Shakes Beer - Cornelius

Well, finally, I've put the BIAB brew Tim and Bryan and I made last year. I didn't ferment it straight away because my plan was to pitch it on to the yeast cake of a London Ale yeast, but it all went horribly wrong and the previous batch (with the yeast from a smack pack) tasted off, and I am pretty sure it was infected. Then spring was too well advanced anyway, and I don't have a brew fridge.

Anyway, here it is!

Shakes Beer - Cornelius

• 4.5kg BB Ale Malt
• 0.4kg Weyermann Caramunich II
• 0.2kg BB Wheat Malt
• 70g East Kent Goldings at 60mins
• 20g East Kent Goldings at 15mins
• 20g East Kent Goldings at 0mins
• 1 tab Whirlfloc
• Safale US-05 yeast

BIAB/NC

35L, Mashed at 66 degrees for 90 mins, stepped up to 77 for hoist. Good squeeze for a pre-boil volume of 32L (loss of 3L for ~5kg grain - that's okay). Preboil gravity of 1.040. 90 min boil, (hot) post-boil volume 27L.

OG: 1.044

Yeast pitched at 20C.

2009/04/30 SG 1.012 Taste from the sample jar was terrific!

2009/05/01 Racked. SG 1.010

2009/05/19 FG 1.008 5.3%abv Bottled with 130g priming sugar. 18x500ml + 14x750ml bottles. Sample jar tasted great - more hop flavour than any previous brew, which at first I was scared might have been an off flavour, but no, it's all good.