Brew Evening 15 May: Challenger Bitter

[mb]

this is an hour into the mash

23L
OG 1040

4000g Maris Otter
250g Crystal
250g Wheat

60 min boil
50g of challenger in at the start, going to try first wort hopping

as there'll be 20g of challengers left in the pack i'm then going to try one of these 80C steeps mid-cooling.

WLP013 yeast.

after trying challengers for the first time in a summer ale, they're my new favourite hop.

[Wez]

Have a good one mb, i've got a mild in the mash tun at the moment

[prodigal2]

Looks a cracker MB.
100% challenger beers tick so many boxes.

So will there be any left to bring to a LAB meet, in a couple of months???

[Vossy1]

Enjoy mb

[eddnix]

Mmmm challenger.

I do like a nice relaxing brew-evening, you and Wes have got me itching to put one on tomorrow.

[mb]

got 22L @ 1040 which once i've put back the 1L i took for the yeast starter should see me bang on the IC wasn't doing much once it got to 35C so i ran off and stuck the FV in the spare room with the window open (and a lid on) to drop that last few degrees before i pitch.

hitting my targets for the first time in a few brews means that there should be enough for me to fill a cornie and still have enough for a couple of bottles to take to LAB too

hope the mild went well wez, i'm having a pint of my mild now as my reward.

[Wez]

Glad you had a good brew evening mb I want to try a 100% challenger brew, i remember P2 saying how pleased he was with his will look forward to seeing what you think.

I enjoyed the night and ended up with bang on what I wanted, 50L at 1.044 hopefully wake up to a good start to fermentation tomorrow. Oh! and it's Friday!

[iowalad]

Sounds like things went well!

[oblivious]

Hope it all went well lads