200L Brewery (The new, NEW plan)

[Kev888]

Great stuff!! I've occasionally wondered about trying this sort of thing, but in all honesty I doubt i have anything like your staying power though all these 'challenges'. Excellent, inspirational in fact, and the very best of luck to you!

Cheers
kev

[haz66]

Great stuff Haz66! I heard on the grapevine something along those lines so was pleased to hear you confirm it. Let us know the pub, since I've been brewing at chez Skiptonians more often than not I could drive the extra 3 miles on the way over for a taster when it's on tap
and as Polymoog - GET SOME PICS ON
ps - what beer d'jour will be on tap? or have you not christened it yet?

Cheers Beermonsta
The pub is the Greyhound Inn in Barnoldswick.
The first beer to go on tap will be Naughty Dog harking back to my Crash Bandicoot days and a dog reference for the pub

[haz66]

Great stuff!! I've occasionally wondered about trying this sort of thing, but in all honesty I doubt i have anything like your staying power though all these 'challenges'. Excellent, inspirational in fact, and the very best of luck to you!

Cheers
kev

Thanks Kev
I know we have followed each others progress and i think i`ve picked your brains more than you mine so thank you for all the help

[critch]

good to hear your getting there haz, its been a long and rocky road!

[Spud395]

Well done Haz, follwed this tread all along with interest, even though I had nothing to add to it.
Anyway well done and brew on

[haz66]

Thanks for all the well wishes, even though there is still a way to go yet before the first beer hits the pumps but at least things
are moving in the right direction now, i will post photos of the move and the setting up in the new place plus the mods to the container/brewery
as we still need to partition off a place for fermentaion so it can be temp controlled, but hopefully this will only take a day to sort out.
We are still hopefull to have a beer on for Xmas, which if all goes well should be doable.

[haz66]

Sorry for the delay, but work as been a bit mental and i didnt take that many photos, some of which i did take came out blurred.
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The inside of the container with the dividing wall set to create a fermenting room at the back.
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Taken from the partition looking towards the front.
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A fermenter sat above the cooler, the room will be able to house 4 fermenters with ease.
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Taken from the front of the container looking back in.
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Brewday from last Sunday, mash on.
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Sparge water heating up.
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Random photo of equipment
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A closer shot of the gear.
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The sparge begins with my Heath Robinson sparge ring, but it works wonders
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Coming to the boil.

Things got a bit hectic after that and i forgot to take any more photos, it was only a test brew
but it went very well considering, i checked the gravity yesterday and its down at 1015 so a few more
days to go yet before we can keg it.
I`ll keep you posted as to how this beer goes, this by the way is what i brewed.

"Hare Of The Dog"
14kg MO Pale
900g Crystal
700g Wheat
100g Challenger @ 60mins AA7.9%
30g Challenger @ 30mins AA7.9%
20g Challenger @ 20mins AA7.9%
100g Challenger @ 10mins AA7.9%

The target was 92ltrs @ OG1038
but i ended up with 99ltrs in the FV @ OG1040

[GrowlingDogBeer]

Great stuff. It's good to see it all up and running. It's taken a while but you got there in the end.

[Kev888]

+1 - really great to see it back in action again!!

Cheers
kev

[WishboneBrewery]

Good old challenger brew Nice.

[GARYSMIFF]

Love the Gas bottle propping up the Electric switch panel , Good to see its on the wall in another photo looks like you have a Niagara of a sparge hoop .
great stuff
keep the pics coming

[haz66]

The first brewday was a bit rushed as it wasnt really setup properly so it was a case of getting the mash on and then tinkering with stuff, but
i just wanted to get a brew on to see how things were going to turn out, the next brewday will be a lot more relaxed though so i`ll try and take more
photos even though they will only be basically the same, but i`m going to do a very big mash and small boil and then let it down to the correct OG afterwards,

The plan is to mash
25kg of grist and sparge to get a final volume of 82ltrs at an OG of 1077 and then let it down with another 82 ltrs of water after the boil,
this will not only double the volume of beer but will also aid with the cooling and i should end up with 164ltrs at OG1039 ish.
Never done this before but i`m informed that its ok to do this.

[Mattypower]

IMHO if you want to knock out very thin beer as my old old boss used too then thats what it will be. All the best and you may sell a few but brewing small scale is all about flavour. I wouldn't dream about watering down a home brew definitely not a commercial venture. Your selling point should be that my beers are packed with flavour not my beers are like massive commercial water down beer. This is only my opinion.

[Blackaddler]

IMHO if you want to knock out very thin beer as my old old boss used too then thats what it will be.

That could be right. I seem to remember reading somewhere that dilution should be no more than about 20%.

[bigdave]

Assuming the calculation is as simple as:

(target FG - OG) / 2 = X
OG - X = new OG....

82 ltrs @ 1.077 watered down by 82 ltrs will give 164 ltrs of wort @ 1.044 = 4.5% beer.

As for body etc... I would assume that a slightly higher mash temperature will add extra body to compensate for the extra water but I don't know how far you can push a brew before it's just too thin and flavorless.

You may also find that by calculating a recipe for 164ltrs and then only collecting 82ltrs from the mash, you may not have rinsed the grain sufficiently to reach the pre-boil SG.