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Date started:      27 December 2003
Volume:            25 litres

Initial density:   1051 (calculated)
                   1049 @26° (measured)
                   1050 @20° (corrected)
Estimated alcohol: 5.4%

Brix:              13.1 (top)
                   13.3 (bottom)
Wort pH:           4.5

Ingredients:

4.0 kg  Coopers Pale Malt extract
135 g   Coopers Pale Malt extract (starter)
225 g	sucrose (priming)
160 g   Crystal malt

37g     East Kent Goldings pellets (6.1% alpha acid)
        Wyeast 1275 "Thames Valley" yeast.

Hops boiled with extract for 60 minutes.

Crystal malt steeped at 55°-62° for 45 minutes, added to wort, brought back to boil for
final 15 minutes.

Cooled with boiled ice to 26°.

Fermentation progress:

27.XII  midday          26°     pitched         fridge 18°
28.XII  am              20°     0.67 Hz         fridge 18°
        pm              20°     0.39 Hz         fridge 17.5°
29.XII  am              20°     0.45 Hz         fridge 18.5°
        pm              20°     0.28 Hz         fridge 18.5°
30.XII  am              21°     0.23 Hz         fridge 19°
        pm              20°     0.20 Hz         fridge 18°
31.XII  am              20°     0.16 Hz         fridge 18°
1.I     am              20°     0.10 Hz         fridge 18°
	pm              20°     0.11 Hz         fridge 18.5°
2.I     am              20°     0.087 Hz        fridge 18.5°
3.I     am              20°     0.067 Hz        fridge 18.5°
			racked.  Density 1013, 7.1% Brix, pH 3.7
10.I			bottled.
			Density 1010 = 1007 before priming
			7.4% Brix = 6.5% before priming
			pH 3.8

Bottling statistics:
        Bottles         size    total
	10		0.75 l	 7.5 l
	11		0.5 l	 6.5 l
	31		0.375 l	11.625 l
        Total		        25.625 l

Differences from brew 15

• A little stronger (estimated 5.4% instead of 4.7%)
• Fractionally more crystal malt.
• Boil hops with malt for whole time.
• Not dry hopped.
• Yeast starter from original, not from previous brew.

Obvious mistakes

• Problems adding ice to fermenter: one of the plastic containers broke. It's not very likely that the plastic in the brew will make any difference, but the outside wasn't sterilized.