dhendy91
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Planning to do my first all grain tomorrow now I have purchased a 40l buffalo boilers from nesbits clearence. I will be doing the ringwood 49er clone from graham wheelers book to get me started. I have got my best friend coming round to help as we both started kit brewing at the same time and he is thinking about making the jump.
Just hoping to have some fun and make a drinkable beer really, as well as making note of everything so I can be more accurate on my next brew.
Will post all the pics tomorrow once it is done, but here is a quick pic I took today of everything together. Will be insulating my boiler with an old very thick foam camp mat in the morning before I start.
Just got a 10 hour shift at work tonight to get through first. I know its going to go so slow as I am really excited though.
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300/3/14 EDIT:
Actual Brewday:
So yesterday was the day, and I have to say haven't had such a fun and relaxing day in a long time. Me and my friend started bright and early at 9am. We started by insulating my boiler with a camp mat. Then we made a measuring stick out of a pvc pipe to measure the volume. After that we filled the boiler to 35L and set the alarm on the thermometer to 70 degrees. While waiting for that we measured up our grain and our hops.
Once we hit 70 we added the grain and got spot on the mash temp and left to mash for 90 minutes.
After this it was time to heat up for the boil and have a home brew, also got some pizza delivered to the garage. The bearded guy is my friend not me though.
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In the end i got 25L at 1047, we were aiming for 1049 at 23L so not to far off, will just have adjust my boil off rate for next time. Left to cool overnight then pitched the yeast this morning. All in all very pleased with everything.
However I did have two causalities on the day, I dropped my digital thermometer probe in the bath and it is now dead, also when I tried to take a pre boil gravity reading the liquid was so warm that it deformed my trial jar (just a cheap coopers one). So going to get a nice sturdy one that won't deform when i put hot liquid in it.
AG CHERRY POPED!!!!
Just hoping to have some fun and make a drinkable beer really, as well as making note of everything so I can be more accurate on my next brew.
Will post all the pics tomorrow once it is done, but here is a quick pic I took today of everything together. Will be insulating my boiler with an old very thick foam camp mat in the morning before I start.
Just got a 10 hour shift at work tonight to get through first. I know its going to go so slow as I am really excited though.
:
300/3/14 EDIT:
Actual Brewday:
So yesterday was the day, and I have to say haven't had such a fun and relaxing day in a long time. Me and my friend started bright and early at 9am. We started by insulating my boiler with a camp mat. Then we made a measuring stick out of a pvc pipe to measure the volume. After that we filled the boiler to 35L and set the alarm on the thermometer to 70 degrees. While waiting for that we measured up our grain and our hops.
Once we hit 70 we added the grain and got spot on the mash temp and left to mash for 90 minutes.
After this it was time to heat up for the boil and have a home brew, also got some pizza delivered to the garage. The bearded guy is my friend not me though.
[u
In the end i got 25L at 1047, we were aiming for 1049 at 23L so not to far off, will just have adjust my boil off rate for next time. Left to cool overnight then pitched the yeast this morning. All in all very pleased with everything.
However I did have two causalities on the day, I dropped my digital thermometer probe in the bath and it is now dead, also when I tried to take a pre boil gravity reading the liquid was so warm that it deformed my trial jar (just a cheap coopers one). So going to get a nice sturdy one that won't deform when i put hot liquid in it.
AG CHERRY POPED!!!!
