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The Sandgroper stein beer day will be on Saturday 22 July. Post here if you plan to attend and I will pm my address. If you havent been to a brew day before, it involves me running round making beer and making lunch, while you stand around criticising my equipment and techniques, and arguing over whether 1272 or 1056 makes a better APA. You bring your best and worst beers along for sampling and advice on improvement.
On account of the hot rocks, this one will be a bit more organised than usual.
1) This is not an AHB organised or sanctioned event. This is me having some fun in my back yard and you are welcome to come and watch.
2) The day will happen rain or shine. I brew in the open so I will get wet if it rains, but there should be enough shelter in the bar for the spectactors to stay dry, and there will be no shortage of heat, I will be chainsawing up a pile of jarrah demolition timber this weekend.
3) I will have four kegs on tap and will provide lunch. You bring your hand crafted beers or interesting commercial beers and maybe an interesting beer snack. I will have plenty of fridge space. I strongly recommend against driving. I live 100 m from Meltham train station.
4) If you want to physically chuck hot rocks in the kettle, I need you to be wearing covered leather shoes (ie boots), long cotton trousers (jeans OK), long sleeved non synthetic shirt. If you just want to watch you can wear what you like, but to be honest I am not a fan of orange lycra.
5) We will be using grano-diorite rocks borrowed from the Darling ranges. I have test fired them inside a pot belly stove without explosions so we should be safe. However you should be aware that with a big fire and hot rocks and also rather large dogs there are a few risks and you need to stay in a state where you arent a danger to yourself or anyone else.
6) I think the beer will be an Oktoberfest. If its any good we can drink it at Sandgroptoberfest which we hold at Deebees place every year (dont we?). Recipe suggestions from expert fest brewers welcomed - Asher? Hopefully the rocks will pick up caramelised wort and will be put into the secondary for extra flavour and grittyness.
7)To give you an idea of the day so you can see the bits that interest you the general plan is:
11am Heat strike water on open fire, chemistry treatment of water, crush grain
12 pm Dough in
12 pm to 1 pm - Mashing (ie drinking)
1 pm to 2 pm ish Batch sparging
2pm to 3:30 pm Find out if hot rocks will really boil 30 l.
3pm Late lunch
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Cooling with immersion chiller, lifting kettle with liftovator, gravity draining to fermenter
4:30 pm until late Tasting and drinking
Cheers
Simon
On account of the hot rocks, this one will be a bit more organised than usual.
1) This is not an AHB organised or sanctioned event. This is me having some fun in my back yard and you are welcome to come and watch.
2) The day will happen rain or shine. I brew in the open so I will get wet if it rains, but there should be enough shelter in the bar for the spectactors to stay dry, and there will be no shortage of heat, I will be chainsawing up a pile of jarrah demolition timber this weekend.
3) I will have four kegs on tap and will provide lunch. You bring your hand crafted beers or interesting commercial beers and maybe an interesting beer snack. I will have plenty of fridge space. I strongly recommend against driving. I live 100 m from Meltham train station.
4) If you want to physically chuck hot rocks in the kettle, I need you to be wearing covered leather shoes (ie boots), long cotton trousers (jeans OK), long sleeved non synthetic shirt. If you just want to watch you can wear what you like, but to be honest I am not a fan of orange lycra.
5) We will be using grano-diorite rocks borrowed from the Darling ranges. I have test fired them inside a pot belly stove without explosions so we should be safe. However you should be aware that with a big fire and hot rocks and also rather large dogs there are a few risks and you need to stay in a state where you arent a danger to yourself or anyone else.
6) I think the beer will be an Oktoberfest. If its any good we can drink it at Sandgroptoberfest which we hold at Deebees place every year (dont we?). Recipe suggestions from expert fest brewers welcomed - Asher? Hopefully the rocks will pick up caramelised wort and will be put into the secondary for extra flavour and grittyness.
7)To give you an idea of the day so you can see the bits that interest you the general plan is:
11am Heat strike water on open fire, chemistry treatment of water, crush grain
12 pm Dough in
12 pm to 1 pm - Mashing (ie drinking)
1 pm to 2 pm ish Batch sparging
2pm to 3:30 pm Find out if hot rocks will really boil 30 l.
3pm Late lunch
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Cooling with immersion chiller, lifting kettle with liftovator, gravity draining to fermenter
4:30 pm until late Tasting and drinking
Cheers
Simon
