
3530g pale malt
395g wheat malt
57g Aurora 5.8% for 70 mins
33g Aurora 5.8% for 15 mins
10g Aurora 5.8% steeped
US-05
0.3ml/L CRS
1tsp gypsum in mash, 1 tsp in boil
1/2 protofloc tablet
1/2 campden tablet
I mashed for 90 minutes this time, starting at 66 and it fell to 63 over the course of the mash. I also have again employed the high water to grain ratio (4 litres per kg) with good results.
Anyhow, I'll tell the rest of it in pictures.

Grain bill:

Mash underway:

First runnings into the boiler:

Fly sparging at 74 degrees:

Preboil gravity was a few points more than expected:

Coming to the boil:

And now one of the very good reasons to use a big bucket for 5 gallon brews, the following pictures were taken over the course of a minute:




Pretty high level considering the 29 litre liquid level! I switched off one element to allow the foam to collapse then restarted it and it didn't reappear.

Bittering hops in:

A nice rolling boil on two elements:

Cooling with plenty of break material visible:

Quite a bit of break material bypassed the hopstopper, but no hop bits at all!



Run off from the hopstopper is brilliant and allows for a very vigerous aeration!

Boiler drained with about 2 litre total loss, which I'm pleased with as 100g of hops will hold back a fair bit.


An excellent brewday. I had better go and clear up now!
