Went for a very simple pale malt only brew and also lightly hopped for friends that are not as keen on hoppy beers.
Brew length 19 litre based on 80% efficiency
3500gm Pale Malt, Halcyon (3.0 SRM)
25gm Goldings, East Kent [6%] (60 min) Hops 20.5 IBU
1 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 15.0 min)
1 pkt Safale S04 Yeast
Mash 90 mins in 9 litres at 64C
Boil total 90 mins
Expected: OG = 1.044 FG = 1.012 SRM = 4.3 IBU = 20.5
Edit: Actual: OG = 1.045 FG = 1.01?
First problem was with the mash - I forgot to fit the manifold before doughing in
- I managed to tip the mash tun backwards enough to insert the manifold without scalding my hand - just!
Next problem was a stuck mash
- The latest grain I have is a little bit finer crushed but with a bit of furtling things improved. I measured the grain bed temperature this time as SteveD has suggested on the forum and sure enough I had about 68C grain bed when the water in my bronco ( 
) was up to boiling.
Next problem was with the boil (no photo this time) - I had the copper sat on the oven so I could use the hood extractor to suck out the steam. Unfortunately about an hour in the extractor started making a fizzing noise
- rapidly tunred it off. I decided to move the boiling copper when I noticed brown liquid starting to drip out of the extractor hood - pretty sure only one drop made it into the wort 
So - back to steaming up the kitchen for the remaining part of the boil. So on to the CFC.
As you can see, I had the garden hose coming in through the kitchen window to feed the CFC - turned the feed on to the outside tap (under the kitchen sink) and everything chilled fine - unfortunately I had not realised that the tap under the sink had been leaking so found a huge puddle in the cupboard under the sink
It's quite hard getting settled into a new brewery - better not make a habit out of this moving malarky
Anyway, it's safely in the FV now and has a nice yeast head - time will tell
Edit: Forgot to say that I got approx 82% brewhouse efficiency so not bad - just as well I backed off my recipe to 80% though - I must have known things would not go smoothly.
, great efficiency BTW if I could hit that everytime i'd be well chuffed!
.......shudda named my beer Niagra!!!
