All ready to brew tomorrow..

[Jim]

I had a bit of a disaster last brew after trying to treat the mash pH with Calcium Carbonate so I'm going back to basics as a control.

3.75kg pale malt
250g Crystal

Hops to be decided on the day, but aiming for around 23 IBUs

Whitelabs English Ale yeast (starter getting a bit out of hand now! )

For water treatment nothing apart from half a campden tablet to remove chlorine/chloramine. pH will be a bit low, but I've brewed this way plenty of times with perfectly good results - I just need to make sure the mash temperature stays on the high side.

[Jim]

Boiling now!

All's gone well so far - kept the mash temperature between 66C and 68C throughout.

[Jim]

Another early starter, you cant have been hanging around much either

I took advantage of the clock change and started the mash at 6.30.

[Garth]

me too Jim, except I forgot to change my clocks and my brew got underway at a nice 4.30, great...

good luck with the brew

[Jim]

.......good luck with the brew

Ditto!

[Jim]

All done and cleared up!

Off to the beach now for a bit of a walk and chill out.

[Frothy]

me too Jim, except I forgot to change my clocks and my brew got underway at a nice 4.30, great...

good luck with the brew

am? I didn't get home from work till 4am
nice one Jim - how's it fermenting?

Matt

[Jim]

me too Jim, except I forgot to change my clocks and my brew got underway at a nice 4.30, great...

good luck with the brew

am? I didn't get home from work till 4am
nice one Jim - how's it fermenting?

Matt

Haven't looked yet.

DAAB, we're only 20 minutes drive from South Shields.

It was gorgeous up there today - hardly a cloud in the sky.