As promised here is the brewing porn!

this is the first brew I've done with a full liqueur treatment. CRS, Gypsum, campden tabs, epsom salts and calcium chloride. I think it was worth it. This was the clearest wort I have had from the boiler.

Newly organised speciality malt box. got sick of rumaging through bags to find what I wanted. I spent the other day inputing it all into BeerAlchemy's inventory feature so now I can hopefully practice some good stock control

the MO and Wheat malt

Grist + 1tsp Gypsum

pH probably a little too high. It looks alot bluer in this photo. It was prob about 5.3-5.4 eyeballed

got a good syphon on the sparge again

filth

the rest of the water treatment. 7g gypsum, 2.5g salt, 2.5g epsom salts, 4.5g calcium chloride all added to the boiler.

10g first gold added as FWH

The rest of the hops. 20g FG, 30g EKG, Protofloc

boil

Cold break forming

resting for 30 mins. Just enough time to eat tea and have the first pint of the chocolate coffee stout from a few weeks ago. Only just kegged it tonight so still under carbonated. Will need a couple of weeks in the garage to condition I think.

Very clear wort going into FV. Some fine sieve holding action by SWMBO!

A sample of the wort. A few bits of trub started to come though as I took the sample, I really need to improve the filter!

boiler filth!

1 pack of Nottingham pitched and aerated. This will be my first use of Nottingham yeast so very interested to see how this turns out!
Well Not a bad brewday. Ended up with 16L instead of 19, but I was 2L short on sparge water and I thinkg the airlock balls up during sparging accounted for the rest of it!

Oh well I'm sure it will be fine. Ended up at 1.051 instead of 1.042!