Well today has finally arrived and I've started my first AG brew. I thought it would be sensible to begin with a recipe in Graham Wheeler's book, so I picked TT Landlord as I've had the real thing before and quite liked it.
I began yesterday with this:
I managed to get everything built and ran a couple of tests on the MT and boiler to check everything was working ok. I live about 2 minutes away from The Malt Miller so I popped down this morning to say hello and pick up my grain and hops, they're a great bunch of guys and hopefully I'll be back there soon to get the bits for my second brew.
When I got back I fired up the boiler and got everything ready. I filled the MT with 17l of water, I'm hoping for a boil volume of 30l, so this seemed ok.
When the temp dropped to 72 degrees I stirred in the grist, I was fretting about the temperatures so I forgot to take a picture until after I had sealed up the MT.
There's a mash tun hiding under there somewhere!
Anyway, I'm off to prepare for sparging, have some lunch and check that the dog hasn't pulled the quilts off the MT to sleep on! I will update in a little while.
I began yesterday with this:
I managed to get everything built and ran a couple of tests on the MT and boiler to check everything was working ok. I live about 2 minutes away from The Malt Miller so I popped down this morning to say hello and pick up my grain and hops, they're a great bunch of guys and hopefully I'll be back there soon to get the bits for my second brew.
When I got back I fired up the boiler and got everything ready. I filled the MT with 17l of water, I'm hoping for a boil volume of 30l, so this seemed ok.
When the temp dropped to 72 degrees I stirred in the grist, I was fretting about the temperatures so I forgot to take a picture until after I had sealed up the MT.
There's a mash tun hiding under there somewhere!
Anyway, I'm off to prepare for sparging, have some lunch and check that the dog hasn't pulled the quilts off the MT to sleep on! I will update in a little while.