On Saturday, Michael, Ben and Chris started making the first batch of beer. As you'd expect, we got a bit wrong, but a fair bit right.
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| This is the big pot. It's empty, but it took 5 cubes to fill it |
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| Looks better with water in it. We added a teaspoon of Calcium Sulphate to it |
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| It takes a strong man to carry in the grain. What sort of grain is it? |
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| Ben is measuring the temperature of the water. We started the heating at 10:45am. It was at the right temperature (69 degrees celsius) at 11:35am |
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| "Let's tie the thermometer to a string. That'll be easier. What could possibly go wrong?" |
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| A good look at the empty bag |
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| tipping in the grain |
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| The grain went in at 11:40am |
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| there's that thermometer on the string again. Can you guess what happened to it? |
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| here's us looking for the thermometer that has dropped into the mash |
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| It's 1pm, time to lift out the mash |
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| we hooked up a pulley system for this. Ben is working on his own pulley system in the background, there |
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| looks good |
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| looks great |
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| the recipe |
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| the hops |
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| Squeeze out that mash! |
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| Bringing the Wort to a boil |
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| looking fine |
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| a bit of sediment left over |
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| 2 1/2 cubes of wort, ready for fermenting |
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now, that's just being silly |
