• 8 lbs Canadian 2-Row Malt
• 3/4 lb UK Crystal Malt (?? L)
• 1/4 lb flaked wheat
• 2.0 oz Kent Goldings @ 60 min
• 1/2 oz Tettnanger @ 5 min steep
• l litre yeast starter Paddy's Ale and Wyeast 1007, combined
• 1 tsp Gypsum (in mash water)
• 1/2 tsp Acid Blend (in sparge water)

Method

Mashed 90 minutes @ 153.5 F. Initially started with 10 litres of water, but forgot to pre-heat the cooler, so ended up having to add about 2 litres of boiling water to bring it up to temp. NOTE: next time do all the calculations *myself* !!! Also need to run some experiments on the cooler as to how many extra degrees I need to heat it.

Sparged just over an hour with about 20 litres of water that was held on the stove between 165F and 175F, checked constantly and adjusted when required.

Collected 25 litres of wort into the white bucket, siphoned half into the brewpot, then carefully dumped the rest into the pot. Took 1 hour to bring to a boil. Boiled 15 minutes, then added Kent Goldings hops in a hop bag and began timing 1 hour. At end of hour dumped finishing hops into bag. Steeped 5 minutes and removed bag.

Started whirlpool with handblender, which worked like a charm. In 20 minutes began siphoning through wort chiller in white primary. Ended up with 19 litres in primary, and lots of hot break left in the brewpot :-)

Pitched with yeast starter, covered with plastic and elastics, leaving just a crack open to get the aeration wand into. Aerated for about 2 hours. Fermentation was visible within 12 hours, and proceded vigorously until Tues Apr 9th, when racked into 19 l secondary. Liquid came exactly to the 19 l mark. Air lock bubbled once per second or so until Thursday morning (11th), when it had slowed to every 10 or 15 seconds. As of Friday morning (12th), it was twice a minute or less.

Data

brewed: Apr 06, 1996
pitched: immediately (5pm)
bottled:
O.G. 1.042
F.G. 1.009
Extract Efficiency: 69%

Pitching

1 litre of starter (Paddy's and Wyeast 1007, combined ) that wasn't quite at high kraeusen yet.

Fermentation

Proceded mostly between 18 C and 20 C.

Yield

• 6 x 2 litre
• 1 x 1 litre
• 9 x 600 ml