Dark Matter Ale, experminetal spice/dark ale

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Dark Matter Ale, experminetal spice/dark ale

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Here at Pot of Grass Brewhouse we are warming the kettle and cleaning the fermenter for the next BIG THING...

Thats right, the ingredients are now off the maltings floor and down in my garage..

The new super dooper chiller (aka Jack Sparrow's parents old fridge) is under testing (seems to be able to maintain a max temp of 20 degrees unmodified... purffffect!) and all being well we will start tonight.

The cosmic ingredients:
1.7kg Coopers dark kit
1kg Morgan's Chocolate malt extract
500g coopers amber malt extract <----OOOPS!
500g Maltcraft light crystal malt Steeped
500g Thomas Fawcett & sons Pale chocolate and malt steeped
Dark matter added at 5 minutes to flame which consists of:
*2 (may add more to taste at racking) chopped and brused vanilla pods
*1 whole fresh numeg which I am about to grind
*1 cinnamon stick cut and coursely ground

12g of Fuggles added 5 mins before flame out

Fermentis Safbrew T-58 yeast (Saccharomyces Cerevisiae) which is similar to a belgian yeast (not enough guts to go the chimay route yet)

Plan to ferment at 19 degrees...
Last edited by MHD on Sunday Jan 29, 2006 9:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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That looks like it'll come out a kick ass brew.

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:shock: can't wait for the OG on this one.
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1045...
~8l boil which was cooled by dunking the kettle/stockpot in an ice slurry
Wort added to chilled home brand spring water
Yeast pitched at 23 degrees


Wort tastes BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Often (keeping in mind this is my 4th beer) I taste the wort and think "The yeast will make this drinkable" and it usually does...

This one I would be pefectly happy if the yeast just turned the sugar to alc...

The light chocolate malt imparted sooooooo much character as did the nutmeg...

whole nutmeg is VERY aromatic...

Pictures to follow in the near future :)
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MHD wrote:
Pictures to follow in the near future :)
blog on
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MHD wrote:1045...
i thought it would be bigger :shock:
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The spec grains dont add much sugar, just flavour (boy they smelt nice!!)
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MHD wrote:The spec grains dont add much sugar, just flavour (boy they smelt nice!!)
yeah i know, just thought it would be slightly larger with almost 4000 fermentables.

what volume did you end up with ?
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~23/24l

I'll put it through recipator http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator

And see what I get

I poured the wort on the water , but I ran some through the tap before drawing a sample... will do another test before bed...

Something is already happening (positive airlock pressure...)
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just put it through the simple Brewcraft setup

OG :1061

FG :1017

6.6%

have you tried Beersmith ?

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http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator?item=5328

1048 OG....
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oops... 500g of the coopers extract... see edit...

No... what is it? is it a proggy? I run linux so if it is windows executable it is a pain (unless they do a pocket pc version..)
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MHD wrote:
500g coopers amber malt extract <----OOOPS!
hmmmmmmmmmmmm..
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go here, download the free trial.


http://www.beersmith.com/
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Oops... I forgot to allow for the fact I was opening the door to get stuff out during my tests...

Ferm is sitting at 15 degrees... barely with in the range for the yeast
http://www.fermentis.com/FO/EN/pdf/SafbrewT-58.pdf

I've adjusted up the (inbuilt) thermostat...

Great airlock activity and a nice kraseun already forming... Dropped 5 points overnight (~14 hrs)
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Bottled: Fuggles Larger/ale, Honey I'm Home Ale, Entropy Wheat, Dark Matter Ale, The Beer that Should Not Be (IPA)
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The quality ingredients:
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DARK MATTER (so heavy you have to turn your head
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The clandestine sparge system (must build a mash tun)
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Wort in the fridge!
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Fermenting: Responsibly American Brown (Drink Responsibly) My first AG!
Bottled: Fuggles Larger/ale, Honey I'm Home Ale, Entropy Wheat, Dark Matter Ale, The Beer that Should Not Be (IPA)
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oop.... a few of them are askew...
oh well... have a beer
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Bottled today... Bulk primed With 90g of dex plus an extra two vanilla beans. It is yummy! fg of 1015
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how'd this end up?
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I think MHD is long gone- moved to Melbourne I think, and hasn't posted since. Last post was 28 Feb 2006.
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