OK, here's one of those really stupid questions. I guess this should go in techniques; I don't really know.
I've been brewing a long, long time. And the one thing that always causes me pain is making a yeast starter.
Books make it easy. Just add 10% malt to your erlenmeyer flask, and boil it. So I put in 1500ml water; 150g malt; bring it to a boil, and... boiling malt water all over the table.
OK. Get a big pot. Measure out 1500ml; bring it to a boil, add the malt, and... boiling malt water all over the table.
Right. So, bring 1500ml water to boil in the flask. Take it off the heat. carefully pour the malt into the flask, and... 75g in the flask, all gummed up at the top; 75g on the table.
All right, then. Bring to boil; take off heat; put funnel in flask; put malt in funnel... 5g malt in flask; 145g packed like a rock in the funnel.
And so on. Anyone have a nice, simple, boilover-proof, wife-friendly technique?
I've been brewing a long, long time. And the one thing that always causes me pain is making a yeast starter.
Books make it easy. Just add 10% malt to your erlenmeyer flask, and boil it. So I put in 1500ml water; 150g malt; bring it to a boil, and... boiling malt water all over the table.
OK. Get a big pot. Measure out 1500ml; bring it to a boil, add the malt, and... boiling malt water all over the table.
Right. So, bring 1500ml water to boil in the flask. Take it off the heat. carefully pour the malt into the flask, and... 75g in the flask, all gummed up at the top; 75g on the table.
All right, then. Bring to boil; take off heat; put funnel in flask; put malt in funnel... 5g malt in flask; 145g packed like a rock in the funnel.
And so on. Anyone have a nice, simple, boilover-proof, wife-friendly technique?