Oops

A couple of mistakes post-brew day.

Starting to test the brew-controller, because of the poor wi-fi taking down the secondary Raspberry Pi, I switched the temp probe to another socket (measured from the primary). Unfortunately this ended up creating a short-circuit- complete with smoke.

- Thankfully after testing today I've found that I ended up with a corrupt swap partition on one of the RPi's - and the temperature probe in question has died (given that's only £3 or so) I'm not too upset.


The second mistake was that because the boil volume in the kettle was 36L not 31L then the IBU might be as low as 28 IBU instead of 48. THe recipe below was calculated as 17% IBU. The more I think about it the more I think the 13.4% printed on the label might have been correct (after all they were £2 for 100g).

The third mistake might turn out to be boiling up the remaining 50g of Bravo hops for 10 minute in a jar of honey and water. Putting in a sterile jar in the fridge over night and then putting it in the fermenttion bin. Fermentation was still underway (given the fridge still cutting in to cool the FV) so hopefully there won't be any oxidation.

A taste from the fermentation bin so far is not very bitter, but I guess until fermentation is over it's hard to tell.

Recipe Stats

Batch Size: 25.0 L
Estimated Gravity: 1.048 OG - 1.013 FG
Estimated ABV: 4.6 %
Estimated IBU: 48 IBU

Fermentables

	Qty	Ingredient
	6500 gm	Maris Otter Grain Mash Required HWE: 315.6
	340 gm	Honey Adjunct HWE: 291.8
	250 gm	Torrified Wheat Grain Mash Required HWE: 299.5

Hops

	Qty	Ingredient
	25 gm	Bravo Copper (60min) - 60 min
	25 gm	Bravo Aroma (15min) - 15 min
	50 gm	Simcoe Dryhop - 0 min
	50 gm	Simcoe Flameout (0min) - 0 min

Yeast

	Qty	Ingredient
	1 pkt	Safale S04

Other

	Qty	Ingredient
	48 L	Bottled Water (2L)