Mashing in 103 Lbs of grain! That 18v cordless drill sure gest s workout! A nice pic of doughing in the mash, The grain may be a tad over-crushed, but we have not had a stuck mash yet! The mortar mixer makes a great mash stirring tool! The Barefoot Brewer! 11 gallons of pre-boil first runnings, it was around 1.080 - 1.085... someone forgot their nifty refractometer... Firing up the burner for the first runnings to make some barleywine. Chris Wilson taking notes, what a great brewing partner! Don't let the Miller Lite fool ya, that thar is the first runnings barleywine from our last batch of EPA... Just after 10PM, adding more water to the HLT from the hot water heater, I disconnected the washer and ran a hose. I had previously hot-wired it to get 170 degrees, do NOT try that at home, we are amateurs! the camera takes a few little flashes to focus, guess this one caught Chris by surprise! I am just 'stirrin the pot' Enjoying a few minutes rest and some EPA My buddy Pete the wine maker studying our system! If someone, say your roomie's girlfriend, is washing their hair with the water knobs adjusted appropriately for 140 degree or so hot water, and you take all the hot water pressure to fill the HLT, they are not very happy gettting something akin to ice-cream-headache! Sorry Becky! Sight glasses need constant attention because they are plastic... Grabbing some yeast out of the Conical, I made an all-grain starter a week before, it was meant to be a 2-day starter, but things happen, and I was happy to brew at all by this time! Getting a little more than I expected when the ooze of yeast cake ended and beer started coming out! A gallon of really yeasty sludge to ferment our Brown Ale, it was pitched with Safale S04 dry yeast, which was pitched on top of a pint of yeast cake from our EPA that was in the fridge for 2 months, that was WLP005 british ale yeast. Chris wishing he had his refractometer. Chris REALLY wishing he had his refractometer :-p Adding the first hops just after 11PM. What a boil! From a 40 gallon boil, I think we got 31-34 gallons in the fermenters. More guages than any person needs! Chilling the barleywine.... Chilling the barleywine.... I racked the beer (hopped all-grain starter batch) in the conical to a 3-gal fermenter to secondary it, and chilled half of the barleywine straight into the yeast that was left in it. Using the slope of the driveway to our advantage.. Metering the water flow and reading the temperature on the outgoing wort. Getting the highly technical oxygen supply ready. Assembling the new inline oxygenator to put the 2nd half of the barleywine in a carboy Getting ready to chill and oxygenate at teh same time! Kids and their new toy! What a pretty sight, you just can't get any more fermentation-helping oxygen in the wort than this! I made this in-line oxygenator after seeing one like it on http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/ it is the gallery on the 2nd page under "Gadget Show Gadgets" The complete oxygenating setup The chiller and thermometer Leaf hops and a bazooka screen are a wonderfull thing! Yeah, that is really oxygenated! Giving chris a little more to even it out... adding a little O2 to the conical Two VERY happy brewers near the end of a very sucessful brew session. I lent/donated Chris my 3rd keg fridge to use as a fermenter/lagering fridge Getting ready to chill the main boil Filling the first fermenter, 15 gallon fermenters take a lot of work out! Chillin' and fillin' Are you chillin'? \n\nI am chillin' like a villan! Hard to find words when a brew session goes this good! the star-san no-rinse foam getting shoved out Filling the 2nd fermenter... if you look at the timestamnps on the pics, it has only been 4 minutes or so since putting about 12 gallons in the first fermenter! Three gallons a minute, holy crap! WOW that works so good From left to right, a conical with 4.5 gallons of BarleyWine, two sankey fermenters with 12-13 gallons of DBA (Dutch's Brown Ale) each in them, 4 gallons of Third Runnings (DBA-TR) , 3 gallons of the starter batch now in secondary fermentetion, and 5 gallons of DBA THAT is a yeast cake.. it later got high enough to push the lid up and drip on the floor... it went from 1.092 to 1.040 in 48 hours! On the left you will see my grain store (literally.. why does one need 700lbs of grain? why not?
Here are some additional files: brew session html file - Promash Brew Session - Promash .rec file