My day yesterday didnt go at all well.
First I didnt have the right hops (couldnt find them in the freezer anyway) so had to improvise a bit and then after mashing in I realised I had used Pale WHEAT malt instead of Pale Malt. I didnt check because I never buy wheat malt and this was my last 5kg bag. I only noticed because the BM 'dried up' and started making funny noises so I investigated and then saw the label. The supplier must have sent me it by mistake.
So I had to throw that away, clean up and start again but I only had 2kg of MO so I had to improvise again and add in some wheat malt!, some crystal, some caramalt and some munich type 3 to get it up to a decent gravity worthy of the effort. I then added some hops to offset the likely sweet outcome.
Once I got going again it all went ok although I managed to forget the copper finings so its looking pretty murky and during the run off into the FV a bleeding fly got into it and is still in it.
Here's some pictures...
First mash..
Throwing away the first mash...
Revised grain bill...
Progress
nearing end of the second mash
Crazy boil..
Pitching the yeast (I like the Mangrove yeast)
I only managed about 18 litres all in but OG was 1048
Bastard fly...
In brew fridge at 19c
I tasted the wort which was really, really bitter so I may have over-hopped it a bit too much, we'll see.
Tea is for mugs...
