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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


Doughing inn


First runnings, really pleased with myself at this point


Collecting and sparging




The hops all weighed out, all goldings hence the name


Boil


Cool


Dog drinking minor spillage


Nice yeasty head 24hrs later(this morning infact)



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

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

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

Great stuff D, no looking back now

I guess im now officially on the darkside

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

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!

Looks great

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 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