Recent content by Curtis2010

Hola ya'll, long time no post... Made landfall recently in the Galapaglos (sailed from Panama). The local "Endemica" craft brew brand aint bad.

There is no obvious visual clue, but 30 days should be plenty. Acetobacter will continue to live in the vinegar after initial fermentation is complete, that's why you continue to see mother production....and why you can use existing unfiltered vinegar to inoculate a new batch. Vinegars age...

Loaf O' Guiness

For situations where you may not have access to an oven, bread can be made in crock pots, pressure cookers, dutch ovens, etc. I spend a lot of time on boats and its more common there.

It is a good porter, but my favorite Panamanian Porter is by La Rana Dorada, it is a textbook perfect porter....especially the draft version served up at one of their brew pubs! https://www.laranadorada.com/

They were...and are almost gone now...time to make another loaf or two!

Barrel Aged Milk Stout by Casa Bruja ("Witch House") brewery, Panama. They do a lot of interesting/experimental beers.

Beer Bread Binge.... Yesterday I made beer bread using Negro Modelo and it was awesome! Today I upgraded beer a bit to Cerveceria Maestra's (Panama) Negra Porter. I was hesistant to dump such a good Porter into a loaf of bread, but it turned out quite nice. Both versions of beer bread had a...

Negra Modelo... A very appropriate beer for me since my wife is Austrian and we live in Central America...and its tasty too! Thanks Napolean!

Me! There is a faithful reproduction on Android now.

Depends on the images, but in this case I used SeQuator.

Yes, I will be checking Ph more closely in the future too. Will be interesting to check at different stages of the brew process. Whenever I can return to Guatemala again, I will do some Ph investigation there too. Interesting that the local honeys bewteen the 2 areas in Panama & Guatemala are...

Most of my brewing supplies are still back "home" in Guatemala (we have been making an unplanned transition to Panama for like 5 years now!), but I ordered a ph meter and some sodium bicarbonate, drew off about a 2 liter sample of the unfinished mead, adjusted ph to about 4.0 (it was a 3.3)...

Yet another COVID hobby, astrophotography...like I need another hobby!!! Convergence of Milky Way, Jupiter, Saturn, Antares. 42 x 30" exposures stacked.

Alcohol sales are suspended here in Panama. In a crisis you gotta drink what u got...so we tapped into this batch last night. Its a little sweet, but quite tasty.