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Just doughed in at 5:30 PM, sitting at 67c - more later...

Loughton Pride
English Special or Best Bitter
Type: All Grain
Date: 02/05/2008
Batch Size: 23.00 L
Brewer: Ian
Boil Size: 23.00 L Asst Brewer: Ben
Boil Time: 90 min Equipment: My Equipment
Taste Rating(out of 50): 35.0 Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00
Taste Notes:

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
2.30 kg Pale Malt, Pearl (2.5 SRM) Grain 53.61 %
1.75 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 40.79 %
0.18 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 4.20 %
0.06 kg Chocolate Malt (450.0 SRM) Grain 1.40 %
20.00 gm Challenger [6.30 %] (90 min) Hops 14.5 IBU
16.00 gm Target [9.00 %] (90 min) Hops 14.9 IBU
20.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.50 %] (10 min) Hops 3.2 IBU
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-04) Yeast-Ale

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.042 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 0.000 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.011 SG Measured Final Gravity: 0.000 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.01 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 0.00 %
Bitterness: 32.6 IBU Calories: 0 cal/l
Est Color: 10.7 SRM Color: Color

Have a good one gents

Good luck with your brew, enjoy it!

You lot are giving me brewers withdrawal symptoms
Good work

Hope it's going well, chaps

Yeast pitched about 11:00 into wort at 24.5c. Now in the freezer thing set for 22c. Will reduce this to 20c after a day or so.
Collected 23l @ 1.042.
Apart from a forgotten whirlfloc panic everything went like clockwork.

I would like to point out (for accuracy) that the Indian Takeaway was 16 minutes late!

Piccies!

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/susybum/LoughtonPride

Nice group of pics mb
I had a pint of London Pride on draught for the first time at the weekend, it was o.k.

Blimey He even has a shiney shirt

Look here

macleanb wrote:Piccies!
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/susybum/LoughtonPride

Three things :
1) what is the thing that looks like a fridge? Is that what you use for fermenting in?
2) Why does picasa say you're in france?
3) HOW DID YOU TAKE THE ASTRONOMICAL PHOTO'S!?
you must live somewhere nice and dark!

I can answer question 1: Yes
Ben will need to answer the other ones

richard_senior wrote:

macleanb wrote:Piccies!
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/susybum/LoughtonPride

Three things :
1) what is the thing that looks like a fridge? Is that what you use for fermenting in?
2) Why does picasa say you're in france?
3) HOW DID YOU TAKE THE ASTRONOMICAL PHOTO'S!?
you must live somewhere nice and dark!

Here's a few more astro shots.......

http://gallery.mac.com/adentonmiller#10 ... &view=grid

These taken from my garden in Surrey with a webcam attached to a telescope.

Those are great.
I don't want to hijack the thread... But briefly.. what is your telescope setup?
I take it it's quite a large reflector? Do you live miles away from a city?
How do you align your scope, manually?

richard_senior wrote:Those are great.
I don't want to hijack the thread... But briefly.. what is your telescope setup?
I take it it's quite a large reflector? Do you live miles away from a city?
How do you align your scope, manually?

Hi Richard,

The scope is a 10 inch Meade LX200 and the camera is a Philips Toucam II webcam. Alignment is pretty much automatic - it asks you to point it at 3 stars, then just sorts itself out.

I live about 10 miles south of Guildford, so although it's not a really dark sky it's pretty good.

Cheers,

Alasdair