5 down, 5 to go…
It’s been over a week since my last brew, which in this crazy brewing frenzy is quite a long time. What could have been a very productive bank holiday weekend was spent in Glasgow supping fine whiskies, catching up with some good friends and boucing into work at 9.30 on Tuesday after an overnight journey. Love it.
I went with the standard pale ale recipe again, and all seemed to go fairly smoothly… although I did forget my Irish moss and the Servomyces… the former shouldn’t be too much of a problem, as I’m planning on using isinglass as finings, and the latter I’ve forgotten for the past two brews too – one of them is still fermenting nearly four weeks on, the other was done in a few days so ?!?!
The other small thing was mash ph… I added a tablespoon and a teaspoon of gypsum, but it still came out somewhere between 5.5 and 5.7, so not quite on the money there but getting there…
I made use of a little bit of the malt that Q bequeathed to me, as I’m a bit concerned that it may be spent, but don’t want to see it entirely wasted. I also tried out ‘Le voleur’ (to check if the past two brews were done or not – they were, but the hydrometer seemed to stick to the edge of it a bit.)
Left work early and started at 5pm, and was done by eleven so a good evening’s work. Planning on adding WLP002 for this, and hoping to try my hand at yeast washing once the brew’s done. Having read up on this, I now understand what The Guru’s mason jars were for, and am finally getting somewhere near using all his stuff. Happy times.