Saturday, 16 January 2010

Brew Day - AG#2 Exe Valley Autumn Glory

This clone of the Exe Valley Autumn Glory is taken from Graham Wheeler's Brew Your Own British Real Ale (3rd Edition).

Grain & Fermentables
  • Pale Malt, 4250g
  • Crystal Malt, 370g
  • Gypsum, 1tsp
  • Epsom Salts, 1/2tsp
Hops & Copper Finings
  • Fuggles, 41g for 90mins
  • East Kent Goldings, 30g for 90mins
  • Styrian, 23g for last 10mins 
  • Protafloc, 1 tablet last 15mins
Brew Details
  • Brew Day: 1st January 2010
  • Transfered to Secondary: 12th January 2010
  • Bottled: 16th January 2010 (40 Bottles)
  • Yeast: Safale S-04
  • Brew Length: 23 litres
  • Mash Time: 90 minutes @ 66°C
  • Water-to-Grain Ratio (L:Kg) : 2:1 
  • Boil Time: 90 minutes
  • OG - Recipe/Achieved: 1.045 / 1.043
  • FG - Recipe/Achieved: 1.011 / 1.010
  • ABV - Recipe/Achieved: 4.5% / 4.5%
  • EBU/EBC: 42/21
  • Priming: 80g granulated sugar mixed with 250ml of wort, boiled and stirred in before bottling
We use Graham Wheeler's Beer Engine software for capturing the recipe.  Here's the custom recipe file for this brew.

Pictures
For some reason we didn't take many photos of this brew.

The mash tun all tucked up in its blanket:

Preparing the hops:
The contents of the boiler during the transfer to the FV:

We bottled it after 13 days.  Here's our Exe Valley Autumn Glory on the left (after 10 days in the bottle) and a glass of our Timothy Taylor Landlord on the right:

More pictures here.

Dave & Suki.

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