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Sod it...I'm busy tidying up the basement (to make room for the pool table)

and I'm walking past the brewery every 5 mins, seems a shame it's sat there doing nothing, And I've got to put my demons to rest. On my last brew the Wort into the FV was cloudy. Looks clear enough now by the way...tastes good too.. Yes I've been drinking out of the FV

But this time I'm going to recirc more wort through the Mash each batch.

I'm goint to boil on 2 elements for as long as I dare I'm going to leave the wort 30 mins to settle post-boil before recircing through the CFC back into the copper until temperature is <30c. I'm going to let it settle. Then I'm going to pump to the FV.

What am I goind to brew. Same as last time HHs House bitter but this time with Fuggle hops in place of the Goldings, hopefully to give me more of a discerning taste for different hops.

House Bitter (fuggled)

Brew length 20litres

Type All grain

Pale Malt (Marris otter) 3.5kg
Crystal malt 230g
Fuggle Hops 60g (36IBU) added at start of boil
Fuggle hops 20g added last 15 mins of boil
Fuggle Hops 8g added at end of boil (30min soak)

Estimated OG 1044

I'm batch sparging again

Wort required for boil 27litres.
Two batches of 13.6 litres of wort (from DaaBs batch sparge calculator)

I'm going for a 90 minute mash and a 90 minute boil.

Any comments gratefully accepted.

Should have added.

I will bung in a whirflock tab 10 mins before end of boil.

And this time I'm using Safale S 04. Last time I used Ringwood yeast.

Have a great day Oggy' Bar, if you have access to ringwood yeast I personaly go for it over S-04. i just just think yeast like Ringwood and WLP002 bring so much more to a simple beer, but s-04 is still a good yeast


Unfortunately I am not brewing to day, re hanging doors, skirting board and paint after the tiller has been, bit tomorrow is another day.

Good luck with your brew Oggy. You will probably find that you will be able to maintain a good rolling boil with one element on a 20 litre brew. I normally have both switched on until the boil is in full swing then switch one of them off. This is on a 23 litre brew btw.

Have a good one Oggy. I've been working today and am itching to get another brew on myself. Gonna take Wednesday off to get my fix. Hope yours goes well.

Hope it's going well

I'm a big fan of single hopped beers - simple, no complications in flavour / aroma. I have so far tried a Bramling Cross hopped beer (luuurvly) and a Styrian hopped beer (luurvly).

Batch sparging is a good way to go, again simple. I'm a simple kind of guy!

Enjoy the day Oggy!

Oggy' Bar wrote: Yes I've been drinking out of the FV

Saves dirtying a glass I suppose.

Hope it went well OB

Heres the pictures ...and how did it go

Mashing in at 69C as planned.


90 minute mash underway.


First runnings from first batch...being out of focus doesn't help.. but not completely clear.



Underletting second batch.



Start of vigourous boil.



Hops added


Left the wort while I went to watch the sprogg play rugby. When I came back..nice and clear.



SG is correct at 1044, but wort is still abit cloudy.



The hop bed looks OK.



Just look at that nice clear wort ...captured from what was pumped to the fermentation vessel.



Unfortunately, it actually wasn't that clear. The wort initially looks cloudy and then the small particles seem to coagulate into larger paricles and within 10 minutes they have settled out leaving a beautifully clear wort.



So I think I have an equipment problem. Probably pumping the wort from the Mash tun is reducing the filtering effect of the grain bed and similarly pumping from the boiler is defeating the hop bed.

I can get round both these problems if indeed this is the cause.

Anybody any ideas.

Still not too worried, the trub in my first two FVs is only about 2.5cm deep so this is not much more than normal and they both smell (and taste ) wonderful. They are still fermenting and are currently about SG1010 from 1044 so all seems OK.

Looks good, I'm looking forward to some all-fuggle beers if my hop plant yields this year.

We love the gunk! Looks normal to me

Forgot to mention...

You know the one about making sure all your taps are shut before you start brewing

Well I have another one.

Make sure you have taken your kettle leads out of the HLT before you fill it with water

And by the way computer leads are OK in an emergency if you fit them with 13A fuses. They don't get that warm

The last 2 pictures are quite normal. The fact they have separated out is the main thing, a lot of that will get thrown up with the yeast head and it can be skimmed off if you want .

Thanks for that DaaB..Just need to perfect the procedure then..not radically change it.

We love the gunk! Looks normal to me

Hoppkins, is that your boiler or your fermenter (impressed if its your fermenter) and even more impressed if its your boiler and you heat it on the Gas hob

Thank you all for your support..unfortunately another 4 weeks until I can be sure there's nothing to worry about

Well maybe 3 weeks

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