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Drew wanted me to brew Gales’s Seafarers Ale but I can’t find a recipe. I did find Fuller’s Discovery which is a style and ABV match. Thought I would do that. This comes out of “CAMRA’s Brew Your Own British Real Ale”, page 178 (with plenty of mods but still reasonably close). As I am no longer using Wyeast when I can find an alternative, WLP002 should also be the Fuller’s yeast. I am giving it a try here. Grain amounts were increased from those provided in the recipe to match the OG and ABV. 2021-03-04: Starter started with 0.6L water and 2oz of DME. 2021-03-06 0700: Brewday No acid added as mash was at 5.5 ph. 1300 and I am starting heeating for the boil. I had lots of time for cleanup and prep before lunch so I am in very good shape presently. One thing I noted is that I didn't have nearly as much bittering hop as I needed so the EKG that was meant for dry hop is going to go in at 30 minutes. Hopefully some hop character beyond bittering will be preserved. I also decided to add a string to my old unused hop basket so that it can sit lower in the BK. We will see how it works. Also runing the boil at 85% today with an extra quart of wort in the kettle. I increased the power on the BK to 100% at 10 min to go as I was still a quart over 6G. OG is a little high for an ordinary bitter. Oh well. Otherwise looking good. Oxygenated with pure O2 for a minute. Pitched yeast at 69°F. I am setting the ambient room temp to 68°F. 2021-03-07: Fermentation is proceeding strongly. Carboy is too warm today at 72.6°F so I am setting the ambient room temp back to 65°F. In the evening - temp is still to warm so I moved the carboy to the floor. 2021-03-08: Carboy temp dropped to an even 66°F so it's back up to the sink/table with it. Early afternoon - temp at 67.8°F is right where I want it (at last). Bubbling has subsided quite a bit with a period of about 6 seconds. 2021-03-09: 64.6°F is fine. Activity is even slower. 2021-03-10 0818: Carboy at 68°F. Good. Bubbling almost stopped. Might check gravity later. 1103: A little bit warmer, but more importantly, SG had dropped all the way to 1.009 (refractometer reads 6.0 Brix). A bit of bubbling is back after reading it, but it basiccally done and I am sanitizing keg #14 for racking. Not sure there is much reason to go to secondary, but I will think on that... ...Racking to keg 14. The numbers will stand. 2021-04-12: Tapped in house on tap 3. Also being called "Drew'scovery", as Drew likes to call it.