MrsGrumpy is going away for 2 weeks.

[spog]

All I read was blah blah blah... pissup at Grumpys ... blah blah blah.

Not until you post his address

 

[MartinOC]

'Sounds like Cocko's "Eurethral-glow" has had it's desired effect after-all!!!

There I was thinking it was all hyperbole & rumour-mongering....

Mind you, at the Case Swap, I did notice an inexplicable tingling around my nether regions that I passed-off as mere over-indulgence.......

 

[Cocko]

Moth to the light....

 

[MartinOC]

OMG, I think I need to see a therapist....or a Priest...no... forget that, I meant, erm..well........

 

[GrumpyPaul]

Moth to the light....

Dont call me Moth

 

[Cocko]

Sorry.











moth.

 

[Blind Dog]

A stripper with three ****. Of course.

Just tell me where. They are a bit hairy though and the 3rd only shows if I squeeze the other 2

 

[GrumpyPaul]

In a few weeks time MrsGrumpy has to go away for 2 weeks so apart for a couple of semi-adult children still at home I will be a free to brew amuck.

I am planning on getting using this time to do as many brewing related projects as I can.

On the plan so far.

Plan 1
Finally put together my 3v rig and make the leap from BIAB.

I scored this awesome little brew stand and mash tun from one guys from Melbourne Brewers (beerbelly on here)

I told him I didn't have a lot of storage space so I could fit a bit brew stand in - so he went about cutting and welding up a fold up stand for me.

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here is is with my two urns in place for HLT and Kettle.

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All I need is some plumbing to connect it all up and finally use that bargain march pump I picked ages ago and it will be sweet.

Plan 2.
Get a length of copper, coil it up and turn my little 8 litre urn into a HEX

Plan 3
Build myself a computer fan stir plate

All the bits and bobs ordered on line - will hopefully arrive in time

Plan 4
Case Swap tasting night

As per last night I will be getting my son and a couple of mates together to have a tasting night of the swap beers

Plan 5
Melbourne Brewers Annual dinner

Plan 6
Brewday Play-date

Arranged to spend an arvo brewing with a certain brewer of ill repute.

Plan 7
Brew enough to fill all my cubes.

Planning to get a few more cubes - so hopefully can have 6 filled at the end of the fortnight

Plan 8
Ferment my swap Cube

Will probably rack it onto some raspberries just for the fun of it too.....

Over the course of the 2 weeks of bachelorhood I shall update this thread and keep you all informed

Plan 9 (not brewing related)
Attend my first ever proper big name concert.

I just remembered I have tickets to go to the Queen & Adam Lambert concert on 29/8.

Believe it or not I am 46 and this is the first time I have ever been to a concert.

Whilst I am not a big fan of Adam Lambert - I am of Queen. I watched a few YouTube clips and it does look like Adam Lambert does a pretty good job on vocals.

 

[GrumpyPaul]

So today I dropped Mrs Grumpy off and said farewell.

Straight to Keg King, two trips to bunnings later and I have now completed plans 1 and 2.

Rig is set up - tonight I am playing around getting the flow rate on the pump right, test out the hex and figuring out losses so that tommorow night I can do my Maiden brew.

Also on the list is for tonight is a trip to Yobs to pick up some hops.

Will post some pick of the rig late tonight.

 

[yum beer]

Bye Bye Mrs Grumpy.......

 

[GrumpyPaul]

Plan 1 - Rig is almost ready to go.



Plan 2 - Hex is made.



Had a play and tested everything out tonight.

Maiden brew should be relatively drama free tommorow night

 

[boybrewer]

Plan 1 - Rig is almost ready to go.

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Plan 2 - Hex is made.

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Had a play and tested everything out tonight.

Maiden brew should be relatively drama free tommorow night

If you attach a piece of copper tube to the end of the outlet hose from the HX you can then slide it through the top of the lid and let it drain into a BBQ tray or on top of a piece of alfoil so it doesn't disturb the grain bed .

