all finished for a couple of weeks

Pretty uneventful brew day today... no broken kettles and pretty close to temperatures mist of the day (the digital thermometer definitely helped)

All grain number 2 put away to ferment... cleaning can wait until tomorrow.

Think its time to sample one of the first all grain now.

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sparging sugary goodness from the grain

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water

Now have everything needed for a brew day

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lots of hops and grain - recent shopping list

10kg Maris otter
1kg crystal
500g biscuit
100g hallertau
100g saaz
100g challenger
100g willamette
100g northdown
100g cascade
S-33 yeast
S-04 yeast
Nottingham ale yeast
Burton water crystals
Raspberry extract

And some left over glacier and hallertau hops

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All Bottled Up

The first all grain is now all bottled up and ready for conditioning.

I'm going to wait a little while before giving the beer a name. If it's a winner then I'll probably name it "Suffolk Stock" as it will be the base which is adapted to make other brews from. 

Already have started buying ingredients to try a Bass Clone next, the price at Worcester Hop Shop is pretty impressive.... now have a stock of challenger, cascade and northdown hops (as well as Glacier and Hallertau left over in the freezer).

high-level design for my first ever all-grain brew.

Ingredients purchased, and thinking about constructing a mash tun/sparging contraption for an all grain brew.

About to start bottling "The White Goose", pretty un-eventful brew (wasn't much headspace in the fermentation bin but thankfully not spillage).

The samples over the last three days have been nice pale and nice and clear. Already thinking brewing more than 13L would have been a good idea.

The White Goose

After bottling the "Orange River Goose" doing a smaller brew without the orange but similar hop/grain profile.

Not the best time to start a brew, but a mini brew is on to the go to blend with the "hop monster"

The brewlog for "hop monster"

Decided to name the latest brew "Hop Monster":-
The brew has been split into 20 bottles and 7.5 litres in the keg.

The plan is to make a brew light on hops tomorrow... that will be added to the keg. If the simple maths works then that should get:
 56.1 IBU  =  ( (7.5L * 78.2 IBU) + (9L * 37.8 IBU) ) / 16.5 IBU

Brew day has started!

(adding some images for the new style sheet)

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new homebrew goodies

2 replacement stock pots purchased from ebay (compass090) 1x 20L and 1x 15L, both for less than £30.

And made a home-made diy immersion chiller (£19.99 for 10m 8mm copper tubing from B&Q). The copper tubing is measured as outside diameter so it might work well to just stick syphon tube over the end). I was surprised how easy it was to bend the copper tube, and with a few cable ties it's not too bad.

Order placed for more homebrew ingredients, a few adjustments:

• switching to spary malt instead of liquid malt extract
  
• cutitng the Munich down by 50%
• increasing Crystal by 50%

After 3 weeks of conditioning the last brew is shaping up to be quite drinkable.