Hi cleo,
Not any more, I used to but now because most of my time is spent gardening 8) I just use malt extract plus grains . What i do briefly , is boil up22 litres of water in my burco. In a saucepan place 1 litre of boiled water held at a temp of 150dgs F I put 150 gms of crushed crystal malt plus 100 gms melanoiden malt (available from home brew shop) leave that stewing for 30 mins. Then add 2 X1.8kg
tins of pale malt extract, strain in the liquor from the soaked grains, add 50 gms challenger hops & 50 gms golding hops, then bring up to the boil for 30 mins.
Switch off boiler, and cool with home made beer cooler. Strain off into fermenter & add a good ale yeast (gervin). Makes a cracking beer, about 4%, much quicker than mashing. ;D
Adrian.