Ok so myself and another ahb member (hopie) had our first all grain brew day yesterday using the mini-biab method to make an all amarillo american pale ale (recipe found here http://www.biabrewer.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=153)
It was a bit of a shitfight but I think the beer will be ok despite our best efforts to ruin it.
well here's the lessons I remember from start to finish:
1. If you feel the need to drink heavily through the brew day, EAT BREAKFAST!
2. If you feel the need to drink heavily through the brew day and choose not to eat breakfast, EAT LUNCH!
3. Don't forget to measure volume and gravity at start of boil.
4. Don't forget about first hop addition till 5 minutes after it's due because you're getting into the proffesional bull riding on tv.
5. Don't forget to measure volume and gravity at end of boil.
6. A tube in an esky full of ice is not the greatest invention in chilling and you will end up using the laundry sink.
7. When filling the laundry sink to chill, turn off tap before leaving laundry to watch tv.
8. It's very hard to tape a temp controller probe to a fermenter even with 2 people when those 2 people are drunk.
9. It's even harder than that trying to program that temp controller.
10. Don't leave thongs at mates house when the missus picks you up then have to walk into dominos barefoot feeling like a complete derro.
11. Drink plenty of water before bed and don't plan brew days when you have work the next day :icon_vomit:
I think that just about covers it but I'm sure hopie will remember things I don't.
Oh and we did plan on taking pics for you all but like just about everything else... we forgot :unsure:
It was a bit of a shitfight but I think the beer will be ok despite our best efforts to ruin it.
well here's the lessons I remember from start to finish:
1. If you feel the need to drink heavily through the brew day, EAT BREAKFAST!
2. If you feel the need to drink heavily through the brew day and choose not to eat breakfast, EAT LUNCH!
3. Don't forget to measure volume and gravity at start of boil.
4. Don't forget about first hop addition till 5 minutes after it's due because you're getting into the proffesional bull riding on tv.
5. Don't forget to measure volume and gravity at end of boil.
6. A tube in an esky full of ice is not the greatest invention in chilling and you will end up using the laundry sink.
7. When filling the laundry sink to chill, turn off tap before leaving laundry to watch tv.
8. It's very hard to tape a temp controller probe to a fermenter even with 2 people when those 2 people are drunk.
9. It's even harder than that trying to program that temp controller.
10. Don't leave thongs at mates house when the missus picks you up then have to walk into dominos barefoot feeling like a complete derro.
11. Drink plenty of water before bed and don't plan brew days when you have work the next day :icon_vomit:
I think that just about covers it but I'm sure hopie will remember things I don't.
Oh and we did plan on taking pics for you all but like just about everything else... we forgot :unsure:
well thats sometimes. why do you think people post at 10am about there brew day?? they start at 4am so they dont drink threw it 
