First and second all grain brews

[johnnyk]

Well I eventually got round to brewing the all grain way :)

My first attempt I went for an American lager style :

3.25kg Lager malt
0.5kg Rice
0.5kg Flaked maize

60 min boil
20g Saaz (60 mins)
20g Hallertauer Hersbrucker (60 mins)
5g Tettnang (15 mins)

2 x SafLager West European Lager yeast S-23

Fermented at around 10c for about 10 days then kegged and CO2 at 16psi

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My second attempt I went for a German pilsner style :

3.0kg Lager malt
0.75kg Munich malt
0.5kg Cara pils

60 min boil
25g Tettnang (60 mins)
20g Hallertauer Hersbrucker (25 mins)

German lager white labs WLP830 yeast

Fermenting away at 10c.

Can't wait to to taste them soon :drink:

I had help from ChrisG which was great :thumb: but once I started I found it easier than I thought it was going to be and looking how to improve for the next time. I will need more kegs from Norman soon tho :mrgreen:

 

[robsan77]

good work. nice looking recipes :thumb:

 

[mickeyt69]

Yeh good work you inspired me to do a larger for the summer now cheers!!

 

[johnnyk]

Cheers, i'm more of a lager lout but I might try to do an ale next :

 

[johnnyk]

I have now emailed Norman for more kegs :)

I was wondering how you connect 4 kegs up to the CO2 at once? I was looking for splitters but can only find the one I got from Norman that splits into 2.

Are there others that have more?

Cheers,

 

[ChrisG]

Hi m8.

You can buy an separate regulator that monitors 4 lines or more and you set the PSI on that for each keg, Norman has them I think.

I was wondering how to best do this too and I might just keep splitting the gas line with the John Guest fittings.

 

[johnnyk]

Hi m8.

You can buy an separate regulator that monitors 4 lines or more and you set the PSI on that for each keg, Norman has them I think.

I was wondering how to best do this too and I might just keep splitting the gas line with the John Guest fittings.

cheers chris,

i just went with the john guest fittings just now, nice and simple :

my first batch is nearly finished, other one should be ready soon :)