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I started after having kids, so I don’t think you need to sell everything off. My AIO system does make it possible to do it as much as needed. My process is: 1. Get the water ready at 3pm and starte heating it up. 2. Mash in around 4:30 3. Mash out at 5:30, sparge, and start the boil 4. Bath...

One of my faves, for sure

My SMASH peated beer is coming along nicely. First taste was a bit odd because I could still taste the Lutra in the beer. It didn't go well with the smoke. Had another one after a month and that has subsided considerably and it's a smoke bomb. I had it by itself, mixed in a hoppy brown ale...

Tasted it today and I WAY overhopped it with bittering hops. Way, way, way too bitter. So this one's a dumper unfortunately, but I think I've got a plan for the next one and since it's spent grain, it only costs a few bucks to make. Instead of a 60 min boil with an ounce of hops at the start...

Brewed up two beers after two abysmal failures at NA. First beer was an imperial honey lager that went without a hitch. It’s going at 65 with 34/70 and I’m very excited for it. Next beer was from the 2nd runnings of that beer, came in at 1.005, put a couple ounces of centennial, and small...

Following up because after a month in the keg this beer is really, really good. Like I’m going to make it again this summer to submit to the state fair good. After settling down a bit this was one of my better beers and I will definitely be ordering a pound of this for next time

Brewed a honey imperial lager on Saturday that I’m very excited for. I’ve made it before with Lutra, but this time went with a slightly different recipe and 34/70. That should be done next week. I also took the second runnings of the mash and got a 1.005 wort from it that I made an NA IPL with...

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An hour? How? It takes me an hour just to sanitize 50 bottles, another 20-30 minutes to prep them with sugar, then another hour to fill. Keg takes 5 minutes to sanitize and 5 minutes to fill. Maybe you could share your process as to how you get 50 bottles sanitized, prepped, and filled in 45...

I started with one gallon batches and bottled all of those. Only took 30 min to bottle a batch, so it wasn't a big deal. My first 5 gallon batch I bottled as well. I used the biggest bottles I had, put some in a one gallon mini-keg, but others in some SS growlers I had, and it was still a...

Dumped an absolutely god awful attempt at a low alcohol beer. Everything that could go wrong, did yesterday. Tonight’s attempt so far is promising

You need really clean hair for dreads to form nicely, I had them for years. Since getting rid of my dreads? I shampoo 2 or 3 times a year, and condition roughly once a month. Conditioner can give enough lather to wash everything out without stripping your hair of oils, so that's my go-to when...

Save yeast slurry whenever I can, if I can't it goes down the garbage disposal and I flush it down with a bunch of hot water, which is usually pretty easy since I'm typically cleaning the fermenter at that point.

Pitch your next batch right on the yeast cake

If it tastes bad, just mix it with some grapefruit juice or lemonade. That’s what I did with a blonde kit I got for free that was a couple years old

For an IPA? It’s probably fine, but a slight under pitch is also probably fine. I have a hoppy brown ale that I had 3 repitched yeasts (west coast, us05, and S04) in there and then used that cake for a porter right after. Both beers are on tap now and delicious. I used 3 because they came from...

I had an Oktoberfest party where the week before I cashed a keg of a previous Lutra brew. I needed a new beer fast and ended up brewing the same Lutra Citra APA to serve to people that have some pretty good national accolades (one national gold for a cider and lots of beer and mead medals over...

I do 40psi overnight and it's usually good enough for the next day, at least for those initial tastings

I'm planning on making an NA(ish) beer next, but I'm going to do a hot mash and see how it turns out. I want to do a version of Janet's brown ale. Recipe is going to be: 1.5 lbs munich .5 lbs crystal 40 .25 lbs carapils .25 lbs chocolate Mash @180 for 30 min Hops 14g NB (Mash) 14g NB (30)...

I checked the notes on the hops after I wrote that and it was almost like I copied it directly from them, lol. Has some pineapple notes, a touch of citrus, and slightly woody nose. I'll see when I can order it again, I have a few pounds of hops to get through before needing to reorder.