Taipari Brew 10. Lockdown Day 2.
Start mash at 1045 with 4kg Gladfield Ale Malt, 1kg Weyermann Pilsner and 250gms Gladfield Dark crystal at 67C for 120mins.
Start Sparge at 1345 collect
Fire up gas with 25L at 1310 add another 5L. Boiling at 1345. Add 20gms Pacific Gem in Spider. Add cooling coil 1445.
Add 10gms Zythos and 10gms Mandarina Bavaria at 1505 for last 10 minutes of boil. Flame out at 1515.
Start cooling with coils and 2 fans at 1515.
Add 10gms Zythos, 10gms Mandarina, 20gms Mosaic and 20gms Citra into spider at 1520.
Wort in HLT temp 40C at 1545, 30-35C at 1600.
Start runoff to SS Fermenter at 1625 at 25-30C - collect 22L.
OG 1050 at 30C = 1052 = 70% efficiency.
Saturated yeast ( 1 sachet US05 ) pitched and aerated at 1840 at 22-24C.
Go well Brew31.
Saturday 28/3 Bubbling away nicely.
Sunday 29/3 Bubbling every 1-2 secs. Nice yeasty smell.
Tues 31/3 Bubbling every 3-4 secs. Tasting good still a little sweet with rounded bitterness - hoping those hop flavours come through.
Wed 1/4 bubbling slowed to 4-6secs. Lift temp to 22C for D Rest.
Sat 4/4 drop temp to 5C to chill pre bottling.
Monday 6/4 Gravity 1012. 1052-1012 = 5.25%
Tuesday 7th Bottle - 24x750ml and 6x500ml = 21Litres. Bit cloudy but exceptionally tasty with big hop flavours not at all overly bitter - look forward to some bottle conditioning.
Salvage yeast in 1st take into plastic, 2nd take ( most ) glass jar.