Here are some pics of my brew day.
Preparation
Mashing and sparging is some what small-scale (I'm pushing the limits of my set up a bit)
Looks pretty clear
Hops (never used square hops before
)also my very high-tech false bottom can be seem in the background.
The boil (notice the residue of a minor boil over what happens when I turn my back to weigh hops)
Cooling
More cooling
Ready for pitching
Now, after pitching my large starter I had about 22 litres.
About 9 hours later when I got up to go to work I found that the fermentation had begun and the foam was jetting out of the top to the airlock....
Looking back now putting a bubbler on straight away was a little misguided. Anyway I replaced the bubbler with a blow off tube and all is looking good.
Because I'm not used to brewing this sort of quantity I ended up filling my boiler before the gravity of the the liquor from the mash tun had dropped really low. This mean that I wasted some malt sugars and consequently my OG is a little low at 1.043.
