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…then it means that Apache is back to normal. On the server (I run it), we had a little bit of fun with a post ranking quite highly on Reddit. The corresponding traffic saturated Apache’s processes meaning that the whole server started to run slowly, and became apparently unresponsive.

Of course, increasing MaxClients doesn’t help if you start to be RAM/CPU limited, and it helps even less when the kernel starts sending out syncookies in light of the barrage of requests.

Anyhow, back to normal for the minute, but we need to move to a better front end… (at least sometimes) we are:

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Ok – things I now have:

• An ATC800 (temperature controller)
• Fridge
• Beer in a fermenter in said fridge with said controller

The brew is much like Orfy’s Hobgoblin but since I had no carapils I used caramalt instead (less body, probably more sweetness). I used Nottingham, which decided (though it’s not that warm here, it’s warm enough!) that it’s going to try to make it’s way out of the fermenter by pushing it off the top.

It was running at 20C, which is on the warm side, but probably OK, and maybe could give some fruityness (though it’s Nottingham, so it could be very clean still…) – so i chucked the FV into the fridge, whacked it on the ATC800 and have left it too it – I set the temperature to 19C but it overshot slightly overnight to 17.6C – fine, and there’s no heater in there at the minute so the daytime temps will have to do their work on it to bring it back up a bit.

On the subject of yeast, I found Fuller’s 1845 in the shops the other day, and I’m gonna have a go at reviving the yeast from it for future use. John has a good guide to reviving yeast from an 1845 and I’ll follow his lead…

Here’s the Hob Gobbler type thing I brewed up (got 22L@1049 with Nottingham):

4.80 kg Maris Otter
0.25 kg Crystal Malt
0.20 kg Caramalt
0.15 kg Chocolate Malt

Mashed at 65°C for 90min; Add first wort hops to boiler (well – collection bucket…) at start of sparge.

Boil for 75 min
20g Styrian Goldings 3.9% (75 min) (First Wort Hop)
15g Fuggles 4.5% (75 min) (First Wort Hop)
20g Styrian Goldings 3.9% (30 min)
15g Fuggles 4.5% (30 min)
Irish Moss (15 min)
15g Fuggles 4.5% (15 min)
18g Styrian Goldings 3.9% (15 min )

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