Brewcast on Saturday 3/19/10!

Since the last brewcast didn't suck as bad as I thought it might, I'm planning on webcasting my brewday tomorrow on my "new" electric rig.

I'll post the link when I'm ready to go, but it should be around 10 Central time. I'll be making my recipe for the "Broken Leg House Amber", a 10.5 gallon batch.

 

Oh, good! You can see my rig. The new HLT is pretty cool, and the improvements in the BK are awesome. I love my new control panel.

I'll try to get started in the morning pretty early, but I'm NOT a morning person at all.

 

Really? Two hours? That doesn't seem right at all! that's way too early.

 

I'm not in eastern time, we're in central time here.

Anyway, I mashed in and totally forgot about trying to webcast it! Duh.

I'm about 1/2 way through the mash now, measuring hops.

 

Liar!

But I'll go ahead and set it up to watch.

 

http://www.ustream.tv/channel-room/2042825

Or maybe
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/yooperbrew

I think!

 

I just went to Ustream and clicked "broadcast". I'm no expert, and I'm in the "chat" all alone, but it seems to work!

 

HEY!!!! My mail just came. You're awesome. You-are-totally-awesome.

 

Nothing exciting happening right now- 49 minutes left in the boil.

But, I had a stuck sparge due to grainbed compaction. And it took over an hour for the sparge, before I finally said "heck with it" and stirred it. Still got a 75% preboil efficiency, and it smells so good in here!

 

It is! You're welcome to come down whenever it's convenient and see it close up if you want! I know you're doing electric too. It is great for the cold climate to brew indoors.

 

Either:

A. I'm boring (probable)
B. You guys are all busy
C. I'm competing with NCAA basketball
D. No one watches brewcasts.

I'm leaning towards A. But you missed the boobies. I wanted to make it more interesting.

 

Thanks!

I'm retired, but working part-time. (Long story). Anyway, I can brew just about anytime, so if you want to come down, I can arrange that day/time to show you the system and brew on it. I always have at least a couple of beers on tap, and my daughter wanted me to start a batch of hard lemonade for her, so there will be other things to drink as well. Just let me know!

 

You also missed me eating lunch- pickled pike. Yoopers like pickled fish.

 

Aside from a stuck sparge, good! Not really a stuck sparge, just a very very sllllooooowwww sparge. I believe I know why. When I ramped up to mash out temp, I turned up the speed of the pump on for the HERMS. I think that's when it happened, and then just got worse during the sparge. It started off draining ok, but near the end it was trickling slower and slower. I have to think about what to do- a slower rise to mash out? Rice hulls? I'm not sure what I'll do next time.

The 10 gallons chilled quickly. I recirculated for about 10 minutes, then passed through the CFC to the fermenter on the last pass at full speed. Pitching temp was 66.7 degrees and I used so4 for one fermenter and s05 for the other.