RokDok
Regular.
Hi, from rural West Dorset,
A few of us clubbed together a few years ago and bought a vigo cider press- we've made plenty of cider since then and are now going to try our hands at brewing . We've never added anything to the juice that we've pressed, just let nature do its work and the results have been really worthwhile.
We're really looking forward to getting cracking with beer.There are six of us and I've been charged with getting the gear- big enough that we can spend a day at it together and have enough each to ferment yet small enough that we can each do our own batches. I've bought a 36 l pan with hop strainer and ball valve tap-I'm going to take the strainer off and use it as an HLT (gas) which I hope should be enough to do each mash/sparge cycle. For the boiler I've ordered a 71 l Genware stockpot to which I'll fit a tap and add the hop strainer. The kit is going to get quite a bit of use so I think I'm going to order a stainless steel thermos marmite off French E-bay to use as a mash tun, replace the tap and get a ready made false bottom for it- not sure quite what size to get 50 l or ? 70l. Together with a propane burner I reckon this should work out less than £100 for each of us. We've got plenty of plastic FVs from our cider making but I'd really like a s/s one - any ideas on this would be much appreciated-I like the French Marmite but I'm not sure how I'd fit an airlock, without the potential for water to get between the skins of the lid.
Well, thats about as far as we've got.
Haven't thought about brews or ingredients yet but any comments or advice so far would be really appreciated.
Chers RokDok.
A few of us clubbed together a few years ago and bought a vigo cider press- we've made plenty of cider since then and are now going to try our hands at brewing . We've never added anything to the juice that we've pressed, just let nature do its work and the results have been really worthwhile.
We're really looking forward to getting cracking with beer.There are six of us and I've been charged with getting the gear- big enough that we can spend a day at it together and have enough each to ferment yet small enough that we can each do our own batches. I've bought a 36 l pan with hop strainer and ball valve tap-I'm going to take the strainer off and use it as an HLT (gas) which I hope should be enough to do each mash/sparge cycle. For the boiler I've ordered a 71 l Genware stockpot to which I'll fit a tap and add the hop strainer. The kit is going to get quite a bit of use so I think I'm going to order a stainless steel thermos marmite off French E-bay to use as a mash tun, replace the tap and get a ready made false bottom for it- not sure quite what size to get 50 l or ? 70l. Together with a propane burner I reckon this should work out less than £100 for each of us. We've got plenty of plastic FVs from our cider making but I'd really like a s/s one - any ideas on this would be much appreciated-I like the French Marmite but I'm not sure how I'd fit an airlock, without the potential for water to get between the skins of the lid.
Well, thats about as far as we've got.
Haven't thought about brews or ingredients yet but any comments or advice so far would be really appreciated.
Chers RokDok.
