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My cooling setup. Power supply Pump Immersion cooler Time to set them up

30 minutes to go, in go the first lot of chinook.

I've just chucked them in before and ended up with sticky lumps all over the cooler and hop strainer, so I've started sticking to the instructions! They're the brewpack branded ones.

Rehydrating the Protafloc granules.

Mash tun emptied, now time to clean it.

Thanks Andy, nice to know someone's watching and that you're finding it useful. It's not that hard really!

Hop porn. I'm not adding any until an hour into the boil. Then it's 60m 20g chinook 75m 30g chinook 80m 50g citra 85m 50g citra Then 100g citra, 75g of homegrown cascade and the last 10g in the packet of chinook for an 80 degree steep.

Back up to the boil, meanwhile another 1.5 litres has dripped out of the mash tun.

56 litres in the boiler

Already up to the boil when I start running off the second sparge

Time to warm up the yeasties

Last of the sparge water going in, now I can unplug the PID and power up the second boiler element.

Vorlaufing the first sparge

First runnings in the boiler and the first lot of sparge water is added I quite like this tapatalk lark, there's no running to the computer to sort the photo's out. It's all done on the phone in real time.

Good morning. I've just started running off, the mash lost around 5 degrees overnight.

Pre stir Post stir A little extra insulation And goodnight.

Time to mash in, under letting so not terribly exciting to watch.

I think Mak's hit the nail on the head. If you follow the instructions and add the correct amount of water and sugar then you'll have the correct OG, however if not mixed in well enough then most off those sugars will be at the bottom of the FV and not in your sample. The yeasties will have...

Like most things in brewing there are several ways to do it, if your method works then why change it?