Brew Quantity and When

[ColmR]

OK... So if I take the recipe from Jacob's original post I've everything except flaked barley and roasted barley. What colour crystal did you all use (I've loads btw)?

Can anyone help me out on the flaked and roast barley so that I can brew tomorrow? 
Did everyone do a single 60 min magnum addition?

[Jacob]

You can use any crystal you want. We don't care about color
I can give you some flaked and roasted barley if you want.

[ColmR]

Brilliant! Can I collect it off you tomorrow? Can you PM your address please? Thanks again Jacob!!!

[Jacob]

PM sent.

[nigel_c]

For future reference toy can pick up flaked barley in most health food shops. The likes of holland and Barrett do it and if you time it right they do specials. I picked up 500g of flaked rye of about €1.40 and got another 500g for 1c. Worth a look.

[Jacob]

+1

Got mine in the health shop in Pavillions.

[Will_D]

So after 5 days of vigorous fermentation at 22 C gravity is now at 1.030

So its dropped 60 points so is now at 7.9% abv 

Will give it a few more days then rack into secondary.

What would be the ideal secondary temperature?

[Jacob]

Mine is still fermenting like crazy so will keep it in primary for another week.

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[Will_D]

What temperatures are you using? You replied as I edited my post!!

[Jacob]

For most of time it was at 18C. Now thermometer is showing 20c.

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[Partridge9]

Mine is fermenting at 17C - still hammering away ..

Might let if drift up to 19C soon.

[ColmR]

Brewed today. Took my time and have just finished cleaning up now (I made quite a mess....). Didn't get the massive gravities most you guys did. Probably could have boiled for longer but I wanted to get 23L into the fermenter. Everything went well 

01. Will_D           24 L : @ 1090 : 29/04
02. Partridge9    22 L : @ 1082 : 28/04
03. Jacob            27 L : @ 1089 : 28/04
04. Nigel 23L      24 L : @ 1088 : 28/04
05. Cahalbrua    22 L  : @  1090 : 29/04 (with no added sugar)
06. BrianC          22 L  : @ 1096 : 29/04
07. Ratsathome  23 L : @ 1085 : 28/04 maybe 27L depending on gunk at the bottom
08. ColMack        23 L : @ 1084 : 28/04
09. ColmR          23L : @ 1082 : 04/05

[Will_D]

Well done to all of us!

Here's the stats:

We have 210 litres in primary at an average of 1.086

We should only loose a litre if we are careful going into secondary and less than that going into the cask.

If we drop 65 points then we should be about 8.6% Spot on I'd say

[nigel_c]

How's everyone's brew looking? Mine is starting to slow down now. Probably going to transfer to 2nd in a day or so. It took off like a rocket. Rather impressive.

[ColmR]

My beer I still in the early days of vigorous fermentation. Even though the room it's in is cool the temp of the beer went up to nearly 24c by itself. I've got it sitting in cool water now with a wet towel around it. So it's back under control. I've not brewed a beer this big before. It really is something else.