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just knocked out a second attempt a clot dobbin or at least an approximation of it

5.5 Kg MO
0.65 Kg Crystal
0.160 Kg choc malt (light)
0.06 Kg Black malt

Mashed at 65 C for 1 hour
with 3.5 g of Ca sulphate and 3.5 g of Ca chloride (edit)

3.5g of Ca sulphate, 3.5 g of Ca Chloride and a few granules of mg.
25 IBus from challenger at 60 mins
7g of challenger at 15 min
25 g of cascade at 1 min

Hope it turns out better than my last drunken attempt.

Fermenting this with windsor

Nice one, must keep this in mind for a nice brown ale

have a good one Del, you'll get a good one this time, I know it...

my cornie of this ran out at 7pm this evening, I am still being consoled by the wife......

Garth - your beer list looks a little light

stop rubbing it in

no, seriously I have nothing left, I really need to brew summat or I'l be spending a fortune on bottled beer. I'm out for ale on the town tonight and after that it's brew time with a vengeance (and a new pump/setup)

How did the brew go then Del? any pics?

How many FVs do you have, garth?

Garth wrote:stop rubbing it in

no, seriously I have nothing left, I really need to brew summat or I'l be spending a fortune on bottled beer. I'm out for ale on the town tonight and after that it's brew time with a vengeance (and a new pump/setup)

How did the brew go then Del? any pics?

No piccies im afraid, it was a spur of the moment brew, everything went smoothly and it was probably my quickest and easiest brewday yet. The only fly in the ointment was the damn hopstrainer blocking AGAIN!!
How to do my usual routine of constantly disturbing the hop bed to get anything out (i should really have syphoned it) so thats virtually all of the cold break in the fermenter
Hope it turns out ok, right im off to purchase a new hopstrainer

Hope it turns out well, Del. I plan to do another Clotworthy again soon. I was planninmg on adding some flavour hops at 15 mins so I'd be interested to hear how this one goes.

delboy wrote: right im off to purchase a new hopstrainer

del, glad you had a good brewday, why not make a hopstopper, I've only use mine once but it stopped a hell of a lot trub and hop pellet muck, as well as the hop flowers and seeds. proper mint like

maxashton wrote: How many FVs do you have, garth?

Max, I've got 5 fvs, two sealed ones, two 5 gallon and a 10 gallon one.

Garth wrote:

delboy wrote: right im off to purchase a new hopstrainer

del, glad you had a good brewday, why not make a hopstopper, I've only use mine once but it stopped a hell of a lot trub and hop pellet muck, as well as the hop flowers and seeds. proper mint like

Sounds good what was the design garth, any links on here to how you went about making it.

Garth wrote:Max, I've got 5 fvs, two sealed ones, two 5 gallon and a 10 gallon one.

No excuse mate! Get your brew on!

Garth a couple of 38L brews will get you going again

del, Aleman pointed me in the direction of a site where he had made and photographed his.

it's basically two pieces of 30cmx30cm mesh from Inoxia, a T piece, a 90 bend and pipe to join to your tap, mine looks a bit 'Dr Frankenstein' as I crimped mine on the edges rather than sewing it. I'll try and find the link, here's a piccy of my effort, the T piece is hidden between the skins, I'm well pleased with the way it works.

Sure the 3.5kg of CaCl isn't contributing to the blocking?

I made one of those mesh hop strainers out of frying pan covers but got fed up with cleaning it! Worked though.

I'm hoping to do a C. Dobbin tomorrow, but was going to do the original recipe posted here with the Northdown and Challenger split for bittering. Any reason why you modified it Del?