3 Brews. One day. Here’s how:
0700 Wake up and think about brewing.
0845 Put water on
0910 Weigh Grain for Brew 1 (Belgian Trappist)
0940 Mash in
0945 Start Mash. 20g gypsum. pH 5.7. 67 deg C
0950 Drive to Stonehelm to pick up supplies
1040 Return. Check mash temp. It’s 66, rather than 67 I hoped for. I ponder and figure it’s best just to leave it.
1055 Put sparge water on.
1120 Run off c.10 l of wort.
1130 Sparge. 1.5tsp gypsum. pH 5.8
1155 Run off.
1205 More sparge. (as the last runnings were still so sweet!)
1210 Weigh grain for brew 2 (Belgian wheat beer)
1215 Run off.
1220 Wash mash tun.
1225 Mash in
1230 Start the boil.
1300 Add hops to boiling Belgian
1320 Boil extra water because concerned running out.
1400 Run off brew 2 (wheat beer).
1415 Add hops, servimoces and irish moss. Sparge wheat beer.
1430 Weigh grain for IPA
1435 Stop boil. Run off wheat beer.
1450 Sterilise bucket, sieve and jug.
1500 Transfer Belgian from copper to brew bucket.
1510 Wash copper and start wheat beer boil.
1515 Collect Mash water from kitchen.
1520 Mash in
1535 Hops added to wheat beer boil.
1545 Put my washing on
1600 Went to neighbour’s for pestle and mortar. No success.
1630 Crush corriander 11g and peel orange 10g.
1650 Add above to copper with hops and irish moss.
1655 Collect sparge water from kitchen.
1705 Sparge
1710 Sterilise brew bucket etc. to empty copper.
1715 Empty copper into brew bucket and clean.
1730 Tip IPA first (brew 3) into copper
1735 Clean up
2020 Eat dinner and watch bear grylls
2210 top up with water and add yeast to belgian
Sunday
0845 top up and yeast wheat and IPA.
2355 went to bed and the smell of yeast was overpowering in my room. DEEE-LIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!!
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Update 22nd June.
Although I had my two brew buckets, plus my mash tun / brew bucket, I think I could have done with another bucket, to deal with all the wort I was producing, as well as the remaining water. And given that I was done in reasonable time, it would be worth giving the time to sparging properly (I was stopping when my runnings were definately still sweet, which was frustrating).
Goggs’ backup was most appreciated, no doubt.