brumbrew
Regular dufus
Brief intro
Used to brew loads, then work changed, twice, got married, now have a 3 month old. Have loads of brew gear that has been moved from one room to another. Now man cub has his own room, I've been "asked" to do something with it.
Dragged it out and looked at what we still have. Some hops, 1 pack of mangrove jacks workhorse yeast exp. 2017 (they don't even make this anymore) A few packs of wine yeast, some peated grain, some munich, some crara, some special (medium colour I think) a bit of wheat and about 15kg of MO. Still in the 25kg sack I bought 3 years ago.
It's been stored in a dry cupboard, and doesn't smell off at all. I'm not throwing it away without trying it first so off we go.
2.5kg of MO
500g cara
500g munich
Dough in a 65 dungerees sCience
Mash for 90 minutes, raising temp to 72 with protein rests at 30 and 60 minutes.
A very full mash tun
I usually brew with a friend, but yea....
He also has most of the home made gear, so I'm doing this with the unmodified spares.
They're liners for pressure paint spraying tanks if anyone is wondering. Somewhere on here, waaaay back on my posts there is a thread where I do AG on the cheap, this is cheaperer
Anyway, about 15 litres to the kettle, used another 5 litres to sparge, run the lot back over the grains again. Second runnings is it called? I forget the lingo now.
Total to kettle was around 18 litres, refractometer said 16% sugar! That's way to high! Anywho let's soldier on. Onto the boil, added 75g citra pellets as soon as it came to the boil. Bunged the rest in, a further 75g at the end.
It will be citra!
After boil off and filtering out as much hop debris as I could, I ended up with 15 litres to the FV at 18% sugar, that would be 10% ish.
I don't have the chilling coil, it's at my friend's. Even if I did, I don't have the adaptor for the kitchen tap.
Sooo.... Let's dump in some cold water. Topped it off to 23 litres, that brings the OG down to 13% or 1.0526 if you prefer hydrometer readings.
Soo... Not a bad yeild for well out of date ingredients.
Now, that pack of work horse yeast, in it goes. Woke up today and it's going like a rocket!
The water on the top of the FV is from out of the airlock!
I would usually use the stir plate for this, but I don't have it at mine. So I've tried to top crop a bit yeast.
I've still got plenty of MO left and two vacuum sealed bags of hops. Dr rudi and maryanka.
Well. Sorry for the long post. But it's been a while since I've brewed. Amazing to see I still had half a clue what I was doing.
Will update you all soon.
Happy brewing
Used to brew loads, then work changed, twice, got married, now have a 3 month old. Have loads of brew gear that has been moved from one room to another. Now man cub has his own room, I've been "asked" to do something with it.
Dragged it out and looked at what we still have. Some hops, 1 pack of mangrove jacks workhorse yeast exp. 2017 (they don't even make this anymore) A few packs of wine yeast, some peated grain, some munich, some crara, some special (medium colour I think) a bit of wheat and about 15kg of MO. Still in the 25kg sack I bought 3 years ago.
It's been stored in a dry cupboard, and doesn't smell off at all. I'm not throwing it away without trying it first so off we go.
2.5kg of MO
500g cara
500g munich
Dough in a 65 dungerees sCience
Mash for 90 minutes, raising temp to 72 with protein rests at 30 and 60 minutes.
A very full mash tun
I usually brew with a friend, but yea....
He also has most of the home made gear, so I'm doing this with the unmodified spares.
They're liners for pressure paint spraying tanks if anyone is wondering. Somewhere on here, waaaay back on my posts there is a thread where I do AG on the cheap, this is cheaperer
Anyway, about 15 litres to the kettle, used another 5 litres to sparge, run the lot back over the grains again. Second runnings is it called? I forget the lingo now.
Total to kettle was around 18 litres, refractometer said 16% sugar! That's way to high! Anywho let's soldier on. Onto the boil, added 75g citra pellets as soon as it came to the boil. Bunged the rest in, a further 75g at the end.
It will be citra!
After boil off and filtering out as much hop debris as I could, I ended up with 15 litres to the FV at 18% sugar, that would be 10% ish.
I don't have the chilling coil, it's at my friend's. Even if I did, I don't have the adaptor for the kitchen tap.
Sooo.... Let's dump in some cold water. Topped it off to 23 litres, that brings the OG down to 13% or 1.0526 if you prefer hydrometer readings.
Soo... Not a bad yeild for well out of date ingredients.
Now, that pack of work horse yeast, in it goes. Woke up today and it's going like a rocket!
The water on the top of the FV is from out of the airlock!
I would usually use the stir plate for this, but I don't have it at mine. So I've tried to top crop a bit yeast.
I've still got plenty of MO left and two vacuum sealed bags of hops. Dr rudi and maryanka.
Well. Sorry for the long post. But it's been a while since I've brewed. Amazing to see I still had half a clue what I was doing.
Will update you all soon.
Happy brewing
Way too much, but needed using up, has been in the bag for a long time so doubt it's 12.6% alpha acid now still it did taste very bitter. 
