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7th November, 2009

Time for the second Brew In A Bag – All Grain brew attempt. The recipe this time around is very similar to the previous attempt, which was meant to be a James Squire Golden Ale clone. This beer has almost the same recipe, just lacking a few specialty grains.

Recipe:

• 4.35Kg Joe White Ale Malt
• 0.50Kg Joe White Wheat Malt
• 0.15Kg Weyermann Carahell
• 20g Amarillo @ 80min
• 20g Amarillo @ 25min
• 20g Amarillo @ 5min
• 20g Amarillo @ 0min
• Safale US-05 American Ale Yeast

The brew went good, hit pre-boil volume but realised pretty quickly when trying to squeeze 5kg of grain at about 80 degrees C that insulated gloves would be very handy! Note taken for the next brew.. Would of hit my estimated OG if i had diluted the wort by 3 litres. The OG was measured at 1050 (18L) but was meant to be 1045 (21L), unfortunately i realised this a bit late and just left it as is. Another note taken for the next brew, need more water in the boil.

12th November, 2009

Needed to get this batch in bottles as soon as possible to free up space for the next batch, it was quite obvious that fermentation was done, but i was bottling this 3 or 4 days too early. This was pretty obvious as the beer in the bottles looked like mud!

Didn’t quite get as much beer out of this batch as i would have liked, but with the few notes taken next batch should hit the required volumes.

January 11th, 2010

Update on this brew, tasted back in December, way to bitter. I think this is down to undershooting the volume and not topping up, as well as no chilling adding an extra bit of bitterness.

Try again….