Month: April 2014

Using sept 2013 recipe base with salt additions:

• 6kg Gladfield pilsner malt
• 300g gladfield gladiator malt
• 300g gladfield medium crystal malt
• 7g Gypsum
• 2g CaCl
• 20g 6.7% motueka – first wort hopped

split half in mash, half in sparge water.

pH not temp adjusted, reading 5.2

Ph measurement was spuradic – reading current from the mash tun – needed to draw off sample to read

Mashed at 66c for 90 mins, mashed out to 72c, sparge ater 76c

pre-boil gravity – 1.074 ! – Need to lower

3l – IPA boil – top up with 500ml water
3L – New world boil – top up with 500ml water

Add 2L 55c water  for to main boil temp dropped to 96c

match sparge pH 7.7 to 5.28

added .6g citric acid to bring to 5.1

New world &NZ pale Ale 5 L

• 3omin 8g  wakatu 6.8%
• 15 mins 8g Riwaka 5.6%, koppa floc
• 0min 8g Riwaka 5.6%

Ipa – 5l

• 5g Simcoe 12.9% 30 mins ipa
• 15 mins 8g Riwaka 5.6%, koppa floc
• 0 g 8g Riwaka 5.6%
• Ipa 5L – 1.074 – will need to dilute

Pale ale

• 15 Mins 10 g, Riwaka 5.6%
• 2g  koppa floc
• 1 L carafe and 1.5L carafe
• Pale ale 1.050 OG

Belgian Blonde

• 2.2g orange zest
• 5g corriander.
• 100g cane sugar,
• 100g sugar syrup
• 1.050 og
• 14L – blue water fermentor

 

 

New World 1.070
Pitched 3 nov fob fruit ongoing into Belgian

Swartzbier s05 into Pale ale, IPA

Finally upgrade from the picnic tap!
My Dad got this tap from my grandmother Ruth from the castle pub in Wales in the 70’s. It’s finally operational, pouring a green hop pale ale with the hops grown 10m away by
my neighbour Ellen.

Belgian bruin
Keg
500mlx3 2.2ml syrup
1.004
Rich coffee notes, very dry finish

Schwartzbier
1.014
Dark ale 10.1
750
500
Smooth

Esb 4.2
1.012
Keg
500
750×3
Little bit ash tray

Bitter 4.1
1.010
Keg
500
750×3 3mls
Smooth with bitter finish – too bitter? Malt lacking?

Strong

Strong esb

Using Ben’s dremil I have finally housed the raspberry pi in a recycled hard disk box. The power sockets came from a ups box bought from a computer recycle place.

Leah kindly dropped off 3 boxes of pears from her grandfather.

20L yield from the juicer.

Also used Ellen’s steaming juicer, approx 2L of syrup, plan to back blend this after fermentation.

Wrote off another hydrometer, gravity 1.040

8 apr 2014
Rehydrated mangrove jacks m02 cider yeast in water

25 may 2014
Bottled fg 1.012
30 grolsh bottles 455ml
Carbed with 2g syrup;