Last week I brewed a Northern Brewer ESB recipe.<\/p>\n
The recipe was:<\/p>\n
Procedure<\/p>\n
I had decided to double the amount of yeast (2 packs instead of 1) and had only received 1 oz of the Goldings!<\/p>\n
Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n I was particularly excited because I was going to try out “The Therminator” from Blichmann. \u00a0That turned out well, but was more involved than I’d expected (see Gear Reviews).<\/p>\n Anyhow, I got a late start, due to the additional prep work to ensure that the Therminator was ready to go. \u00a0I undershot the mash-in temp by a few degrees, but was able to get to temp with the addition of just a little additional water. \u00a0I probably wound up adding 4 gallons of water instead of the 3.33 recommended by the “1quart per pound of grain” rule. \u00a0An hour later I started adding boiling water in order to get the mash to the mash-out temp of 170F. \u00a0I had to add close to 3 more gallons at boiling to do this, so wound up with almost 8 gallons of mash!<\/p>\n I wound up with a stuck run-off a few times, but it recovered pretty quickly. \u00a0At the end of the sparging I had about 8 gallons of wort — way too much!<\/p>\n Tried to check for starch conversion, got a white plate, put some of the run-off from the mash on it, added a drop of BTF Iodophor, waited for it to magically disappear. \u00a0I got very little reaction at all! \u00a0Eventually, the BTF Iodophor vanished in the mash, but seemed to take quite awhile. \u00a0I don’t know if this is indicative of poor starch conversion or not.<\/p>\n Also tried to check the pH of the run-off (again, probably later than it should have been). \u00a0pH of Run-off was around 5.1. \u00a0I think this was near the end of the run-off.<\/p>\n So, anyhow, I set about boiling 8 gals of wort down to around 5. \u00a0Again, I was grateful for the awesome boiling capabilities of my Bayou Classic. \u00a0I had to be careful initially not to boil everything over — this involved turning off the gas once as a preventative measure. \u00a0Eventually the wort settled down and I could really crank up the heat. \u00a0At the end of the 1 hour boil I was down to somewhere in the neighborhood of 5.5 gallons — perfect after racking to primary and leaving trub behind.<\/p>\n Of course at this step in the process i finally got to try out the therminator. \u00a0Cleaning issues aside, this chiller rocks! \u00a0literally 5 minutes later my previously boiling hot wort was in primary, at a nice, responsible 68 degrees.<\/p>\n I checked OG — 1.042?! \u00a0Seemed low, but i attributed that to the temp being somewhere closer to 70 than it should have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week I brewed a Northern Brewer ESB recipe. The recipe was: 9 lbs Crisp Maris Otter Malt 1 lb Simpsons Crystal 2 oz Williamette Hops (Flavoring) (60 mins) 1 oz Kent Goldings Hops (Bittering) (15 mins) 1 oz Kent Goldings Hops (Aroma) (5 mins) Wyeast #1968 London ESB yeast Procedure Saccharification at 153 F […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":39,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions\/131"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}