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Custom brew to Molly's special request, specifically a dark beer that doesn't carry much chocolate flavor. English Porter suits just fine. C120 is Simpson's English DRC, a caramel based malt. "heavy, dark caramel taste with more subtle notes of burnt sugar, raisin, and dark dried fruits such as cherries and plums. It can also deliver some of the softer roasty notes of a chocolate or black malt but without the astringency or bitterness." Special B is similar and here mostly because I have it ...
Brew No.14 Do again. No. 5/10 - MM kit. 4.2% Not my favourite style of beer, but ok. Recipe OG 1050. FG 1014. 4.7% OG 1044. Not as high as recipe. But added 2 litres of water from kettle early to boil. FG 1012. OG 1044. FG 1012. 4.2% Attenuation - 72%
brewed on 07/04/2022. Added chocolate malt at 15min mark in mash. 5.25G AW mash. 1.25G AW, 2.5G RO sparge. Lost about 0.5G at end of sparge, need to increase sparge by 0.5G to account for loss. Also, efficiency dropped by 5% when increasing to 10lbs. Possibly do two sparges, over collect by 2 gallons and use the Digiboil. Possibly better efficiency, but will lose 1G at end, so it may be a wash. Definitely need to improve starter and o2 game, very slow start to fermentation, also very slow ...