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BRIARS BEST

Running with the recipe from this forum, 1st time with this one so no changes

Here is the grain bill

MARIS OTTER PALE MALT 5370 gms
CRYSTAL MALT 630 gms

. . . . . . and the hops

50 gms CHALLENGER - 90 mins
25 gms CHALLENGER - 15 minutes + Whirlfloc

Using Safale S-04 yeast as per recipe



aiming for 30 litres OG 1.052 ABV 5.1% 27 units of bitterness

Have fun!

7 mashing minutes left !

Hi Simon,

Hope yours goes well.

Mine has been boiling for an hour now, so there's not long to go.

Cheers
Steve

Piscator wrote:Hi Simon,

Hope yours goes well.

Mine has been boiling for an hour now, so there's not long to go.

Cheers
Steve

Well done Steve !

I just dream of a problem free brewday, I am still having a mare with my new setup. It is suppose to pump everything everywhere . . . . but I am still humping buckets to shoulder height

After a near stuck sparge, I have just got to boil and it's one o'clock !

Hows it going now Simon - hope your set-up has behaved.

Mine is all gravity fed so lugging is mandatory

On the bright side though it all went well for me today

Cheers
Steve

Piscator wrote:Hows it going now Simon - hope your set-up has behaved.

Mine is all gravity fed so lugging is mandatory

On the bright side though it all went well for me today

Cheers
Steve

Hi Steve

Had a bit of a taxi break (40 mile round trip) collecting my daughter from the train station, so only just got the yeast onto the brew at 1700hrs.

I gave up a gravity system in favour of this marvelous in-line pumped setup (on my way to a RIMS or even a HERMS) and for some reason the pump is misbehaving and I am thinking I should have stuck with the gravity. I am sure with some more time (and £'s) I will get it to work ok.

Glad yours was ok, what were you brewing ?

time for a beer !

sdcspeak wrote: Glad yours was ok, what were you brewing ?

Leftovers mainly

Have popped my final recipe on a brewdays thread. Fingers crossed now

I re-brewed Briars Best on 15th Jan. First time round it came to it's best after 5 weeks. Give it time to round out the Crystal & Challenger. End of Feb is when I'll be expecting tasty things from it.

I feel all protective when I hear someone's brewing a recipe I posted. I'm sure Horden Hillbilly, and Orfy are well over this feeling by now Good luck!

SiHoltye wrote:I feel all protective when I hear someone's brewing a recipe I posted. I'm sure Horden Hillbilly, and Orfy are well over this feeling by now Good luck!

I promise I will look after it and treat it with the greatest respect !!