BrewDay : Coopers Gir Kesar (No-Chill)

 Coopers Gir Kesar (Mango Lager)

Well what a brew day today turned out to be, what was going to be a simple Partial Mash brew took most of the day. Ah well, got it all sorted in the end.

The first issue was that I hadn't checked the Coopers Lager kit that was to be used in this brew, it had a best before date of 2011, so it's 5 years past it's prime. Decided to use it anyway. Got it warming in very hot water on the stove while I did the Mash for the rest of the beer.

 

I am replacing the brewing sugar normally used to make up these kits with 1.5kg of pale malt, and doing a full volume mash, hopefully this with prevent that standard homebrew kit taste. Also no extra hops are being added to the boil, so the hop profile (if any) will just come from the Lager kit.

So everything was going great, Mash temps where fine using 16 litres of water for only 1.5kg of grain. Did a "Mash Out" with another 11 litres. All good so far. Then I forgot to add 5 litres top-up water!! I just missed it out for some reason. No real issue as I can add that to the fermenter bucket later if I need to.

Transferred the sweet wort to the Boiler and started the boil going, just as it was getting to the boil the power light went out, nothing, no heat. Checked the plug fuse, nope not that.

So then had to drain the hot, but not boiled sweet wort into one of my No-Chill containers that I had StarSan'ed. 

Stripped the boiler down and found that the Thermo Fuse, that I had upgraded a few years ago to 117'c had blown. Couldn't find my spare ones so ended up bypassing the unit.

 

Built the boiler back up and put the wort back into the dam thing, the boil then continued like a charm. 

At flame out added the contents of the Coopers Lager tin to the boiled wort, filled the tin up with boiling wort to get the last little bits out, and whilst pouring that wort back into the boiler, the tin lid then dropped into the boiler.

 
 At least the wort was just under boiling point, so any nastys that might have been on the lid when it fell in would hopefully been killed off.

Transferred the now bitter wort into my trusty No-Chill cube and also kept 1 litre of wort back to make a yeast starter (Safale US-05 starter with re-animated stored yeast) while the wort cools overnight.

So now tomorrow it will hopefully in the fermenter bucket along with the Yeast Starter making Beer, once the fermentation has almost stopped, I'll then add the Mango Pulp directly into the beer and let that ferment out, not sure if I'll add one or both tins of Mango Pulp yet. (probably both)

Quick Stats:

Starting SG Pre-Kit   : 1.007
Starting SG Post-Kit : 1.038

Recipe

Coopers Gir Kesar

Fruit Beer (18 1)

Type: Partial Mash
Batch Size: 23.00 l
Boil Size: 29.52 l
Boil Time: 60 min
End of Boil Vol: 25.52 l
Final Bottling Vol: 23.50 l
Fermentation: Ale, Three Stage Temp Drop (Cabin Brewery)

Date: 19 Apr 2017
Equipment: The Cabin Brewery + Chiller #2
Efficiency: 63.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 67.1 %

 

Ingredients

Amt	Name	Type	#	%/IBU
32.02 l	Taunton, England	Water	1	-
1.00 Items	Campden Tablets (Mash 45.0 mins)	Water Agent	2	-
1.00 Items	Campden Tablets (Mash 0.0 mins)	Water Agent	3	-
1.50 kg	Muntons Pale Malt - PROPINO (5.9 EBC)	Grain	4	30.6 %
1.00 Items	Protofloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins)	Fining	5	-
1.0 pkg	Cooper Ale (Coopers #-) [23.66 ml]	Yeast	6	-
1.70 kg	Fruit - Laila Kesar Mango Pulp (0.0 EBC)	Adjunct	7	34.7 %
1.70 kg	Lager Extract (Coopers) Adjusted (90.0 EBC)	Extract	8	34.7 %
40.00 Items	Bottle Caps (Bottling 1.0 mins)	Other	9	-

Gravity, Alcohol Content and Color

Est Original Gravity: 1.036 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.009 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 3.5 %
Bitterness: 23.2 IBUs
Est Color: 28.9 EBC

Measured Original Gravity: 1.038 SG
Measured Final Gravity: 1.008 SG
Actual Alcohol by Vol: 3.9 %
Calories: 348.8 kcal/l

Mash Profile

Mash Name: Cabin Brewery Single Infusion, Light Body
Sparge Water: 5.00 l

Total Grain Weight: 4.90 kg
Grain Temperature: 8.4 C
Tun Temperature: 9.8 C
Target Mash PH: 5.20

Mash Steps

Name	Description	Step Temperature	Step Time
Mash In	Add 16.00 l of water at 68.6 C	64.4 C	75 min
Mash Out	Add 11.02 l of water at 93.3 C	75.6 C	10 min

Sparge: Fly sparge with 5.00 l water at 75.0 C   (#### Forgot this bit ####)

Carbonation and Storage

Carbonation Type: Bottle
Pressure/Weight: 138.23 g
Keg/Bottling Temperature: 21.1 C
Fermentation: Ale, Three Stage Temp Drop (Cabin Brewery)

Volumes of CO2: 2.3
Carbonation Used: Bottle with 138.23 g Corn Sugar
Age for: 30.00 days
Storage Temperature: 7.0 C

Notes

Added Coopers Lager Can at flame out Pre-Kit SG 1.017 and after adding the kit SG was 1.038

Boiler thermo-fuse blew, had to drain boiler into my no-chill cube, bypass the fuse and then boil.

Due to no added hops, this beer is No-Chilled in a cube.

1 Liter wort from the boiler used to make a Safale US-05 starter with re-animated stored yeast slurry.