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Irish stout (with a cheeky extra)

Mashing in:

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New recirculation setup:
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Brewdog keeping an eye on temps:
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70% pale 20% flaked barley 10% roast barley 50g northern brewer - simple recipe really. Was shooting for 1.043 but ended up at 1.038 and two litres over volume. Turned the boil power down to 50% instead of 65%ish so might explain it. Added 200g of black treacle to give it a cheeky boost. Chilling time was 15mins to 24degrees, with the pump recirculating. Tried out my new basic ph meter, a little high at 5.6 so dropped a little extra lactic in.

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Built a new tap setup during the boil - will paint the backboard with blackboard paint to write the beers on.

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End product fermenting away happily
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Taster of the fuggles / challenger / Styrian Goldings pale - a little early but it's pretty good for barely two weeks after brewday.
 
A couple of little tweaks:

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Stainless camlocks added to remove the brass connectors

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Out with the grain bag, in with the filter plate for the malt pipe.

Hoping these upgrades will be an improvement. Last mod will probably be adding eyelets to the outside of the malt pipe to use my ceiling winch to help lift it and hold it in place if I need to sparge/let it drain
 

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