Alpha Ale - first ever AG

[nanobrewer]

ingredients - 3.5 kg pale malt, 0.5kg crystal malt and 50g flaked maize. 30g fuggles, 20g Challenger, 5g aroma fuggles and safale english ale yeast


The nano brewery!



mashing away in a bruheat mash tun/boiler in a mashing/sparge bag.



after sparging here is the grain bed, all nice and settled



lovely sweet tasting wort



the boil! hops added in inside a hop bag. irish moss added for clearing



draining into fermenting bin



primary fermentation with airlock and heating belt



then racked into a keg, with 50/50 sugar and spraymalt and gelatin . added a bit more spraymalt a week in.

And the final result!

[Hogarth]

Nice work, Nano. Looks you like had an impressively smooth first AG.

I love your nano brewpub. Great place to meet birds by the looks of it. Mind you, by my standards it's positively macro.

[acid]

Great stuff Nano... Looks like it went nice and smooth for you.

[Horden Hillbilly]

Well done Nano, no doubt the 1st of many ag brews.

[nanobrewer]

only ever done a few kits so i was really surprised at how easy it could be to turn out something like that. always expect homebrew to be like paint stripper!

the community and vast knowledge behind the homebrew scene is quite incredible.

just need to get some kind of 3 tier gravity frame now!

thanks everyone

[Dennis King]

Nice looking pint

[kevthebootboy]

well done pal,
thats an ace looking little brewery you have there

[DarloDave]

Many many more good pints of AG to look forwards to

[hotmog]

Great stuff! Lovely looking pint, and that's an impressive-looking brewhouse - it puts my outside bog arrangement to shame

[WishboneBrewery]

Love the 'Wendy-brew-house', my other half wants one!!!

[nanobrewer]

hehe thanks everyone, the wendy house was there when we arrived. the previous owners two kids must have had fun in there. Good thing about it is that it has a heater and a light in there. So until we have kids its the brew wendy house

so yes am looking forward to carrying on the AG brewing.

[edit1now]

Well done nano!

Can you stand up in the Wendy-brew-house? Some of them are meant for small people

[StrangeBrew]

Well done nano!

Can you stand up in the Wendy-brew-house? Some of them are meant for small people

Maybe he's one of the little brewers from the Shire!

[edit1now]

Little brewers with very hairy feet

Recipe for Old Took Ale, or Farmer Maggot's Best Bitter? A winter warmer called Underhill...?

A new thread called Beers of Middle-Earth?

[nanobrewer]

yes you can stand up in there! When i have been locked out of the house its been a life saver. Even more now with beer being conditioned in there