silverbrewer
Active Member
I have been cobbling together the bits and bobs needed to start brewing again, after a long spell buying beer instead.
It is my vowed intent to make a perfect copy of Fullers ESB, and I am not much interested in making anything else as ESB is my idea of perfection.
I have built a substantial shed, one side of which will be the brewery, and one side the pub, although friends will have to try to ignore the medium size lathe next to the dart board.
I have 20 gallon stainless steel containers that I bought over 35 years ago to replace the plastic buckets, and gravity is getting ousted by three peristaltic pumps which will enable me to sparge and drain the mash tun in perfect syncronisation which is much better than messing about setting tap flow rates. God knows how much this venture has cost so far but the Blickman false bottom, stir plate, 15mm silicone tube, and a large stainless sink and draining board have totted up to way past a grand, so I have sort of stopped counting!
I'm nowhere near finished yet.......I am sorting out my water treatment at the moment. The Ward labs report is indicating that my water is nearly ok as it is, and I am merely getting confused by the water treatment spreadsheet I am using!!! It wasn't that bad back in the day when Dave Lines "Big book of brewing" was the only technology at our disposal.
I will post pictures when I am next at the computermabob.
If any brewers in the area fancy getting in touch, then that would be good, especially if they have a doctorate in chemistry.
More later, probably following a six O clock news bulletin about the idiot in Birmingham who blew up his shed.
Next will be the fermenter heating and cooling system, but I've got the bits for that, just need my welder mate to pop round for a few hours....Good job it's only a hobby.
I cannot post photos as the forum then thinks I am a spammer! Later when I've been vetted I suppose.
Rog
It is my vowed intent to make a perfect copy of Fullers ESB, and I am not much interested in making anything else as ESB is my idea of perfection.
I have built a substantial shed, one side of which will be the brewery, and one side the pub, although friends will have to try to ignore the medium size lathe next to the dart board.
I have 20 gallon stainless steel containers that I bought over 35 years ago to replace the plastic buckets, and gravity is getting ousted by three peristaltic pumps which will enable me to sparge and drain the mash tun in perfect syncronisation which is much better than messing about setting tap flow rates. God knows how much this venture has cost so far but the Blickman false bottom, stir plate, 15mm silicone tube, and a large stainless sink and draining board have totted up to way past a grand, so I have sort of stopped counting!
I'm nowhere near finished yet.......I am sorting out my water treatment at the moment. The Ward labs report is indicating that my water is nearly ok as it is, and I am merely getting confused by the water treatment spreadsheet I am using!!! It wasn't that bad back in the day when Dave Lines "Big book of brewing" was the only technology at our disposal.
I will post pictures when I am next at the computermabob.
If any brewers in the area fancy getting in touch, then that would be good, especially if they have a doctorate in chemistry.
More later, probably following a six O clock news bulletin about the idiot in Birmingham who blew up his shed.
Next will be the fermenter heating and cooling system, but I've got the bits for that, just need my welder mate to pop round for a few hours....Good job it's only a hobby.
I cannot post photos as the forum then thinks I am a spammer! Later when I've been vetted I suppose.
Rog
