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mcphail
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Hi everyone. I'm only just recovering from my first AG batch. Had a lot of fun and got finished just before midnight last night. I have half a dozen kits under my belt, but this was a bit more work :) .
I went for a half-sized batch to test my equipment. Glad I did: I was using a bag in a 30 litre Burco boiler and made a bit of a mess with suspending the bag. Didn't lose too much wort though!
I scaled down the recipe from the James Morton book. I appear to have more or less hit my targets in Beersmith with an OG of 1.081 for my 10 litres. I had a bit of a nightmare with the oxygenation (I didn't realise I had to boil the airstone with the air flowing to stop it getting blocked) so I had to resort to shaking the fermenter. Nevertheless, the yeasties (using the Crossmyloof american ale yeast) seem happy enough this afternoon.
Hope the fermentation keeps going like this. Cheers!
I went for a half-sized batch to test my equipment. Glad I did: I was using a bag in a 30 litre Burco boiler and made a bit of a mess with suspending the bag. Didn't lose too much wort though!
I scaled down the recipe from the James Morton book. I appear to have more or less hit my targets in Beersmith with an OG of 1.081 for my 10 litres. I had a bit of a nightmare with the oxygenation (I didn't realise I had to boil the airstone with the air flowing to stop it getting blocked) so I had to resort to shaking the fermenter. Nevertheless, the yeasties (using the Crossmyloof american ale yeast) seem happy enough this afternoon.
Hope the fermentation keeps going like this. Cheers!