never used packman, sure it would work fine, although seems like people like brittish yeasts better. Never had the beer and am just now mashing in so what do I know.
Add the first charge (.75 oz) as First wort hops. When your lautering, sparging whatever, throw in the first hops. Then it's 15, 10 , 5, 1
So this is great. Dropped my new digital thermometer into the sparge water (new since last brewday I did the same thing then broke it trying to dry it off). This time though I had bought an analog backup. Then my Barley Crushed wouldnt crush anymore so I had to take it apart and re-oil it even though I just did that inbetween last brewday and today. Grrrr. Hopefully this will turn out well