====== Batch 7 ======

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**Intent**:  Irish Red ale.

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

  * 2700g Maris Otter malt.
  * 450g Munich malt.
  * 450g Crystal malt (60L).

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

  * 28g Fuggle hops.
  * 11.5g SafAle S-04.
  * 150g demerera sugar.

===== Process =====

Sterilized everything.  Heated strike water;  split grain into 1/3 and 2/3 lots.  Mash-in at 70°C on the smaller kettle, 70.5°C on the larger.  Temps dropped to 69°C on the smaller kettle, 68°C on the larger. Mashed for 60 minutes, then rested 30 minutes.  
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Press-lautered. Started the boil. 
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Sugar in at 100°C, hops in 15 minutes after. Moved kettles to bathtub for cool.  Transferred to carboy, topped up to 23 litres, and pitched the yeast.
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Specific Gravity prior to pitching:  1.056.\\
On day 4:  1.010.\\
On day 5:  1.009.\\
On day 6:  1.009.  Prepped bottles.

Bottled on day 7 at 1.009.  20 litres of product.