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Mash

The initial layout of the recipe is in Brewfather. I scaled it down to 17L to fit that grain bill, but ended up being low on my OG. A few reasons for that though!

• 6kg 2-row

• 1.5kg Maris Otter

• 500g rolled oats

• 300g Amber malt

• 260g Chocolate malt

• 250g crystal (I'd have used roasted malt here if I had any at the time…)

• 200g caramalt

• 200g carapils

A couple things here - I didn't have any roasted barley, and didn't even think to try roasting some myself a couple days beforehand, so it's a much browner-than-black porter. Secondly, I'm still trying to dial in my grain mill after my previous batches have had stuck flow during mash and sloowww sparging, and ended up not getting a very good crush in. Coupled with the efficiency of a small batch seeming to be slightly lower meant I ended up about 18 points out on OG - not very good, but it's all learning.

Boil

• 60m - 12g EKG, 12g Warrior

• 10m - 24g EKG

Aiming for a gravity of 1.090 I ended up at 1.072

Fermentation

Using Kveik, this went on at 34C and dropped quickly for the first couple days, but needed over a week to get down to 1.014.

Overall the end result is actually more drinkable than I was thinking it might end up - doesn't quite look right, but the breadiness of the Maris Otter works really well with EKG.