Golding Looking Strain with pics

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Duncndisorderly

Golding Looking Strain with pics

Post by Duncndisorderly » Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:02 pm

1st all grain succesfully bubbling away under the stairs after a day at it yesterday, everything went reasonably well , went with
3kg maris otter
250 grms crystal malt
2oz golding at start of boil
1/2 oz golding 45 minutes in with 1 tsp irish moss
1/2 oz golding 3 minutes from end of boil
used a safale 04
so heres the pics:

Mash tun, first use held temp perfectly all the way through
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Doughing inn
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First runnings, really pleased with myself at this point
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Collecting and sparging
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The hops all weighed out, all goldings hence the name
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Boil
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Cool
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Dog drinking minor spillage
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Nice yeasty head 24hrs later(this morning infact)
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Things i'll do diffrent next time, bil more water, up the grain bill and get a hop strainer as i suspect by the time its settled i'll only get about 15ltrs anyway OG 1035 so pretty happy
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pantsmachine

Post by pantsmachine » Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:26 pm

Nice one, well done and offy bonny boxer as well!
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Bugman

Post by Bugman » Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:44 pm

Congrats on your first AG, looks like it went well.
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Vossy1

Post by Vossy1 » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:05 pm

Great stuff D, no looking back now 8)
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Duncndisorderly

Post by Duncndisorderly » Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:31 pm

I guess im now officially on the darkside :lol:
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booldawg

Post by booldawg » Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:02 pm

Theres no turning back now! Your head will be a mess of recipes and formulations....
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maxashton

Post by maxashton » Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:33 pm

Mahah!

I actually sit at work on my lunchbreak knocking up recipes in BeerTools. Today, i made a weissbier.

Soon, you wil carry Dave Line books around with you and utter praise to the Mash gods!
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Post by ECR » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:10 pm

Looks great 8)
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Duncndisorderly

Post by Duncndisorderly » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:02 pm

Been away all week but when i got back today i checked my gravitys, we are now at 1005 so thats pretty good, will check again tomorrow and if its the same im gonna bottle it tommorow evening, so more pics :D the other benefit to tetsting the gravits was i got to taste it, i can only say, wow, i now believe what people were saying about all grain tasting better than any kit ive made, really really pleased
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