Brewing

London Hackspace Brewing

A successful inaugural brewing session was held at the new Hackspace on the 2013_August_Open_Day.

Brewing as a "project" is being driven by Det, helped by Ross, overseen by Russ with equipment borrowed from B3cft.

Anyone can participate, even if you've had no experience before, there's always cleaning to be done. :) Subscribe to the Brewing sub-group and say hello.

Once we get settled we shall schedule some regular brewing sessions and will make sure that they're on the calendar and publicised.

Contacts:

A public Google sub-group exists for planning brewdays, discussing recipes and the like.

Other topics that affect the Space as a whole should be done on the main mailing list.

Planned Brewdays:

Date	Time	Organiser(s)	Beer
10/11/13	0900	Ross	Unnamed Belgian Xmas Ale
17/11/13	1000	Det	Undecided

Location:

Brewing will take place outside on or in front of the loading dock for various reasons, namely ventilation and easy access to running water.

As there's no fixed hose fitting that we've found, we'll be clamping a hose on to the bathroom tap just inside the roller door. This is used for the immersion chiller whilst cooling the wort. Thankfully there's also a drain below the loading dock.

Equipment

B3cft has kindly loaned the space his setup The kit is to be considered Hackspace infrastructure and is not to be hacked, but can be used with respect. As always, please clean up after yourselves, and return the equipment to where you found it. (Mention the permanent location of the kit here)

Full list of brewing equipment at the Hackspace:

Item	Quantity	Owner	Notes
Gas burner	1x	B3cft
High pressure gas regulator	1x	B3cft	Replaced the perished hose, but could do with a longer one.
13kg Propane tank	2x	B3cft & Hackspace (hired)
80L Stainless mash tun	1x	B3cft
Converted keg kettle	1x	B3cft
29L Brupak Electric Boiler	1x	Det	Good for HLT. Element needs regular cleaning to prevent gunking up the thermostat
25L fermenting vessels	4x	Det & Ross	All complete with bungs & airlocks
19L Cornies	8x	B3cft	Some require servicing. (perished o-rings, dodgy quick release valves, etc.)
Cornie taps & connectors	3x pairs (?)	B3cft	Gas & Liquid pair (Gray = gas, Black = liquid)
Copper immersion chiller	1x	B3cft
Hose and fittings	25m	Hackspace	(Bathroom tap adapter and hose connector)
Refractometer	1x	B3cft
Brew belt	1x	Ross
Thermometer & Hydrometer	1x	Ross

Brewing equipment available but not at the Hackspace:

Item	Qty if >1	Owner	Notes
Mash tun (25L)	2	Ross & Det

Beers

• Current beers
• Recipes
• Potential beer names

Consumables

See this sub-page for a current stock list.

Gas bottle refills can be obtained from: http://www.londongases.co.uk/lgcalor.php They'll deliver and take away the empty for £32.50.

We currently have a 13kg propane tank and an 11kg, both with a standard 27mm screw-in regulator. Please make sure there is always one full. If one runs out and you start the new one, send an email to the LHS Brewing group to let us know, and perhaps start a pledge for a refill.

Gas status:

• 11kg - Empty
• 13kg - 3 brews used.

Water

Local water composition for Bethnal Green from Thames Water Quality Report 2012:

CaCO3	Calcium(Ca)	Magnesium(Mg)	Sulphate(SO4)	Sodium(Na)	Chloride(Cl)	Fluoride(F)
280.2mg/l	??	??	57.3mg/l	39.9mg/l	55.4mg/l	0.18mg/l

Projects

Project	Description	Owner	Status
BrewPi	Temperature controller/grapher/etc.	Det	brewbot complete. Still yet to hook up the solid state relays to anything.
Realtime Beer Stats	Hack the Wii Balance Board to weigh the cornies in the kegerator	Det & Jonty	Can get the Wii balance board to pair. Need to hack it into a shelf to put into the fridge.
Temp Monitoring	Internettable graphs of the temp in the gimp closet	Simon	Has the gear, needs to hack.
Sparge Arm	Build a copper fly sparge arm. Doesn't have to be a rotating one
Hose	Install an outdoor hose tap. eg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XxJJKof2OQ & http://goo.gl/co3tWc	Up for grabs	Requires buying the kit and a volunteer.
Spent Grain	Find something to do with the spent grain	Up for grabs

Pledges

From time to time we need to buy new things, be it consumables like propane, or new kit like a new boil kettle.

Current Pledges

• 100L Stainless pot

Completed Pledges

• 2nd (full) propane tank

Logo

Some suggested logos for the group

Other

See HomeBrew for other info and older discussions about brewing at the Space.