Gentlemen,
This will be a rambling {3:45am} discourse
on how the art of brewing is learned step by step,
we learn and we evolve and it is cool.
I have been brewing since 1990 or 91,
{hold on I need to go 'get me' another}
{eine Acht Pfund Hammerbier!}
...
Alright, now hold on and let me
'get me 'a big-ole-drink...'
There,
I have been brewing 14-15 years
and at first improvement was slow but steady,
it would race ahead then level off.
I, just last winter, started taking the tip off my racking cane off
when I sanitize.
The valve at the bottom of the bottling bucket hadn't ever been taken off and sanitized, but it is regularly now.
I threw away all my old 10 year old cloth hop bags and use nylon.
I am seriously considering 'getting me'
a 'new' bottling bucket !!!!!!!!!
I always run strings or wires with rags tied on them
through my hoses, canes and wands or whatever
when I am sanitizing 'stuff'.
My own hands, I soak them in the idaphor water in a small bucket.
3-4 minutes!
More than 1-2 times!
I clean all that xxxx,
and use bottled water to brew.
I'm like 'Mr. Clean' you know.
'Mein Acht Pfund Hammerbier'
is my favorite beer, {Ale}
Seben Pfund, Acht Pfund,
Seben und halb Pfund Hammerbier
ist se goot!
But tonight I couldn't sleep
and came in here to my computer searching for mental food.
And there it was!
I have heard of priming with DME rather than sugar
in the Papazian book 15 years ago,
but it was never the time to add that step to my brewing
'hoard of knowledge'
to 'the recipe database in my head'
till now...
I can't believe it!
'Mein Acht Pfund Hammerbier'
Goot as ist ist...
Fine clean tasting ale !!!
ist, or has been, primed with xxxx-xxx sugar!
I am humbled and profound gratefull y'all.
Thank you!
A new step involving no extra effort or expense
but making 'mein bier' better.
Would be to prime 'the Hammerbier' with DME!
I use DME to make 'the Hammer'
I will use DME to prime it!
It is so simple!
Better hammerbier,
and I owe it to [ ]
{whatever his name is, ... I forgot}
who just mentioned it at just the right time
for my mind to be receptive to it
and to just 'glom' onto it, wow!!!
Welp, that is about the discourse for tonight boys.
Keep them carbouys full!
Keep your heads down!
and don't git none on ya!!
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