Lurpinator
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So, I brewed an attempt at a GF belgian ale yesterday, thanks to Driftless Brewer for the recipe found here:
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Anyways, here's how it came to be called the Dirty Belgian.
I just bought a Bayou Classic SP-10 burner, to use instead of my worthless stovetop range. First off, I was prepared for it because I had read it in some reviews of the SP-10, but the paint started burning off, and the smoke was saturating my clothes like some kind of cleansing ritual. I can't imagine burning paint could be very cleansing though. Next up, time for the full boil. Beersmith told me my 5 gallon SS pot could safely boil 4 gallons, so that is what I attempted. And, not surprisingly I got my first boilover!! That burner is a beast! Anyway, in an attempt to save all the wort i could, I was running around with a spray bottle and blowing on it, but the wort still got all over me. I am going to call it my brewers baptism. Once I got the flame dialed in and the boil rolling nicely, I realized I had knocked my bowl of spalt select pellets all over the place. There was some in the grass, some on the numerous active anthills on the ground, and some just disappeared (This is probably why hops are so expensive, damn disappearing hops). So, being the newly baptised brewer I am, I picked the pellets up along with grass, ants, dirt, whatever was on the ground yesterday, and tossed them in. The rest of the boil went fairly smooth, just the stench of burning paint and now burning wort was trying to ruin the sweet hop scent in the air. In the end, I think it turned out pretty well for all the mishaps, and this is how The Dirty Belgian was born.
You stay classy HBT,
Ian
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Anyways, here's how it came to be called the Dirty Belgian.
I just bought a Bayou Classic SP-10 burner, to use instead of my worthless stovetop range. First off, I was prepared for it because I had read it in some reviews of the SP-10, but the paint started burning off, and the smoke was saturating my clothes like some kind of cleansing ritual. I can't imagine burning paint could be very cleansing though. Next up, time for the full boil. Beersmith told me my 5 gallon SS pot could safely boil 4 gallons, so that is what I attempted. And, not surprisingly I got my first boilover!! That burner is a beast! Anyway, in an attempt to save all the wort i could, I was running around with a spray bottle and blowing on it, but the wort still got all over me. I am going to call it my brewers baptism. Once I got the flame dialed in and the boil rolling nicely, I realized I had knocked my bowl of spalt select pellets all over the place. There was some in the grass, some on the numerous active anthills on the ground, and some just disappeared (This is probably why hops are so expensive, damn disappearing hops). So, being the newly baptised brewer I am, I picked the pellets up along with grass, ants, dirt, whatever was on the ground yesterday, and tossed them in. The rest of the boil went fairly smooth, just the stench of burning paint and now burning wort was trying to ruin the sweet hop scent in the air. In the end, I think it turned out pretty well for all the mishaps, and this is how The Dirty Belgian was born.
You stay classy HBT,
Ian
