Brewing Death By Hops 3

During the weekend me, my father and Chrille meet up at Källarknut to brew another beer for the Swedish Championship in Homemade beer. We plan to participate with two different brews, a honey-porter and a DIPA named Death By Hops 3. We brewed the honey-porter during Christmas and on saturday we brewed DBH3.

We started out early and where at the brewery at 08:00. Well it felt very early due to spending all friday evening in the jacuzzi. So I was pretty tired and dried up when we started warming the water.
My father was brew-leader here you can see him and Chrille discussing the recipe.

When the water was warm we poured in the malt...



... and stired the thick mash to seperate lumps and push out the air.


We then circulated the beer to get the particles to rest on the top of the malt that creates a natural filter. Above you can see how we let the vort pour into a small container to then be pumped up and into the mash tun again.


Here you can see how the vort is being pumped back into the mash tun. The vort is being divided into four different streams through a cross section at the end of the pipe.


We then pumped the beer into the cooking barrel. In this picture you an see the vort coming in at the bottom of the barrel. The chain mail looking thing sticking out of the vort is a hop filter. The thing sticking in from the right is an electrical heating cartridge (in lack of a better word).


Ths is the hops we use while brewing the beer, you can see Amarillo, Chinook, Centenial and Simcoe in this picture. We also add some hops for dry hopping later on.


A huge amount of hops in this beer. Think we ended up using more then a kg of hops. The smell in the brewery was amazing.

Since my father was the brewleader he keept bossing me and Chrille around....

... and after a while I snapped :)

The beer is now fermenting nicely in the brewery and I can hardly wait to try it out when it is done.