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OK, AG 1 complete. A little stressful, but still enjoyable & learned heaps. My first nugget on reflection, get the missis to go out... It took a lot longer than I’d anticipated & in conjunction with watching the Rugby (I'M GUTTED!!!!) my missis kinda had a sense of humor failure. Anyway, I tried a Tribute clone that I got from here. Tweaked it slightly, well to be honest just added more Maris to compensate for my inabilities. So here's the reciepe

4 kg Maris Otter
1 kg Munich
250g T.Wheat

Willamette 90 mins
Fuggle 90 mins
Willamette 15 mins
Fuggle 15 mins
Styrian Goldings at 80C

Irish moss @ 15mins
Yeast Vit 1/2 Teaspoon
Yeast was WLP008 - not sure how this will work, but I’ll soon find out

All in all I’m quite happy with the outcome… It looks the part & will hopefully taste good too. Not too bothered if it doesn’t come out like the original, as long as it’s tasty. I used the beer engine on BYO website… It said that my OG would be 1.041, but it turned out at 1.049 – I’m hoping this is a good thing… I’m assuming it’s down to differences in malt gravities in the engine.




Mashing @ 66c - after 1hr it was still 66c - Happy Days!!! Sparging - crude, but seamed to work. 80c The Hop Line-Up

The hot break, Had to do some blowing to keep it under control. 7 gallon Burco The cold break - My immersion boiler worked well... it took about 25mins to take it down to pitching temp. Will post more as it moves along........

Looking good. Great photos. Possibly better off posted on the brewdays part of the forum. I doubt that you are alone with having an unimpressed spouse. I am waiting for my wife to come back with shopping only to find a cornie in the spare fridge

Cool So far I've not been stressed much by my first AG brew day this morning... I suppose there is still time when I have to start sparging in about 35 minutes!!!
Hope yours turns out a good one

Well done on your 1st ag brew. Hope you don't mind me moving this into the brewdays section.