Well I got up early to put my first large brew on today. A Wherry type. I've been suffering since Saturday with a bad head cold and migrain which laid me up in bed. Thought I was feeling well enough to do a brew today but unfortunately I'm not so its postponed till tomorrow.
I decided on a Wherry as its a beer we all like in our household and doing a large brew it will ensure that we do at least like the beer enough to consume it readily. No good making 38 litres of a so so brew.
38 litres makes it easier just to double the ingredients and will allow me to split it for fermentation into 2 x 19 litre brews which is easily coped with, by the buckets I have available, ( also bottling 38 litres was looking to be a bit of a bind,) 19 litres aint so bad one day, and 19 litres the next. :clap:
I might try a different yeast on the 2 brews and and MAY dry hop one of them if I can think of a suitable hop,as my wherry gets a large amount of Styrian at the end of the boil as it is, which makes it flavoursome enough.
I might even consider doing an overnight mash.
Depending on the weather I'm going to try and visit B&Q this afternoon ( its pensioners discount day... :twisted: ) to pick up some insulation foam to cut some circles out to fit in the top of my mash tun to help with heat retention.