Been drinking for 7 hours today, and this is the first thing I didn't make.
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(But I wish I did)
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My first Pliny; brought back from my first trip to Colorado! Bottled about 2 weeks ago. Yowza.
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Not a big wine person but, I just worked a job and served wine that costs more per bottle than my 2 monthly car payments and utilities combined.
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Not a big wine person but, I just worked a job and served wine that costs more per bottle than my 2 monthly car payments and utilities combined.
Coffee here.
51 degrees outside.
I'm about 30 minutes into my boil. I had to get a new canister of oxygen...Thought it seemed too soon, but it was definitely not putting out any oxygen. And my Brewer's Friend recipe builder must be WAY underestimating my BIAB efficiency (34%), because I thought I was going to have to add 3lbs of DME to get my SG right, but pre-boil exceeded projection before adding any. I'm actually glad I can leave it out! More coffee while I wait for the 15 minute additions. How is yours going? Something with pecans sounds very interesting!
Technically, it went well. The system was definitely unlike what I use at home and mash temps were all f'ed at first. It was stressful because it jumped to 160 for a moment then back down to 145...eventually I settled at 154 and just left it. I was using keggles and the setup had two mash tuns, two boil kettles, and the HLT.
For the first time in my brewing of all grain I hit my OG spot on with one batch and slightly higher on the other batch. They're blended so in the end, my OG was 1.083 and I was looking for 1.082. I could not believe it. Second, I hit my volumes which was incredible. The problem though is as a group we all worked together and whoever took the Speidel to clean it and sanitize it, did leave the valve open and I did not notice. We lost 7 gallons and are left with about 13 today...we'll have about 2 sixtels to serve on the 11th. That is the only thing that really bugs me right now but it happened and I have to let it go. I wish I had taken initiative and checked the Speidel myself since I was spraying it with starsan still in spite of it being sprayed a number of times before.
All in all though, it was an awesome brew day with a lot of great people, beer and fun. I am coming back in a week to dry hop with 3 additional pounds of pecans, two vanilla beans, and two cinnamon sticks. That was decided last night because I want to be sure the pecan comes through. It was already but that is the first to go as a beer ages. Not that this will age, but still.
Sorry for the ramble. I'm drinking water until I move my butt to get coffee.
Sure is! Troegonator, hop knife, and perpetual IPA so far.
You should come out for the anniversary party on October 11th, that's when it'll be tapped.
I hope so or I'll be whining to you to send me some.
Coffee. Pecans are roasted and ready for a double brew day. The nerves comes from never using this system and having to make 20 gallons, 10 each batch. I'm sure it'll be fun though. I'm hoping we get a whole day of this fall weather since there is no a/c in the brew house.
Technically, it went well. The system was definitely unlike what I use at home and mash temps were all f'ed at first. It was stressful because it jumped to 160 for a moment then back down to 145...eventually I settled at 154 and just left it. I was using keggles and the setup had two mash tuns, two boil kettles, and the HLT.
For the first time in my brewing of all grain I hit my OG spot on with one batch and slightly higher on the other batch. They're blended so in the end, my OG was 1.083 and I was looking for 1.082. I could not believe it. Second, I hit my volumes which was incredible. The problem though is as a group we all worked together and whoever took the Speidel to clean it and sanitize it, did leave the valve open and I did not notice. We lost 7 gallons and are left with about 13 today...we'll have about 2 sixtels to serve on the 11th. That is the only thing that really bugs me right now but it happened and I have to let it go. I wish I had taken initiative and checked the Speidel myself since I was spraying it with starsan still in spite of it being sprayed a number of times before.
All in all though, it was an awesome brew day with a lot of great people, beer and fun. I am coming back in a week to dry hop with 3 additional pounds of pecans, two vanilla beans, and two cinnamon sticks. That was decided last night because I want to be sure the pecan comes through. It was already but that is the first to go as a beer ages. Not that this will age, but still.
Sorry for the ramble. I'm drinking water until I move my butt to get coffee.
Did you score a bottle? Or at least a taste of that $700 to $2000 bottle?
Heh. There were only 32000 bottles of that wine produced and you held one of them. Don't you feel special? ;-)
Didn't score a bottle but I drank enough to know that it's not worth the $.
Crap!! Just realized that when I cold crashed a few days ago, I left the Blowoff tube attached. I totally forgot to detach, so now there's about 60 oz of starsan solution in the beer. I'm really hoping it's not ruined.
Drinking water and praying the beer will survive.
Crap!! Just realized that when I cold crashed a few days ago, I left the Blowoff tube attached. I totally forgot to detach, so now there's about 60 oz of starsan solution in the beer. I'm really hoping it's not ruined.
Drinking water and praying the beer will survive.
No worries man, it should be fine but maybe a little diluted... You aren't the first to do this
On the coffee, looking forward to some IPA's tonight.
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