Wow impressive wort and homemade mill! Have you figured out your efficiency on it?
I will be really interested to hear about how this brew tastes, and could you post the spice amounts you used? and/or your final recipe? I'm very interested in brewing with some extra ingredients also.
Cheers!
I absolutely will post the entire recipe once it's transcribed from my notes. A lot of it was improvised, which is how i live my god forsaken life.
roughly...
1gal test batch.
Spices ended up being: star anise, nutmeg, indian long pepper, dried orange peel. S.A i used 2.5 stars, nutmeg was just eyeballed. maybe a 1/4tsp? Long pepper was about 8-9 sticks broken up (hard ass spice!). The orange peel was about half an orange-worth.
Out of a 5qt boil reduced to 3qts i added back some preboiled water. There was more trub than expected. The strainer i used has 2 layers of screen so i thought it would work better, but it was about the same as any strainer (maybe a tiny bit better?).
The jaggery (3/4lb) was interesting to work with. It's ALOT like honey when added to the boil. You get the same kind of foamy residue on top of which i scooped off.
1lb barley lme, pale, food grade (from Whole Foods, part of the experiment)
1lb malted quinoa, of which i toasted 1/3.
1/4lb or so of malted spelt (stinky ass ****! if this beer sucks i will blame the spelt).
I ended up using the Windor yeast against all the suggestions here (no effense guys) as it was either that or champagne yeast or driving 45min to get just yeast. I went with the cost effective method.
So it's all done. Now to wait for the lock to start bubbling.
Beers consumed:
1 of my homebrewed Trappist clones
3-4 Sierra Nevada Kellerweizen
Weyerbacher Quad
and anything else i forgot about
Albums played to stimulate fermentation:
The Slackers: Redlight and Self Medication
Frank Zappa: Hot Rats
The Turtles: Battle Of The Bands
Blue Cheer: Vincebus Eruptum
TV Eyes: (debut)
The Baseball Project: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
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