Indian Brown Ale - Brew Day

Brew day for a recipe from Sam Calagione's Extreme Brewing book

Recipe for 60 pints
3 kg light dried malt
3 kg amber dried malt
6oz amber malt grain
9 oz biscuit malt
15 oz crystal malt 60L
12 oz chocolate malt
3 oz roast barley
4 oz fuggle hops
1/2 oz Golding hops
2 tspn Irish Moss
Windsor Ale Yeast

Brewing went well. Brian (Hall) called in part way for coffee. I used more grain bags - 4 - than usual for better circulation. Added the hops at 60minute point, 30 minute point and 10 minute point. Total brew time 3.5 hours.

 Our new beer equipment cleaning plant

 Boiling the malt

 

'Cooked' Grain in the bags

 

 

   

 Brian stirring in the hops

 

 'Cooked' hops

 Cooling 2 litres of wort for the yeast starter

 

 Rapidly cooling the wort to reach fermentation temperature as soon as possible and to improve cold break

Getting yeast starter going to add later when the wort is cool

 

Denise pouring in the yeast starter.

Hopefully by making sure the wort is properly cool when the yeast starter is added will prevent it foaming over the next day - we'll see anyway