English Special Bitter

Building up my summer arsenal of beers....
had a really nice brew night with zoie the brew dog; the wife and child were away for the weekend, so i brewed an ESB, ate some grass fed burgers with Zoie the brew dog, let her on the couch with me and watched some Ultimate fighting until 2am. I feel like Tim taylor arh arh arh...anyway, the recipe:

10lb crisp maris otter
.75lb medium crystal
.25lb extra dark crystal
Hops/adjuncts:
1.5oz Kent Golding at 1st running FWH
.25 oz fuggle @ 20 minutes
.25 oz Kent Golding @ 20 minutes
.25 oz Kent Golding @ 0 minutes
.25 oz fuggle @ 20 minutes
TARGET OG 1.054
Brew notes:
Mash in 3.75 gal 168 degree water, target 155 7:40pm
Add 1gal 185 degree water @ 60 min 8:45pm
Stir 10 minutes, Vorlauf, empty to kettle. 9:00pm, make that 9:10, stuck sparge, dammit!!
Add 3.50 gallons 175 degree water, stir 10 min, Vorlauf, drain to kettle 9:25pm
Pre boil 6.90 gallons, bring to boil
Boil 60 minutes- hotbreak 9:44pm
Add .25 Kent, .25 fuggle at 20 min 10:24pm
1/2 teaspoon yeast nutrient at 10 min. 1/2 whirlfloc 10 min, sanitize chiller 10 min 10:34pm
Add .25 Kent, .25 fuggle at flameout,  no bag
Cool wort to 70 degrees 
100 10:51pm
80 10:55pm
80 11:02pm
Whirlpool, let settle  1/2 hour, cook hamburger for me and brewdog 11:30pm
Empty kettle
Target OG 75% efficiency (Batch sparge): 1.058
Actual OG: 1.061
Aerate 1 minute 20 seconds
Pitch yeast dry 12:05am
The whirlfloc really causes me to lose valuable beer at the expese of a little clarity in my final product. Executive decision here to never use it again. I wasted almost a gallon of wort, and this isn't the first time. I've decided that my beer is pretty damn good, cloudy or not. if you're that particular, drink it from a mug and you won't see the difference.