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A long evening doing the Durden Park Recipe. 3 hour mash, slow sparge and I've postponed the boil till tomorrow. I Roasted some pale malt to simulate brown malt the other day and although I probably didn't roast it quite enough it smelt very nice indeed. I'll put some piccies on tomorrow. Knackered now.

Good on ya.
3 hour mash ain't too bad really. I wander off and do something else-drink beer. I managed to sparge v v v slowly-2 hours. Drank more beer. Glad it was only a 90 min boil cos i was half plastered by the time it came to the boil.

Can't wait to do another DP recipe. The 1837 IPA i recently bottled tasted great straight from the FV, well half pint did but as i'd spent all day bottling up and quaffing Ale's anything would have tasted good by that time.

and where are these pics?

Next time Prolix, next time. Which may well be today...

Especially as my FV's are empty. Which kinda gives me withdrawl symptoms.

Looking forward to the pictures

Especially as my FV's are empty

Shame on you

Here is a pic of the grain for this one:
Pale on the left, Home roasted in the middle and black on the right.

Here it is in the mash tun:

I did the boil the next day and finished with 24 litres at 1061 which is what I was aiming for. The fermentation was really explosive to start with but has settled down now. Just the four months of maturing to wait and I'll let you know how it tastes.

Good work on the home-roasting, still got to get round to trying that myself.
I've tried a few 1850 porters and they've all been amazing. A truly great beer

Looking at the picture of the malt I think you're right when you say you didn't roast it enough.

Brown malt is brown. What you have there is something probably more like amber malt. Should be a nice beer all the same.

I'd be very interested in seeing a picture of it when it's brewed to see how the colour compares to the batches I've done with brown malt from the shop.

/Phil.