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Here's how we made our wedding beer...
25kg sack of Malted Barley
Malted Barley
The ingredients for Glynnis: Pilsner Malt, Flaked Barley, Pale Malt and Roasted Barley
Weighing the malt
Water treatment
Adjusting water pH
Preparing the mash
Preparing the mash
Mashing in (with guest appearance from Ross)
Mashing in
The Mash
Making Glynnis
Sparging the grain
Sparging the grain
Boiling
Boiling: The hot break
Boiling: The hot break (this is what happens when you're not watching as it comes to the boil!)
Julia and Chris
Foil-packed hops
Weighing hops
Adding hops
Hops in a bag, ready to add to the boil
Hop bags and wort, once the boil has finished
Boiling makes the house foggy!
Cooling the wort
Cooling the wort
Measuring the gravity (i.e. checking how much sugar is in the wort)
Used hops after the boil
We borrowed this gadget to help cultivating yeast
Pitching the yeast
Fermentation
Fermentation
The Fermenters
Measuring the final gravity
Ingredients for Cider!
Ingredients for Strawberry Cider!
Making cider
Cider fermenter
Used beer bottles, ready for washing
Soaking labels off in the bath
Sanitising the bottling tree
Sanitising bottles
Sanitising bottles
Sanitising bottle caps
Weighing the priming sugar (this will feed the yeast, in order to carbonate the beer once it's in the bottle)
Making a priming sugar solution (this will feed the yeast, in order to carbonate the beer once it's in the bottle)
Transferring beer from the fermenter, ready for bottling
Filling bottles
Capping bottles
Capping bottles
Capping bottles
Bottle Conditioning by the radiator
Pouring our first ever beer
Trying Glynnis for the first time
An early tasting session
This is the wedding invitation design, which we also used on the bottle labels
Designing the labels
Finished label design
The first label proofs back from the printers
First batch of labels
Second batch of labels
Labelling
Labelling
Labelling
Labelling
Labelling
Labelling
And they're all finished!
The wedding day beer menu
Wedding day: The beer fridge
Wedding day: The beer fridge
Wedding day: The bar
Wedding day: The bar
Wedding day: The bar
Wedding day: Restocking the fridge
The complete list of beers:
Jarno's Blonde Ale
Marcus's Golden Nugget
The Belching Bride
Hop the Question
Best Man Bitter
Jarno's Summer Delight
Chris's Little Friend
Veil Ale
Glynnis
Appley Ever After
Even Applier Ever After
Supposedly Strawberry
Hop in Cider