Glad to see the brew days going well
Brewday 11-08-2007 100% SatisFECKtion - Plus Pictures
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J_P
Collecting the runnings.
Before this point I had sanitised everything, added 15 minute hops, added a whirlafloc tablet at 10 minutes and lobbed in the rest of the 125g packet of hops and left to steep whilst I rinsed my FV out. It gets a bit hectic 15 mins before the end of the boil as you can see, that's why there are no pictures until now!
I aerated the wort using a sanitised jug, I picked up the wort and dropped it back into the FV thus making sure the wort was continually moving over the immersion chiller - two birds with one stone
Meanwhile my starter is chomping at the bit to get going. I had to de-gas (let the air out of the bottle) this one three times!
Fly my pretties! Pitching my flying starter into 24l of 1046 wort.
25 litres of lovely beer - DONE
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Cheers HHHorden Hillbilly wrote:Looks like a job well done there J_P, well documented with great pics, nice one!
I was trying to show some of the kit chaps who have expressed an interest how easy it is to produce grain beer, you don't need to be a brain surgeon or rockefeller (of which I am neither) to make the step up from kits.
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I had a bottle open before the boiler was put awayWez wrote:Why not treat yourself to an ale.
Welcome to the dark side Steve - you can look forward to pub quality beer for less than the cost of a two can kit!stevezx7r wrote:I just have one final kit brew to do (tonight or tomorrow) then I'm going grainy !
Edit: Remember we need pics of your first brew day
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anomalous_result
You're doing well for the AG cause J_P. Am I correct in thinking that in the three-tier setup the bottom one is a boiler with hop strainer attached to the inside of its tap? Am I also correct in thinking that isn't absolutely necessary if you want to do it cheap you can just sparge into your FV then tip the wort into the (now emptied) boiler when you've finished sparging?
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anomalous_result wrote:You're doing well for the AG cause J_P. Am I correct in thinking that in the three-tier setup the bottom one is a boiler with hop strainer attached to the inside of its tap?
You certainly are AR.
This is also correct however what I did was to heat the mash water, then transfer it into the FV and collect the run off in the boiler so as soon as the element was covered I could switch the boiler on. There was no additional costs involved I just arranged my existing kit differently.anomalous_result wrote:Am I also correct in thinking that isn't absolutely necessary if you want to do it cheap you can just sparge into your FV then tip the wort into the (now emptied) boiler when you've finished sparging?
This saved me a load of time as previously I had to collect the sparge run off in the FV then return it to the boiler then wait for the whole lot to come to the boil. Plus the act of sparging was quicker as I wasn't having to pour jugfuls of water from my boiler into my lauter tun.
If you are handy at DIY I expect you could modify the coolbox with a copper strainer in the bottom and mash in it then have it act as a lauter tun also. I think Daab has a tutorial on his site.
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Ahhhh - quite cunning that.J_P wrote:arranged my existing kit differently
Yes I've seen that, although deciding between the coolbox/manifold one and a DIY false-bottom mashtun is what I'm currently doing. Only in my head mind, just bought another kit to do.J_P wrote:If you are handy at DIY I expect you could modify the coolbox with a copper strainer in the bottom and mash in it then have it act as a lauter tun also. I think Daab has a tutorial on his site.