BCHX

bull city homebrew experimental (BCHX)
i boiled the mish-mash brew from bull city homebrew:
3.3 breiss munich lme
3.3 breiss bavarian wheat lme
1# caramel 10 L
1# english ale 2-row malt
2 oz fuggle
1.5 oz cascade
safale us-05

fug/cas additions at 15, 10, and 5, then 1 oz cascade at 2 minutes
boil notes:
cool down took 20 minutes. added safale US-05 that had been proofed og 1.055. light-looking. not so sure about the bavarian wheat LME, but what the hay (get it?). shook the fermenter with the yeast already added (not sure there's a difference). started steeping grains at 140, up to 155 for about 1/2 hour (probably 15 on 155). grain was crushed at the store. made sure to boil after grains and before adding LME. took a long time to get back up to boiling after adding LME. had a very distinct hot break not long after hop addition. was able to avoid boilovers by stirring. only had to take off heat once. stove on 7.5-8 during boil. after cooldown, poured 1 gallon or so of water into bucket, poured wort through strainer, added rest of water to just over 5 gallons (got to have a full 2 cases this time!). started bubbling within 12 hours.
ryepa from 7/22 has been mostly ready, though there are still some green bottles even after almost a month in the bottle. i've drunk about a 6 of green beers waiting for this to condition. i suspect a combination of whirlfloc and not racking enough of the trub to the bottling bucket. it seems like there wasn't enough yeast. i'm not sold on the whirlfloc. i just don't care that much about color at this point. probably more important with the light beers.
homeade brown ale is really nice so far after bottle conditioning for 2+ weeks, though we did have a couple of volcanos at around 10 days.