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Just dry hopped my latest brew, a bit of a last minute one that's on a deadline so need to break a couple of rules and keep my fingers crossed - only getting just over a week for fermentation - eek!!

It's a pale ale with Nelson, Moteuka, Mystic, Olicana and Vic Secret and Verdant's yeast so should be tropical and soft. iSpindel says fermentation's done already, so the dry hop's in and will keg on Sunday for carbing.
 
I'm brewing the bitter mentioned yesterday. Slight tweaks as the proposed crystal 240 addition turned into either 60,100 or 400. Plus the amber malt addition increased to 175g from 150g as that was all of it. Apart from that it's exactly the same!
 
All done though I missed my target OG by about 5 points (low)! I'm getting 1.034/5 ish. Dunno what's happened there,volumes are right. Mash was on the high side..67c.
Depending on the yeast attenuation,CML Midland,70% will give me a 3.2% beer,though the suggested is 76_82%.
 
So on that average it'll be about 3.5%..must try find out what's happened. I did scale the recipe on Brewfather back to 20 lit. Also first bag out of a new batch of Maris Otter from MM.
 
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Broke out the G30 for the first time in about 20 brews today to do this dry stout. Plugged up the hole in the bottom plate and did away with the centre pipe.

71% Maris Otter
11% Flaked Barley
6% Chocolate
5% Sugar
4% Roasted Barley
3% Crystal (145ebc)
For 1.044

28 IBU Magnum at 60
15g Fuggle at 15
Nottingham

Have to say it was the most painless brew day I've had in ages not having to watching temperatures like I do on the brewzilla, and knowing I wasn't going to block the chiller with hops. Cleaning was more of a pain though (Handles please Grainfather), and it is a lot slower to heat, but I think I'll stick with this for the foreseeable.
 
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