Showing posts with label Scottish Ale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scottish Ale. Show all posts
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Scottish Ale - open
Opened the first bottle after two weeks. Excellent head. Good taste. Not a bad effort
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Scottish Ale - Bottling Day
Sanitize everything and get ready to bottle.
Temperature = 80 F
FG = 1.011
AFG = 1.013
Not much change
ABV% = 3.5%
I got 22 12 oz bottles, a little less than the 2 cases I expect, but not too bad.
Temperature = 80 F
FG = 1.011
AFG = 1.013
Not much change
ABV% = 3.5%
I got 22 12 oz bottles, a little less than the 2 cases I expect, but not too bad.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Scottish Ale - Racking Day
Fermentation has dropped to nothing now for a couple of days so I'll check the SG.
T = 63 F
SG = ASG = 1.014
Which results in 3.4 ABV%.
This is near the high end, but within range of what the recipe calls for, so the fermentation went well. Rack to a secondary fermenter for another week.
Sanitize all the siphoning equipment.
10:00 start racking to the secondary.
10:10 Racked
Another week and we bottle
T = 63 F
SG = ASG = 1.014
Which results in 3.4 ABV%.
This is near the high end, but within range of what the recipe calls for, so the fermentation went well. Rack to a secondary fermenter for another week.
Sanitize all the siphoning equipment.
10:00 start racking to the secondary.
10:10 Racked
Another week and we bottle
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Scottish Ale
Third time's the charm?
NOTE: Although I had no post, last year's effort never fermented. Don't know why. I might have pitched at a higher actual temperature than I thought.
Brewer's Best recipe again
This time, I created a starter yeast with the dry yeast that came with the kit and I've got a tube of WLP028, which I plan to use for the actual brew. But the starter is there for back-up in case I screw up the first pitch.
11:45 Pull the WLP028 from the fridge
For the starter I just boiled a couple cups of water with about a third of a cup of priming sugar, let it cool and added the dry yeast at about 80 F. I did that the night before and it seems to be fermenting nicely.
12:00 start heating water. I'm boiling a full 5 gallons at once.
12:40 Temperature 163 F, heat is off, start steeping grains.
13:00 Temperature 158 F, remove grains, turn heat back on.
13:20 Full boil, turn heat back a bit, add extract
13:30 Boil is back, add bittering hops
14:10 Add aroma hops
14:15 End boil
15:47 T = 80 F, SG = 1.038 - OG = 1.040 this is slightly high.
16:00 T = 80 F, Ambient T = 78 F, Pitch WLP028.
Now just wait for the fermentation to start. Here's hoping.
NOTE: Although I had no post, last year's effort never fermented. Don't know why. I might have pitched at a higher actual temperature than I thought.
Brewer's Best recipe again
This time, I created a starter yeast with the dry yeast that came with the kit and I've got a tube of WLP028, which I plan to use for the actual brew. But the starter is there for back-up in case I screw up the first pitch.
11:45 Pull the WLP028 from the fridge
For the starter I just boiled a couple cups of water with about a third of a cup of priming sugar, let it cool and added the dry yeast at about 80 F. I did that the night before and it seems to be fermenting nicely.
12:00 start heating water. I'm boiling a full 5 gallons at once.
12:40 Temperature 163 F, heat is off, start steeping grains.
13:00 Temperature 158 F, remove grains, turn heat back on.
13:20 Full boil, turn heat back a bit, add extract
13:30 Boil is back, add bittering hops
14:10 Add aroma hops
14:15 End boil
15:47 T = 80 F, SG = 1.038 - OG = 1.040 this is slightly high.
16:00 T = 80 F, Ambient T = 78 F, Pitch WLP028.
Now just wait for the fermentation to start. Here's hoping.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Scottish Ale
Returning the homebrew world, I am starting with a beer kit. This one is Brewer's Best Scottish Ale
Got all the gear out and started heating up the water around 12:00 or so
12:26 Water at 150 F, I start to steep the grains
12:46 Water at 165 F end the grain steeping
The Wort is a deep brown/black color from the steeped grains
Turned off the fire to keep the water from rising above 165 F, so start that up and wait for boiling to start
13:08 Boil starts - add bittering hops. Unfortunately, I only noted this as I was putting the hops in, but the instructions said that I'll get a higher IBU than planned because I'm going with a 5 gallon boil, rather than the recipe boil of 2.5 gallons. We'll see
13:43 add aroma hops
13:48 end boil
I have to cool this one in a tub with running water. I'm working on a wort chiller, but that won't be ready for awhile.
I'm also going with a yeast starter. I pulled a bit of the wort when it was hot and put it in a sanatized flask. Let it cool and added some distilled water to bring the temperature to about 88 F. Pitch the yeast in that and wait a bit. Yeast look pretty active.
The yeast is Danstar Windsor dry package yeast.
15:22 Ready to add yeast to the wort.
OG 1.034 Temp 80 F
Adjusted OG is 1.036 right in the middle of the expected range.
Put away to ferment
Got all the gear out and started heating up the water around 12:00 or so
12:26 Water at 150 F, I start to steep the grains
12:46 Water at 165 F end the grain steeping
The Wort is a deep brown/black color from the steeped grains
Turned off the fire to keep the water from rising above 165 F, so start that up and wait for boiling to start
13:08 Boil starts - add bittering hops. Unfortunately, I only noted this as I was putting the hops in, but the instructions said that I'll get a higher IBU than planned because I'm going with a 5 gallon boil, rather than the recipe boil of 2.5 gallons. We'll see
13:43 add aroma hops
13:48 end boil
I have to cool this one in a tub with running water. I'm working on a wort chiller, but that won't be ready for awhile.
I'm also going with a yeast starter. I pulled a bit of the wort when it was hot and put it in a sanatized flask. Let it cool and added some distilled water to bring the temperature to about 88 F. Pitch the yeast in that and wait a bit. Yeast look pretty active.
The yeast is Danstar Windsor dry package yeast.
15:22 Ready to add yeast to the wort.
OG 1.034 Temp 80 F
Adjusted OG is 1.036 right in the middle of the expected range.
Put away to ferment
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