Pulling the pony up the mountain

The new counterflow chiller works, but I had a big fight with it yesterday to get my wort cooled for pitching. 11pm in the cold garden trying to fit the piping, cutting myself on the copper and covering myself in hot and cold work alike.
The beer is in and the yeast is pitched. Let's just hope my multi-mouth powered siphoning hasn't tainted the beer. Time to have a head to head with engineering to get the kinks (to put it mildly) out of the process.

I have to return to the crime scene tonight to clean the pipe work and some of the items I couldn't face dealing with at 12:30am

Pilsner in bottles and here's the pit pony recipe

Thought I post this lovely picture of the bottled pilsner before it get's drunk in a couple of weeks.

I'm definitely getting more effcient at the ole bottling and a little bit better at the yeast rinsing..fingers crossed it'll be ok for the pit pony brew in a few days time.

Pit Pony

3.5 KG Extra light dry malt extract
500g Crystal Malt
250g Chocolate malt
1kg Black malt

60 g Tettanger (Bittering)
30g Cascade (Aroma)

California Lager yeast
Dextrose for priming

Steep grains at 68c for 30 minutes. Rinse and remove spent grains. Add bittering hops and half the extract (if boil is under 5 gallons) boil for 45 minutes. Add second half of the extract boil for 15 minutes more. Remove from heat add aroma hops and steep for 5-10 minutes.
Cool wort pitch yeast.

Ferment for 5-7 days at 18c - 22c
Transfer to secondary fermentrt (optional)
Reduce temperature and ferment for an additional 14-21 days at 4c - 7c.
Bottle age for 7-10 days

See, I told you I'd get a recipe down one day. Now all I have to do is brew it!

Homebrew vs Life

My increasing passion for brewing on the whole is supported by my family, friends and also my partner (rare indeed). However oft there are other homely duties which get in the way of the schedule. How do I deal with? I pack the lot up and hope that tomorrow will bring a more favourable day for the beer gods.
The pilsner is ready for priming and after being reassured that the diactyl rest approach I employed would mean that three weeks isn't too short a lagering time (it can be up to 8 weeks) and that there would be yeast enough for priming, I'm just trying to get 2 hours to get it in the damn bottles!
Attermpt 1 failed as I needed to get the new kilner jars ready for yeast harvesting and the next attempt is now looking like Thursday.  I'm also getting hassled by my engineering department (read Dad) who wants to know how the counterflow chiller is getting on.
MEMO to Engineering
RE: Counterflow chiller
I've not had time yet! - Stop hassling me!
Regards
Brewmaster Ead

So I thought today was a good day to jot my recipes down here for Barrel Racer, Oldenburg and Pit Pony (TB released for Christmas)
I also figured I'd put them in separate posts so I can reference them later.
So here they are....