Brew Log : Helga - December 20, 2008

Brewlog: Helga - December 20, 2008

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Brewed:	December 20, 2008	Bottled/Kegged:	January 31, 2009	Status:	Ready

Values:

Volume to fermenter[ltr (gal)]:	17.00	Alcohol by volume:	5.76%	Apparent Attenuation:	78.18%

Original Gravity[SG]:	1.055	Final Gravity[SG]:	1.012	Colour [SRM(EBC)]:

BU/GU ratio:	0.76	Balance:	1.70

Recipe Values:

Expected Mash Efficiency:	75.00%	Expected Bitterness[IBU]:	41.98
Actual Mash Efficiency:	79.16%

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Comments:

Brew day went well and ensured trub free wort into new better bottle fermenter.

Log entries:

Attenuation(points) vs Time(days)

Mon January 26, 2009 22:51	Gravity reading[SG]: 1.012, Temp[C (F)]: 4.00 (39.20), Atten: 78.18%, ABV: 5.76%	Transfered to keg to finish lagering. Starting to taste pretty good now.
Sat January 10, 2009 16:15	Gravity reading[SG]: 1.015, Temp[C (F)]: 10.00 (50.00), Atten: 72.73%, ABV: 5.36%	Finally has finished out enough to commence lagering. Will do so when it cools down tonight
Mon January 05, 2009 22:54	Gravity reading[SG]: 1.020, Temp[C (F)]: 10.00 (50.00), Atten: 63.64%, ABV: 4.69%	Still fermenting strongly, might be drinkable after all
Sun January 04, 2009 21:56	Gravity reading[SG]: 1.030, Temp[C (F)]: 10.00 (50.00), Atten: 45.45%, ABV: 3.35%	Dumped 100 ml slury of fermenting yeast and finally seems to have taken off properly.
Sun December 28, 2008 21:59	Gravity reading[SG]: 1.045, Temp[C (F)]: 11.00 (51.80), Atten: 18.18%, ABV: 1.34%	Tasted from the wine theif and was ok, does not seem to be seeing signs of the infection in the taste yet, but still has a long way to ferment.
Fri December 26, 2008 18:39	Gravity reading[SG]: 1.055, Atten: 0.00%, ABV: 0.00%	Finally has krausened but also has noticable signs of infection. Will let it ferment out and see what happens.
Thu December 25, 2008 16:35	Gravity reading[SG]: 1.055, Temp[C (F)]: 15.00 (59.00), Atten: 0.00%, ABV: 0.00%	Still not started ... really think this batch it going to have to be tipped out.
Wed December 24, 2008 09:47	Gravity reading[SG]: 1.055, Temp[C (F)]: 10.00 (50.00), Atten: 0.00%, ABV: 0.00%	Still not started properly, gave it a bit of a stir to help kick it off.
Mon December 22, 2008 08:56	Gravity reading[SG]: 1.055, Temp[C (F)]: 10.00 (50.00), Atten: 0.00%, ABV: 0.00%

Log tasting entries:

Mon April 13, 2009 20:02	Rating: 20 Age at tasting: 2 months	Ran the keg out yesterday. Was pretty awful to the last. More a fruit punch then a bo pils. Next time must remember to aerate better and pitch more yeast
Thu March 12, 2009 21:43	Rating: 30 Age at tasting: about 1 month	Has really cleared well now Still way to fruity for a bo pils, but plenty of hop flavour.