3 beers, 20 hours.
Posted 09-28-2008 at 04:16 PM by BigKahuna
SWMBO was gone to visit family this weekend, so I decided to get some brew chores caught up. Wednesday while I was in the city, I picked up 5 more cornies from JDS on our group buy, and stopped by the Brew Hut for some bottles and misc other stuff. Thursday, I bottled my Sour Peach ale, and kegged my Irish Stout (Washed the WLP004 yeast too. Friday, I screwed up my Keggle by drilling the wrong size hole in it, so to feel better I bottled my Christmas Coffee Stout, and brewed the first of 2 ESB experiments. I got to use my new Counter Flow Chiller for the first time, but due to my late start...I didn't hit the hay till after 1a.m.
Saturday I brewed the second of the ESB experiments, and ripped a finger nail off while starting the 4wheeler. After bandaging up the finger, I decided to go ahead and do the Lager I've been planning for several months. Off to heat the sparge water. I had my first real stuck sparge with this batch, I think the 14 oz of minute Rice may have had something to do with it. A little fiddling, some extra water, and a few quick puffs on the out spout, and we were good to go again with a full 74.5% efficiency. (MUCH BETTER than the 55 and the 70 on the first two batches of the day.) While boiling I'm looking at the wort, and it's WAY too dark for what I was planning, and not nearly the correct hops to call it a Bock, so I pitched a packet of Nottingham instead of the lager yeast...just for fun. I guess I'll call it an Amber Cream or some such nonsense. At some point, I kegged a batch of Apfelwein that was started on July 27th, and started another on that yeast cake (Not Sure if it's a great idea or not...but heck! Gotta Try Right?)
Later today I'm going back to Denver to get SWMBO from the airport and will catch up with jds for a sour beer swap! I'll be looking forward to trying some other home brew. Most of what I've had (other than mine) has come from single can kits or Mr. Beer. I'll be excited to try something from another all grain brewer.
So anyway, ya take the good with the bad and go like hell. Nobody ever got glory by sitting on their ass saving money!
Damn The Cost Full Speed Ahead!
Saturday I brewed the second of the ESB experiments, and ripped a finger nail off while starting the 4wheeler. After bandaging up the finger, I decided to go ahead and do the Lager I've been planning for several months. Off to heat the sparge water. I had my first real stuck sparge with this batch, I think the 14 oz of minute Rice may have had something to do with it. A little fiddling, some extra water, and a few quick puffs on the out spout, and we were good to go again with a full 74.5% efficiency. (MUCH BETTER than the 55 and the 70 on the first two batches of the day.) While boiling I'm looking at the wort, and it's WAY too dark for what I was planning, and not nearly the correct hops to call it a Bock, so I pitched a packet of Nottingham instead of the lager yeast...just for fun. I guess I'll call it an Amber Cream or some such nonsense. At some point, I kegged a batch of Apfelwein that was started on July 27th, and started another on that yeast cake (Not Sure if it's a great idea or not...but heck! Gotta Try Right?)
Later today I'm going back to Denver to get SWMBO from the airport and will catch up with jds for a sour beer swap! I'll be looking forward to trying some other home brew. Most of what I've had (other than mine) has come from single can kits or Mr. Beer. I'll be excited to try something from another all grain brewer.
So anyway, ya take the good with the bad and go like hell. Nobody ever got glory by sitting on their ass saving money!
Damn The Cost Full Speed Ahead!
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That is a BUSY few days. By the way, your haus pale tasted awfully good last night.
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