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Transferred an Old Ale from the conical to a carboy to cold-crash. That English yeast gets goopy..!

Early on, my first Hefeweizen was bottle carbed. After two weeks, it was carbonated but smelled like a wet dog and tasted awful. Forgives if dump it when I needed the bottles. Tried one a few weeks later and it was perfect.! Another lesson in patience.

With This Beer, I Thee Wed.

Theraflu, hot tea and Robitussin. Went on a business trip and came home with COVID 🙄

Had to say goodbye to one of my brew-pups. She was 15 and was always around on brew day ready for a spoonful of warm, sweet mash to lap up and clean up any grains that I spilled when milling. Decoction mashes we’re her favorite since there was always a mess to clean up. Here she is on her...

Transferred a Münich Dunkel to a keg to carb. Transferred a Doppelbock to a secondary to lager. Primed and bottled a Hefeweizen. Cleaned the carboys and put some bottles in hot Oxyclean solution to soak for a bit.

Matilda and I brewed a Hefeweizen today. She got a scoop of warm, spent grains in her belly and conked out during the boil.

5 gal Münich Dunkel 5 gal Hefeweizen 5 gal Doppelbock 2162

Water pump rebuild kit for my boat motor and some fuel lines.

double hazy IPA that tastes like frothy pineapple juice

Just dumped a pile of steaming grains in the run … it’ll be gone by morning…

Looks like quite a flow from the photo but there’s a tube coming off of the mash tun spigot. There is but a slow but steady stream of sweet maltyness oozing out the end.!

Brewed a doppelbock. Using the yeast cake from a Münich Dunkel to ferment then it’s going to lager/cellar until the fall.

I transfer the spent grains to a 5 gallon bucket then walk them out back to the coop. Just shake them out around the coop and the birds pounce on them..!

I have a couple sours that’ll be ready to bottle soon. Does anyone have a suggestion for a yeast strain that can function in the harsh, low pH of a sour?