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…

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.