Medo

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Ahoy hoy,
Well, just got in from the brew fest. I had to start asap after work to get done by bedtime. I started with 9.5 gallons of sweet Alaskan Birch Sap. I brewed my Cascade Orange as usual, and overall it didnt go too bad. Birch sap boils real easy and real volatile so you have to really watch it and the flames. I had good 70 degree weather. Its 10 pm now, and the sun is just setting. Were gaining 8 minutes a day i think, more or less at this time of year. Anyways, when all was said and done I had just 5 gallons in the carboy misus the hydro sample. This stuff went 1.080! I usually get about 1.062-1.066 with this same recipe with the same amount of water. I didnt vary anything. Hmm...so, all that is left is to aerate yeast it, and set it up for a while. Its copper color. Im wondering what I have let forth on the planet. Ill let you all know whats going on as it happens....
Goodnight and good news....

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Dammit. I just read this...sitting in a hotel room not 10 miles from North Pole. Lived here for a few years. Back visiting. No time left on this trip. Wish you'd posted this a few weeks ago (or I wish I'd read another of your threads before just now). We could have at least met up at Silver Gulch for a few pints!

...sucks to be leaving just as summer approaches!

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Medo

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Yuri,
dude its 70 degrees! It was 75 yesterday! Summer is here, were enjoy both weeks of it!
Well the brew is bubbling away. Very nice activity. Should turn out to be an ok beer if I didnt hose anything during the process. All in all everything seemed to go just fine. Sure nice to brew outside again. Propane is definetely faster then the stove. And garden hose rinsing is the bomb!. Since this stuff peaked at 1.082 or so, i used my last 2 packs of S-05 on it. If its under 1.075 I use one pack, anything over and I use 2 to simulate a starter (yeah I know thats a lame description but it works.) just to be safe.

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Sean Thornton (John Wayne) "I'll have one of those black beers."
Pat Cohan (Harry Tyler) the publican "Ah, the porter. Yes sir."
From 'The Quiet Man' 1952

"Tell me, Alvis - for all wights' fate
I deem that, dwarf, thou knowest -
how the beer is hight which is brewed by men,
in all the worlds so wide?"

- The Lay of Alvis

Visit my beer blog at http://homebrew.medofernandez.com

huntsman

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So how did this brew turn out?

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