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