So I brewed another rauchbier on 16th Feb to the following recipe:
6kg Smoked Malt
750g Pale Malt, Maris Otter
250g Carafa III
62g Hallertauer Hersbrucker
1/4 Protofloc
1pkg Munich Lager (Wyeast Labs #2308)
21 litre brewlength
Some pics
First runnings
Collecting Wort
First Hops
Decanting
Brew Fridge in Operation
ATC 800 doing its thing
Mash started at 69 and fell to 66 but that was after I had realised that I had not wrapped my coolbox mashtun hence the temp drop, anyway, OG finished at 1063 and this dropped to 1014 so from Beersmith I should be looking at 6.5% which is close to what I wanted. It will be 6 weeks in the keg this weekend so should be ready to drink...