RokDok
Regular.
Hi,
21.4.12 second ever brew. First one a few weeks ago went very quickly.TTL & London Pride. Creature of habit -we'll do the same again - hope to remember the Irish Moss this time and one or to other improvements. Boiled the water a day or two before and stored it in the FVs.
Still very excited about all this apologies in advance if this seems a bit whippersnapperish.
Up at 7.30 am, switch on HLT but first need a sustaining breakfast.
Three nights before forced myself to drink a bottle of TTL & Pride from AG 1 & 2 brought the yeast on a la GW. Cosy spot on top of the dryer- plenty of agitation here & cheaper than a plate stirrer !
Here's some of the results of the recycling bin diving, in 2 for £3 Morrissons crates.
HLT heating up on the 3KW induction heater. Bust the hole cutter as I finished the last hole for the sight tube. Top tip : If you use a plumb line to line up the hole for the sight tube make sure you're on a level surface- not on a workmate on a slope, don't wear your multifocals looks more like a wort helter skelter than a sight tube , still it works.
Running in the liquor at 82 degs into the mash tun. Got the brass plate from some old git at a car boot for 50p. Ignore it.
The Camlocks are brilliant, saves on miles of PTFE tape, and keeps your feet dry. No trenchfoot this time.
Lovely smell. Doughed in at 66 degs. Haven't fitted the ball cock onto the autosparge. Close the lid now. 90 mins free. Just time to grab a spare hole cutter from a mate and fit the sight tube to the boiler. Here are the bits.
Not quite, missed out the jubilee clips.
Here's it done, just in time to put it on another induction heater and start the sparge.
The first runnings from the sparge going back into the mash tun until it's a bit clearer. Hands are of a farmer friend.
Sparge underway, need about 62 l or so in the boiler to get 50 l out.
Clever little pumps so small yet they do the business. Powered by a fleabay hornby train transformer.
First 50 l - London pride on the boil, 23 litres of liquor being run into the ( cleaned out ) mash tun preparing for the TTL
Now then. We're on a water meter plus there's a drought. Whilst the London Pride is boiling and the TTL is mashing there's time to knock up a heat exchanger to cool the wort. Our first lot of beer is like having angels dancing on your tongue, unfortunately with no moss, and no cold break the first time around it's a bit cloudy. So rather than leave it a day or two to cool I'm hoping this attempt at a heat exchanger will induce a cold break and we'll have crystal clear beer. There's a tiny culvert running alongside the house. The streams around here were used to cool milk churns. Now it's beer.Here are the bits.
Meanwhile, the mash for the second 50 litres - TTL this time has done it's 90 minutes, now sparging into to the boiler, having racked off 50 l of London pride ready for cooling.
Here's the Pride cooling, took about 40 minutes from boiling down to pitching temperature. Not bad.
Heres another pic, not sure why I did another, I think I'm getting a bit 'tired'.
By the time I was starting to cool the fourth FV it was beginning to get a bit dark, SWIMBO had gone to talk on bees and I was getting a bit thirsty so nipped next door to the pub for a beer and forgot to take any more pics. I must though have retained some abilty to think as I pitched the yeast on all four and gave it a good aeration. Here's the result at 8.30 this morning.
Cheers
RokDok
21.4.12 second ever brew. First one a few weeks ago went very quickly.TTL & London Pride. Creature of habit -we'll do the same again - hope to remember the Irish Moss this time and one or to other improvements. Boiled the water a day or two before and stored it in the FVs.
Still very excited about all this apologies in advance if this seems a bit whippersnapperish.
Up at 7.30 am, switch on HLT but first need a sustaining breakfast.
Three nights before forced myself to drink a bottle of TTL & Pride from AG 1 & 2 brought the yeast on a la GW. Cosy spot on top of the dryer- plenty of agitation here & cheaper than a plate stirrer !
Here's some of the results of the recycling bin diving, in 2 for £3 Morrissons crates.
HLT heating up on the 3KW induction heater. Bust the hole cutter as I finished the last hole for the sight tube. Top tip : If you use a plumb line to line up the hole for the sight tube make sure you're on a level surface- not on a workmate on a slope, don't wear your multifocals looks more like a wort helter skelter than a sight tube , still it works.
Running in the liquor at 82 degs into the mash tun. Got the brass plate from some old git at a car boot for 50p. Ignore it.
The Camlocks are brilliant, saves on miles of PTFE tape, and keeps your feet dry. No trenchfoot this time.
Lovely smell. Doughed in at 66 degs. Haven't fitted the ball cock onto the autosparge. Close the lid now. 90 mins free. Just time to grab a spare hole cutter from a mate and fit the sight tube to the boiler. Here are the bits.
Not quite, missed out the jubilee clips.
Here's it done, just in time to put it on another induction heater and start the sparge.
The first runnings from the sparge going back into the mash tun until it's a bit clearer. Hands are of a farmer friend.
Sparge underway, need about 62 l or so in the boiler to get 50 l out.
Clever little pumps so small yet they do the business. Powered by a fleabay hornby train transformer.
First 50 l - London pride on the boil, 23 litres of liquor being run into the ( cleaned out ) mash tun preparing for the TTL
Now then. We're on a water meter plus there's a drought. Whilst the London Pride is boiling and the TTL is mashing there's time to knock up a heat exchanger to cool the wort. Our first lot of beer is like having angels dancing on your tongue, unfortunately with no moss, and no cold break the first time around it's a bit cloudy. So rather than leave it a day or two to cool I'm hoping this attempt at a heat exchanger will induce a cold break and we'll have crystal clear beer. There's a tiny culvert running alongside the house. The streams around here were used to cool milk churns. Now it's beer.Here are the bits.
Meanwhile, the mash for the second 50 litres - TTL this time has done it's 90 minutes, now sparging into to the boiler, having racked off 50 l of London pride ready for cooling.
Here's the Pride cooling, took about 40 minutes from boiling down to pitching temperature. Not bad.
Heres another pic, not sure why I did another, I think I'm getting a bit 'tired'.
By the time I was starting to cool the fourth FV it was beginning to get a bit dark, SWIMBO had gone to talk on bees and I was getting a bit thirsty so nipped next door to the pub for a beer and forgot to take any more pics. I must though have retained some abilty to think as I pitched the yeast on all four and gave it a good aeration. Here's the result at 8.30 this morning.
Cheers
RokDok
