Brewing weekend

[Garth]

Did a brew saturday and another today, need to build up the beer supply as the warmer weather is coming and it saves lugging the gear down from upstairs twice

Yesterdays brew (Hobgoblin) was not a disaster, but a lot went wrong mainly due to my lack of planning, and having to go out in the middle of the mash therefore I forgot to refill the HLT so it wasn't hot enough when sparge time came, hmm rather a long mash. Left the boiler tap open when filling from mash collection vessel, about a litre lost on kitchen floor, some still under washer and drier. Got poor efficiency also

Todays brew (PoPs V2 Strong Stout), recirculating 1st runnings, no I'm not refining crude oil, or making some Bisto up for the Sunday lunch, it really was that dark, sticky and thick. What a great way of emptying the store cupboard of all those grains.
I finally went with 53g of Fuggles and 42g of Challenger, gives about 60 EBU which I was told it was more like it for a strong stout.


Its just passing through the chiller as I type and I'm rehydrating the yeast and not a hitch in sight. Cheers PoP for the recipe.

[bitter_dave]

Glad today's brew went according to plan

I sympathise with your brew yesterday - we've all been there; I generally spill loads of near boiling water all over the kitchen floor when I brew

[DRB]

Darker than dark that one.

[Jim]

Nice going,Garth. That looks like good stuff!

[Calum]

Left the boiler tap open when filling from mash collection vessel, about a litre lost on kitchen floor, some still under washer and drier.

I'm scared to look under our washing machine and drier as I did the same a few months back with a directors bitter I was brewing. I did the sensible thing and grabbed a towel to wipe up the mess. SWMBO wasn't so chuffed as I had grabbed one of our new cream coloured towels and somehow managed to stain it permenantly (you would think she would have given me the keys to my own dog house by now).

[bitter_dave]

Left the boiler tap open when filling from mash collection vessel, about a litre lost on kitchen floor, some still under washer and drier.

I'm scared to look under our washing machine and drier as I did the same a few months back with a directors bitter I was brewing. I did the sensible thing and grabbed a towel to wipe up the mess. SWMBO wasn't so chuffed as I had grabbed one of our new cream coloured towels and somehow managed to stain it permenantly (you would think she would have given me the keys to my own dog house by now).

Spilling drops of bleach on the tablecloth is another way to endear yourself to your partner

[SteveD]

it's the sticky floor noise and the suction on your shoes that I hate when wort gets spilled. When the Leader of the Opposition hears that a "how much have you spilled, and where" question invariably comes floating into the kitchen.

The finest Brent Crude looks good

[Garth]

Steve, I haven't had a brewday yet that my feet didn't stick to the kitchen floor like in some minging nightclub.

Oh, and I said I was having a trouble free brewday, well, just got back from the walk-in emergency surgery after slicing the side of my thumb off while whittling down my paddle to fit into my cordless drill, the last bit snapped off so had to do it again. And I'm not talking a little nick here, apparently I've sliced a small artery as well that's why it wouldn't stop bleeding, the kitchen looked like a scene from Psycho, ah well all in the pursuit of good beer....

...I have a photo if anyones interested....

[parkerwitton]

Garth if you had cut your finger off instead of your thumb the brew perhaps could of been called Bishops Finger!!!!

[Garth]

lol, well I walked into that one, thanks for that PW, I still have a sense of humour, just no fingerprint on my thumb now,

right I'm off to do next-door over, they have a nice 42" plasma

[SteveD]

I've a friend who professes to dislike any beer with the word 'old' in the name, or has anything to do with parts of a bishop

[Garth]

maybe you're right Daab, you usually are, drill chuck is only 10mm....

.........damn you to hell Black and Decker for your substandard chuck size..

[eskimobob]

Ouch
Wasn't revenge of Stanley was it

[Garth]

you're not wrong EB, and a blunt one at that, I'm sure my tetanus is up to date, me and my Dad were using it the day before doing skirting board....

[Andy]

Doctors don't bother giving you a tetanus booster anymore if you've ever had a tetanus shot. They reckon the immunity remains. Nothing to do with saving NHS cash, nooooo, can't be.