Doppel-Hund Brewing - My new brewery build

[leedsbrew]

Cheers chaps!

Having a furtle in the garage tonight got me excited about it again! It got to be a bit of an effort at one point as it was taking ages!

Just having a poke about on shebay now for a plate chiller!

[FlippinMental]

looking damn good.

fm

[leedsbrew]

looking damn good.

fm

Cheers man! chillier should be being ordered on monday! going for a 50 plate german plate chiller!

[leedsbrew]

Well the time is nearly upon me! the 1st brew is sheduled for Saturday coming (5/3/11) Ordering the plate chiller and hop stopper parts tomorrow morning.

the 1st brew will be a half brew (40L) of London Porter! The recipe is for Meantime London Porter. I was listening to the CYBI episode on the BN. I've just added a bit of oat malt (cos i've got it!)

Fermentables
Ingredient Amount % MCU When
UK Pale Ale Malt 5.431 kg 48.3 % 3.2 In Mash/Steeped
UK Munich Malt 2.653 kg 23.6 % 2.9 In Mash/Steeped
UK Brown Malt 0.888 kg 7.9 % 9.8 In Mash/Steeped
German Smoked Malt 0.888 kg 7.9 % 0.4 In Mash/Steeped
UK Medium Crystal 0.506 kg 4.5 % 5.9 In Mash/Steeped
UK Wheat Malt 0.281 kg 2.5 % 0.1 In Mash/Steeped
UK Chocolate Malt 0.247 kg 2.2 % 21.6 In Mash/Steeped
UK Oat Malt 0.225 kg 2.0 % 0.1 In Mash/Steeped
UK Black Malt 0.124 kg 1.1 % 13.0 In Mash/Steeped


Hops
Variety Alpha Amount IBU Form When
UK Fuggle 4.5 % 86 g 20.8 Loose Whole Hops All Of Boil
UK Fuggle 4.5 % 53 g 4.5 Loose Whole Hops 10 Min From End
UK Fuggle 4.5 % 53 g 0.0 Loose Whole Hops At turn off



Yeast
Danstar-Nottingham

LB

[WishboneBrewery]

Hope all goes well

[leedsbrew]

Well, yesterday I ordered the Plate HX from Germany (via ebay), a new digital thermometer from thethermometersuperstore.co.uk, the #40 mesh for the hop stopper from Inoxia, and some grain and yeast for the 1st brewday from thethriftyshopper.

That was at 10:30AM yesterday. I have had a shipping invoice from Germany emailed at 06:47AM this am, my thermometer arrived at 09:00AM and my grains and yeast turned up via parcelfarce at 01:00PM!

now that is service

I'm a happy chap!

:thumb:

[leedsbrew]

1st brewday now done

Thread is HERE

[leedsbrew]

Well the 1st brew went VERY well! I was expecting it to be full of things going wrong and shite beer at the end of it! But it turns out it tastes damn good! It got down to FG within a few days and has been sat in the warm for the yeasts to moo up any aldehydes and other volotiles! Going to keg in FV and bottle the other! The kegs for drinking To keep me from the bottles!

I've got another half brew test day coming up next week so I can go though it again on my own and compile a list if tweaks etc! It's gonna be a dry stout as I have a load of roast and flakes barley and Amber malt to use! good job I love stout!

[lancsSteve]

AWESOME build, adaptation and new brewery - been a fun thread to follow and good to hear first brew was so succesful...