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Not posted any of my brewdays before so thought it was about time. AG#12 London Pride clone from GW's book. I messed about with the recipe, added some wheat malt and used WLP001 California yeast for the first time.

This is the starter, not sure about this yeast as all my previous starters don't get a yeast head like this one




Using my new SS paddle for the first time, the plastic spoon is not robust enough, but the paddle may be a bit big!


Mashing in, paddle just fits in the 24L mash tun


Recirculating using HERMS


Sparging - Always a pain to balance the pump to the output of the mash tun. Sparge at approx 0.5L / min


I used a combination of whole hops and pellets, hence the mess left in the copper


Nicely aerated wort, ended up with 22L @ 1048, was aiming for 1044

Looking good, are those cooler connections connected to the green barrel?
I notice from your website you have a bit of a fridge screwed to your bench too, care to enlighten me?

pdtnc wrote:Looking good, are those cooler connections connected to the green barrel?
I notice from your website you have a bit of a fridge screwed to your bench too, care to enlighten me?

The green barrel is a slim line water butt. I use it to collect the water that has been used to cool the wort. If I'm feeling really keen (I like to think I'm a keen recycler ) I pump out of one water butt into the other, but that has only happened once!!

The bench now has some insulation and will eventually be my conditioning cupboard, with heating and cooling. The cooling was almost sorted until I shorted out the compressor!! still trying to get a replacement via freecycle.

Its the thought that counts, I like the idea of recycling the cooling water.
There's someone else on the forum that uses a couple of water butts and a drill pump to cool, so you always use the same water on each brewday, not wasting more clean water from the mains.

GW's book??? who`s this then

Nice yeast head on that starter, looks like you got a fresh vial

Wort looks delicious

jonny8ball wrote:GW's book??? who`s this then

Graham Wheeler, the man that wrote THIS BOOK