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Well all the cornies are emty and work is hectic, but I decided I must do another couple of brews in the next day or two.
Tonight when I got in from work the boiler went on, after I fitted a disk of stainless gauze over the bottom as my hop strainer has clogged on the last 2 brews. Themash has 10 min left to go ad then its sparge time.

I am doing a 27ltr batch so I can fill a cornie and have some bottles as well, its a mix of malts as I ave some GP left and the rest will be MO with a little wheat malt and some light crystal for colour, although I might try reducing a ome of the first runnings like others have done.

27 ltr

1.6kg GP
3.8kg MO
0.2kg Wheat Malt
0.16kg Light Crystal

76deg strike, adjusted to mash at 66-65deg 90 min.

65g Bobek 4%AA 90 min
28g Fuggles 5.5%AA 90min
20g EKG 4.2%AA 15min
35g Bobek 80deg steep

Good luck with it. Have you tried Bobek before? I used them for the first time on my TTL a couple of days ago - we'll see how they go.

I used Bobek on my last TTL clone, with hindsight I may reduce the amount of Bobek for both bittering and aroma as the last brew was far hoppier than TTL although you could taste the similarities.

Chris

What does TTL stand for?

Timothy Tailor's Landlord

Well it was a late finish 23:20. I slightly overshot the volume and collected just over 28ltr @ 1.042

Good job. Too much beer eh? Tut!

The overshoot on the volume might have been due to the gauze I used as a false bottom over the existing hop strainer which stopped the trub blocking the strainer and leaving more behind in the boiler.
I ended up reducing the Styrians (Bobek) to 50g 90min and 18g 80deg steep as the AA was higher in this batch and I wanted to make slightly less "in your face"