Black Lab Ale Officially Opens - IPA

[Chappie519]

Well done on the successfull brewday Tally! Onwards and upwards from now!

[Bru4u]

Great job, now you will enjoy that in a few weeks, and great photo's, nice dag
Bru

[StrangeBrew]

Nice one Tali, it's all been very entertaining!

I like yer dag too.

[BarryNL]

Nice looking brewery - now, if only the wife would let me build a permanent setup like that here...

[Timo]

Great looking set-up bud from a fellow GY brewer

[Manx Guy]

Nice set up, but on the run off from the mashtun. is letting it run from a height like that and through the seive not going to cause oxidation? Or can this only happen after the yeast has been pitcheD?

Oxygen is needed in the wort before pitching the yeast, but once the initial phase of fermentation is over it causes the beer to go off.

There is a school of thought that allowing hot wort to contact the air during mashing/ sparging/ boiling causes hot side airation. Many people (me included) think this is complete bollocks.

Which came as huge releif to me as I brewed many extract brews and allowed hot (>60C) to splash about a bit prior to cooling...

The beer turned out fine though but I was convinced I'd commited some Breweing capital crime!

OP:

Brew day looks good and I hope not too many of Georges black hairs (Had black lab myself years ago and her hair ended up everywhere - but such a grand dog) ended up in your lovely looking IPA!

Enjoy!

Guy

[WishboneBrewery]

Looks like a smooth brewday