My AG First Brew Day

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cqout
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My AG First Brew Day

Post by cqout » Mon May 07, 2012 2:31 pm

Well I have done my first AG brew day and loved it - it has taken me approx a year to get to the stage of being ready! I brewed a lager with the ingredients from copper kettle as their lager kit but added 2 extra packs of yeast. I wanted to make 50l so used 2 of their kits and by my calculations this makes it about 42p per pint - I got good results OG 1050 with a brewhouse efficiency of 86% and got spot on 50l of wort to ferment. It took me 7 hours but was so much fun and I can not wait to do another but need my fermentation fridge to be empty 1st so will have to wait about 6 weeks!

If anybody has any good lager recipes they would like to give me please do! thank you

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BossTronix 1 15 gallon pot brewery
2 x 7 gallon SS Brewtech Chronical
6 x Corny Kegs
in Keg 1 - Black Lager
in Keg 2 - Raspberryade
in Keg 3 - Devil's Backbone Clone
in Keg 4 - empty
in keg 5 - empty
in keg 6 - empty
Tap 1 - Black lager
Tap 2 - Raspberryade

darkonnis

Re: My AG First Brew Day

Post by darkonnis » Mon May 07, 2012 2:40 pm

For a first set up thats all kinds of shiny! i do like that!
What recipe did you use? and what temp do you plan on fermenting at?

cqout
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Re: My AG First Brew Day

Post by cqout » Mon May 07, 2012 2:48 pm

I used the lager recipe from http://www.copperkettlehomebrewing.co.uk as he supplies it as a kit already all measured and ground - this was a good thing for my first ever ag brew. i did use 2 extra packs of yeast as recommended by other people - It is in my fermenting fridge set at 13c as recommended by the fermentis saflager yeast pack.
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BossTronix 1 15 gallon pot brewery
2 x 7 gallon SS Brewtech Chronical
6 x Corny Kegs
in Keg 1 - Black Lager
in Keg 2 - Raspberryade
in Keg 3 - Devil's Backbone Clone
in Keg 4 - empty
in keg 5 - empty
in keg 6 - empty
Tap 1 - Black lager
Tap 2 - Raspberryade

roonikins

Re: My AG First Brew Day

Post by roonikins » Mon May 07, 2012 3:30 pm

if i win the lottery i'm gonna get a set up like that lol

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