Monday 28 April 2008

Cascade Kenny

I did this Saturday, it was supposed to be Big Kenny again but it seems the hop shortage hit my freezer when i wasn't paying attention and i had no Syrians so i used Cascade instead. I had quite a lively start to fermentation and spent some time moping and cleaning my fermentation press but it's all in the name of beer :-)
I also bought the start to my HERMS system on Sunday night, god bless beer and ebay. A 70 L baine marie that will be used as a mash tun and a 50 L stock pot which will be used as a HLT. I'm bidding on a 70 L stock pot after been unsuccessful at my first attempt a winning one on e bay and that will be used as my boiler. I hope to have it up and running before the end of summer

4800gm Pale Malt 97%
70gm Crystal Malt 1.5%
50gm Roasted Barley 1%
25gm Chocolate Malt 0.5%
71gm Fuggles [4.5%] (90 min)
10 gm Cascade [6.8%] (15 min)
protofloc (Boil 10.0 min)

Fermeting with S-04

Sunday 13 April 2008

Fools Gold

I loved this recipe so much last time i decided to modify it a bit and do it again, i only hope i didn't change it to much. I did it yesterday evening and ended up with 25 L at 1048


5 kg Golden Promise
250 grm Melanoidin
100 grm Carapils
100 grm Biscuit
250 grm Torrefied Wheat

Saaz 3.8% 25 grm 30 mins
Nelson Sauvin 13.3% 15 grm 30 mins
Cascade 8.6% 12 grm 60 mins
Protofloc 10 mins

30 grm of Cascade at 80 degrees after flame out

Fermenting with safebrew T-58