Brew 41 part 1

[evanvine]

For this brewday I was joined by Muddydisco and Corby Brewer.
The pictures are by MD cos I asked him to when he eventually turned up, so no pics of grain or doughing in!

Pale malt – 6.5 lbs
Crystal malt – 0.5 lbs
Flaked maize – 0.5 lbs
Demerara sugar – 1 lb
Goldings – 1.4 oz
Brambling Cross – 0.7 oz (at 75 mins with 2 tsps Irish moss)
Brew lenght - 5 gals

In the HLT
1 tsp gypsum
0.5 tsp Epsom
0.25 tsp Chalk

Yeast culture from a pint of Bass


Mash Tun floating in remaining Strike water held at 150 degs for 90 mins by mechanacal thermostat.

Twin element 60 ltr boiler with hop filter in place

Filling Sparge header tank with 150 deg water from HLT and boiling water, end result 174 deg

First runnings before sparge returned to sparge tun. Sparge hose can be seen by my head.

Sparged wort running into boiler

Boil start with Goldings and sugar

More pics in Part 2

 

[EskiBrew]

Mash Tun floating in remaining Strike water held at 150 degs for 90 mins by mechanacal thermostat.

I don't think I've seen that done before but I bet it works well :thumb:

 

[Tony]

Hmm ... neither have I but it looks like a great way of maintaining constant temp.... given me a few ideas!
Looks like a great brew :

 

[evanvine]

It works very well EB, it's my old and tested version of HERMS :whistle:
The original idea came from Dave Line's BBB.
The HLT is marked at "Strike" and "Float" levels, the Mash tun can hold 8 lbs of grain.

 

[EskiBrew]

The original idea came from Dave Line's BBB.

Ah - now you mention it, I do remember seeing it in DLs book :thumb:

It works very well EB, it's my old and tested version of HERMS :whistle:

Hmmmm - I think this method deserves an acronym itself :hmm:

I'll start the competition with this:

HEWSMATS

HEated
Water
Stabilised
MAsh
Temperature
System

Can anyone better that :wha:

I did also consider
CLOBSMATS but I better not tell you what it stands for :lol:

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[corby_brewer]

Jim mate, i have pics of grain or doughing in. ill post them for you later :thumb:

 

[evanvine]

Cheers CB, that'll complete the BD post :thumb:

 

[Franklin]

Good stuff :) Like the look of that shed, lots of boxes etc :)

 

[31bb3]

Nice brewday EV

 

[prolix]

Tun
In
Tub
System

**** :whistle:

or
Floating
In
Tub
System

FITS :

 

[EskiBrew]

**** :whistle:
FITS :

:lol: - like them both :thumb:

 

[Vossy1]

Great pics ev, nice to have some helpers for the brew day :thumb:

 

[evanvine]

Nothing to do with you Vossy, but one of them was late turning up!
I think Wez and TS know something about it :twisted: