I've used S-04 for my first two so fancy a change. A bit worried that Notty might be too attenuative for this style but a beer of the gravity with this much crystal could never taste thin, could it ?
Finished run off & sparge. Collected c32L at 1048 so should be on target after boil. Hose from sparge tank kept detaching itself so sparge a bit stressful.
this brew has a nice coloured wort, and more or less kept that colour to the bottle. Looks the part of a classic Mild. What abv are you reckoning on... Milds should not really be too strong in alcohol but high in taste
The bottom of a Buffalo stays pretty cool as there is quite a big air gap below the vessel & element.
Floor wouldn't look that nice if I showed you some close-ups. It's old laminate and is pretty trashed. The amount of water I spilled today wouldn't have helped !
All done and yeast pitched at 10 to 3. Everything on the brewing side seemed to go OK although it was one of those brew days where I seemed to spend most of the time mopping up spills. Also tried to clean up as I went along (emptied out and cleaned the mashtun while the boil was on) so quite hectic.
Some more pics
Running into FV with aeration
Boiler gunk
And final wort - has a lot of break material in it.
Got 23L at 1057 which is within a point of the target.
Finished up at 1014 so all that Crystal did manage to keep the attenuation reasonable (I make it 75%). ABV should be 5.8%. Now crash cooling ahead of racking to secondary tomorrow.
Cracked open the first couple of these now after 4 weeks in bottle. Not fully carbed yet (prob due to cold temps) and hasn't fully cleared yet but taste is showing promise.