[Closed] Anybody advise on all grain brewing?

Don't know where you live but I once went on a excellent all day course run by this shop in Cheam, South West London:

http://www.cheerswinemakingandbrewing.co.uk/practical-mashing-event-ticket-london

You essentially participate in the whole process of making the beer - everybody taking it turns to have a go at one of the stages. Only £35 including lunch and as much beer as you can drink.

[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/brewers-of-stw ]big brewery thread here [/url]

[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/recommend-me-a-homebrew-starter-kit-1 ]another brewing thread[/url]

also
[url= http://www.howtobrew.com/ ]How to brew John Palmer [/url]

And depending on your location there will be a homebrewer somewhere nearby who will help you out

Thanks gents, will have a read up

come spend a week with me at work.
As much beer as you can drink if you clean the copper and discharge the mash tun . Its only 1T so you'll be fine.

Easiest method, and cheapest to set up, IMO, is "brew in a bag"

To do a typical homebrewer's batch of 23l, you can get started with the following if your hob is gas or old fashioned electric:
32l stainless steel brewpan with tap and hop strainer - £75ish
Ritchie's "New mashing & sparging bag" - £10ish
Siphon tubing, bottling stick - £10ish
Fermenter - £10-15
Bottles - free if you buy bottled beers. Fullers, Theakstons & Black Sheep are really easy to clean & remove the labels
Crown caps - £2 for 50
Big plastic spoon £3
Thermometer £3-4
Hydrometer & trial jar about £10

Grains - typically 4-5kg pale malt - about £8 ; crystal malt, 1-200g about £2 for 500g
Hops - a single hop recipe can be as little as £4 for more than you need for 1 brew
Yeast - £2-4
Patience - priceless 😉

My LHBS does complete recipe kits from about £15, contains all the grains, hops, yeast etc to make a whole batch; pale malt can also be bought in 25kg sacks for about £35 or less. Works out cheaper that way

How long? Typically 2 weeks to ferment, 2 weeks for carbonation in the bottle and another 2 weeks for bottle conditioning

Good BIAB starter kit:
[url= https://www.thehomebrewcompany.ie/biab-starter-kit-peco-boiler-chiller-mashing-bag-mash-kit-p-2805.html ]homebrewcompany.ie[/url]

Ritchie's "New mashing & sparging bag"

Where's that from - LHBS?

[url= http://www.geterbrewed.com/complete-brewing-kits/ ]complete brewing set-ups[/url]

Love them or hate them but Brewdog recently released recipes for all their beers (215 of them) and a how to guide that's worth a look.
[url] http://www.brewdog.com/diydog [/url]

Yep. Or amazon. Or https://www.hopandgrape.co.uk/mashing-sparging-bag-ritchies.html

That's the "old" version which is actually better for the stainless pan I had in mind; their 'new' bag is wider & shallower, and is ideal for the Electrim digital electric boiler, although that comes in at about £120

Love them or hate them but Brewdog recently released recipes for all their beers (215 of them) and a how to guide that's worth a look.
http://www.brewdog.com/diydog

If you're going down the DIYdog route, get a copy of beersmith on your PC. The book is riddled with errors, things like a beer with an OG of 1.035 and ~400IBU's which you won't spot, stick with some more tried and tested recipes.

Look on instructables for the £100 brewery, all you need is 5 big fermentation buckets (polypropylene not polyethylene though), 2 to make the mash tub, 1 for the kettle, 1 for the HLT, 1 for fermenting, some plumbing fittings, copper pipe and some insulation (foil backed bubble wrap is common). £100 is optimistic though, my similar setup is nearing £300 and I'm thinking that a grainfather would have been a better idea! The advantage is though that the fittings are transferable, so if I want a bigger setup I just need a bigger mash tun and boiler (£70 for a 70l stainless pot).

singletrackmind - Member
come spend a week with me at work.
As much beer as you can drink if you clean the copper and discharge the mash tun . Its only 1T so you'll be fine.

Which brewery are you at?

[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Home-Brew-Beer-Greg-Hughes/dp/1409331768/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1456833178&sr=1-1&keywords=home+brew+beer ]This is an excellent book. Home Brew Beer.[/url]

Very clear step by step for kits, BIAB and All Grain. Great recipes as well.

This is a also a great forum [url= http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/index.php ]http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/index.php[/url]

Upham Brewery now after 16 years at Itchen Valley.
Bit of a struggle making the beer I know the kit can produce, getting there slowly.
Its is abit of fix one problem and discover 2 more , plus the 3 week delay between tweaking things then drinking it once its aged properly.