Home Brew Forum

today i'm making my wifes favourite brew.

250g wheat
125g crystal
4200g maris otter

35g northern brewer hops for 60 mins (9.5%AA)
7g fuggles for 10 mins (4.7%AA)

mashed at 63C for a slightly drier beer.

been mashing for almost an hour now. this is my first brew in almost 3 months i think! been far to busy at work, and a bit lazy as well.... <_<

i've almost got every thing i need for kegging properly now, just need a decent fridge, as the beer cooler i have is just to demanding on the old electricity bill to leave on 24/7, plus it makes one hell of a racket!!!!

i've been thinking of using it as a wort chiller for when i use the machines we have at work. its an oil jacketed boiler, all thermostatically controlled, and since we have tweo of them, both holding 200 litres each, i can use one for a mash tun and one for a boiler!



ok, so its a bit over kill, but hell, i just gotta try it out one day!!!!!!

anway, back to todays brewing.....

i've read that most mashes will be done within an hour, the 90 minutes just makes sure. i take it you normally boil for 90 mins Daab?

i've just finished my first run off, about to sparg. collected 3 gallons of wort from my initial 4 gallons of water.

well, it was all done and dusted in time for tea! hit my target OG of 1.044 bang on, so i'm a happy camper. only managed to loose a pint or so on the floor as well, which is a record for me i'll tell you!!!

how did you mini mash go daab?

Excellent bod, keep up the good work B)

we dont get the bank holiday up here. still, theres always the september weekend!!!!

cheers vossy! was out looking at fridges for my kegorater (thats not how you spell that eh?!) today. got my eye on one with a seperate freezer compartment on top to keep my hops and vodka in.