Christmas Cracker Ale

Came across this recipe a while ago - I think on the Electric Brew Company site - cannae blasted remember!

Anyway, took the recipe and trebled everything. Looking for a FV around 60 litres

Just over 15 KG of grain

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Definitely found the upper limit for the mash tun

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and the boiler!

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Currently doing a longer boil to get the volume down to one the fermenter can handle - and even then decided that the addition of a blow-off tube would probably be wise!

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Still waiting on the boiler volume getting low enough.....

Plenty of hops and the chill went pretty quick.

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Had let it boil longer to ensure the FV would fit in the fermenter, but needn't have left it quite so long.

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Ended up with 59 litres at 1.056

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Don't use a blow off tube myself but that's a good idea of using a drum tap. Never seen that before.

Love the ban the bomb grain !

5 days on and although the gravity has dropped by around 39 points I'd like it to get down by another 6 or 7 points, so I'd best be patient!

Brew-Pi is looking after it nicely

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how did this turned out?

Rui Alves

Really nice thanks

Still drinking it - on cornie no.2 out of the three it filled