We had a successful brew day yesterday, brewing Whitbread's Porter for the Cheshire Peaks entry in the Great British Brew Off.
We had just one incident, which resulted in us liquoring back (posh name for letting down the wort with water) by far too much. The reason? There were so many hops in the boiler that the hydrometer wasn’t floating, it was balanced on the hops! So initially we read the post-boil gravity as 1.101! We liquored back accordingly, but when we thought about how much water we’d added it just didn’t add up. After checking the gravity properly (using a hydrometer jar) we found that we had dropped the gravity way past the target of 1.060 to 1.051. So what should be 6% ABV will only be 4.8%. Oh well. I hope it does not affect our comparison with Andy Bowers’s brew too much.
Spent grains in the mash tun.
Much hot break on the surface of this really dark brew.
One must always be impeccably dressed on brew day, don’t you think?
Skimmed off hot break scum.
LOTS of hops – 113g!
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