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2nd Street Brewery

2nd Street Brewery

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Just got done with getting my brew gear cleaned. Brewing tomorrow :D :D
My starter is ready, my buckets are clean and my ingredients fresh. Figure on starting around 9AM and be all cleaned up for the race/football(J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS) :mad: They sucked the first game. But Notre Dame is winning again :D Everyone have a good weekend.
 
I just mashed in, and ORRELSE and his SWMBO will be here shortly. I plan to try and get some pics from this session.
 
I posted a couple pics of my "rig" in my gallery. Unfortunately, we never got around to shooting any other pics.

Have a good time tomorrow!
 
I just brewed tonight. Everything seemed to go ok, but you never really know until you get to taste it, right? Keep your fingers crossed! :D
I've also had a few of my last batch, so this is approprite...appropr...this fits... :drunk:
 
Sam75 said:
I just mashed in, and ORRELSE and his SWMBO will be here shortly. I plan to try and get some pics from this session.
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Any pics of me last night would have looked like Mr. Smily here: :drunk:

Wow....between the Skullsplitter, the DFH 90, 60, a drunken monkey and more varieties of DFH, I'm surprised I knew my own name. That stuff snuck up on me. I was tore up.
Everything went pretty smooth in the brew session though except for the chilling issues. The never-ending chilling issues it seems.
Nailed the gravity and that sucker was bubbling before I left. :cool:
 
ORRELSE said:
Everything went pretty smooth in the brew session though except for the chilling issues. The never-ending chilling issues it seems.
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I here ya! Pain in the arse in this weather.
 
Well brewday has come and gone with no major problems. Did a Belgian Abbey style ale. Everything set up fine when I discovered I was a 1/4oz short on my bittering hops. Had to substitute another type I had around, hoping the small amount won't screw me up. Went to open up the 2 5lb bags of DME I ordered from Austin HBS and found one wasn't vacum sealed properly, luckly it was double bagged. The recipe I was following called for 9.5lbs of DME, I was doing a 3.5 gal boil in a 5gal pot. That much DME almost overflowed the damn pot :eek: I added it a little at a time and stirred it in to desolve it, if I ever tried to put that much in all at once there wouldn't have been any room for my spoon. Everything else went fine, The starter I made the night before was bubbling away when I pitched it. Now just have to wait for a couple of months to see how it comes out.
 
Hope your brew went well, because Notre Dame sure didn't. I'll give them something though - they beat Michigan. Michigan better get their act together.
 
2nd Street Brewery said:
Well brewday has come and gone with no major problems. Did a Belgian Abbey style ale. Everything set up fine when I discovered I was a 1/4oz short on my bittering hops. Had to substitute another type I had around, hoping the small amount won't screw me up. Went to open up the 2 5lb bags of DME I ordered from Austin HBS and found one wasn't vacum sealed properly, luckly it was double bagged. The recipe I was following called for 9.5lbs of DME, I was doing a 3.5 gal boil in a 5gal pot. That much DME almost overflowed the damn pot :eek: I added it a little at a time and stirred it in to desolve it, if I ever tried to put that much in all at once there wouldn't have been any room for my spoon. Everything else went fine, The starter I made the night before was bubbling away when I pitched it. Now just have to wait for a couple of months to see how it comes out.
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Brew days rule when they go according to plan, don't they?!

What was your OG, and what yeast did you use?
 
2nd Street Brewery said:
The recipe I was following called for 9.5lbs of DME, I was doing a 3.5 gal boil in a 5gal pot. That much DME almost overflowed the damn pot :eek: I added it a little at a time and stirred it in to desolve it, if I ever tried to put that much in all at once there wouldn't have been any room for my spoon.
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Did you have any boil over's . Initially, DME wants to foam like crazy..how did you handle that? It sounds like you were at the limits of your boil pot.
 
My OG was a little lower than I expected, 1.083. I ran it through the Recipator site and was supposed to work out at 1.092. I used Wyeast's Forbidden Fruit yeast(don't recall product number).

As far as boil overs I basicly sat next to my burner with my have on the trigger so to speak. I would let it work up a good boil and when the foam started to get to the top I would turn down the gas. I had to let my boil run over 60min as I had problems being able to keep a good rolling boil going.
 
Well I racked to my secondary yesterday before the games. SG is down to 1.036 shooting for around 1.020. Smelled good but sweet. Needs time.
 

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