Gyle 240 – No Good Can Come Of This

Huge and ridiculous 4 hour boiled barleywine to use up some LUPOMAX/CRYO hops.

MASH:

Strike Volume – 20 Ashbeck water

Gypsum – 2g

Epsom Salt – 2g

Calcium Chloride – 1g

Crisp Chevalier Malt (EBC 7) – 4000g

Bestmalz Red X (EBC 30) – 1000g

Weyermann Acidulated Malt – 30g (pH 5.55)

Dough in @ 67°C (Braumeister +2°C compensation)

Mash @ 67°C (Braumeister +2°C compensation) for 90 minutes

Mash out @ 80°C (Braumeister +2°C compensation) for 10 minutes

SPARGE:

Volume – 5 litres Ashbeck @ 78°C

Gypsum – None

Epsom Salt – None

Calcium Chloride – None

BOIL:

Time – 240 minutes

1/2 Protafloc Tablet / 15 minutes

Centennial LUPOMAX (14 AA / Pellet) – 25g / 5 minutes

Mosaic LUPOMAX (19.9 AA / Pellet) – 20g / 5 minutes

Simcoe CRYO (23.3 AA / Pellet) – 15g / 5 minutes

Citra LUPOMAX (19.4 AA / Pellet) – 15g / 5 minutes

FERMENTING:

Yeast – 1x Five and 1x Mangrove Jack’s M42

Temp – Fermentation fridge @ 18°C rising to 22°C over a week

DRY HOPPING:

Centennial LUPOMAX (14 AA / Pellet) – 25g

Mosaic LUPOMAX (19.9 AA / Pellet) – 20g

Citra LUPOMAX (19.4 AA / Pellet) – 15g

IBU: (98.41) 78.37 due to the dilution at the end

SRM: (14.2) 13.22 due to the dilution at the end

TARGET PACKAGED VOLUME: 6 litres

TARGET KETTLE / POST BOIL VOLUME: 7.5 litres

TARGET FERMENTER VOLUME: 7 litres

EFFICIENCY: (76%) 85%

OG: (1.154) 1.184 diluted with 1.36 litres of water to 1.154

FG: (1.051)

ATTENUATION: (66%)

ABV: (16.73% alternative formula)

BREWING NOTES: Well. Perfect brew day with exactly 7 litres into the fermenter. However, efficiency was stupidly high at 85% (5 litre sparge…?). Mash mixer is an excellent aeration tool at the end. Airlock bubbling 4 hours after finishing!!

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