Soulshine2
Well-Known Member
AG kit from the LHBS ,called "Don't Tread On Weiss" Hefeweizen 5 gallon batch. This one is for my wife its similar to her favorite Two Brothers beer, Ebelsweiss. Her birthday is at the end of the month . Not sure if we'll be drinking it in time but I'll be close.
I was going to simply do up an extract batch but seeing the LME is probably (by the date? on the can bottom , reads 61911)I'm going to guess thats June 16 2011. So ...nixed that idea .
Since we're getting another snow day and theres nothing to do outside...
I am going ahead and get right on with AG brewing today , happening now, in the kitchen since the wife is at work all day. Before I got started of course I sanitized everything.
Got the kettle and everything in the house on the stove. 7 gallons took exactly one hour to come to strike temp. Had a few drips from the Brew-mometer fitting along the way and got that tightened down. After this session I need to take that apart and put more teflon tape on those threads. Brought in the stand that came with my table saw to set the MLT on ,perfect height to the spigot in the kettle sitting on the stove . Also , the spigot on the MLT is exactly the right height for the carboy when that time comes. Once I get to building an actual full time compact brew cart all I need to do is take these measurements and add 4 inches to everything so I can get it off the floor and caster mobile. I'll build that over the next 2 weeks while this batch is fermenting. Need some lumber out of my way so it will come in handy.
MLT right now is in mash mode ,3.3 gallons of strike water went in at 10:15am 167-8*F and with the 10 lb grain bill its mashing right along at 155*F until 11:15 .
Meanwhile my sparge water is idling on the stove and I have 2 smaller stainless pots ready to sparge . This is not rocket science and not difficult at all , so far. I figure by the time I sparge and boil and chill and carboy it'll be darn close to 3pm. Plenty of time to get it cleaned up and my covert brewing for the day will be done and yeast bubbling away by morning... Covert Brewing...hmmm, might need to change my brew name. Thats got a good ring to it.
I was going to simply do up an extract batch but seeing the LME is probably (by the date? on the can bottom , reads 61911)I'm going to guess thats June 16 2011. So ...nixed that idea .
Since we're getting another snow day and theres nothing to do outside...
I am going ahead and get right on with AG brewing today , happening now, in the kitchen since the wife is at work all day. Before I got started of course I sanitized everything.
Got the kettle and everything in the house on the stove. 7 gallons took exactly one hour to come to strike temp. Had a few drips from the Brew-mometer fitting along the way and got that tightened down. After this session I need to take that apart and put more teflon tape on those threads. Brought in the stand that came with my table saw to set the MLT on ,perfect height to the spigot in the kettle sitting on the stove . Also , the spigot on the MLT is exactly the right height for the carboy when that time comes. Once I get to building an actual full time compact brew cart all I need to do is take these measurements and add 4 inches to everything so I can get it off the floor and caster mobile. I'll build that over the next 2 weeks while this batch is fermenting. Need some lumber out of my way so it will come in handy.
MLT right now is in mash mode ,3.3 gallons of strike water went in at 10:15am 167-8*F and with the 10 lb grain bill its mashing right along at 155*F until 11:15 .
Meanwhile my sparge water is idling on the stove and I have 2 smaller stainless pots ready to sparge . This is not rocket science and not difficult at all , so far. I figure by the time I sparge and boil and chill and carboy it'll be darn close to 3pm. Plenty of time to get it cleaned up and my covert brewing for the day will be done and yeast bubbling away by morning... Covert Brewing...hmmm, might need to change my brew name. Thats got a good ring to it.