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AG #2: HH's House Bitter Brewday, Sunday June 29th!
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:33 am
by DaveH
Yes, i know it's early (not as early as HH brews himself sometimes though!), but i need to get a brew in early as i'm otherwise engaged later!
Just pre-heating the mash tun now - more to follow.
Oh, BTW, discovered that after insulating my boiler that doing my pre-treatment of water last night (1/2 camden and boil liqor) that the liqor comes up to the boil quicker (45 mins for 25l from cold to the boil), but, not only that, i've just checked the temp just now (12 hours after switching the element off) and the temp has only dropped to 67 degrees. Bit of a brucie bonus!!!!
Right, off we go. More to follw including piccies.
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:24 am
by DaveH
DaaB wrote:Hillbilly recipes have to be done early in the morning otherwise they wont work...you've only just made the deadline
Good luck
LOL!!!!
Mash on at 08.20 (had a few unforseen problems - i.e. sorting the kids out!!!)
Piccies to follow soon..............
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:07 am
by Wez
Have a good day DH, looking forward to the piccy's.
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:13 am
by Horden Hillbilly
Mmm. let's see, what time is it now? 9:10 am, I am normally getting ready to cool the brew with my cfc by now!
Anyway, waffle over, I hope (and pray!
) that my recipe is to your taste DH & I hope your brewday goes ok.
This bitter & my Lager/Pilsner recipes certainly seem to be popular here recently, Mrs H & myself had a few of each of them last night & they went down a treat!
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:16 am
by DaveH
Horden Hillbilly wrote:Mmm. let's see, what time is it now? 9:10 am, I am normally getting ready to cool the brew with my cfc by now!
Anyway, waffle over, I hope (and pray!
) that my recipe is to your taste DH & I hope your brewday goes ok.
This bitter & my Lager/Pilsner recipes certainly seem to be popular here recently, Mrs H & myself had a few of each of them last night & they went down a treat!
Hey - i was ready to go for a 5am start, but, unfortunately we had a bit of a rough night with our youngest child (he's 13 months, and right in the middle of a nasty bout of teething!!)
I'm sure you're recipe will be just fine HH - Your inspiration for the recipe (Black Sheep) is one of my fave brews
Cheers!
Dave.
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:57 am
by ECR
Hope it's going well DH. I've just got my third mash of the weekend underway
For some reason I have a headache this morning. It can't be from drinking too much beer, as I don't have any in - hence the mammoth brewing session
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:58 am
by DaveH
Bah - posted a new thread instead of on here - see new thread for brewday pics so far!