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I'm off.
Took ages to get right temp in mash tun.
Its all in now.
This is so much harder than u think.
Made a mistake straight away. Didn't put my manifold in the tun.
Lucky the temp was wrong and I had to adjust. Otherwise I would have doughed in without it

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Good luck.

The first one sure can throw up a few curve balls. I can recall mine well! They get easier and require less babysitting- now I tend to brew one whilst bottling the previous beer at the same time. It's busy but not undoable.

Anyway - Good luck! If you get something drinkable you've done well!

Is that the Greg Hughes summer ale? Tasty beer if so. For me it could do with a little dry hopping but I think that's mostly because it takes a while to chill down my beer despite of the I.C. cooler because I brew at the end of the garden and the water warms up a bit as it goes down the garden in a hose...

Thanks for the support guys

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Spot the problem there

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So both elements packed in getting up to boil.
Moved to my front room workshop.
One is back going other is dead.
Praying it will last.


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j4c wrote:Spot the problem there

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Remove the lid, it comes off easy enough I used to have one.

Thanks for the tip.
I was in to much of a panic to work that out.
It's cooling now.
The element held up.
The whole process reminded me of waiting for my wife to give birth. Lol


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It's been moved twice because of the element fail.
I was kacking it that the bucket would give in on the moves

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. All done
Think I got the 23 litres.
The og is 1.040 I don't really know if that's good or not. Or if that was what I was supposed to get.
I need to learn about efficiency etc.
How do I predict the alcohol %
Cheers guys I'm gonna lie down.


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OG 1.040 minus FG ( say ) 1.012 = 28 divide by 7.45 = 3.75% ABV

There are more accurate methods but I find that very close and its easy

What was your recipie? ...do you know what you were aiming for ?
The aim of today should be to primarily to get beer, work out your equipment, and learn .I've done a lot of AG brews up to 2000l and yesterday I had a fight with new equipment..
It rarely goes entirely to plan.

Well done!

How do I predict the alcohol %

You compare the Original Gravity with the Final Gravity.

You would normally expect the beer to drop to a "quarter" of the original points when fermentation is finished.

e.g with an OG of 1040 you would expect the FG to be about 1010. 40/4 = 10.

So if you get a FG of 1010 expect about 4% ABV.

There are plenty of calculators online.

http://www.brewersfriend.com/abv-calculator/