First full mash - nearly there

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Jerry Cornelius

First full mash - nearly there

Post by Jerry Cornelius » Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:38 pm

Just picked up this sack from a local brewery, £20 :D

Mash Tun finished, Kettle finished, (sort of...) just got to wire up a double socket in the garage and I'm ready. Oh, and finish my IC and sort out the taps for the MT and kettle. Tried to create the syphon effect by soldering on two 15 -> 10 mm reducers, but I am easily the world's most useless solderer :oops: Just ended up up with a distorted 15mm connector and loads of solder blobs. Bugger. Need to talk my mate into coming around again.
Still he was happy with the bottles of BC Old Ale & Scottish 80/- I gave him the other day for sorting out the hop and grain strainers :)

Hope to get my first full-mash on the way at the weekend...
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trucker5774
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Re: First full mash - nearly there

Post by trucker5774 » Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:45 pm

That was a good buy! I thought I did well at Leyland for £29.00 :|
John

Drinking/Already drunk........ Trucker's Anti-Freeze (Turbo Cider), Truckers Delight, Night Trucker, Rose wine, Truckers Hitch, Truckers Revenge, Trucker's Lay-by, Trucker's Trailer, Flower Truck, Trucker's Gearshift, Trucker's Horn, Truck Crash, Fixby Gold!

Conditioning... Doing what? Get it down your neck! ........

FV 1............
FV 2............
FV 3............
Next Brews..... Trucker's Jack Knife
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rick_huggins

Re: First full mash - nearly there

Post by rick_huggins » Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:51 pm

Making beer is fun, cheap and better than you get in the boozer... Happy days!
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Jerry Cornelius

Re: First full mash - nearly there

Post by Jerry Cornelius » Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:05 pm

I was very pleased witht the price, phoned two breweries, the first one said they didn't supply to home brewers and recommended I try my LHBS (who had already told me to try and source it from a brewery, because he couldn't sell it for less than £60. A very good shop, incidentally, and I try to support him with other stuff like FVs, crown caps, yeast and the like).

Second one said, of, course, come around when you like. :mrgreen:

I won't post their name, in case they don't want me to (although they didn't actually ask me not to).
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Parva

Re: First full mash - nearly there

Post by Parva » Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:16 am

I would be very careful about revealing who the brewery is. There is rumoured to be a brewing 'mafia' that would like to prevent us homebrewers getting hold of grains at low prices. The big breweries for one are rumoured to put pressure on maltsters if they find out that homebrewers are getting cheap malt. All hearsay I know but I do have some experience of this practice and just keep tight-lipped now.
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Jerry Cornelius

Re: First full mash - nearly there

Post by Jerry Cornelius » Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:39 am

Parva, now I'm paranoid... I've removed the picture just in case. :(
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Parva

Re: First full mash - nearly there

Post by Parva » Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:18 pm

Jerry Cornelius wrote:Parva, now I'm paranoid... I've removed the picture just in case. :(
A wise move, I kid you not.
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Cheshire-cheese

Re: First full mash - nearly there

Post by Cheshire-cheese » Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:45 pm

Every time I read it back it looks camper and camper but what the hell:
How exciting!
:lol:
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