Murray
10 Gallon Tosspot
Finally got round to my first ever brew day on Thursday. I've been so busy lately with work and trips that I'd not managed to get on the forums here at all, but now I've started my first brew I thought I'd let you lot know!
As I stated on my welcome thread, I've dove right into BIAB methods with full grain as I wanted as much control of my beer as possible.
I've made approx 8 litres of the stuff, split into two 4l fermenting buckets for a reason I'll explain below. Hopefully this'll all turn out alright or maybe I'll just end up with 8 litres of gravy mix!
12 litres boil volume
2.5kg Maris Otter
150g Roasted Barley
25g Black Patent
1kg Dark DME
Mash temp 70c - 60 minutes
Boil time - 60 minutes
25g Fuggles - 60 minutes
25g Northdown - 30 minutes
15g Ground Black Pepper - 60 minutes
After pissing off the missus by commandeering the bathtub to chill the wort, I split the wort into two batches of approx 4 litres, using Safbrew S04 yeast in one and Safbrew T58 in the other.
OG reading was 1.052 which I presume was low for the amount of DME I used? I put it down to poor efficiency in the mash (using an electric top stove in this small apartment of mine is hardly prime brewing ability!) but hopefully it'll turn out alright.
Anyway they both had fairly active fermentation in the first day or two and have settled down a lot now.
Heres come pics.
As I stated on my welcome thread, I've dove right into BIAB methods with full grain as I wanted as much control of my beer as possible.
I've made approx 8 litres of the stuff, split into two 4l fermenting buckets for a reason I'll explain below. Hopefully this'll all turn out alright or maybe I'll just end up with 8 litres of gravy mix!
12 litres boil volume
2.5kg Maris Otter
150g Roasted Barley
25g Black Patent
1kg Dark DME
Mash temp 70c - 60 minutes
Boil time - 60 minutes
25g Fuggles - 60 minutes
25g Northdown - 30 minutes
15g Ground Black Pepper - 60 minutes
After pissing off the missus by commandeering the bathtub to chill the wort, I split the wort into two batches of approx 4 litres, using Safbrew S04 yeast in one and Safbrew T58 in the other.
OG reading was 1.052 which I presume was low for the amount of DME I used? I put it down to poor efficiency in the mash (using an electric top stove in this small apartment of mine is hardly prime brewing ability!) but hopefully it'll turn out alright.
Anyway they both had fairly active fermentation in the first day or two and have settled down a lot now.
Heres come pics.