I intend to take some photos, and here's the first one - the mash tun(bucket in a bucket) nice and toasty wrapped up in a duvet (don't tell my girlfriend I'm using it or she'll go ape
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The grain bill is really simple this time:
4.5 kgs Pale
0.25 kg crystal.
All the other beers I've made have used sugar or flaked maize, so I thought I'd try something a bit simpler. The OG should be about 1042 based on a 70% efficiency.
The yeast will be safale 04.
I was going to stick to the hop bill from my last brew, but add some fuggles as well
i.e.
Goldings 65 g (90 mins)
Fuggles 10 g (90, 60 or 45 mins)
Goldings 20 g (20 mins)
Goldings 15 g (0 mins)
(goldings and fuggles both 5 aaus)
The reason for the relatively modest use of Fuggles is that they have been opened some time, and I'm not 100% certain how I help them early on, so I don't want to risk a brew by making them a central feature.
Any suggestions on the hops side of things very welcome
....well we'll see 
). I filled the mash tun with sparge water, stirred it and went away to let it settle (for batch sparge); EXCEPT I had left the tap open, and sludge went down into the boiler. A fair bit must have gone in, but when I emptied the boiler at the end it was pretty clear. On my first few beers I was really paranoid about getting the run offs clear, but I have got progressively lazier about this and the beers haven't suffered as a consequence 
