Brewday 04/09/09 - Brown Ale

[mysterio]

Quick video of the sparge from the brewhouse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YaJIb6zm2k

[kfm]

Mysterio can I ask if they are quick disconnects of some sort between the hoses and the taps on your set up? Just starting to cobble together equipment for AG and this is one area I cannot find out too much - cheers

[mysterio]

Yeah they are these things from morebeer, only problem is they cost a fortune (and that was when the exchange rate was favourable)

They are a bit of an indulgence, you can almost certainly do it cheaper

http://morebeer.com/search?search=cpc

[kfm]

Thanks for the tip and good luck with the brown ale

[mysterio]

Wort near the end of the boil, slightly over target

Glacier hops were very mild smelling, grassy/haylike

[adm]

Hey ADM, what job is it you have that allows you to travel to these exotic places and still have time to brew several batches of beer a month I want it!

Ummmm.....well it's "Corporate Strategy" this month....whatever that means. What it means to me right now is sitting in the lounge at Changi airport drinking Jack and Coke trying to anaesthetise myself for the 14 hour flight back home!

[oblivious]

Great brew day mysterio

[adm]

Yeah they are these things from morebeer, only problem is they cost a fortune (and that was when the exchange rate was favourable)

They are a bit of an indulgence, you can almost certainly do it cheaper

http://morebeer.com/search?search=cpc

On the quickie discos, I can heartily recommend Intrico: http://www.intricoproducts.com/catalogu ... roove.html

These are cheap as chips (well.....chips from the Savoy Grill anyway) and available in stainless steel, aluminium and polypropylene and from the UK. The only downer is that postage is £12 +VAT flat rate, so you need to buy a few to make it worth it.

[mysterio]

Wort oxygenated and yeast pitched at 20 past 3... lets see what the lag time is like with the British ale yeast

[DarloDave]

Nice Brew Mysterio

[196osh]

Ummmm.....well it's "Corporate Strategy" this month....whatever that means. What it means to me right now is sitting in the lounge at Changi airport drinking Jack and Coke trying to anaesthetise myself for the 14 hour flight back home!

I feel I have exposed your secret James.

Looks good mysterio. I look forward to trying some.

[mysterio]

Yeast head developing now

Shame the bucket i'm using for this kind of stinks of plastic/rubber, I let some yeast fester in there for months and it went black and autolysed

Bleached it out thoroughly but I hope the taint doesn't carry through to the beer

[mysterio]

Looks like tiger bread

[mysterio]

This is fermented out already, couldn't resist drawing out a little sample, tasted good... can't wait to see what its like kegged up. Didn't realise this stuff wasn't a top cropper. Seems to have dropped out already.

[196osh]

Sounds good.