Recent content by borrachio

My current schedule is begin starter Thursday night, mash in at 730, Friday,.bathe kids, do bedtime, begin vorlauf at 8: 45. I do 6 gallon ag batches on my kitchen cook top, so heating up water and getting sweet wort up to boil suck up a lot of time. I pitch at about 2am. Wouldn't change...

Oh, it hurts!! It hurts so much! This guy is pure gold

Brewed this last night as well. Pacman is already shooting out the blowoff

Two sets of pliers on each end. Bend.

+5 AHS anniversary hefeweizen +5 AHS anniversary kölsch =9177

Pacman is still available and is stil being produced. Bought a smack pack of it this morning at Austin Homebrew that was packaged in February. Brewing this recipe this weekend. Partial mash. Will let you know how it turns out. This will be my first brush with dry hopping and using irish...

Austin Homebrew is my LHS and they don't have dust problems. They also have a large grain room visible to the store floor that I believe is under negative pressure. Also, all workers don respirators before going in.

+5 gallons AHS Texas Kölsch +5 gallons sierra nevada clone 5318

Lighting the strike water for my Sierra Nevada clone. I won't be dry hopping it, but I'm hoping a very late 1 oz cascade hop edition will make up for that.

Well, that was the perfect answer. Thank you so much, MalFet. The microbiologist in me sees what you're saying. In the end it comes down to understanding that this beautiful hobby of ours is both science and art.

So I want to pitch onto the yeast cake from my current batch of kölsch after I crash cool it for a week. Is that possible? Should I slowly raise the temp befoe racking fresh wort onto it?

From my microbiologist days, we used slants because you had the advantage of maintaining small, easy to hold and sterilize vessels, while creating greater surface area for growing.

Yakima kölsch hitting the stove at 9 am

+5 gallons of austin homebrew supply kölsch =3910

Adding anything to the brew without sanitization is very risky. Are you boiling your cider?