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I changed my recipe to reflect the recipes in my British Ale Clone book. I didn't with the last one and the beer was too dark and of course malty. I used too much specialty malts. I fixed that so hopefully this beer will taste more like the British Bitters I am after.   Ingredients 11 lbs. Crisp Maris Otter 6 ozs. CL ( 40 srm ) 14.17 grams CaraFa Special III 49.50 grams EKG Wyeast British Ale 1098 Slurry Over Build I got way more yeast slurry this time around compared to the first one. But, you can't go by the amount, just by the estimated cell count. Estimated - who knows how much? Just a guess. CA - 50 MG - 10 S04 - 75 CI - 63 PH - 5.45 Water Profile - Amber Balanced O.G. - 1.042 - (75%) F.G. -  1.010 % -     4.2 BU - 35 SRM - 6.5 Mash Volume - 5.25 gallons Sparge Volume - 5 gallons MASH Gyp - 1.3 grams CC - 1.9 grams Eps - 2 grams Lactic Acid - .5 ml BOIL Gyp - 1.2 grams CC - 1.8 grams Eps - 1.9 grams Since I am down with a very bad cold, brew day has been re...

Smoking this one just like the last one. Do not forget to inject it with oil to help keep it moist. The Ottawa pros smoke their Pork Loin to 145F and that is what I am doing. They serve to the public so if they do it, then so can I. Instructions are in the orange binder. Since this is half the size of the recipe, it should take me around 1 hour or just past that. It is not really cold out now, going to 12C. No rain until maybe tomorrow night so you need to clean Mr. Smoker tomorrow morning. Since I was having company, I did smoke this to 160F. Dry of course but no one got sick.

It was easy to calibrate Mr. Robobrew once I did it a few times to get it right. However,  Mr. STC1000 was a different matter. I had to watch You Tube and remember it for when I went downstairs. I eventually did it and it seems to be fine. You don't have to be exact since I do have the temp strip to look at. The temp was at 60F so I carried the carboy into the beer room and turned on the wall heater. It is hit and miss since it doesn't have any temp measurements to go by. These heaters aren't accurate anyway. Just so it is anywhere between 64F - 66F.   I should check both these units for accuracy every time I use them. Maybe I will get good at doing it and it will be a quick thing to do. The temp controller was off .7C which isn't too bad. It all depends on the ice/water glass if it is really 0C when you do calibrate it. I left the temp probe in it for 5 minutes and it was right in the middle of the ice. I had to go with that and set it to 0C.