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Mornin' all. I have begun a brew this morning, in the wind and rain, some shelter in my little cellar. Will try to get some pics up, but am already on the mash. Being so windy and cold I think my mash may be a little low in temperature at 69C at the start of the mash. I have a brupaks mash tun with a big sleeping bag over it, will this temp be ok allowing for a few degrees fall? Should I give it a bit extra time?
Basically my brew is GW's Exmoor Gold then tweaked here and there to suit my hop availability and upped in quantity to make a bit more beer. I've 6.960Kg of M.Otter with 18 lt liquor in the mash.
Well its raining like hell now, next brew in my garage I think!

I think that you will be fine, I am not sure how long of a mash you were counting on, I usually go for 75 minutes to get a full conversion, and the malts that I use are well modified.

Cheers

Thanks Ozzy, I did a 95 mins mash, went well. The boil is just coming to its last 10 mins so mayhem about to be here. i should be getting 30 litres or so from this. Its been great in the past but with the different hops who knows, well thats the magic of brewing is'nt it! One thing i've learned is don't activate your yeast in an identical glass to your freshly poured wheat beer. Ha!
I'm doing a stout or mild next week, if i can work out how to put up pics I'll do a photo brew day thing.