PistolPatch
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Well it's 9pm and Ross has just headed home leaving behind, my first AG, a wealth of knowledge and several laughs which were, not all, at my expense.
Brewers Details: After picking him up at 7am we mashed in at 9:45am and pitched at around 2:45pm. Brewhouse eficiency somewhere around 70%. Drinking beer and humour efficiency approached 100. So, quite a successful day.
Other Details: Apart from producing an all grain Scwartzbier, we also managed to sample 21 different beers. (Ross had 19, I'm on the 20th now and by the time I finish I'll have done the 21st.)
Thanks: I'm not too sure of forum etiquette and probably never will be. If doing your first AG is a good excuse to thank people then I'll grasp that. Surely thanking people can never be wrong even if you have had 20.5 beers? So...
There's one moderator here who has nursed me especially. Thank you. You know who you are.
There are other moderators who have been been extremely polite and taken the time to steer me gently in the correct direction when I needed it (Whoops! You've had too many beers Pistol, and, can you lower your enthusiasm a tad?) Thank you.
I've never had that comment from a mod yet but probably deserve it daily.
There are too many of you here that offered me one on one help via email, Skype, etc. or have given excellent advice through posting detailed replies to AHB. Some of these offers I have embarrassingly not even had time to respond to. Sorry about that! Thank you.
Something is telling me that Ross is probably already home and I really wanted to finish this post before he had any chance of getting in first!...
The main thanks has to go to Ross. His generosity in every area has amazed me. I hope that one day, I'll be able to pass on what I learned today and be as generous.
Many thanks
PP
P.S.. AussieClaret was able to join us after work and Ross and I were both amazed that he had just done his first AG last weekend without any sort of guidance. Aussie reckons he did a bit of a cowboy job but I reckon he did brilliantly. I would have failed totally today without Ross. For a start, a 20 lt bucket does not suffice for a mash tun! Aussie is getting a whole new brewery set-up on Sunday so hopefully we can help each other out a little in our early AG days. Unfortunately, Foz is teaching at the moment in Brisbane and couldn't join us. The only other Gold Coaster I know of, Old Dog, couldn't make it. He's a good mate of AussieClaret's though and was an active participant in the, 'Cowboy,' AG!
Brewers Details: After picking him up at 7am we mashed in at 9:45am and pitched at around 2:45pm. Brewhouse eficiency somewhere around 70%. Drinking beer and humour efficiency approached 100. So, quite a successful day.
Other Details: Apart from producing an all grain Scwartzbier, we also managed to sample 21 different beers. (Ross had 19, I'm on the 20th now and by the time I finish I'll have done the 21st.)
Thanks: I'm not too sure of forum etiquette and probably never will be. If doing your first AG is a good excuse to thank people then I'll grasp that. Surely thanking people can never be wrong even if you have had 20.5 beers? So...
There's one moderator here who has nursed me especially. Thank you. You know who you are.
There are other moderators who have been been extremely polite and taken the time to steer me gently in the correct direction when I needed it (Whoops! You've had too many beers Pistol, and, can you lower your enthusiasm a tad?) Thank you.
I've never had that comment from a mod yet but probably deserve it daily.
There are too many of you here that offered me one on one help via email, Skype, etc. or have given excellent advice through posting detailed replies to AHB. Some of these offers I have embarrassingly not even had time to respond to. Sorry about that! Thank you.
Something is telling me that Ross is probably already home and I really wanted to finish this post before he had any chance of getting in first!...
The main thanks has to go to Ross. His generosity in every area has amazed me. I hope that one day, I'll be able to pass on what I learned today and be as generous.
Many thanks
PP
P.S.. AussieClaret was able to join us after work and Ross and I were both amazed that he had just done his first AG last weekend without any sort of guidance. Aussie reckons he did a bit of a cowboy job but I reckon he did brilliantly. I would have failed totally today without Ross. For a start, a 20 lt bucket does not suffice for a mash tun! Aussie is getting a whole new brewery set-up on Sunday so hopefully we can help each other out a little in our early AG days. Unfortunately, Foz is teaching at the moment in Brisbane and couldn't join us. The only other Gold Coaster I know of, Old Dog, couldn't make it. He's a good mate of AussieClaret's though and was an active participant in the, 'Cowboy,' AG!