4 Dog Brewery

Maiden Voyage with my new RoboBrew electric brewery. I cleaned it with oxiclean, rinsed well and did some research for recipes. Not a lot out there, so I went with Promash with 75% efficiency. Be nice to get higher than that. This is a delicate system and I have to look after it because there are a lot of pieces that go in this and it would be easy to lose or break them. I set my total volume for 7.5 gallons. It says it is 35 L, but 30 L is almost to the top of the unit. 28 L is where I want to be at the beginning of the boil, give or take a litre or so. I had to split my usual recipe in half so that is why I am a bit short of grain. Elements work. Will take almost an hour to heat up 28 L of 67 F water to 167 F. My mash will only be around 5 - 6 gallons, so it will most likely be around 45 min. I added 5 g to the 60 min. addition and 7 g to the 0 addition because of the hop sock lower utilization. I have no evidence that I needed to do that, just did it. Will taste it and if it is to...

Using a very popular base malt instead of so called English/Canadian base malt which didn't taste good at all. Pilsners in the fall. You gotta love these UK Pub signs. Tons of slaughtered lamb signs on the internet. Love this one. Ingredients 23 lbs. ESB Gambrinus ( 3 L ) 2 lbs. Carahell 3 ozs. UK Choc 56.70 ozs. UK Challenger - 7.8% AA @ 60 min. 28.35 ozs. EKG - 6.1% AA @ 30 min. Nottingham - ( 4 ) Water Profile - Amber Dry ( I changed it to suit me ) I am now posting my water salts additions in future posts as I don't seem to be keeping them as I am constantly changing everything. Now I have the RoboBrew, so that definitely changes everything. If this is astringent, I don't know why. O.G. - 1.052 F.G. - % - SRM - 7.8 BU - 30                                             FERMENTATION NOTES Going good the next morning. Temp - 66 F. The new temp strip seems ...