Details of Kimble's Scotch Ale

This was my first brew. I'd gone a little crazy looking at all of the Christmas toys that I'd been allowing to collect dust. My ingredient kit was taking its sweet time to come in from Minnesota. I drove out to Woburn in search of inspiration from a homebrew shop there. It was a cold, heartless, warehouse filled with wine people. I don't get grapes.

I came back to town, picked Kate up at work, and headed out to Natick. We picked up this kit from Dan at Barleycorn's and headed home. I brewed late into the night. Our stove doesn't yield much heat, and I wanted to boil with at least 50% liquid volume. Our biggest pot wasn't big enough to hold 2.5 gallons, so I split it in two. Our 4 burner stove seems to have a fixed BTU output . It can all come through one burner, or be distributed across the four.

Any way the brew came out with a gravity of 1.072, which was a bit stronger than I expected although I had no basis for this expectation.

The ingredients included

Specialty Grains: 2oz Roasted Barley, 8 oz Caramel Malt (20 Lov.), 8 oz Caramel Malt (80 lov), 3 oz. Smoked Malt. (I steeped these for an hour between 150-160 C and kept them steeping as I ramped the temp up to 170)
Liquid Extracts: 3.0 Lbs Light, 4.0 lbs Amber, 0.5 lb Dark, and 0.5 lb Wheat
Hops: 1 oz, Goldings (60), 0.75 Fuggles (30)
Yeast: 1 pkt Safale S-04 (Whitbread)
Etc: 1 tsp Irish Moss