Last time I brewed it everything was going exceptionally smoothly, right up until the point where I left the room for no more than 30 seconds having set up the HLT on the 3rd tier ready to sparge. I heard an almightly crash - some sounds I couldn't identify and as I rushed back to the bathroom met one of my cats exiting at speed looking distinctly bedraggled.
The scene that greeted me was one of utter chaos however looking more closely I figured out what had happened by following the trail of wet cat footprints. The cat had obviously jumped onto the top of the HLT which fell over dumping 5 gallons of hot liquor onto the floor - the cat had panicked and launched himself at the nearest thing at the same height which was the loo roll holder....... this muct have acted rather like a treadmill because most of the roll had sprialled onto the floor where it was turning into hot mush. To avoid the hot water now spreading over the floor he must have launched from there onto the side of the bath and from there out of the door where it met him. Meanwhile 5 gallons of hot lquor was busy making it's way through the ceiling into my sons room below
Not my best brew day - I did however clean up, make another batch of liquor and carried on
So, on with the recipe........
Pale malt 88.4% 2501g
Chocolate malt 1.4% 38g
Flaked maize 5% 140g
Invert #3 5.3% 149g
Boil hops - 21 IBU WGV
Aroma hops (last 15 mins) 5 IBU Willamette
Dry hops - about 30g Willamette
OG - target 1.033
FG - target 1.007
Target volume in fermeter - 22ltrs
The #3 invert is a golden syrup/molasses blend.
Keep Calm
and
Carry on Brewing
