snow porter ! 21/12/2010

[alfie09]

hello

started making another porter using no campden tablet no water treatment. tried checking my ph for the first time using some ph papers of sd and i got 5.2 bang on tried again after another 10mins and got 5.2 again. was hoping that to be off the scale then i could work on bringing it back to normal levels in my next brews arr well never mind.

hopefully i can start getting some decent bittering levels in my brews now and work from here.

anyone one use heart of england yeast?

[alfie09]

19litres

snow porter

pale malt 3kg
caraaroma 500 grams
carahell 500 grams
back malt 200 grams
chocolate malt 175 grams
torrified wheat 206 grams

fuggles mash hops 20 grams
northdown first wort hops 20 grams
cascade 17 grams whole boil 90 mins
northdown 12 grams whole boil 90mins
cascade 10 grams 15mins
cascade 10 grams 10mins
cascade 10 grams 5mins
cascade 20 grams 3mins

i did make a attempt to brew this a few weeks ago got all set up and things went from bad to worse and i give up luckily i never put the grains in the tun

[alfie09]

here is the heap of shi te i contrapted



here it is again




i ended up with 1045 instead of 1055 i put it down to fly sparging way to quickly!
didnt really know how to fly sparge to be honest and opened them both up full bore ha ha it was shooting out