Worthington White Shield with pictures :)

russt1969 · Post by **russt1969** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:19 am

Morning all,
Just got home from work and have put the HLT on to do this :-

Pale Malt 4700g
Crystal Malt 280g

Invert Sugar 550g
Challenger 40g 90Mins
Northdown 25g 90Mins
Northdown 15 last 15mins (Added at flame out instead. Going to give it a try)
Protothingy tablet
Nottingham yeast

Will be posting pictures a bit later.

sllimeel · Post by **sllimeel** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:40 am

Have a good day, at least you will sleep well tonight after a night shift

russt1969 · Post by **russt1969** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:18 pm

All done and dusted and tucked away.
Ended up at 71% Efficiency
17Ltrs collected @1.070 too strong so worked out the water I needed to add which was 8Ltrs which took it down too 1.051. Potential of 5.6%.
Much better

Anyway here are some photos for you

Enjoy.

Grain Bill

Doughing in

Tucked up for 90mins

The Hops

Re sealing some hops

Good gadget these things

Every freezer needs one of these shelves.

Tried and trusted set up. Cheers Garth for the site tube. Works a treat

Sparge

Hot break

1st hops added

IC added last 15mins + Protothingy tablet + Hops at flame out.

Lovely old job

Tucket up in my Freecycled ATC800 controlled fridge

Pukker stuff. Will keep ya'll informed as to FG and then tasting

TTFN
Russ

booldawg · Post by **booldawg** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:32 pm

proper boys room - brewing equipment AND shiny red toolboxes

sllimeel · Post by **sllimeel** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:02 pm

Great brew day

prolix · Post by **prolix** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:08 pm

I love the brewery. Though one question how do you manage to keep so many KK's full my barrels empty almost faster than I can fill them.

russt1969 · Post by **russt1969** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:33 pm

All going well.

Nice lots of lovely bubbles

Vossy1 · Post by **Vossy1** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:54 pm

Looking good russ and a great brew day thread

sllimeel · Post by **sllimeel** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:45 pm

Russ

do you keep the atc800 probe just in the fridge and not the wort during fermentation

russt1969 · Post by **russt1969** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:51 pm

sllimeel wrote:Russ

do you keep the atc800 probe just in the fridge and not the wort during fermentation

Hi
I got the probe right next to the FV, almost touching it. Should I keep it in the wort? This is the ATC fridges 1st brew so I'm just guessing here

Russ

sllimeel · Post by **sllimeel** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:16 pm

Hi
I got the probe right next to the FV, almost touching it. Should I keep it in the wort? This is the ATC fridges 1st brew so I'm just guessing here

I think it is better to have the probe in the fermenter as then you have the actual temperature of your ferment and can be controlled better, i stand to be corrected

I have just set up my first atc800 fridge also thats why i picked up on it

russt1969 · Post by **russt1969** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:35 pm

I'll ask the forum. That'll be a good idea

StrangeBrew · Post by **StrangeBrew** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:02 pm

Looks like you had an excellent brew morning with some great pics too!

I'm soon to atempt this...

Just got two cheap fridges off eBay, one for ATC800 controlled fermentation/conditioning and one for serving from corni kegs.

Can't wait, photos can be so inspiring!

russt1969 · Post by **russt1969** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:11 pm

Cheers SB. I had fun making it. If you need any help. Give me a shout. I took photos as I was making it. Step by step sort of thing.

russt1969 · Post by **russt1969** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:48 pm

Fermentation finished. Well down to 1.010
Giving me 5.37%
That'll do lovely.

Into the barrel for the next 8 weeks. Will let ya'll know how it tastes and what it looks like

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Worthington White Shield with pictures :)

Worthington White Shield with pictures :)