My AG cherry popper! Now with pic's

[Muddydisco]

Morning all, Seems my weekend of painting the house is washed out, I'm doing my first AG brew.
Think we'll be calling it "Fire & Brimstone" as we started to dough in, the Largest flash of lighting and thunder straight after
came crashing down!

Well here's the bill

4.9kg of Maris Otter Pale
0.1kg of Crystal 120srm

25g Northdown (90 min)
35g Fuggles (90 min)
15g Fuggles (15 min)
10g Goldings (steeped at 80c for 30 mins)
Protofloc (15 min)
Campden tablet as put 45ltr in HLT (just in case I need more!)

There's photo's coming soon!!!
Mash is on, lost alittle temp so need to adjust strike temp next time.

Kettle's boiled so to have some coffee!

 

[Frisp]

Crackin MD have a good day :thumb: ... No way back there is young Jedi :clap:

 

[Neil09]

Have a good day :

 

[ni9e]

Have a good day hope all is going well :

 

[tubby_shaw]

Good on ya MD :thumb:
I hope it goes well for you :pray:
You never forget your first time
Mine was a disaster :lol:

 

[Muddydisco]

Looks Good! Rolling Boil on at 11:45am Hops in.
Stupid question time!
Do I need to temperature correct a refractometer reading?
Pre boil reading was 1039 at 94c ( not quite pre boil I forgot so was nearly boil!)
If not then I have done quite well as beersmith said it would be 1041

 

[Wez]

Hope it continues to go well buddy :thumb:

I don't temp correct the refrectometer - the drop you use cools very quickly on the plate :thumb:

How many litres did you have pre boil?

 

[Muddydisco]

30 ltr which is 2 more than beersmith reckoned just to be safe

 

[Wez]

I think you'll end up with 1.048 or more into the FV

 

[Muddydisco]

Grain bill

Hops weighed out and labeled

Mash on!

Mash in bed

First runnings

Pouring first runnings back into mash tun

First wort into boiler

Nosey helper

Spent grain, It also left my house an hour later for some hungry chickens!

Last of the wort

First of the hops in

During full boil

Are you bored yet?!

Filling the FV

Dirty Dirty Trub!

Post boil sample

Look at the flockers in that!!!

 

[tubby_shaw]

Great pics :thumb:
A good day by the look of it :thumb:

 

[Muddydisco]

Now the details!
Mash start 9:34
Mash end 11:04
Mash temp average 62.4c (poor need to adjust strike temp) aimed at 65c
First runnings 1079
10ltr in 1055
18ltr in 1028
30ltr in 1016

Pre boil 30 ltr and 1041 Beersmith said 1039 and 28 ltr

Roilling boil start 11:45
Boil end 1:15

OG 1049 and 24 ltr Beersmith said 1047 and 23.5 ltr

Now how I do work out effiencey? Recipe was worked on 70%

Edit
2 seconds after posting Wez phoned me and explained all.

So my brew house efficiency is 74.45% Which I'm very happy with seems it's not been a bad day!

 

[ni9e]

Nice pics looks like you had a good first brew :thumb:

 

[llannige]

Well done on a good brewday.

Great pics too. :clap:

 

[Vossy1]

Gr8 pics md :thumb:

 

[Muddydisco]

Thanks Guy's,
No way back now from the dark side, But really it's not that hard would recommend it to anyone!

I forgot to put I have used S-33 yeast for a change, Thought I'd give it ago?
Any thoughts on that?

 

[Screwy]

Now the details!


So my brew house efficiency is 74.45% Which I'm very happy with seems it's not been a bad day!

Well done MD, set your brewhouse eff to 75% before entering your next recipe, you'll soon be hitting your targets bang on.

Cheers,

Screwy