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I am beat! Another 6 hour batch.
This was my first batch at my new house. So, of course, there's a learning curve there. And it was snowing, so taking my shoes on and off took some time. And I was mashing inside, boiling wort outside, and chilling in the basement, so there's the transferring issue to contend with.
But I don't mind the time. It's the lugging the stuff back and forth. Carrying buckets full of wort to the turkey fryer. Carrying 7 gallons of boiling hot wort down a dozen steps to the basement. Dragging my MLT outside to dump the spent grains.
I am exhausted. I think I need a brew sculpture.
I also need better clamps. Those $0.25 dryer-hose clamps don't clamp down worth a damn.
I'm seriously tempted to go down to 3 gallon batches on the stove in the winter and 10 gallon batches in the summer. 5 gallons is just not enough when the weather's nice and just too much to lug around when the weather's cold.
Sorry to vent here. Hopefully I'll have a good Alt in a few months to show for my efforts...
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UPDATE: On page 3, I am building a brewstand to cut down on the less pleasurable work of cleaning and hooking up connections to carry hot wort around. I just decided against starting a whole new thread.
This was my first batch at my new house. So, of course, there's a learning curve there. And it was snowing, so taking my shoes on and off took some time. And I was mashing inside, boiling wort outside, and chilling in the basement, so there's the transferring issue to contend with.
But I don't mind the time. It's the lugging the stuff back and forth. Carrying buckets full of wort to the turkey fryer. Carrying 7 gallons of boiling hot wort down a dozen steps to the basement. Dragging my MLT outside to dump the spent grains.
I am exhausted. I think I need a brew sculpture.
I also need better clamps. Those $0.25 dryer-hose clamps don't clamp down worth a damn.
I'm seriously tempted to go down to 3 gallon batches on the stove in the winter and 10 gallon batches in the summer. 5 gallons is just not enough when the weather's nice and just too much to lug around when the weather's cold.
Sorry to vent here. Hopefully I'll have a good Alt in a few months to show for my efforts...
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UPDATE: On page 3, I am building a brewstand to cut down on the less pleasurable work of cleaning and hooking up connections to carry hot wort around. I just decided against starting a whole new thread.