Brew Day - How long?

[johnnyboy1965]

Use water out of the hot tap, it then only takes about 10-15 mins to raise to temp, you don't need to raise 27l either, you only need the mash water as the sparge water is heated separately. If you turn on the boiler when you raise the grain basket you save a load of heating time there. Cool only takes 30 mins and as it is counterflow it transfers at it is chilling. That takes it down to 3hrs 45mins plus half an hour to clean up...I really need to work out where I'm wasting the other 15 mins! :lol:

Dont use water from the hot tap. Go and have a look in your header tank and youll see the reason why.

 

[Dutto]

Dont use water from the hot tap. Go and have a look in your header tank and youll see the reason why.

Unless, like me, you don't have a header tanks and have a gas fired water-heater that takes cold water direct from the mains. :thumb:

 

[brumbrew]

Unless, like me, you don't have a header tanks and have a gas fired water-heater that takes cold water direct from the mains. :thumb:

Think this came up before. I remember the old, don't drink the hot tap thing as a kid. And I used to do loft conversions at one point. So I know the horrors.

 

[Dutto]

Think this came up before. I remember the old, don't drink the hot tap thing as a kid. And I used to do loft conversions at one point. So I know the horrors.

Me too, and one of the reasons why our current house doesn't have a header tank.

Neither did the cottage we designed and built up in the Scottish Highlands where header tanks are very prone to freezing up in winter ...

... as the idiot who bought the cottage found out after he modified my design and woke up one morning to water cascading down the walls. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[user 15657]

Thanks for the input all. Looks like a plan and a bit more concentration during brining things up to temperature will be the way to go. I'd avoided using the hot tap water but did fill it short and boil kettle fulls of water while it was coming up to temperature.

HEY!! Less of the "old man" ... :nono: :nono:

... "revered father" is better ... :thumb: :thumb:

... and I hope you are going to buy your own brew shed! :whistle: :whistle:

:lol: Whoops, didn't mean to start a family one two!

Good shout on the Lancashire Hotpots by the way! Saw them in St Helens in February. Good gig! Ale Storm is another good shout for brew day but a little different to t' Hotpots. Got to get myself a copy of Sex Pistol's Friggin in the Riggin too

 

[GermLish]

2nd AG brew: 4 1/2 hours incl. kitchen renovation (hose with the boiling worth slipped out of the ace boiler all over the place including my hand)

Next buy: Grainfather