Ok so I takeing the the leap from extract to all grain brewing and here is the first step in that. I have made my mash tun which I can't wait to try out. I will probably do at least 1 or 2 more extract brews though. Well I'll see you guys in the next update. Cheers
Well im gonna be transfering my brown ale over to the carboy today after work. I will updat and post photos later. Cheers.
So I bottled the Belgian blonde ale today as you can see from the photos. I realize I didn't take very many photos if the bottling process but that is because I was by myself and had a lot going on. When I bottle the ESB I will make sure to get more photos. Anyway I ended up with 50 bottles which isn't to bad. It finished at 1.012 so it is sitting at about 6.5 avb. I'll be back later with a few photos of my setup so check back later. Cheers.
Okay so now we have our specialty grains steeping. I have to let it sleep until it's 170 degrees I'm currently at 140 degrees. In 30 more degrees I will pull the specialty grains and let the wort come to a boil. At which time I will kill the heat and add my dme.
Ok so you can see from the photos I have chilled my wort and pitched my yeast. My "beer" is sitting at 70ºF in my brew room with the other tasty treats I have fermenting. So in about 3 weeks I will bottle as this beer doesn't call for a secondary fermentation. My original gravity was 1. 073 at 70 degrees so we are looking good at the moment. I will have more updates later. Check back often. Cheers.
Alright were done with the boil all thats left now is to chill the wort transfer it to the fermentation bucket and pitch my yeast. We may also do a bottleing todsy as it is still so very early. I have a Belgian blonde in the carhoy that needs to be bottled so we will see. Cheers
Ok so as you can see from the photos I pulled the specialty grains and added the DME. Now I have to boil for 5 minutes and than add my hops. Man thus wort smells awesome.
