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Date started:      8 November 2003
Volume:            20 litres

Initial density:   1044
Calculated IBU:    24.3

Ingredients:

3kg Coopers Pale Malt extract
38g Fuggles pellets (5% alpha acid)
25g East Kent Goldings pellets (6.1% alpha acid)
    Coopers Pale Ale Yeast starter

Boil 1.5 kg malt extract, fuggles for 60 minutes.  Add remainder of
malt, cooled slowly in fridge.

Fermentation progress:

9.xi    am   26°    Pitched, dry hopped with Goldings
        pm   21°    0.17 Hz
10.xi   am   19.5°  0.35 Hz
        pm   19.5°  0.32 Hz
11.xi   am   19.5°  0.22 Hz
        pm   18.0°  0.13 Hz
12.xi   am   18.0°  0.052 Hz
        pm   18.0°  0.041 Hz
13.xi   am   18.0°  < 0.02 Hz

15.xi   am   18°    racked.  Density 1012, 6.0% Brix, pH 3.8

17.xi   am   18°    bottled with 9 g/l sugar.  
            Density 1012, 6.3% Brix, pH 4.2

Bottling statistics:
     Bottles  size    total
          3  0.75l   2.25l
         45  0.375l 16.875l
       total        19.125l

Obvious mistakes

• Didn't boil all extract.
• Cooled down too slowly.

Consumption

9 July 2006: Last bottle drunk. Head still good for an extract brew, too much crystal malt flavour. Doesn't seem to have suffered from the long storage.