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Well... I've just got home after a days brewing at the Sweet William Brewery in Leyton, East London. I'm cream crackered having carried home a polypin of beer as my days wages ...

I thought you lot might like to see a few pics I got of the day. It's a bit more impressive than the sytem of buckets I use...

The mash:



Sparging:



Half of the first wort hops - thats 1.5kg of fuggles:



Running off into the boiler with the kettle hops:



Rolling Boil:



Late hops steeping:



Heat exchanger:



Fermenter:



We ended up with 850L of English Bitter at 1039.

Righ, all thats made me thirsty - I'm off to the pub.

An excellent days work Tom, and afaic, the best way to be paid

I'm wondering why your going out when you have a pollypin of your "wages" sitting there?

BTW, that sparge arm is a bit on large size

Changed the title from Toms big kit brewday to Toms big shiny brewday - realised the title might make it look like it was a beer kit brewday thread...

I'm wondering why your going out when you have a pollypin of your "wages" sitting there?

Well my wages werent racked bright so I'm leaving the poly till tomorrow at least.

An excellent days work Tom

Cheers, I agree. Can't think of a nobler proffession

Very nice tomU, well done

Any chance you can post their recipe and what yeast they use?

I cant remember the recipe, and I'm not sure whether they'd be happy for me to post it. It had 3kg of muscovado sugar in it though (in 850litres).

This is another brewery which uses blended dried yeast

Your late hops steeping pic is the same as your heat exchanger pic btw.

But good post!

Tom,

How did you get the opportunity to brew there? Are you mates with the owner or are they open to punters brewing their own recipes on their plant?

Tom,

How did you get the opportunity to brew there? Are you mates with the owner or are they open to punters brewing their own recipes on their plant?

Yeah, they're friends of friends - they let me come and help to give me some experience - I'm currently studying a brewing degree. This wasn't my recipe - and no, I doubt they would be open to punters I'm afraid - they only have 2 fermenters and they struggle to brew everything they want to as it is.

Your late hops steeping pic is the same as your heat exchanger pic btw

Yeah, just noticed that - I'll change that when I get a sec - I know theres a lot of brewporn fans out there, and I'm sure some have a heat exchanger fetish...

The brewery is East London you are in Edinburgh and you carried it home, thats a very long walk no wonder your knackered

Nice pictures Tom, thanks for posting. Looks like a good day

Tom is this the same brewery doing a special 25th anniversary ale of London drinker festival this month?

http://www.camranorthlondon.org.uk/news/0902260001.html

It certainly is, and my dad Trevor is in a couple of the photos there... I'll be down from edinburgh the wednesday night - not sure I'll make it to the fest that night or not yet but I'll def be there (probably working) the rest of it.