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Outdoor Brewing
Brew day Sunday, May 14 for Flanders Red Ale. This is the 2nd batch this year. I enjoy making this Eleven gallon batch, a double decoction mash schedule.
Fortunately, I hit the 1.060 post boil OG as my mash tun was running out of room. And 60 is a little high for this style but I got the efficiency from the brewing system I wanted.
This batch is fermenting nicely in the large glass carboy. Looking forward to be finished.
Happy Summer
A great home project, brewing beer allows you to adjust the ingredients according to your tastes. It may take a little while to get the hang of things, but there are several routes that you can take to simplify things.
It helps to have a mash tun when you are brewing beer to make the experience more enjoyable. This equipment is available in a variety of different styles.
Here is a closer look at some of the most popular mash tun options on the market today and finding the perfect mash tun for you...
500L brewhouse system
1000l 2-vessel brewhouse system
Mash/Lauter tun+Brew kettle/Whirlpool tank+Hot liquor tank
My First Setup "once I became serious"
In my first story I went over my first attempt at brewing. I tried the one gallon stovetop a few times, then switched to 1G brew in a bag for the grains. This post is about my first 5G setup and dthe equipment I used then.
So we moved into our first home feburary 2016. I was still doing the brew in a Bag, but finally convinced myself to upgrade. I tossed out most of my 1G equipment into the trash and started over fresh. We were planning a trip to Havasu July with some friends and I figured that would be the perfect time to up my game... or at least "try".
Kettle: so to keep costs low because I wasn't quite confident, I purchased a turkey deepfryer pot and propane burner combo. My first brew was boiled and the strike water heated in this pot in its basic form. I did however eventually drill a hole into the side, and add a spigot. Custom built from home depot parts. It was ok, it spun I didnt like that but I got thru 4 brews with it before it met the garbage can.
Strike/Sparge Water Container: 5G home Depot cooler with a custom spigot. I did buy a floating thermometer from the Local Brew shop "What Ales Ya" in Phx. This piece of equipment also ended up meeting a bitter end. When I finally didnt need it anymore, I used it at a party to keep beers in and forgot about it in the backyard. Well the brutal summer destroyed that thing. So that's also gone. That thing made it thru 6 brews.
Mash Tun: 10G Home Depot water cooler. I did splurge on the spigot for this piece, and purchased a false bottom. Both from the local brew supply store. The first brew using this was an IPA I called Hoppy Forth IPA. Everything was perfect except for one fatal mistake. I'll talk about that later, but for now separating the grains from the wort was the bane of my brewing experience. Not anymore!
Fermenting: I went classic, glass carboy. Eventually moved to a wide mouth to ease cleaning. I'm a huge sucker for glass though. I have always felt glass was superior to plastic, even though I'm not sure. The fermenting setup was not ideal. I moved the cooled wort to the glass carboy, pitched the yeast, placed the carboy in a dark closet with a fan on it, and basically prayed. Obviously this effected the fermentation effect, flavors, and other things but I had no choice.
Bottling: I bought a 5G white bucket from walmart, bored out a hole on the side added a spigot. It was so flimsy and it spun. This was also not ideal, but it worked. I mixed the priming solution with the "fermented wort" which is as you know green beer. I also splurged at the brew store and got a "bottle filler" it worked great.
Misc: I got a hydrometer, hop sacks, bottle capper, a bunch of empty bottles, and I made a big spoon from wood. I went thru 4-6 brews under that setup and had 2 beers I enjoyed.
Hoppy Fourth IPA: so this was my first brew with the new setup. I set the equipment in the garage. I calculated the water to grain ratio, and wrote everything down. I heated my water to 179°F in order to transfer it to the sparge cooler to wait for after the mash. Here is the kicker, and I'm sure if you have any knowledge or experience in brewing will shake your head, ask why, and probably think I'm an idiot... you're right. I used the hose. I had no idea, no rational thought process. I just figured in order to brew 5G the hose would be easier. In my mind, it was absolutely the most efficient brew I had ever did and I was excited. Fast forward a little over a month, in the camper. I pulled out 3 beers and passed them out to my wife and a friend. Haha well the rubber taste was unmistakable, it was so strong it drownded out any taste of hops.... oh god it was a timely, and costly mistake.
blog week 19
meant to write this on Monday but got sidetracked I apologise.
we met up on Wednesday which went very well i believe. i was able to designate jobs for everyone as wells as brainstorm further ideas based off what jack said about uni problems and backing up memory. I passed the creative lead to Sam as he wanted to do screenwriting and i carried on designating jobs for everyone else. Me and Maggie are doing the screen cards, jack and Liam are doing the editing and vfx, Lois is doing research, scarlet is doing sound recording and actor 1, we got Daniel in to do actor 2, amber is doing cameras as well as Maggie, Jake is doing the narration. we all went away and planned to meet up on Monday to start recording but due to peoples own personal problems we couldn't so we have recorded today. It went well, Jake and Scarlet went and got sound recording equipment and recorded the narration parts and then met us at the mash tun where jack works and we recorded the actors upstairs. we decided to try me as an actor and so i learned the lines quickly and we recorded me for a shot. I am currently working on some of the slides ready for Liam and jack to edit them into the psa.
Which mistake has been the most useful, and how will it change your work in the future?
The mistake i have made this week has been lack of communication. I feel I have communicated a lot in this production and have put forward good design ideas as well as different avenues we could work down but I failed at continuing to organise and making sure people do carry on with what they should do. This is down to my own lack of ability to stand up and organise and I should work on this.
How has your work this week helped you develop the skills you are working towards and future employment?
The work today has helped me organise better, i have seen the mistakes of disorganisation and i am now better aware of how to handle it and go and about rectifying any possibilities of someone going off the rails or perhaps going to do something but designing it too differently and I have to put them back on the right tracks.
How will the result of your project be displayed and for whom? Who is your audience? Is your format or interaction appropriate for the intended observer/consumer?
The result will be posted online first. onto someones youtube address, most likely to be jack or Liam’s if they have one. and it will be displayed for humour as the script is funny so anyone really, it is a parody so for people who like those, this will appeal to them. the audience for this however is for the lecturers and people grading our work, but it is up at uni as well. The format is exactly what they asked for, it is to create a psa that looks like it is from the 1950s but doesn't have to be made with things from this era. we all have to individually work towards this so the product as a whole is out of my real control, and with the time restriction it is nigh impossible to make it look really good and finished.
Adrenaline at NoBoG
For the past weeks I have brought Adrenaline to my local board game group otherwise known as NoBoG. It is a game for three to five players and both weeks I have managed to get a full five player game in, that’s eight people who have now experienced this game.
Adrenaline is billed as a first person shooter style board game although when you play its more like in the 3rd person. Players take two…
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The Private Die of Waterdeep
The Private Die of Waterdeep
NoBoG at the Mash Tun in Norwich saw a return to more familiar territory with a game of Lords of Waterdeep played with Weird FTW and the Orctioneer himself. Later on in the night we would also break out WeirdFTW’s copy of a kickstarter game called Private Die.
Lords of Waterdeep is a worker placement game published by Wizards of the Coast with players use agents to build buildings and collect…
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