Well my first blog entry. Have finished the modifications to my brewery and eventually got around to brewing 2 weeks ago. The brew went well and everything seemed to go OK. I brewed a mild ale based on a recipe from Graham Wheelers book Homebrewing. The final recipe is basically pale malt, black malt, wheat flour (I used normal cake flour) and invert sugar (I used golden syrup) together with some target hops. Everything went well but when I was finished I realised that I hadn't let the cooled wort stand after the whirlpool, oh well its at least a dark coloured beer. Overall though not a bad first brew. My major problem is getting the pump for the whirlpool primed.
After a week in the fermenter I racked into two corny kegs and cropped the yeast for use in my next brew, which I eventually did yesterday. This time a dry stout using extract. You can see by the photo of the yeast after 12 hours that it took off like an express train
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