21 July 2019  I have just kegged the Breakfast Ale and it is now the first keg into the new keg fridge. I have primed the keg with 50gm Light Dry Malt so that it carbs up while I get the taps and lines all back in, set up and running over the next week or two.

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20 July 2019  The new keg fridge was picked up today. It will only fit 5 kegs so 1 less than the previous but it will also hold bottles, yeast bank and has a top freezer for hops. So I will drop from 2 fridges to 1 for beer service. I also will only get 9 litre kegs in for best use of the space so bye bye to the pin lock 19 litres...they were a pain anyway and I do go better with the smaller kegs, it allows for more timely rotation. So gold flow is not far away once again.

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19 July 2019  Today's brew was 12 litres of Marzen, German Oktoberfest lager. A stuff up on a yeast order back in April meant I got a White Labs WLP820 instead of Copenhagen Lager, so this was the option. I soaked and smoked 2kg of Munich malt with 300ml of strong plunger coffee using a mix of beans from Echuca Roasters and Ettalong Coffee.  A little extra Munich and Caramunich 2 and some noble hops lead to a very tasty wort that sits on the bench in the brewery at around 16-18°, probably a little warmer than recommended, but I couldn't get to the ferment fridge as it was in use.

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