Waiting for boil to get going.

Ended up with more wort than expected, was expecting 14L but ended up with more than 20L.

Gravity of the wort before boil was 1.039, about 8 points lower than expected, but given the extra liquor it probably turned out to be a 70% efficiency. in went the packet of spray malt I'd bought just in case.

A quick play with beer smith  suggests I'll still be on for a 4% job.

And something that I forget in a bid to stop dribbles out the fermentation bucket taps is that vaseline melts at ~70degC

Biggest lesson has to be keep the sparge water slower (tie a knot in the syphon tube input) and only open the tap at the bottom of the bucket half way. Thankfully I spotted that I'd need the 5 gallon fermentation bin as the outer bin not the 3 gallon (that could have been messy)

high-level design for my first ever all-grain brew.

Ingredients purchased, and thinking about constructing a mash tun/sparging contraption for an all grain brew.

About to start bottling "The White Goose", pretty un-eventful brew (wasn't much headspace in the fermentation bin but thankfully not spillage).

The samples over the last three days have been nice pale and nice and clear. Already thinking brewing more than 13L would have been a good idea.

The White Goose

After bottling the "Orange River Goose" doing a smaller brew without the orange but similar hop/grain profile.

Down to 1.014

Expecting 1.013 out of BeerSmith, but OG was a little higher at 1.052.

Settled on the name "Orange River Goose"

New Brew Finished

Just finished a new brew

with Glacier, Centennial and Hallertau hops
and Caramalt, Maris Otter, Pale Extract and Wheat
Safale S-04 yeast

I was plannig on a Purity Mad Goose clone, but the hops and grain wasn't quite right (Caragold missing), and the hops weren't quite right. I've decided since it wasn't quite the same that this could go in the direction of Indian River Light from Heartland brewery... so in went fresh orange zest, orange juice and corriander

I reckon this will be something special or something terrible.