Great little set up.Turn the stand around 90* and put the BK where the MT is and you will be able to gravity feed straight into the fermenter .
If you go with the copper pipe through the lid drill a hole in the copper so you can place the temp probe in it to measure the temp coming out of the HX .

 

[GrumpyPaul]

I had to put the mash tun on the higher side so that the pump would prime.

On the lower side the tap on the mash was about level with the inlet on the pump - so it would prime.

I built a sparge arm and was thinking I could use that to run back into the MT from the HEX - Its a square made of copper pipe (similar to the manifold but smaller) with holes drilled in it so the liquid trickles evenly across the grain bed.

If it doesnt work, or causes channelling I'll give the foil a shot.

 

[GrumpyPaul]

Plan 7
Brew enough to fill all my cubes.

Planning to get a few more cubes - so hopefully can have 6 filled at the end of the fortnight

Update: Plan 7 under way.....did the maiden brew on my new rig last night so Cube 1 done.

A Golden Promise/Simcoe SMASH.

Rig went well - still a bit of fine tuning to get used to it.

Highlights:
Efficiency, according to Brewmate, was 79% which is about 6 points better than I was getting doing BIAB.
Hex worked really well ramping from 67 to 75 in just under 10minutes
My $15 march pump that has been sitting in the shed for nearly two years worked a treat. when ti first started up it had a bit of a rattle...but it must have been because it has been sitting for so long. After a few minutes the rattle was gone and it was humming along pretty quietly.

Lowlight
My big Urn that is serving as kettle was pretty slow to get to a boil - and needed a foil tray on top to keep it rolling. I expected it to boil up quicker as it has dual 1800kw elements.
Blew the circuit breaker in the shed when I tried to put the over-the-side element in to help it along. who would have thought 3600kw plus a the 1200kw OTS element was too much for one circuit.
Forgot to make a dip stick or depth measurements in the kettle (no sight tube) so had no idea how much went into the kettle -( ended up with Cube full to the brim so it looks like it was spot on as expected)

Plan 8
Ferment my swap Cube

Update: FG of 1.012 reached and currently crash chilling. Grabbing some raspberries today to rack it onto.

Thats it for this update.....I'm off to Full Pint to grab supplies for the next 5 brews

 

[Tahoose]

Been dropping into this thread and following along with what's been happening. Got my better half off to Hawaii next week so looking forward to some back to back brewing.

On the cards;
2 x APA's
Aussie pale ale
Smurto's TTLL clone
Stout to be split 4 ways, normal, coffee, choc, chai
Nice big hoppy IPA.
Some sort of lager.

Blew 2 kegs within minutes last night as we had a party. So have 4 empty kegs waiting.

 

[Mr B]

I cant believe you have to wait for the wi... hang on, brb.....

Soz, the wife to be aw..... arr soz, brb again........

So, the w....... damn, kids,........

The wife to be aw...... just gotta check on dinner........

Ok, the wife and the ki......

Dinner time.

Soooo, cant belie.. - arrgh, cleanup time, almost had a sec there.....

The.....hmmmm....teeth and bed time......

So, cant believe you have to wait for them to be away to get some stuff done?

You have to get some control in your family

 

[Proffs]

I cant believe you have to wait for the wi... hang on, brb.....

Soz, the wife to be aw..... arr soz, brb again........

So, the w....... damn, kids,........

The wife to be aw...... just gotta check on dinner........

Ok, the wife and the ki......

Dinner time.

Soooo, cant belie.. - arrgh, cleanup time, almost had a sec there.....

The.....hmmmm....teeth and bed time......

So, cant believe you have to wait for them to be away to get some stuff done?

You have to get some control in your family

Copy this and put it into first world problems thread; times 2.

 

[Florian]

Believe it or not I am 46

What??? you are 46?

I find that very hard to believe, you certainly present yourself as being much older than that.

I always pictured you to be around 58ish or so at the very least.

'Like' this post if you agree (if you're into that sort of stuff).

 

[GrumpyPaul]

I always pictured you to be around 58ish or so at the very least

58....**** off

Sorry I'm tasting swap beers

 

[Cocko]

You are short...

:lol: h34r: