for at least 2 weeks. A month is better.
Brew 9/14/2014
Prime Tun with small amount of boiling water(remove before mash in).
Bring 4 gal water to 168F. Add to mash tun with 11.5 lbs grain. stabilize at 155F. Add a little boiling water to get to 156F.
Mash start 10:08a.m.
11:08 mash temp 154.5F drain to keggle through 5 gal paint strainer bag
11:23 add 2.5 gal 174F sparge water to reach 161F
11:38 drain to Keggle yield 5.5 gal total.
11:48 add 2.5 gal 181.5F sparge water to 168F.
11:58 drain to 7.5 gal wort total in keggle. Wort temp 144F. 11.2 Brix.
- Keggle on flame 12:07p.m.
12:35 boil start.
12:50 add 2 oz Fuggles hops.
1:50 burner off. Around 5.9 gals in sight tube.
1:52 wort chiller running.
3:30 5.5 gal of chilled wort. 14.6 Bix/1.059 SG.
3:35 pitch Safale S-04.
10/14/2014 Kegged
measured Brix 8.8 SG 1.019 corrected 5.55%