Baz is back .... Bungy Tin Brew

[Baz Chaz]

Having only brewed once in the end of May last year :shock: due to several (health and family) reasons, decided it was time to get brewing again. Had a root around in the storage boxes in ‘The Den’ and found enough bits and bobs to knock together a brew! I’d already checked with a quick ‘phone call to Rob ‘Malt Miller’ that the bags of grain would be OK :thumb: the hops were recovered from the freezer to use up, put this lot into Beer Engine and this was the result… The Bungy Tin Brew :lol:

By 8.30am this morning the buffalo was on and water coming up to temperature, the grain weighed out and then the smaller amounts of chocolate/torrified mixed weighed and added, it was easy really, weigh what was left and that’ll do

Managed to find all the bits and get them all sorted and assembled OK, good old Heath Robinson job with the mash tun, plate push fits which allows for easy cleaning. First thing this morning result, found a pair of specs in the ‘brew drawer’ I’d been wondering where that pair had got to, been sort of looking for ‘em for months :whistle:

Mash tun filled and temperature checked, all OK so far, leave well wrapped up with old quilted jacket for extra insulation ready to start sparging later. Cupboard of the last of the older stock, all these are between 8 months and a year old, plus another couple of boxes sealed up in storage :

Plenty to start filling though :thumb:

First runnings to go back into tun, just love that smell

Start of rolling boil, for anyone who’s thinking about a Buffalo, yup, they boil OK, time to sit back and think, make sure everythings been done! Sort out hops and most important, don’t lose bit of paper with all the notes/times on it :geek:

Time goes quick when you’re having fun, forgot to take some hop piccys, busy nattering with neighbour who popped round, he could smell it next door again! Spent grain was bagged and taken round to other neighbours for chickens, more eggs when they get back into full production, nice barter system we have, spent grain=eggs, bottle ale=eggs :clap: Then its chill time …

Baz’s high class steam extraction plant, well not so much extraction as open the door and shove it out :geek:

Chilled down and into FV, another bit of high tec stuff, filtration plant :geek:

All that waste! Well not really, onto the rose bed that goes along with the used hops, can feed the roses :!:

OG was down on the expected 1042, I managed 1041, where did it all go wrong :lol: Not going to lose any sleep over that my friends, I’m sure it will be a decent pint :drink:
Mix up a packet of yeast with some of the wort after checking the temperature in the FV, pour it in and put the FV into its insulated box with the heater on and see what’s happening by morning.
Washing up and tidying round put everything away done time for a well earned …….. :

That’s a pint of Banks’s Original, brewed 22 April 2011 3.6% ABV and a lovely light refreshing pint, one of my favourite beers for knocking off an afternoon thirst :


All in all a really enjoyable day, I used to plan to the n’th degree :ugeek: but this was a more relaxed affair, make do with what I’d got ‘in stock’ which is why it got called the Bungy Tin Brew :whistle: my barmy old ‘sense of Yuma’ :hmm: :lol:

 

[graysalchemy]

Good to see you brewing again my mate :thumb: :thumb:

 

[Baz Chaz]

Cheers buddy :thumb: think this year I might be brewing more lighter hoppy beers :idea:

Looking through my brews and the notes I've made over the last year, it seems the lighter ales have gone quicker and regularly had better comments, typical is the Banks's Original :!:

 

[Good Ed]

Glad your back on the horse, we've missed your eloquence

 

[Wez]

Great to see you brewing :thumb:

 

[Stone Cold]

you still got it baz

 

[phettebs]

Welcome back Baz! :thumb: Nice looking beer.

Baz

 

[gurtpint]

Good to see you at it again, Baz.