A bunch of us got together at Beer blokes brewery last weekend and brewed this - I've only just recovered enough to put up a brewday thread 
(Apologies for the quality of the piccies I only had my camera phone)
Usher's Stout (OG 51) For 400l
50kg Pale
20kg Munich
10kg Roast
6.25kg Amber
6.25kg Brown
6.25kg Crystal
3.25Kg Fuggles
First off we discovered that only the pale was crushed and everything else was whole, so we broke out the Valley mill
Its thirsty work all this grinding (all 47 Kilos of it :shock:)
Still here we have the second sack of pale going into the tun
After a minor hiccup, where we broke the valley mill, leaving 10Kg of roast barley still to be crushed, we finally got it all in the tun
While we were waiting for the mash to finish, we bottles 18 gallons of Apprentice Ale . . . Nice 5 head bottle filler there, and note that bottling is also thirsty work
Spiny sparger in action . . . just a bit bigger than ours
And running off into the underback . . . Yeah it is a 5 gallon brew bin
Digging out the mash tun (4 Wheelbarrow loads - cows were happy :) )
And finally the first batch of the 3.250Kg of hops going into the copper
There was a lot more activity after this, but I was unable to take pictures, but suffice to say 2 and a bit barrels of Stout was pitched with a kilo of yeast . . . I'm hoping Phil can take a picture of it in action, as even the ordinary beer was climbing out of the fermenter and stouts can be so much more explosive.
(Apologies for the quality of the piccies I only had my camera phone)Usher's Stout (OG 51) For 400l
50kg Pale
20kg Munich
10kg Roast
6.25kg Amber
6.25kg Brown
6.25kg Crystal
3.25Kg Fuggles
First off we discovered that only the pale was crushed and everything else was whole, so we broke out the Valley mill
Its thirsty work all this grinding (all 47 Kilos of it :shock:)
Still here we have the second sack of pale going into the tun
After a minor hiccup, where we broke the valley mill, leaving 10Kg of roast barley still to be crushed, we finally got it all in the tun
While we were waiting for the mash to finish, we bottles 18 gallons of Apprentice Ale . . . Nice 5 head bottle filler there, and note that bottling is also thirsty work
Spiny sparger in action . . . just a bit bigger than ours
And running off into the underback . . . Yeah it is a 5 gallon brew bin
Digging out the mash tun (4 Wheelbarrow loads - cows were happy :) )
And finally the first batch of the 3.250Kg of hops going into the copper
There was a lot more activity after this, but I was unable to take pictures, but suffice to say 2 and a bit barrels of Stout was pitched with a kilo of yeast . . . I'm hoping Phil can take a picture of it in action, as even the ordinary beer was climbing out of the fermenter and stouts can be so much more explosive.
