abeyptfc
Landlord.
alright folks, off work tomorrow so had already decided to do an overnight mash and finish off the brew tomorrow. 'wee Meg ale' is in tribute to my wee spaniel Meg,she has been gradually deteriorating since she had a mini stroke last June.
Over the last few weeks she has lost quite a bit of weight and all power in her back end and cant control her bowels.her eyesight and general awareness is going day by day, she can see shapes moving but can't see your hand when you are going to pat her head and gets a fright when you touch her so we've made the decision to phone the vet who is coming out tomorrow to send her to the kennel in the sky with her home dawgs. I wasn't going to bother brewing when I got home tonight but as I'm off tomorrow I thought it would be a good idea to try and occupy me to 2.30 when the vet comes over.Meg would have been 16 on September 29th, it feels like I'm losing a wee sister, absolutely gutted, can't put it into words how much of a hole she will leave in my family, but its the right decision at the end of the day.hope you guys all raise a glass tonight( if your still up late night bevvying, or over the weekend, cheers. :
onto the brewday.
was originally going for the brakspear bitter from the GW book but Ive got quite a bit of hops that I would like to try so have pimped my brew.i substituted 110g of crystal malt for 300g munich malt to try and up the abv, the original recipe is only 3.8%, i expect mine will end up higher due to the increased grains and efficiency with the overnight mash.
few pics of this evening so far, have to start with a few pics of the wee dug from previous brewdays! proper brewdog as you will see!!
wee bastard setting about my grains
recipe - I'm still an AG novice so if something looks wrong, then it probably is!
grains
mash water
doughing in
you can see the wee grains of black malt in there!
dunno what happened with the temp, it was projected at 66 in the book, 64 will just have to do, its all tucked up for the night.
will be up early to finish the brewday off so will add some more pics tomorrow folks.
cheers :thumb:
Over the last few weeks she has lost quite a bit of weight and all power in her back end and cant control her bowels.her eyesight and general awareness is going day by day, she can see shapes moving but can't see your hand when you are going to pat her head and gets a fright when you touch her so we've made the decision to phone the vet who is coming out tomorrow to send her to the kennel in the sky with her home dawgs. I wasn't going to bother brewing when I got home tonight but as I'm off tomorrow I thought it would be a good idea to try and occupy me to 2.30 when the vet comes over.Meg would have been 16 on September 29th, it feels like I'm losing a wee sister, absolutely gutted, can't put it into words how much of a hole she will leave in my family, but its the right decision at the end of the day.hope you guys all raise a glass tonight( if your still up late night bevvying, or over the weekend, cheers. :
onto the brewday.
was originally going for the brakspear bitter from the GW book but Ive got quite a bit of hops that I would like to try so have pimped my brew.i substituted 110g of crystal malt for 300g munich malt to try and up the abv, the original recipe is only 3.8%, i expect mine will end up higher due to the increased grains and efficiency with the overnight mash.
few pics of this evening so far, have to start with a few pics of the wee dug from previous brewdays! proper brewdog as you will see!!
wee bastard setting about my grains
recipe - I'm still an AG novice so if something looks wrong, then it probably is!
grains
mash water
doughing in
you can see the wee grains of black malt in there!
dunno what happened with the temp, it was projected at 66 in the book, 64 will just have to do, its all tucked up for the night.
will be up early to finish the brewday off so will add some more pics tomorrow folks.
cheers :thumb:
