[our new neighbours]I've been challenged to a race by Andy. He's a sneaky devious bastard who's set himself up to win but, you know, I'm going to see if I can beat him. The race is, on the face of it, fairly straight forward; who can complete a brew day the quickest from start to finish? In theory he should wipe the floor with me as he is an experienced brewer but, then again, I do have a huge wealth of experience in production so that might just tip the balance a little back towards me.
At 7:30 tomorrow morning I will begin my day assuming that we still have mains water. On Monday the pipes had frozen solid so we had to abandon brewing but today, even though the snow was falling, it had returned. Already Andy has intimated that he might start at 5:30 on Friday morning with his brew .. .. .. elapsed time will decide the winner.
Not that it's an even race in any case. The brew that I'm doing, our 'best bitter' Velocity, is more complicated, of larger volume, and must be clear which with this current batch of malt isn't always straightforward. Andy on the other hand has chosen to make our stout, Black William, which is supposed to be cloudy .. .. ..
Both of us will tweet our progress during the days via the @adurbrewery twitter account. Feel free to offer support (to me) or abuse (to him) during the challenge!
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Your evening post will be interesting.
I wish you both well in your race.
My only experience of home brewing (aged about 15) was with me mate Nick and a Boots Home Brew kit. All was going well until I thought it was taking a long time and maybe it would be a good idea to leave it in front of the gas fire overnight.
Bas idea, ruined living room carpet, mum & dad not happy.
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