Swazi
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A friend and I decided to buy a whisky barrel and fill it with a nice tasty beer. The idea is to take a cornie or two out of the barrel every few months and refill the barrel with fresh beer. We'll keep the barrel topped up for as long as we can. In the end we decided to make a big belgian ale. We got +-80kg of dingemans malt from the Malt Miller and then set aside a day to brew all the beer.
Here are all the pictures...
Both of our breweries set up and ready to go. 9am and it's friggin cold.
Milling a lot of grain and feeling the cold.
Ahem, the first of many problems, miscalculated the mash volume slightly...
Sadly, only one of those has any beer in, we might make it through without getting ******
at least the only working tap was pouring a lovely belgian blonde ale
first batches boiling away nicely, things are going well so far
it's getting dark now and we are in full flow still, also starting to get a bit ******...
I'm swaying and shaking with cold taking a bad picture of another full mash tun
****, we forgot the treacle. it's pretty sticky stuff and needs heating to get it out of the can
it's getting late now and we are still going, eish...
SWMBO comes outside and says something smells funny in the kitchen. We've melted a plug socket and an extension lead. You are now allowed to call us idiots...
and there they are, all done at 1am. its been a long day and i've had enough
it's alive!!! this is the next morning and we are officially worried about the carpet now. luckily we had a tarp handy and had put it down before hand. Not sure if it's water tight though...
OMG... look what I found in the cupboard. How sad...
(2 weeks later) the barrels need a frame so that we can fill cornies beneath them
somebody takes PPE seriously when using a dremel to cut a little bolt
beers waiting to be transferred to their new home
some black, very strong alcohol that came in the barrel...
Ah, starting to look finished
full to the brim, nearly done
Yay, finished. Lets hope we haven't wasted our time or money. I want this to taste good. The first cornie will be getting filled for Spring Thing...
and finally, the cleaning that needs to be done...
What went into the barrel was a 1093 Belgian Dark Strong ale that tasted wonderful... You will have noticed that there are 2 barrels. I'm sharing one with Dave, the other is his alone. It's a big job but he is keen (& slightly mad)...
:pray: Swazi
Here are all the pictures...
Both of our breweries set up and ready to go. 9am and it's friggin cold.
Milling a lot of grain and feeling the cold.
Ahem, the first of many problems, miscalculated the mash volume slightly...
Sadly, only one of those has any beer in, we might make it through without getting ******
at least the only working tap was pouring a lovely belgian blonde ale
first batches boiling away nicely, things are going well so far
it's getting dark now and we are in full flow still, also starting to get a bit ******...
I'm swaying and shaking with cold taking a bad picture of another full mash tun
****, we forgot the treacle. it's pretty sticky stuff and needs heating to get it out of the can
it's getting late now and we are still going, eish...
SWMBO comes outside and says something smells funny in the kitchen. We've melted a plug socket and an extension lead. You are now allowed to call us idiots...
and there they are, all done at 1am. its been a long day and i've had enough
it's alive!!! this is the next morning and we are officially worried about the carpet now. luckily we had a tarp handy and had put it down before hand. Not sure if it's water tight though...
OMG... look what I found in the cupboard. How sad...
(2 weeks later) the barrels need a frame so that we can fill cornies beneath them
somebody takes PPE seriously when using a dremel to cut a little bolt
beers waiting to be transferred to their new home
some black, very strong alcohol that came in the barrel...
Ah, starting to look finished
full to the brim, nearly done
Yay, finished. Lets hope we haven't wasted our time or money. I want this to taste good. The first cornie will be getting filled for Spring Thing...
and finally, the cleaning that needs to be done...
What went into the barrel was a 1093 Belgian Dark Strong ale that tasted wonderful... You will have noticed that there are 2 barrels. I'm sharing one with Dave, the other is his alone. It's a big job but he is keen (& slightly mad)...
:pray: Swazi
, v impressed- still bonkers like
