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The Mile end Brewery's fist brew.

A BIG THANKYOU TO EVERYONE ON JBK FOR MAKING THIS DAY POSSIBLE

With the brewhouse nearly finished and the mrs and kids out of the way, i decided to do my first AG, with the "Stunt rider" as an assistant, it was a gob hoblin from barley bottom.
Ingredients:

4KG Maris otter
0.18 kg Crystal Malt
0.15 kg Barley, Flaked
0.15 kg Wheat, Torrified
0.05 kg Chocolate Malt

55.00 gm Fuggles 90 min
20.00 gm Bobek 15 min
15.00 gm Bobek 0 min

1 Protafloc Tablet 15 mins boil
1 pack of S-04 yeast.

Bringing 30L of water to 75c, also circulating to the MT to preheat (pump on the left).


Mashing In


Daz "Stunt rider" Toole having a sniff!


Breakfast at about eleven ish.....


Bringing wort to the boil


Nice rolling boil for 90mins


Cooling, start of cold break.


Running in to Fv


The team looking confused!!!!!!


Trub left as the drain was finishing.


All in all it took from 10am untill 4.30 ish including clean up. Final sg was 1.045 when pitching yeast.Theres a few teething problems to overcome ie, remembering to turn off my beer font when pouring a pint (flooded the garage floor with about 6 pints). This will be the first of many brewdays.Watch this space!


CHEERS!

Looking good. Nice set up What's the brewing capacity?

Congrats on the first Brew day! Nice layout.

Well done on your AG No.1

Nice to have a seperate brewhouse is'n't.
You might want to replace those flexi hoses on any hot lines, sometimes the rubber inset can give 'off' flavours.

looking really good, nice neat little setup you've got there

Nice to see others knocking it out. keep it up.
5hrs next time?

More pics.

Thanks guys, I will replace the flex pipes with proper 1/2 brewing hose, and to answer the other question each of the pots hold 50 litres,including the nordic. Hopefully just enough room for a double batch for 2 cornies (45 litres pre boil).