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Since this is my first real brew i decided to do it in my new cool box tun but only do a 5 litre brew

Recipe was:

946g Mild Malt
109g Crystal Malt
22g Chocolate Malt

7g Challenger (60 mins)
2g Challenger (15 mins)

The grains ready to go


Strike water getting ready


Mash Tempreture at a nice constant 67 after preheating with a couple of kettles


Set the yeast going an hour in advance with some nice spray malt to eat up


After 90 mins mashing the mash tun was opened..smells good!


My cat shows his distaste for me locking him out by tapping on the window


Take the first run offs and circulate them back




Into the pot to boil (The hops went in 30 mins later)




It was placed in a cold sink of water and ice till the tempreture came down to ~33degrees

Aerated the hell out of it for 10 mins


Ta da!


Came out to 3.2% abv

Got a nice place to ferment it too. My cupboard fits a cool box nicely. I have a hot water bottle which keeps it (relatively) warm which i replace from time to time.

Congrats

Looks like a nice mild (?)

No recipe name I see, how about 'mild storm in a demijon'

This is probably the reason I don't name my recipes anymore.

Funnily enough i really panicked at first. The tempreture was consistanly going down by .1 degrees per 15 seconds and i was REALLY dispairing when it got down to 55 degrees.

When i opened it i realised the probe wasn't in the mash properly and it was still at around 66 degrees.

The gravity came out ok so i can only assume it worked ok. I DID have 2 duvets over it as well

The name is "Chase the Devil" in honour of my friends website who hosts my pics and he's also one of the couple of real ale enthusiasts i know

Good name and I'm sure it go down a storm anway

Great stuff Hoppkins. Now you see how easy it is you can get a 5 gallon batch on.

I'm going to do one more 5 litre batch then go staright for a gallon.

Hoppkins wrote:I'm going to do one more 5 litre batch then go staright for a gallon.

Sod that, you've done well with 5 litres already, just go for 23 instead

Agreed, good work Hoppkins

subsub wrote:

Hoppkins wrote:I'm going to do one more 5 litre batch then go staright for a gallon.

Sod that, you've done well with 5 litres already, just go for 23 instead

Seconded, it is no more difficult to brew a 23 litre batch than a 5 litre batch, the procedure is just the same.

COnsider me convinced

What could i make with 3kg of Pale Malt, 900 of Crystal Malt, 500 Mild Malt and 900 of chocolate malt?

Got plenty of challenger and fuggles too

Great pictures, H. Hope you enjoyed the day

Glad to see you had a good day H

Looks good!

I think this forum accounts for approximately 78% of the world's mild production.

Well done Hoppkins. I love a bit of mild