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Testing with 3636 from top cropping mow clone 2. Using close to 70% wheat in this recipe as I have noticed various recipes using significantly more wheat than barley.
Decoction mash, with stepped mash schedule
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How-It-Happened

Mash-in :18 L @ 35 degC
rest 5 min
heat to 43 degC
rest(ferulic) 15 mins
heat to 64 degC
1/3 (thick) decoction taken, main mash left insulated at 64 degC
heat decoction to 70 degC
rest 10 minutes
heat decoction to boil
boil decoction 20 minutes, stirring regularly
finish boil, main mash @ 64 degC
return decoction to boil, total temp now 67 degC
heat mash to 75 degC ( mash-out )
transfer to boiler
sparge 1 : 6.5 L
sparge 2 : 14.5L

boil 1 hour, hops added at 55 mins
added 1 L water extra because it looked as though the gravity was going to be too high - should have added about 3/4 liters instead
Collected 3 * 750ml bottles wort for priming
20L wort (cubed) for fermenting
Wort ended up being @ 1.062 SG, which is too high, and I plan on watering down with a few litres before fermentation

Notes:
- not a lot of foaming at start of boil
- although there was loads of break, didn't notice a lot of coagulated break, it was all pretty much particles
- didn't notice a lot of cloudy movement in the mash as sometimes observed

1st sparge : 6.5L
2nd sparge : 14.5L
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-- Saturday-9-january-12:00pm
- watered down from OG: 1.062, to 1.056, with 2L boiled water
- pitched largeish starter into brew
- no hope for this batch, as when I tasted starter, it tastes the same as MowClone2 with that nasty 'tinney' taste. I previously thought that this was because of the long boil, however it wasn't, it was always the yeast. Next time I'll taste my starters before it's too late.
- this batch will almost certainly be crap

---sun-10-jan
- after pitching at 24, brought temperature down to 18 degrees fairly quickly, and after this maintained at 18, although did go up to 20 overnight

--sunday-17-january-2010
BOTTELING
- used 1.5 L speice/wort saved from the brew (used 2 out of 3 saved 750ml bottles)
- bottled with 1.5L wort for 14L beer
- bottled about 7L with sugar
wort
750ml : 6
500ml : 12
330ml : 13

sugar, (330ml 1/2 tsp, 500ml 1 level tsp)
500ml : 7
330ml : 12

smelled and tastes fantastic, this is by far the beer I am most happy with. Can't wait to taste this one