Jason visited on Saturday for a nosey at the brewing.
The gravity on the Porter is 1.028 after six days. Slightly slow so it was roused with a sanitised paddle and seems to be off again.
We brewed up a Wit from a recipe put together using spicing examples on the web. Pictures soon…
Style: London Porter, Target ABV 5.1%, Measured OG: 1052. Brewday: 27/11/11. Time: 5 hours.
This is my first all grain brew (of many I hope) after many kits. All equipment was researched and constructed – it performed very well. On to the pictures…
Bitsa Boiler made from 3 broken urns from work.
Cooler Mash Tun and 22mm Manifold. Cooler from SoCal copper/valve from Screwfix.
Recipe from a CAMRA book modified and refined in Beersmith 2 – great software. This is the brewsheet it created for me.
Grains from The Malt Miller – excellent service.
Chocolate Malt
Crystal Malt
Brown Malt
Maris Otter Pale Malt
Strike Water
Grain Pitched
Mashing 60mins + 10mins Boiling Mashout
Ready for Wort Draining
First Running after Vorlauf returned to tun.
Slow drain for aeration
Tap wide open – great clean drain from the manifold
Almost out!
10L Single Batch sparge
Boiler Brimmed
Pre Boil Fuggles
Last 10mins Fuggles
Lot of boil off loss
Cooler from random bits in the garage – could be a lot better I know.
Protofloc
Wort Cool
Wort cooled and run off
Good floc and drop out
Wyeast Thames Valley Starter made 2 days earlier.
No 1 Helper
Og measured – 1052 but 4 litres less volume due to boil off loss.
Hop Trub and waste
All set to ferment. 27/11/11
Came back from work to find a monster bubbling away. Thats actually almost a solid seeping out.
More updates in around 10days after the primary ferment.
