This is for a colleague, who owns a letter-press printer and has offered to print some labels for me. He’s also interested in the Vorticist art movement (check out his website here), hence the name of the ale.
- Length: 25 litres
- Yeast: Nottingham
- OG 11.4Bx = 1.044
- FG 5.8Bx = 1.010
- ABV 4.5%
Recipe-wise it’s an English grain bill and hop schedule. It’s a mix of pale and dark crystal malts rather than just standard crystal, mainly as that’s what I had in my stores! I’ve gone for hop additions at 60 mins for the main bittering hop (Target), with equal quantities of Northdown and Progress at 30 minutes, 10 minutes, and flame-out.
This is also my first brew in my shiny new boiler – a 70 litre pot, heated by a gas burner. I’ll post the details soon.
Recipe:
| Fermentable | Colour | lb: oz | Grams | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pale Malt | 5 EBC | 11 lbs. 4.9 oz | 5130 grams | 86.1% |
| Crystal Malt, Dark | 300 EBC | 0 lbs. 7.0 oz | 200 grams | 3.4% |
| Crystal Malt, Pale | 60 EBC | 0 lbs. 9.8 oz | 280 grams | 4.7% |
| Torrefied Wheat | 4 EBC | 0 lbs. 6.5 oz | 185 grams | 3.1% |
| Wheat Malt | 3.5 EBC | 0 lbs. 5.6 oz | 160 grams | 2.7% |
| Hop Variety | Type | Alpha | Time | lb: oz | grams | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target | Whole | 11.4 % | 60 mins | 0 lbs. 0.4 oz | 10 grams | 11.7% |
| Northdown | Whole | 8.3 % | 30 mins | 0 lbs. 0.4 oz | 10 grams | 11% |
| Progress | Whole | 6.4 % | 30 mins | 0 lbs. 0.4 oz | 10 grams | 11.4% |
| Northdown | Whole | 8.3 % | 10 mins | 0 lbs. 0.5 oz | 15 grams | 16.4% |
| Progress | Whole | 6.4 % | 10 mins | 0 lbs. 0.5 oz | 15 grams | 16.4% |
| Northdown | Whole | 8.3 % | 0 mins | 0 lbs. 0.5 oz | 15 grams | 16.4% |
| Progress | Whole | 6.4 % | 0 mins | 0 lbs. 0.5 oz | 15 grams | 16.7% |
| Final Volume: | 25 | Litres |
| Original Gravity: | 1.050 | |
| Final Gravity: | 1.012 | |
| Alcohol Content: | 4.9% | ABV |
| Total Liquor: | 36.5 | Litres |
| Mash Liquor: | 14.9 | Litres |
| Mash Efficiency: | 70 | % |
| Bitterness: | 30 | EBU |
| Colour: | 29 | EBC |
Comments:
Slightly low on OG today – no idea why. Just over 26 litres into the FV, mind you, so maybe lost a little less to the boil than I expected. New boiler, though: need to work out my losses properly.
There’s a sequence of picture of this brew, and the bottling, on my Flickr stream here.
