Background to this beer is that I ordered way too many Amarillo & Cascade hops earlier in the year and I wanted to use some up.
Name: Hoppy Dazzler
Type: All-Grain
Fermentables
4.2kg Maris Otter 88%
0.2kg Wheat Malt 4%
0.2kg Biscuit Malt 4%
0.15kg Crystal Malt 3%
Hop Schedule
NAME WEIGHT TIME USE FORM AA
Amarillo 10 g 60 min Boil Pellet 10.9%
Cascade 10 g 15 min Boil Pellet 8.6%
Amarillo 10 g 15 min Boil Pellet 10.0%
Cascade 10 g 10 min Boil Pellet 8.6%
Amarillo 10 g 10 min Boil Pellet 10.9%
Amarillo 10 g 5 min Boil Pellet 10.9%
Cascade 10 g 5 min Boil Pellet 8.6%
Amarillo 10 g 0 min Aroma Pellet 9.5%
Cascade 10 g 0 min Aroma Pellet 8.6%
Cascade 100g 6 days Dry Hop Leaf 8.6%
Yeast
Safale S-05
Mash: Overnight (13 hours) starting at 68 degC, ending up at 52. Used 14 litres of water, treated with half a Campden tablet and some gypsum, epsom and CaCl calculated by Bru n' Water. No idea if this makes any difference - I would really need a control sample to check, but the water where I live is quite soft and has very little dissolved salts out the tap.
Sparge: Single batch sparge, but forgot to top up the mash with water before I drained the first runnings
. So really just drained the first runnings and then dumped all my sparge water in afterwards. Not sure if this would affect my efficiency.Boil: A rare sunny October day in Scotland at about 22 degrees, so ended up brewing outside for the first time
. Boiled 20 litres for 70 minutes and then cooled using a copper wort chiller - took about 20-30 minutes to get down to pitching temperature.Post-boil: Ended up with 15 litres in the FV, rehydrated the yeast and added it. Stuck the FV in the waterbath and set the thermostat to 21 degC.
Will take a gravity reading tonight and if it's the same tomorrow I'll be bottling and getting onto brewing the next batch (TT Landlord clone) at the weekend!