I counted the bubbles coming out of my airlock! HYPNOTIZING.........
I ordered two beer kits from More Beer! yesterday & the ESB got here first thing this morning. Red ale is still in transit,but here's the ESB;
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Kegged my Simcoe/Centennial/Citra IPA using an orange carboy cap and racking cane, and I used CO2 to push the beer out. I had used that technique before, but this time I left the CO2 on even after the siphon got started just so that the headspace would be filled with CO2 instead of room air as the fermenter drained. Seemed to work really well. Now I'm kinda glad my Autosiphon broke.
It's not all that bad - my regular grain is super cheap, and since I don't have a ton of space, sticking with dry yeast works out pretty well.
I was intrigued by the color of the Vienna SMaSH wort, it came out darker than I had expected. I also ended up with a ton of cold break, making me wish I had used kettle finings. I stopped using whirlfloc a couple batches ago when I had thick kettle trub almost to the one-gallon mark in a brew and ended up going to primary a few liters short of my goal, but this time around, an extra liter or two in the boil and whirlfloc or irish moss would have been helpful.
Dumped a failed Moo-Hoo clone. It was stuck at 1.030 after over a month, way too bitter, and didnt have any hint of chocolate.
On a positive note, I took a brett B starter off the stir plate so I can decant and step up for a brewday soon
Really? What yeast did you use?
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