Mephistopheles: T-Minus 4 Days, 16 hours...

My WLP099 should arrive tomorrow. I'll smack that ***** as soon as it arrives. Once it swells (it'd better swell), I'll pitch it into a 1L starter. Once that's done, I'll dump another liter of wort in. Once that's done, I'll go another round, until I have a massive crapload of yeast. Then I'll crash-cool it and decant off the liquid. Hopefully, this will all be done by Saturday. I plan on waking up around 5 or 6am. With this massive grain bill, I have a feeling that I'll be needing plenty of time to boil off all the liquid. Maybe my new traceable waterproof digital thermometer will be here by then...that would be nice.

Wish me luck...

Have fun man!

White Labs is shipping smack packs now?

brewt00l said:

White Labs is shipping smack packs now?

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Duh...it's been so long since I've used White Labs. I'll still smack that *****, though

Evan! said:

Duh...it's been so long since I've used White Labs. I'll still smack that *****, though

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Smack that vial like a redheaded step child!:fro:

brewt00l said:

White Labs is shipping smack packs now?

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Maybe Evan! is expecting the vial to swell up.

Good luck. Sounds like a challenging but fun brew day.

So your response to getting cut off is to brew a 16% beer? I like where your head's at.

cut off?? whaddayamean?

I thought I read your other half made you take a break for a while...or am I just missing something?

You smack it and it swells.

PseudoChef said:

I thought I read your other half made you take a break for a while...or am I just missing something?

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Oh...yeah, that was awhile ago. I brewed a batch of ed's haus pale (or my variation thereof) on my birfday (July3). That kinda broke the hiatus. Another month or so's gone by...I guess it's time to step it up. When you take a break from brewing for more than a few weeks, you know, you can't come roaring back with some kind of wimpy shiznit. So, yeah, Mephistopheles.

My new 55lb sack of Gleneagles Maris Otter should be delivered today along with the WLP099. And I just got confirmation that my badass new thermometer (thanks, johnsma22!) should be here by Thursday. Now I jst need some bottled water, and Saturday morning should be a go. I'll be getting the first step of the starter going tonight.