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Posted: **Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:49 am**

This is a brew I did yesterday from this years First Gold harvest....picked last weekend.. My partner/girlfriend/fiancee etc.. came down stairs and knocked my flask of the stir plate with her foot, about an hour before brewing

so..usual start to the brewday

46 litres
7kg Marris Otter (h&g didnt have any GP)
600g caramalt
500g wheat malt

40gr First gold - 60min - bittering 20 IBU @7.5%
40gr " " - 15min - flavouring 10 IBU
15gr Aroma

WLP 013 London ale yeast

all crs, dls additions etc....whirfloc....left the gravity bending pumps and recircing equip out....

pics as and when...sparging...dont look at mess... its saturday morn and and the swearing dictionary has already bin out...
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Boil underway ....... The browner homegrown for bittering
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Recirc runnings...about 4 juggs and shes clear...
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And a beer

(belgiumish) yummy (and yes we had a bit of a boil over)
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cooling through super cfc.....good hot break in boiler
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crystal beer in jug goes through super cooler...exits at 70f and turns into lovely lumps of cold break
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and finally my two babies in buckets both at 70f to keep a cleaner ferm
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will upload pics directly when I can get it to work...right must go to dinner before partner kills me for ligging...hi ho!

Posted: **Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:41 am**

Nice pics, RM. Those hops look fantastic!

Incidentally, if our kitchen looked like that while I was brewing up, my wife would kick me, not the yeast starter!

Posted: **Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:58 pm**

ah yes.. I love a nice sterile clean kitchen.....but cleaning is boring!, and there always seems to be something to do beerwise to keep everything running as planned.....luckily my partner thinks the smell of boiling beer/hops is sickly!?(such a drama queen) So shes never here when I brew to see the mess.

Posted: **Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:23 pm**

Brewing or washing up, brewing or washing up....hmmm it's a hard choice but I'd have to go for...

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