Transferring my first double decoction beer into the keg. Oktoberfest with all epiphany malts..very tasty. Let it sit on the yeast for ,4 weeks at 34. Now, into the keg until December for more lagering!
Interesting. I've gone gone through prolly 2 dozen yeasties. This is the first one that looked like a snow globe in the fermenter. Certainly, Fullers, notty and other is the stir plate erlenmeyer can look like a snow globe, but never have I ever seen this brownian effect in a primary. Good to know it's not just a mutation in my zip code.Oh, WY1969 loves doing that. It's like a lava lamp! Great big, golf ball-sized lumps of yeast convecting around the fermenter like a Star Wars asteroid field. Positively mesmerizing! The odd thing is this: I can't find any rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes it does it, other times it won't. Back around '98 I did about 10 re-pitches on the same recipe while I was trying to dial in a dark mild and sometimes I'd get the golf balls, other times it looked like a normal cloudy fermentation with a small chunk here and there. No difference in the finished product, though. Just yeast being their interesting selves, I guess.
"a pint is a pound the world around,"
Awesome man!! I'm glad it turned out well!Back in business! Almost half a year since I kegged! @aharri1 the Czech Premium is amazing! So happy since my 1st Czech years ago was a total disaster. A little tad too much hop on the Irish Red but nothing to complain about. Dunkel Vater Brauerei is open ! View attachment 746218View attachment 746219View attachment 746220View attachment 746221
I really believe the extended lagering , at 36° for 4 months, made it really shine. Normally I would have lagered for 2 months but kept having to put off kegging because of health and other reasons. Turned out for the better.Awesome man!! I'm glad it turned out well!
I really believe the extended lagering , at 36° for 4 months, made it really shine. Normally I would have lagered for 2 months but kept having to put off kegging because of health and other reasons. Turned out for the better.
I had transferred the Czech off the yeast to a secondary before lagering. I don't use secondary too much like I used to. This batch though didn't even need gelatin clarifying it was like mountain spring water!I've experience the same. Last year, to my shame, I kept a CAP on the yeast, crashed to 38F, but still, on the yeast for 172 days because I had to lead a COVID-19 night shift. When I finally found the time and energy to keg that poor beer, it was amazing.
This is so true. One month a good brew . 3 months a FANTASTIC brew!!!I really believe the extended lagering , at 36° for 4 months, made it really shine. Normally I would have lagered for 2 months but kept having to put off kegging because of health and other reasons. Turned out for the better.
Got some war treasure at Salvation Army, both of these German crystal beer mugs for a total of $3.50 ! Price tags on the bottom from originalView attachment 746370 store were marked $15.99 each. I love being a plundering ex soldier from the peasant masses. The aristocratic wife will scrunch her nose and tisk tisk tisk me. Tisk away ! All is fair in beer and war !
Trust me I know! I hand washed them soon as I got home. I used to have quite an extensive collection all picked up during my 2 years in Germany. Unfortunately, most of them were broken by the shipping company. The Gov had to reimburse me about $400 which back in 1985 was a lot of glasses ! Well, that and my stereo. I only have 3 left from my tour. I keep them boxed up. I did have 2 of my black Forest beer mugs with the ...unclothed..ladies serving beer but had to give them a burial at sea. For some reason when I got married, they were not welcomed anymore.The gold isn't even worn off. Somebody loved those and kept them on display. Killer score, sir!
I used to buy nice glasses like that for my friends whenever I traveled. Invariably, their spouses would shove them in the dishwasher and the graphics would start losing color and the gold would fade away.
I especially like the Wieselburger glass, it's a sharp looking label, but the bottom of that glass has all kinds of interesting things going on. I'd enjoy spending some time watching tiny bubbles float up through that glass
Got some war treasure at Salvation Army, both of these German crystal beer mugs for a total of $3.50 ! Price tags on the bottom from originalView attachment 746370 store were marked $15.99 each. I love being a plundering ex soldier from the peasant masses. The aristocratic wife will scrunch her nose and tisk tisk tisk me. Tisk away ! All is fair in beer and war !
Ja ja Wieselberg Austria. I visited Austria while stationed in Germany in the 80s. Depending on who you talked to back then half the Austrians claimed Austrian the other half claimed Austrian of German decent. Grosse Deutschland and all that. Austria at that time was still trying to distance itself from the nightmare of being so intertwined with Germany and all the horrible things that happened but for some those ties run deep.Just for clarification, the right glass is from an Austrian Brewery, not German. ;-)
Lukas
Congrats on your first kegging!!! You are on another level now! I was so excited about my 1st keg almost 2 years ago. Like going from high school to a university or from pvt to Sgt! No one else may give a hoot but take pride! You are a Kegger of beer!!!Trying out the azacca hops from the AHA. Yesterday I brewed a pale ale that will get dry hopped next week, and today I brewed an American wheat. I got poor conversion on the wheat ale for some reason, I have some theories tho. I also kegged a beer for the first time. I transferred a Munich Dunkel to the keg, purged the headspace and let it sit on 10 PSI for a couple hours, and now it's sitting and lagering waiting to be drunk in a couple of weeks. This is a really great hobby
Thanks I managed to get the posts off and sanitized without losing parts and back on without a leak, so I'm pretty pleased! I even remembered to put lubrifilm on the gaskets!Congrats on your first kegging!!! You are on another level now! I was so excited about my 1st keg almost 2 years ago. Like going from high school to a university or from pvt to Sgt! No one else may give a hoot but take pride! You are a Kegger of beer!!!
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