I have been flooding the forum since I got the bug again. Now I am getting around to buying ingredients and a few other things. I have a used Braumeister coming Saturday, and I am going to try to get the grain and fermenter from an LHBS. It's 75 miles away, so I guess it's semi-local. SLHBS.
I was going to do a wheat beer with Amarillo, but because I am not set up for fermentation yet, I chose to do an ale I ferment at room temperature. I am planning to put it in the garage. It can't freeze here, and it is not likely to get warm for more than a few hours.
Comments welcome.
Here are the ingredients:
9# Maris Otter
2# 10L crystal
4oz. sugar
1.25 oz. Columbus 60 min.
1.00 oz. Crystal 15 min.
1.00 oz. Crystal 10 min.
WLP500 starter
1 tsp. Irish moss
The plan is to pop this stuff in the Braumeister, move to a bucket, throw the bucket in the pool to chill, take it out, pitch, move it to the garage, and wait. I plan to use a loose lid with no airlock. Then I'll be moving it to a Megamouth Torpedo Keg in my spare fridge.
I'm ordering the keg and related items so they'll be here before the fermentation is over. I still have tanks and a regulator. I'm picking up some Star-San.
I still have my old stir plate, and I am getting a new flask and bar. I found my hydrometer, so I will pick up a cylinder or maybe a refractometer. I found my old thermometer, and I also have a Thermapen.
What have I forgotten?
I was going to do a wheat beer with Amarillo, but because I am not set up for fermentation yet, I chose to do an ale I ferment at room temperature. I am planning to put it in the garage. It can't freeze here, and it is not likely to get warm for more than a few hours.
Comments welcome.
Here are the ingredients:
9# Maris Otter
2# 10L crystal
4oz. sugar
1.25 oz. Columbus 60 min.
1.00 oz. Crystal 15 min.
1.00 oz. Crystal 10 min.
WLP500 starter
1 tsp. Irish moss
The plan is to pop this stuff in the Braumeister, move to a bucket, throw the bucket in the pool to chill, take it out, pitch, move it to the garage, and wait. I plan to use a loose lid with no airlock. Then I'll be moving it to a Megamouth Torpedo Keg in my spare fridge.
I'm ordering the keg and related items so they'll be here before the fermentation is over. I still have tanks and a regulator. I'm picking up some Star-San.
I still have my old stir plate, and I am getting a new flask and bar. I found my hydrometer, so I will pick up a cylinder or maybe a refractometer. I found my old thermometer, and I also have a Thermapen.
What have I forgotten?