Honey Pale Ale Brew Day

Thursday evening I brewed my first beer, a partial mash honey pale ale. The recipe can be found at the following link. The process went well but it did end up take 4 hours and it certainly was a cooking marathon. I took lots of picture of the process so please bear with me:

I brought 15 liters (4 gal) of water to 74c (165f)

Added all the grain and gave it a good stir.

I then added ice until the temp lowered to mash temp of 65-68c (150-155f)

With the temp at the mash range I then maintained it for 60 minutes.

After the mash I strained the grain out with
a cheese cloth lined colander into a bucket.

The grain was then raised for a while so all the wort drainer out.

It then went back into the now rinsed pot, the pale DME was stirred in and then it was heated to a boil.

This was taken when the hot break occurred about 20 min after turning the heat on. At this point I set the timer for 60minutes and maintained the boil.

This was taken after the first hops addition.
0.5oz cascade hops was added at :60, :30 & :15

At :01 of the boil I added the last 0.5oz cascade hops
and the pound of honey.

With the boil done the pot went into an ice bath and was quickly brought to 21 c (70f).

It was then stained into a bucket. I tried a few things here. First with cheese cloth which quickly clogged then just with a stainer. Lots of hop reside was missed. Not sure if this is a problem? I guess I can separated it out when I rack to the secondary.

I then aerated the wort really well by transferring it between the pot & bucket about 5 times.

With that done it went into a carboy and then I topped it with water to 11.5 liters (3gals) and mixed well.

I then took a gravity sample which ended up being 1.050. After that the yeast was pitched into the carboy.

Finally here it is completed and on its way to becoming ale.