So I'm back at school tomorrow so probably should have been finishing off lesson plans and that sort of gubbins today, but the Linthwaite is looking kinda low and I need this brew to be ready to go into that barrel when it's empty, so figured I'd stick it on now.
Only took a few photos partly because most of what I did has been charted on here already and partly because I was also cooking dinner towards the end of the brew so didn't really have time. So let's go:
The ingredients for this brew. This particular kit is different from the others I've done in that it's a dry kit. In that there silvery packet are some muslin bags containing various specialty grains and hops, which get steeped in hot water for a time, then the liquid i mixed with all that Spraymalt (2kg of the stuff) and diluted to the standard 23 litres. I liked the fact that I didn't have to open any cans.
This is the bags in the pan, ready to have boiling water poured over them. As far as i could tell, there was one bag of hop pellets (Fuggles I think) and three different bags of grains (no idea what they were).
The bags steeping. They give off a wonderful smell.
And finally here are the used bags, looking much like spent tea bags. I had a good old poke and sniff of them and ascertained that one of the grain bags was quite fine, black and smoky, making me think it was black malt or something similar. Another smelt kind of caramellish, so that could be Caramel, but I'm no expert.
After doing this process 3 times (a 20 minute steep each time), the rest of the brew was the same as ever: mixing in loads of spraymalt, adding cold water and pitching yeast. I think it all went well, but the proof will be in the drinking in about 2 months.
I guess that's me done, thanks for reading, I'm off to bed to panic about tomorrow...
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