Thursday, April 23, 2015

Right Proper English Mild

So I took a crack at brewing a bit more than a gallon at a time.  It seems that I need to work on my numbers a bit more.  The goal was to make 5 gallons of an English Mild.

7lbs Marris Otter
0.5 lbs Crystal 60L
0.375 lbs Crystal 120L
0.25 lbs Chocolate
0.125 lbs Carafa II

Mashed @ 155.5F for an hour with 3.5 gallons of water, pH was 5.2.  I was rushing more than I should have been and I didn't take great/good/decent notes.  I boiled for 45 minutes, adding an ounce of East Kent Goldings.   I sparged with another 3.5 gallons of water and thought I had collected enough, but it seems that I lose a chunk of water during the boil.  I chilled down to 75F and transferred to a sanitized carboy.

I collected short of the 5 gallons.  I had done up a yeast starter of WLP037 W. Yorkshire and decided I might as well pitch it in.  Its been in a chugging away for 6 days and dropped from 10.8 brix to 7.0, maybe 6.8.  I pulled a sample and it doesn't taste too bad.  I'm thinking this weekend I'll see about bottling, perhaps Monday.


Well, if nothing else...I got a chance to use my snazzy new glass to try my sample.



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