This has been in the FV 3 days now and there are some beautiful dark fruit aromas coming off the krausen.
With the malts I've thrown everything but the kitchen sink at this one. I kept the hops simple though with just Northern Brewer and one late addition.
Brewed 17-Feb-11
23L brew length
4.20 Kg MO pale malt
0.80 Kg Flaked Barley
0.20 Kg Roast barley
0.20 Kg Chocolate malt
0.20 Kg Carafa III
0.20 Kg Amber
0.20 Kg Crystal 60L
0.20 Kg Crystal 120L
0.20 Kg Maltotriose
44IBU target
38g Northern Brewer At start of 60 min boil
16g Northern Brewer At 15 min from end of boil
Mash at 66.5C. 1 teaspoon CaCl2 added to mash.
Fullers yeast recovered from Bengal Lancer aka WLP002. 109g of slurry - 1L of starter
1060 OG
1016 FG
5.8% ABV
Only lost 0.3C on the mash
My 1 hour mash turned in to 90mins when I realised we didn't have and tin foil for sparging - legged it to the corner shop...
First running are black as night
My new (crap) thermometer thinks it's 98C in my kitchen - better open the window!
On the boil
Bittering hops - Northern Brewer
