New brew started of today, the actual brew day is tomorrow !
Attempting the Marc Olloson's clone of the Orkney Island beer Dark Island, complete with its six different malts,some dark sugar and 2 helpings of a single hop â Challenger.
I started this morning by making up a yeast starter of DME and water for the Edinburgh Scottish Ale Yeast WLP028, this was suggested to me by Greysalchemy as being a suitable yeast for this brew.
I've since started to " warm the pot" , i.e my mash tun, with some hot water, ( not really necessary but its what I do )
I've weighed all the grains out into a bucket, feeling a little like Jamie Oliver cooking a varied menu, the most malts I've used in a brew...I do like my malty beers, and there's a few in this recipe !
Will be doing an overnight mash tonight ready to be off after breakfast. ( HLT switched on before coffee ! )
Will try and take a few pics of the brew as I tend to enjoy other folks brew day stories if they include a few pictures.
I don't know if anyone else has brewed this ale, I'd love to hear if they have, I'm aiming for 23 lts at 5.13% abv.
Report to follow tomorrow.....
Attempting the Marc Olloson's clone of the Orkney Island beer Dark Island, complete with its six different malts,some dark sugar and 2 helpings of a single hop â Challenger.
I started this morning by making up a yeast starter of DME and water for the Edinburgh Scottish Ale Yeast WLP028, this was suggested to me by Greysalchemy as being a suitable yeast for this brew.
I've since started to " warm the pot" , i.e my mash tun, with some hot water, ( not really necessary but its what I do )
I've weighed all the grains out into a bucket, feeling a little like Jamie Oliver cooking a varied menu, the most malts I've used in a brew...I do like my malty beers, and there's a few in this recipe !
Will be doing an overnight mash tonight ready to be off after breakfast. ( HLT switched on before coffee ! )
Will try and take a few pics of the brew as I tend to enjoy other folks brew day stories if they include a few pictures.
I don't know if anyone else has brewed this ale, I'd love to hear if they have, I'm aiming for 23 lts at 5.13% abv.
Report to follow tomorrow.....