The Bitter:
Ordered these stir bars on Amazon. This is what I got in the mail today:
It's 10 mm long and 6 mm at its widest point. I am so freaking pissed right now. They're lucky I'm not planning on doing a big beer this weekend. I was so excited to test out my new stir plate.
The Sweet:
Found out today that I'm getting a nice chunk of change from the government for a change of duty station I just did. Most of it is going into savings, but SWMBO gave me $500 to spend on brewing stuff. Decided to get a 5 cu. ft. chest freezer, a Johnson digital temp controller and a Barley Crusher grain mill. I was going to go DIY on the grain mill, but this was just too good an opportunity to get a quality grain mill. Looks like everything is on track for me to brew this weekend that vanilla pumpkin lager that ghpeel recommended to me in my other thread about brewing lagers since this will be my first. I'm actually doing a double brew this weekend. Friday night is the vanilla pumpkin lager followed by bottling my brown that's in the primary now. Saturday I'll be brewing up an amber, but I want to something different than just a regular old amber. We'll see what I can come up with during the week.
Got to rambling a bit there, sorry. Thanks for putting with my new toy excitement. Cheers!
-AJ
Ordered these stir bars on Amazon. This is what I got in the mail today:
It's 10 mm long and 6 mm at its widest point. I am so freaking pissed right now. They're lucky I'm not planning on doing a big beer this weekend. I was so excited to test out my new stir plate.
The Sweet:
Found out today that I'm getting a nice chunk of change from the government for a change of duty station I just did. Most of it is going into savings, but SWMBO gave me $500 to spend on brewing stuff. Decided to get a 5 cu. ft. chest freezer, a Johnson digital temp controller and a Barley Crusher grain mill. I was going to go DIY on the grain mill, but this was just too good an opportunity to get a quality grain mill. Looks like everything is on track for me to brew this weekend that vanilla pumpkin lager that ghpeel recommended to me in my other thread about brewing lagers since this will be my first. I'm actually doing a double brew this weekend. Friday night is the vanilla pumpkin lager followed by bottling my brown that's in the primary now. Saturday I'll be brewing up an amber, but I want to something different than just a regular old amber. We'll see what I can come up with during the week.
Got to rambling a bit there, sorry. Thanks for putting with my new toy excitement. Cheers!
-AJ
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