With my home brewey's cricket based name, I am re-naming all the brews as cricket themes, so it will be Sunny (Gavaskar) Lightining
Went very well, and was also my first time "flying solo" without my trusty father in law as side kick and assistant brewer..
Recipe was :
19 litre batch
OG 1049
ABV 5.%
MARIS OTTER PALE MALT 4120
HOPS boil time 90 minutes
CHALLENGER 38g
Add 13ms Goldings last 15 minutes
Post boil hops – 8g Goldings
Again all went according to plan, except I had a very slow run off from boiler to FV after cooling, I think this may be due to not enough holes drilled in my home made hop strainer.. strange as the first AG I did came out perfectly...ah well nothing a drill won't fix
It is so enjoyable making a brew with home made kit from the raw ingredients, I can't believe I didn't do this before... and thats before the tasting of any brews I have made!!! (ok perhaps a sneaky taste from the testing jar of the Hobgoblin clone... and its fab and thats without conditioning and any fizz!!!)
BJ74
Here is the obligatory brew pics...
Ingredients
doughing in
Put to bed
running off to fermenter prior to boil
boil
