Brewing Kit

[OldGazza]

Hi everyone, reading a post the other day which had a link to a supplier offering boiler, mash tun etc as a package price which seemed reasonable. Can anyone help as i didn,t save or remember post.
Then hopefully no more mini mashing in the oven, and on to next stage.
Any offers of a nice oatmeal stout recipe you can reccomend which i can drink within a month of brewing. I have mini mashed DP 1750 porter and Simmonds 1880 Bitter to now,(Nov 08), but am an impatient blighter and want to brew and drink something to keep me away from them for another 3 months or so.
Regards Gazza

 

[tubby_shaw]

Was it this one http://www.hopandgrape.co.uk/catalog/detailV2_8.asp?itemid=TEN20165638&catid=HA20225648 :wha:

 

[OldGazza]

Many thanks. thats the one.
has anyone experience of this kit, is it adequate for smaller scale production.
regards gazza

 

[Wez]

Yep, perfectly fine for smaller scale brewing too :thumb: but you have the option to knock out a 10 gallon brew if you want to

 

[Parva]

That kit is what many of us use, myself included. 5 gallon batches are a doddle, 10 gallon batch sparging I tend to mash in twice and then boil as one. It would be fairly easy if you were to fly sparge it but for 10g 5% brews batch sparged you're really going to struggle and hence I just mash in twice. I also bought a 27l Cygnet boiler (slightly smaller than the Burco ones) to use as a HLT but it is possible to get away with just the equipment listed in the link. I would like to go to a bigger (and shiny) mash tun eventually to save doing 2x 90 minute mashes for 10g brews but it's low on the list of priorities at the moment and the current setup serves its purpose.

If you do go for this, get the dual-element boiler and forget the thermostat, it's really not needed.

 

[Vossy1]

Any offers of a nice oatmeal stout recipe you can reccomend which i can drink within a month of brewing

Yep this one its a belter and has done the rounds with much approval :thumb:

 

[Aleman]

Any offers of a nice oatmeal stout recipe you can reccomend which i can drink within a month of brewing

Yep this one its a belter and has done the rounds with much approval :thumb:

:hmm: :sick:

:whistle: :lol:

 

[BrewStew]

mmmm yeah i remember that one too V, I could still taste "that taste" a day after :sick: :rofl:

 

[MEB]

Spearmint Wino's 'Gail Porter' recipe is a belter and ready to drink the day you keg it. But don't use windsor yeast unless you like flowing at ten farts per minute :shock:

PM him and he'll happily give you the recipe. It won awards and stuff and i'd happily recommend it to anyone :

 

[Vossy1]

Guys, I thinks that's a bit unfair.
I saved that bottle specially for you and the recipe has been made by others and confirmed as a good un.
I have aslo made that recipe many times and only had a couple of bad batches, due in no small part to my own 'issues'

It's not my recipe, just for information, it was taken from Clone Brews by Tess and Mark Szamatulski.

I'm not at all 'touchy' about my own 'problem' batches, I just don't like to see a well regarded recipe dismissed without some factual content to validate the response

One day I'll get to the bottom of that 'blue cheese' taste, hops being the obvious culprit, but having used them on pales without the same result, I can't lay the problem at that door so easily :wha:

 

[BrewStew]

sorry voss.... i was only having a laugh mate

that blue cheesy type taste appeared in my last stout (tard) after it'd been in the keg for 2 months... i still swear it's the roasted :hmm:

 

[Vossy1]

sorry voss.... i was only having a laugh mate

No worries mate, I was just a bit worried that other folk might think the recipe was crap.
Those 'special' bottles I saved for you and Aleman were truley dreadful...I'm surpised they didn't put you off beer for life :rofl:

that blue cheesy type taste appeared in my last stout (tard) after it'd been in the keg for 2 months... i still swear it's the roasted

I'm inclined to agree...until I know better...always willing to learn

PS, did you finely grind the roast malt?

 

[BrewStew]

i didn't grind it all all... it was as it came in the pack from H&G.

i'm gunna start making my own specialy malts soon and see if that makes a difference to the long term flavour :thumb:

 

[Vossy1]

My roast malt was non ground so I had to do it myself. The only difference between the blue cheese brew, and the non bc brew, was that I ground it more coarsely :hmm:

 

[BrewStew]

any difference in time of maturation?

erm.... shall we start another thread? i think we're hijacking this one :lol:

 

[percival]

if i was to get into AG brewing then i reckon this would be my first brew, love a nice stout, and a whole heap of good reviews would way more than counter the one failed brew/bottle

 

[tubby_shaw]

if i was to get into AG brewing then i reckon this would be my first brew

What do you mean if :wha:
That should read when

 

[Aleman]

sorry voss.... i was only having a laugh mate

No worries mate, I was just a bit worried that other folk might think the recipe was crap.
Those 'special' bottles I saved for you and Aleman were truley dreadful...I'm surpised they didn't put you off beer for life :rofl:

My apologies Vossy . . . TBH, I actually didn't mind the beer . . .don't know what that says about my taste buds :shock: . . . And anyway as I've said before oats are for horses :lol:

 

[Vossy1]

My apologies Vossy . . .

stop apologising....you're all too bloody nice :lol:

TBH, I actually didn't mind the beer . . .don't know what that says about my taste buds

:shock: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :lol:

And anyway as I've said before oats are for horses

:lol: :lol:

 

[percival]

if i was to get into AG brewing then i reckon this would be my first brew

What do you mean if :wha:
That should read when

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