Hi Guys,
well, I couldn't wait to try out the new gravity brewery so I took a day off work and, this morning, headed over to Andover Patio Centre for Propane, hose and regulator.
Got home about 10:45 and statred brewing a stout.
Recipe is 1.6kg pale malt, 200g roasted barley, 400g flaked barley and about 45g of EKG's.
Brew length is a massive 10 litres.
OG 1.050
Anyway, all done now so here are the pictures...
Crushing the grain straight into the mash tun....
A good stir then shut the mash tun up for an hour...
Sparging with the sparge arm from my main brewery...
Ongoing sparge....in my haste to brew I ignored the non-photogenic background
Boil...
And that's it. I didn't bother marking up the boiler so I had no idea where 10 litres was. As a result I stopped sparging earlly and only made about 8 litres instead. Never mind. I'll measure properley next time when I'm in less of a hurry to brew.
All in all, it was a good brew session but a lot of time and effort for not very much beer
/Phil.
Inpromtu Brew Day - Stout
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Re: Inpromtu Brew Day - Stout
Thats always the problem with pilot batches, When I build mine I'll probably go for a corny full.Seveneer wrote:All in all, it was a good brew session but a lot of time and effort for not very much beer
Vossy, I won't be selling them for a number of reasons. I thought about it though. Briefly
DaaB, the piece of wood is already costed into my other brewery
I'll certainly save time bottling the smaller batches but the actual brew day is near enough the same. Maybe half an hour saved by not having to boil so much wort and perhaps another half an hour each saved in the cooling and the sparging. So absolute tops an hour and a half saved.
/Phil.
DaaB, the piece of wood is already costed into my other brewery
I'll certainly save time bottling the smaller batches but the actual brew day is near enough the same. Maybe half an hour saved by not having to boil so much wort and perhaps another half an hour each saved in the cooling and the sparging. So absolute tops an hour and a half saved.
/Phil.