. Then I noticed when the boiler had enough water in it there was water slowly pouring out of the bottom, which was the culprit for tripping the fuse box. At this point I thought my day was over before it had started.Texted jaycee (guy I bought the burco from) to see if he had any ideas, he called back a few minutes later offering to swap out the boiler with another he had spare. 1.5 hrs later after driving to somerset and back, I had a fully functioning burco. (John you're a life saver!). So anyway here's the recipe (thanks norm!) a Bath Ales Gem clone, my brewery is the closet brewery and I couldn't call it gem. So I give you Closet Sapphire!
MARIS OTTER PALE MALT 3590 gms
WHEAT MALT 40 gms
CRYSTAL MALT 320 gms
CHOCOLATE MALT 40 gms
HOPS boil time 90 minutes
Boadicia 33 gms
Add20 gms GOLDINGS last 15 minutes
So the first half of batch 1:
Putting the grain in:
Monster mash:
Top up for batch 1:
Batch 1 now in the HLT (also my FV):
Batch 2 is where I hit big problems, hence the lack of pictures. I didn't have any appropriate tubing to connect from the copper manifold to the drum tap of the MT, so I made do with hose pipe for my first attempt, big mistake! The hose pipe worked it's way lose from the tap, meaning the whole thing got clogged up. It took me 40mins to transfer from the MT to the HLT, I had to improvise by jugging into the HLT and using a sieve to make sure the grain didn't transfer across to the wort. Nightmare!!!
Anyway, I finally managed to get the wort from the HLT to the boiler
Cooling took 25mins down to 24C, not bad!!!! In this picture you can see a jug over my tap, this is because the hozelock wasn't a perfect to my tap and was spraying everywhere! Oh well home brew is all about bodging from I can tell
And finally the wort in the FV with the Nottingham yeast pitched, I have about 19L out of the planned 23L, I put this down to the disatrous 2nd batch! OG measure at this point was 1043. Not too bad I think
I first turned on the boiler (after I got the replacement) at 10:30am, finished at about 18:30pm, I think there may be room for improvement
looks like you had some fun and I hope you get your mashtun sorted !
