====== Batch 6 ======

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**Intent**:  Irish Red ale.

===== Grain Bill =====

  * 2250g 2-row barley malt.
  * 450g Munich malt.
  * 450g Crystal malt (60L).

==== Non-Grain Ingredients ====

  * 28g East Kent Goldings hops.
  * 11.5g SafAle S-04.
  * 300g demerera sugar.

===== Process =====

Sterilized everything the night before.  Heated strike water;  split grain into 1/3 and 2/3 lots.  Mash-in at 68.1°C on the smaller kettle, 68.6°C on the larger.  Temps dropped to 66.0°C on the smaller kettle, 66.4°C on the larger. Mashed for 60 minutes, then rested 30 minutes.  

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Press-lautered.  Started the boil.  Sugar in at 100°C, hops in 30 minutes after.  Moved kettles to bathtub for cool.

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Transferred wort to carboy, pitched the yeast.

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Original Specific Gravity:  1.046.\\
First reading:  1.009.  That being a really solid number, I sanitized the bottles.\\
Second reading:  1.007.  Still dropping, so I primed the bottles and sealed them against bottling day.  Priming was 80g of sucrose (table sugar) dissolved in 150ml of boiling water;  final volume after cooling was 190ml.\\
Third reading:  1.007.  Looks like it's ready to bottle.

Extracted 16 litres, plus most of a 17th that will be used for sampling.

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