Started after work at around 6:30pm.
Wanted to try a Caledonia 80 clone....lets see how this turns out.
Boiled down a few runnings of the wort separately, just to see if it makes much of a difference.
Thing is.... the house was smelling like Edinburgh..... I work in Edinburgh and ever since I was young I always remembered the smell of the Caledonia Brewery and sometimes when the wind blows the right direction I can smell the sweet aroma and it takes me back to when I was 6 years old walking along Princes Street, so thats gotta be a good sign!!
So on with the show........
This was the first time I have tried fly sparging and I used a empty mushroom box for the hot tun liquor to run into. Drilled loads of holes and it seemed to work well. Also worked well when taking the first runnings and pouring them back into the mash. Simple but effective. Also saves a hell of a lot of time. Batch sparging seemed to take ages.
Last running from the mash tun, a lot lighter now.
Hops in
Now thats a better colour!!! With temperature correction it works out at around 1044.
Running into the fermenter
Hmmmmm looks good!
Just before I tipped the boiler to get a little more wort.
5 gallons........thats not bad at all.
Using Windsor yeast on this one as my HBS didn't have S04 which I usually use.
Night night, its 1:05am!!!
