Brewing

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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 Beer
31/08/13 1300hrs Det Bottling/Kegging day

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 & gas bottle 1x B3cft
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 2x Various 1x missing airlock
19L Cornies 8x B3cft Some require new O rings
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

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.

We currently have a <x> Kg propane tank, with a <insert type> of regulator and fitting.

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
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 Det Not started
Temp Controlled Fermenting Build a temperature controlled fridge/area for fermenting. Can we somehow build it into the brewing closet? Up for grabs N/A
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.

Some suggested logos for the group

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Other

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