In the Brew Room this Week

     It's been fairly quite this week, nothings needed moving or bottling so I have been concentrating on converting a 55L esky we no longer use into a mash tun. This involved changing out the drain plug for a tap, drilling a hole for the thermometer thermocouple and making up the drainage pipes.

    
     After sourcing copper pipe and fitting from the local hardware it was easy to measure up and cut to size, so we have 4 lengths running the full length of the esky. All the pipes have cuts in the base to allow the wort to drain through and keep the grain in place (they are upside down for the photo). The grain itself will act as the filter providing we don't crush it too fine.

     We have also picked up 2 19L kegs, we wil be using these to brew in in the fridge as it will allow us to have up to 4 batches either brewing or lagering. All of this work is leading up to being able to brew our Russian Imperial Stout "Siberian Crude" over the easter weekend.

Unnatural Selection part 2

4 Pines Hefeweizen - a great balance of hop bitterness, aroma and flavour as well as the wheat.
very drinkable.

Macs Hop Rocker Pilsner - using NZ Cascade and Nelson Sauvin hops you get a mild Cascade aroma with big bitterness once is enough for us.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Cheers and Beers