Koelsch is bottled, 6x longnecks and ~35 330mL stubbies. Ballsed up the bulk priming, thought I had 18L but only had 16ish so ended up priming at around 7.6g/L rather than 7. Not the first time this has happened so it’s a good indication that I really ought to put volume markers on the front of my conditioning cubes.
Also brewed a Pacific Gem ale yesterday, on a “brew in a bag” system. Ended up with 22L at around 1.050 though numbers are rough. Pitched the yeast 24 hours ago into a plastic water jerry and just transferred the wort to the fermenter recently vacated from the koelsch bottling (and before that, the iron brew fermentation). The yeast had definitely fired up, but a combined refrac + hydrometer reading + software calculation told me the wort was only 0.5% ABV into beer. Nonetheless I’m not particularly comfortable with pouring from one vessel to another a full 24 hours after pitching.
The wort itself is very chocolatey and biscuity with some blackberry overtones. Recipe is as follows:
PGA
OG 1.050
40 IBU
35 EBC
84% trad ale
10% wheat malt
4% caramunich II
2% TF choc
Pacific Gem bittering
1.7g/L Pacific Gem @ flameout
Safale S-04
I used 5kg of trad ale rather than 4.2 but kept the rest of the grains at the level for a 5kg batch, bumping my base malt %age up to around 86. Wort was awfully cloudy leading into fermentation so I am going to lose a few more litres than normal to racking.