Brown ale for tomorrow

[DRB]

Aint done one for a while so I thought time to get it out,the brewery that is.Heres whats going to be done.

For 15lt working on 68% efficiency,og 1041 volume 4.1%

optic - 2380g
crystal - 380g
pale chocolate - 50g
flaked barley - 160g
torrified wheat - 100

hops
challenger - 13g boil 90min
challenger - 5g last 15 min
first gold - 5g last 15 min
first gold - 10g last min

[prodigal2]

Enjoy the day DRB.

[Vossy1]

Good luck DRB and enjoy

[iowalad]

Have a good one!

[DRB]

Mash on 65 c.
I have to say that daabs mash tun design with an element in it is so handy,I undershot the temp a bit but a blast from the element in the tun with all the mash in ,brought it back to temp without the need for pouring extra boiling water in .

[AT]

Have a good one DRB

[Jimberbob]

Good luck with the brew, i've not had brown for a long time. ('Ale I meant!)

[DRB]

I had a rather horrible picture going on in my mind then jimbob.Can you imagine the papers, brown caught with jims homebrew forum member .

[DRB]

Should be sparging now but i'll have to wait another half hour as i've run out of my favourite breakfast and the wifes gon to t**co to get some,no doubt if I sparge right now she'll turn up and i'll have to wait longer for it and i cant do that as im starving.

[Jimberbob]

I had a rather horrible picture going on in my mind then jimbob.Can you imagine the papers, brown caught with jims homebrew forum member .

I could have worded that better. How's it going?

[DRB]

[quote]We have to suffer for our craft sometimes...ger'on with it and stop whinging

She's back fuelled up and the first addition is in.

Going well so far only i'm trying to do two run offs from my 15lt tun, at 68% efficiency and 3kg of grain to 2.5l of water plus an additional 8 litres there aint no more room for even a nats left bo***ck

[J_P]

Have a good one there DRB. Any chance of pictures the set up in the bat cave?

Recipe looks interesting, you'll have to let us know how it turns out

[DRB]

No pictures jp,I can't afford to keep the camera I got in batteries couple of photos and they've run dead,,it would add another £3.00 to the brew day am I being a skin flint.
Today I overshot the volume in the boiler,so after the boil and dropped to the fermenter I had 17lt & 1041, instead of 15lt at 1041.Will that affect the bitterness by much and I went with nottingham yeast.

[DRB]

You're right there daab,but aint they expensive

[DRB]

You're right there daab,but aint they expensive