Recipe was:
10kg Cocktail Pale Malt
625g each: Wheat malt, amber, light crystal, chocolate, roast barley
330g Brown Sugar
240g EKG 4.6%
55g Pilgrim 9.4%
The mash went very well, abd the valentine I'd put on this tun worked very nicely indeed. However, I laded up with a huge amount of wort, and even trying to follow the Durden Park advice of splitting batches, boiling up to 15 points below, recombining and then boiling didn't work particularly well. Coupled with an element that kept cutting out, it took about 4 1/2 hours to boil down to the right gravity using one element, the cooker hob, and a separate pan on the hob to boil smaller batches down. The break material seemed to be very low indeed - probably as a result of the long boil (long boils weren't unheard of back in the day I seem to recall from one of my books - the protein that goes back in solution produces a "nutritious" drink
)Then the run off kept clogging with hop bits that found their way through the strainer - in all a complete nightmare. Though, in the end I landed up with about 35 litres of wort at 1.088 (22.5brix) so we're fairly happy with that - pitched 33g of S04, and it's starting now to produce the fingers of foam I seem to get with these high gravity brews.
In all, one hell of a christening for a new tun, a bit of maintenance on the boiler required and a massive tidy up for me now
(When racked, it came out at 1024 - 8.5% ABV - 0.5% lower than Mk I, but just fine by me 
