Get advice on making beer from raw ingredients (malt, hops, water and yeast)
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AT
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by AT » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:51 pm
Any turning on the kettle in about 6 hours and i'm drunk enough if there's such a thing

so the best advice i can give myself is go to bed you drunken bas***d. I'll keep ye posted on my progress

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Wez
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by Wez » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:52 pm
night night AT all the best! i'm going to hit the sack in a bit.
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AT
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by AT » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:52 pm
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AT
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by AT » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:53 pm
good luck tomorrow mate

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prolix
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by prolix » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:09 am
good luck guys, rememebr to close the taps before putting beer in the fermenters and barrels etc
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AT
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by AT » Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:06 am
The boil is on and the first hops are in, all going without a hitch except when i was cutting the hops the knife attacked me

then i started pulling them apart to save fingers

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AT
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by AT » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:05 pm
well i collected 22 l at 1064 from 6kg of grains, is that good? i learned a few lessons as i did a few things the hard way but i'll know for next time. Only real problem i had was the hop strainer kept getting blocked
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delboy
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by delboy » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:15 pm
Thats v. good as far as im concerned (somebody else will prob tell you the efficency) thats going to be one strong brew. I had problems with my hop strainer as well, it seems that ift funtions well with 60-70g of loose hops but once you go to the 100g or above it blocks something rotten. When doing brews with lots of hops i've started to bag the bittering hops and some of the flavour hops (30 min addition hops) but throw in the aroma etc hops (anything after the half hour mark) loose that way you get the filtering effect and lots of floral hop tastes and aroma from the addition of loose hops.
I've heard that bagging bittering hops cuts down on their utilisation so you might want to up the bittering hops slightly if doing it this way.
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mysterio
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by mysterio » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:44 pm
alexander taipan wrote:well i collected 22 l at 1064 from 6kg of grains, is that good? i learned a few lessons as i did a few things the hard way but i'll know for next time. Only real problem i had was the hop strainer kept getting blocked
74% efficiency... nice one!

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AT
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by AT » Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:37 pm
jesus i didn't think i did that good

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Niall K
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by Niall K » Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:46 pm
The boil is on and the first hops are in, all going without a hitch except when i was cutting the hops the knife attacked me then i started pulling them apart to save fingers
Will be doing my first all grain hopfully in the next week or so. Do you have to cut the hops before adding them to the boil?
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by Jim » Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:47 pm
Nice work, AT!

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Wez
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by Wez » Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:40 pm
Well done to you to AT! Glad you'rs went well - i had a few 'mares i'll post about them later (when i have some strength back).

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tubby_shaw
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by tubby_shaw » Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:05 pm
Congratulations on your first "real" brew

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notassuch
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by notassuch » Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:11 pm
Excellent going AT.

78% puts mine in the shade, that's for sure!
You and Wez kicked arse today.