A nice brew evening this one, with everything going to plan as per the Landlubber recipe post. The very tiny amount of Black Malt did manage to raise that colour quite dramatically considering it was only 0.6% of the overall bill – very impressive.
We reduced the IBUs in the end by taking out around 6g of the copper hops and bringing both WGV and Bobek additions down to 30g each. Everything else went to plan and we managed to get 25L into the fermenter at a very respectable 1.043, which should produce a 4% brew not a million miles away from the taste of Timothy Taylor’s Landlord. Mind you, still couldn’t resisit throwing in some extra Bobek to steep! Today I roused the sluggish S-05, and it’s taking off very pleasingly now.
Here are some photos of the evening.
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- Small Dark malt addition didn’t look eneough initially
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- WGVs from the garden via the freezer
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- All the copper hops
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- Aroma and steep hops
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- Mash drain after returning runnings
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- Mash draining
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- First batch in
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- Second batch in
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- This is why I need a new boiler
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- Coppers in
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- More Styrians for 10 minutes
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- Steeping Styrians
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- Classic seive/paddle money shot. Plenty of returns before this too.
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- Gratuitous close-up
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- Pulling through the hop bed nicely
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- Adding rehydrated US-05 during run off
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- 25L at 1.043 safely in the FV
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