Extract brew day in Ireland - Orfy's OSH Clone Part 1

Old Speckled Hen Clone
Type: Extract
Batch Size: 23 litres
Boil size: 11 litres
Boil time: 60 mins
Colour: 10
Estimated OG: 1.052
Est ABV: 5.2%

370g Crystal Malt EBC 120
2.7kg Light DME (half added at start of boil, half after 45 mins)
450g Lyle's Golden Syrup - added after 55 mins
100g Demerera sugar added after 55 mins

Hops:
48g Northern Brewer 10.5% - 60 mins
14g East Kent Goldings 6.8% - 15 mins
10g East Kent Goldings 6.8% - 5 mins

Yeast: Danstar Nottingham dry yeast

Sanitising various brew items in my bottling bucket.




The ingredients.









Additions in order.




Heating the water to 75C for steeping grains.




Steeping grains.







Part 1 of 2...

At last the boil.




Hops in.




Rehydrate the yeast




Good aeration.




OG bang on 1.052.




In the fermenter.




Have a nice home brewed APA at the end of the brewday.

I see nothing wrong here.
Very Nice!

Great photos! Looking good!

Curt

Looks like a fine day to be brewing there!

Hi all i tried to copy this exact recipe but used 2x1.5kg cans lme as opposed to dme, also used pellet hops instead of leaf. I could only get crystal malt ebc 82 for the steeping grains. Fermented for 2 weeks in primary ,straight to bottles with carb drops warm conditioned in hot press for 2 weeks and 2 weeks cold conditioned in the shed.not sure what wnet wrong but this did not taste like osh. Osh normally tastes wuite caramelly with nice ekg scent. Mine was more bitter lacking in flavour and quite watery. Any ideas what went wrong. Primary had a lot of trub perhaps rubbed off. Any thoughts from anyone. Many thanks

Nice. Where about in Ireland are u? I have a friend back home in Dublin wanting to start home brewing. Where do u get ur ingredients from?