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Wednesday night brew! Here we go – BBQ time is coming – the hefeweizen will be at its prime, and the pale ale hopefully ready by then:

4.25kg Maris Otter
200g Caramalt
200g Flaked Barley
40g Flaked Maize (chucked in to use it up!)

Mash 90min at 66C or so.

Challenger 7.1%, 90min 22g
Hallertauer Hersbrucker 2.1%, 90min 40g
Hallertauer Hersbrucker 2.1%, 15min 20g
Styrian Goldings 3.9%, 15min 35g
Styrian Goldings 0min 40g

Yeast US-05

Went fairly smoothly – though lost a pile to the hops – got 21-22L at 1045 or so. I wonder if US05 is going to do it’s usual massive attenuation here….

Tonight I am running a whisky tasting at my cricket club.

Looking forward to 5 large measures each of some unfiltered single cask – even the one that I have no idea what the tasting notes were… (OK – it’s an Ardmore – a speyside – and it’s 14 years old. I know nothing more that…)