A BIG THANKYOU TO EVERYONE ON JBK FOR MAKING THIS DAY POSSIBLE With the brewhouse nearly finished and the mrs and kids out of the way, i decided to do my first AG, with the "Stunt rider" as an assistant, it was a gob hoblin from barley bottom.
Ingredients:
4KG Maris otter
0.18 kg Crystal Malt
0.15 kg Barley, Flaked
0.15 kg Wheat, Torrified
0.05 kg Chocolate Malt
55.00 gm Fuggles 90 min
20.00 gm Bobek 15 min
15.00 gm Bobek 0 min
1 Protafloc Tablet 15 mins boil
1 pack of S-04 yeast.
Bringing 30L of water to 75c, also circulating to the MT to preheat (pump on the left).
Mashing In
Daz "Stunt rider" Toole having a sniff!
Breakfast at about eleven ish.....
Bringing wort to the boil
Nice rolling boil for 90mins
Cooling, start of cold break.
Running in to Fv
The team looking confused!!!!!!
Trub left as the drain was finishing.
All in all it took from 10am untill 4.30 ish including clean up. Final sg was 1.045 when pitching yeast.Theres a few teething problems to overcome ie, remembering to turn off my beer font when pouring a pint (flooded the garage floor with about 6 pints). This will be the first of many brewdays.Watch this space!
CHEERS!
What's the brewing capacity?
