Ok well last week I finished my first full AG brew ever, and I have a list of mistakes I need to learn from for next time, I'm hoping that none of them will of ruined my beer!
1. Need to fix my coolbox mashtun the hosepipe from my grain filter fell out of the tap during the 2nd batch sparge, which meant the tap got blocked, I ended up having to jug to the boiler HLT and using a kitchen sieve to filter out any grain. This meant I was somewhere in the region of 4 litres down on my target 23 L batch!!!!!
2. I forgot to add the Protofloc tablet to the last 15 mins of the boil. DOH!
3. The airlock, I only just realised needs to have water or gin in it (hadn't previously read anything on that until this morning)! To late now anyway I've already primed the keg and transfered!!!!
1. Need to fix my coolbox mashtun the hosepipe from my grain filter fell out of the tap during the 2nd batch sparge, which meant the tap got blocked, I ended up having to jug to the boiler HLT and using a kitchen sieve to filter out any grain. This meant I was somewhere in the region of 4 litres down on my target 23 L batch!!!!!
2. I forgot to add the Protofloc tablet to the last 15 mins of the boil. DOH!
3. The airlock, I only just realised needs to have water or gin in it (hadn't previously read anything on that until this morning)! To late now anyway I've already primed the keg and transfered!!!!