Start mash at 11.30. 4 kg of Glafdield Ale malt for 1 hour then 200gms Gladfield Redback for 1 hour. Maintain 67Cish for entire mash. Dropped to 63 during sparge. No water conditioning just filtering.
Sparge started at 13.30 - 14.15.
Heat started at 14.00 with 40gms Chinook Pellets in spider 21 litres. Top up with another 8 litres whilst boil getting started. Boiling at 14.35. Collect 29 litres. Chiller coil in at 15.10. Boil 14.35 - 16.45.
Chilling started at 16.50 - 18.00 then out for a birthday dinner at Paradise. Start to run into fermenter at 20.15.
Saturate 2 US05 sachets in warm water at 21.30
OG 1042 at 30C = 1043.
Yeast pitched at 2230. Bubbling away nicely 08.00 next morning.
Still very slow bubbling 26/3. Tasting really nice.
27/3 ( 0800 ) Rack into 26SS and add 50gms Citra pellets for dry hop.
1/4/19 Gelatine added 0900 and fridge cooled to 10C.
2/4/19 Final gravity 1010. 1400-1500 - Bottled - 22Litres 24x750ml and 8x500ml. A little cloudy still and seemed to get a little pellet in the tap slowing flow on the odd bottle.