Brewed this today. Was a great day for it. It was my 3rd brew, and it was much more relaxing than the last two, very enjoyable day. Apart from a boil over when i wasn't paying attention, and flat batteries in my kitchen scales, the brew went off with out a hitch.
Mash temp dropped from 67 to 64 over the 90 minutes, so i was pretty happy with that. Hit my gravity's, well slightly higher, think i hit around 77% eff, when i was aiming for 70%. (if i figured it out right) I was aiming for 47.9L after boil, and reckon i had about 50, and my target SG was 1.046, and actual was 1.047. so does that sound right?
Going to split the batch, and dry hop one with galaxy and one with citra. Really looking forward to seeing how this turns out!
On the flip side, i recently renovated a very old (20-30 years) fridge, gave it a nice new paint job, and am using it as a beer fridge. I turned it on a few days ago with my previous brew bottled inside, and checked it tonight and it was all frozen! Didn't realise there was a dial in the fridge to what temp and it was set to 'freeze', so spewing about that! Are they ruined?