Boiled the carbonates out of the water the night before. Went from 230ppm down to 38ppm as CaCO3. First time doing this, and something I will be doing again.
Prepped the malt and the hop mix also. The most stressful part of the actual brewday was to click switch on the HLT!
Recipe.
"Mojo's return"
Batch size 26 litres, 1040 (a little high), ibus somewhere around 40 and colour pale/golden.
4620g Pale malt
96g Extra dark crystal
64c mash, 60 minutes, 70c for 15 minutes.
90 minute boil.
100g of hops in at 10, 5, and 0 minutes.
Hop mix: fuggles, Apollo, cascade, Chinook, progress of unequal amounts! A bit of a user-upper.
Yeast S04. I would have preferred something cleaner but a starter I had on the go of a previous yeast smelt a little strange.
