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howdy brewers, I´m using a software that a friend of mine has written. The software controls the temp of the MLT, switches on and off the gas burners, switches on and off the wort pump, controls the water level, in short, controls everything. here a pic of the soft: this software is...

Before you´re going to add the hops, you should determine the bitterness of your beer. The bitterness of beers is expressed in IBU (International Bittering Units) For example, Lagers are around 20 to 28 IBU, Pilseners around 25 to 40 and up. definition: 1 IBU = 1mg of alpha acid per liter...

Hello olly, wow, your hops addition would be good for more than 100l beer. Please tell us how much beer you´re aiming for and how long you´re going to boil the wort/hops. The hops addition depends on the amount of wort and the boiling time. What form of hops do you have? Pellets? Cheers...

a few more pics, just to complete this thread: As you have seen, I´m brewing in the backyard/garden and after all, the wort must get transferred in the cellar, where the fermenter stands. That´s the opportunity for airating the wort. Whilst the wort is running down into the fermenter, there...

that looks beautiful. I almost can smell it :thumb: would like to try it, Cheers :cheers:

Now I´m home and hosed. Finally hit the targed spot on: 12° Plato is an OG of~1048, just Bingo. Now the wort is cooling down, guess it takes a few more hours, then I´m going to pitch the yeast and after 5 days racking the young beer into kegs. So I can survive the next 3 weeks, then have...

here one can see a graph that shows the water inlet temp of the heatexchanger and the wort out temp. water is at 14.3°C, wort out is at 15°C: that´s a little bit too warm for pitching the yeast, have to cool it down a bit more in the fridge. The yeast stands ready to get pitched: here...

Thanks mates, your comments are highly appreciated. so, doing the whirlpool, the mash paddle stands ready to go: the wort is spinning: after the debris has settled down, the wort flows by gravity through the plate heat exchanger into the buffer: it takes about 20min. to get around 66l...

yeah, on the serial ports are some Dallas 18S20 temp sensors and at the parallel port is a 8bit relais card with 8 switchable relais. I´m a little bit in rush at the moment, right now have to do the whirlpool, cooling down, aerating and pitching the yeast. I´ll continue the thread, posting...

Allow me to introduce/explain my technical equipment in another thread. May be some of you homebrewers are interested in a computer aided brewing system, although it may be only from interest if you wanna do step mash. The program is written by a friend of mine and is freeware. Basically its...

Thanks brewers for the good wishes, lautering has been done, the windshield is on the HLT and 80litres of wort are starting to boil: what a wonderful world..... :mrgreen:

that makes me jealous, normally we get only bad weathers coming from England ;) View on top of the MLT: On top of the stirrer is placed a spare thermometer, then the on left the main temp probe, another temp probe and the inlet for the sparge water, one more pic: now have to go for lautering

g´day homebrewers, decided to do a brewday today, since the weather is not eligble to do anything else, it´s 10°C outside and showery....brrrr... 11kg of foinest Pilsener malt are ready to get crushed: That´s my baby, making 60 litres of foinest beers, computer controlled: The...

sorry, may be it´s a little bit off topic, but I found it too funny: An old Italian lived alone in New Jersey. He wanted to plant his annual tomato garden, but it was very difficult work as the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a...

Congratulations Davesiv, that´s an awesome result. My calculator says 8.8% alc/vol. :thumb: Cheers

another option would be to multiply your yeastie-beasties by putting them on slants. Cheers :cheers: