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Do you treat your water? Having a suitable water profile will help to match the style you are aiming for. If you haven't done so already perhaps have a look at @strange-steve's guides on water treatment.

For me this is without heat. I use a separate mash tun and boiler so I mash in, recirculate and make sure the temperature is correct, maybe a degree above. Then I wrap it up and leave overnight - after 8-9 hours it loses about 10 degrees which I am happy with. I know my insulated mash tun will...

Better yes. I currently have a pale ale in the fermenter which is a rebrew of one that was a bit thin first time around so I am hoping to have more body with this one

+1 for overnight mashing. Even just for the fact that I find splitting the brew day makes it so much easier. Mash in and wrap it up for the night, set up a timer to heat the sparge water and it's all ready to go in the morning athumb..

Did the input get blocked in any way? With hop debris for example.

Welcome to the forum athumb..

As long as everything you used was sanitised as is best practice then I'm sure it will be fine

No... It sounds like a hop tea but then with putting the whole lot in the fermenter.

I always just put them in as pellets, they will swell and break up anyway

Thanks for the tips, I will look forward to trying this

That's a joke, right?

Oh the boyish humour! :laugh8: Takes me back as its just the sort of thing my best friend from school would have said. Haven't seen him for years after he moved to Edinburgh, ironically probably in search of the muff diving centre :laugh8:

Lucky chap! :laugh8:

Hi @foxbat I've been meaning to make this for a long time - do you still use the same recipe or have you tweaked it? (Or given up on it?)

A what now?!? That sounds amazing ashock1

Welcome to the forum athumb..

Thanks @Hazelwood Brewery, I put the second half aside for an hour and that was much more to my liking. I could taste the rich caramel chocolate and lingering malt flavours. Went down a treat with our haggis this evening athumb..

Joining the party with a pint of @Hazelwood Brewery Sweet Stout This is a lovely dark colour with a rich chocolate head which diminished relatively quickly but remains around the glass as I drink it. There is a toasty sherry-like aroma and the taste is smooth roasty chocolate. Very well...

Just over 2 years for me. It started when I was gifted a kit for Christmas by my partner's parents, something that I never would have thought of doing myself at the time. I don't think they realised that I would have to buy a set of equipment to make it but it didn't matter because I was hooked...

Thanks, I hadn't thought of that athumb..