It's Brew Morning and no better way to start a Monday that your off. Up at 4:30 and I've got 10 minutes left on the mash. So here we go!
RocketMan's
The Farmer's Daughter
A Honey Lemon Basil Sasion or Farmhouse Ale, thus the name
Ingredients:
Fermentables
8 lbs Marris Otter
3 lbs Wildflower Honey, flameout
Hops
1 ounce EKG
Yeast
Wyeast French Saison
Other
1 ounce Dried Lemon Peel, 60 min
1 ounce Dried Lemon Peel, 30 min
2 ounces Fresh Sweet Basil, 15 min
2 Tbs yeast Nutrient, flameout
Mash
154 dF, 4 gal
Sparge
170 dF, 2 gal
Boil, 60 min starting at Hot Break
Ferment
70 dF for 7 days, rack to secondary for additional 7 days.
This was by far one of the most problematic brews I've
done as you'll see.
POL was in the teaser but here's that ingredients pic again:
Had a problem I wasn't expecting when I started sanitizing, I got everything into the Mash/Lauter
I kept hearing water running though so when time was up I dumped the Idophor and started checking it out and found this:
As the kids song goes, "There's a hole in the bucket dear Liza dear Liza!"
Luckily is had a spare so drilled a hole, smoother it out and I'm good to go
Adjusted and verified my Ph meter.
Water out of the filter was 8.0 so a little Ph 5.2 added and it came down to Ph 5.3
Mash under way
While that's under way I:
Measured out Hops
And bagged them all up
Left to right they're
1 oz EKG and 1 oz dried lemon peel
1 oz dried lemon peel
2 oz Fresh Basil
Well, it's time to sparge, TTYL