Swirly Wort

Well, first brew day of 2008 - yes, yes, we know we said we'd do it Friday but the water treatment plant was broken, and as the council is comming to test the water on Monday we figured it was a good idea to fix it. It's fine now of course.

So now we have 2brls of Woolpacker at 1039 OG. in the fermenter complete with yeast. The little cells just need to get to work turning those fermentables into alcohol.

It was the first time the new underback was used.

Here is the video of proof that the wort really does swirl round in a slow but effective vortex. The real advantage of this seems to be reduced clogging of the hop strainer when pumping out the copper during the boil due to less fine solids in the wort.

And some more video of brewing activity: First the wort going into the copper.

And now the sparging: