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Well... everything was going swimmingly until the boil started... or didn't start more accurately. Just as the electrim was coming up to the boil... it cut out, and then kept cutting in and out. Presumably this was the element's cutout as the thermostat dial on the side was still calling for...

That is a bugger... at least the brew went smoothly 8-)

Head over here to find out... http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=510

Set the mash off at 11:00 - about an hour later than intended, but so far all going smoothly. Mash at 67c as per benmcben's thermometer, 66c per my glass one. No pics yet, might try to take some of sparging/boiling...

Olives, preferably Kalamata Also, pistachio nuts :cheers:

Good spot, sorry - I didn't fill that bit in :oops:, I don't bother with it, I'll just fly sparge and fill the boiler up (providing the SG doesn't drop below 1.006 of course)

AG#4, though my first solo one, is coming up, and I have devised what I hope will be a pleasant bitter using fuggles hops: The AA changes as the first lot is the last 40g of my old pack of fuggles, using the new pack for aroma. If things are going well I intend to take a couple of litres of...

Thanks guys. Didn't mean to hijack the thread. Anyway hopefully next week I'll be doing a brew - my last one (stout) is in bottles conditioning, and now the nights are drawing in it will soon be cool enough in the garage to put somethink in my KK. So I'm thinking of a nice simple 1.040 ish...

With 3 AGs under my belt (and some with Benmcben) I like the idea of making up my own recipe from scratch, and like the single hop idea for the reasons mentioned above. What I realised is I don't understand how to calculate how much aroma hops to add in a recipe. I can calculate the IBUs of...