Borret
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Well the Kebab cooker wasn't ready in time to coincide with the first AG and the thermometers and HLT elements haven't arrived yet but I decided to jump in plugs and all and have a go. I borrowed a thermocouple from work which was a great help in the meantime and the HLT is running on gas.
I will right the speal in this post and the photo's will follow.
This brew was a copy of the Peoples brewery's Special Bitter (thanks Shawn)
Well the mill got it's first real run-in and worked a dream as did the Borretmaid. Target temps were hit and only budged a deg over the 80min mash. Becasue of the size I had to do 2 sparges but efficiencies weren't too bad. Beersmith tells me I got 81.5% mash efficiency which I'm happy with.
Had a few hickups with the end of each sparge with fine particles coming through the FB at the end of the drain but this just needs to be looked for and won't be a problem. However 29.5 litres into the kettle and all was well.
Boil was fine with the trusty Low Pressure 2 ring deep fryer burner which came to boil in just over 15 mins from 62 deg. I did run the boil flt out for 10 min then back to 1 ring for the rest but will have to tone this down further in future as there was nigh on 24 litres post boil and then becasue of those pesky plugs (first time user) I only saw 20 litres into the kettle. However I cheked my gravities and dilution an added another 3 litres cooled boiled water to it this morning and it's still just over target OG. The epicyclic trocoidal chiller worked a treat too with 22 deg hit in under 1/2 hr.
So things are starting to ferment nicely and all the brewing was said and done with mashin at 7:30, boil finished 11:30 and piching yeast just before 12:30. (cleanup not included)
So now onto the photo's (every other coot does it so why shouldn't I) and maybe some Kofte some time in the future
Cheers
Borret :blink:
First the brewery in it's current state of construction. The white cubby hole in the background is the child friendly boil area (the kettle is on castors, as is the burner)
I will right the speal in this post and the photo's will follow.
This brew was a copy of the Peoples brewery's Special Bitter (thanks Shawn)Well the mill got it's first real run-in and worked a dream as did the Borretmaid. Target temps were hit and only budged a deg over the 80min mash. Becasue of the size I had to do 2 sparges but efficiencies weren't too bad. Beersmith tells me I got 81.5% mash efficiency which I'm happy with.
Had a few hickups with the end of each sparge with fine particles coming through the FB at the end of the drain but this just needs to be looked for and won't be a problem. However 29.5 litres into the kettle and all was well.
Boil was fine with the trusty Low Pressure 2 ring deep fryer burner which came to boil in just over 15 mins from 62 deg. I did run the boil flt out for 10 min then back to 1 ring for the rest but will have to tone this down further in future as there was nigh on 24 litres post boil and then becasue of those pesky plugs (first time user) I only saw 20 litres into the kettle. However I cheked my gravities and dilution an added another 3 litres cooled boiled water to it this morning and it's still just over target OG. The epicyclic trocoidal chiller worked a treat too with 22 deg hit in under 1/2 hr.
So things are starting to ferment nicely and all the brewing was said and done with mashin at 7:30, boil finished 11:30 and piching yeast just before 12:30. (cleanup not included)
So now onto the photo's (every other coot does it so why shouldn't I) and maybe some Kofte some time in the future
Cheers
Borret :blink:
First the brewery in it's current state of construction. The white cubby hole in the background is the child friendly boil area (the kettle is on castors, as is the burner)
