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I decided to make this one my "winter brew", up bright & early today to do it. As it is from Graham Wheeler's new book no public recipe I'm afraid.



Grains used on this brew.



All mixed in now, hit a mash temp of 66.5c.



Nice & cosy for 90 mins.



Hlt with thermostat heating the sparge water.



Hops, yeast & whirlflock at the ready.



Getting set up for the sparging.



Collecting the wort from the mash tun, straight into the boiler. This is a nice deep brown colour & it smells great!



3 tier set up in action.



A close up of the spinny sparger in action.



Coming to the boil.



Full steam ahead now, time to add the 1st batch of hops & switch one of the elements off.



Cooling the wort.



Areating & adding the yeast.



All done, lid fitted loosely & temperature strip fitted over the handled to keep an eye on the room temp

I estimated an og of 1048 on this one, I ended up with 1047 & just below 24 litres.

Gone off without a hitch
The spinning sparge arm looks cool

Nice work there HH

That Ringwood is a cracking beer and also the subject of my fave beer photo of the year.
This is a pint of that very ale sitting on the back of our boat , moored in the back of beyond. It don't get much better...



I showed this picture to a guy I work with and he said "huh, you've been sold a short measure there. I'd ask for a top-up"....

Nice one Mr. H. - a good looking brewday there!

pdtnc wrote: The spinning sparge arm looks cool

Yeah, lazy man's brewing at its best! While that is doing its job, it is time for my 1st cuppa & cornflakes.

boingy wrote:That Ringwood is a cracking beer and also the subject of my fave beer photo of the year.
This is a pint of that very ale sitting on the back of our boat.

I hope my brew turns out as good as that pint looks!

Thanks for the comments chaps, I have just had a look at the brew & the yeasties are just starting to do their work.

Looking good HH!

Just to let you all know that the yeasties are doing the biz now, here is a pic 24 hours after pitching.

Looks like you had a great brewday, HH.

hi there,iv brewed this porter and was wondering what amount of priming suger to use for a 23l brew cheers

I used 80g of tate & lyle in a king keg to prime mine.

What yeast did you use? I've never had anything looking like that

if i walk down the road can i have a taste of this

the one on back of boat looks mint

garwatts wrote:What yeast did you use? I've never had anything looking like that

Good ole S04.

jac wrote:If i walk down the road can i have a taste of this

Sorry, this one did not last very long!



I took a pic a while ago of a pint of this & I forgot to upload it,

wow just having me first pint of this and i will be defo doing this one again

only being in my kingkeg 7 days and it tastey