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Pro-Tip recently adopted. When you cover your pizza paddle in flour, also cover it with a light coating of garlic powder +1

4 days into fermentation. Krausen dropped yesterday, and vigorous fermentation slowed down. Looking good so far!

I think you have to be wild today too, but I’ll try to ask! 👍

Thanks MK! I can definitely go finer in crush, and I was only 1.5 hours on mash and boil. Will make those changes!

Post-mortem.. because my efficiency was horrible (like 44%) I expect I'll be looking at 1.08->1.019 for about 8% instead of the 11% that 1.11->1.026 would get me at even a modest 60%. I didn't expect that, cause I usually hit my target gravity on standard ale recipes. I'll need to play with...

Whew! Two brews in one day can tire ya out! 2nd batch also came in at 1.08. By the time I was finished with the 2nd batch, the first was already bubblin! Yeasties aren’t wasting any time!

OG on batch 1 came in a little lower than BF calculated. I think boil off was wrong. Whatever. Pressing on.

Halfway through boil and it smells to me like there’s a chocolate cake batter in the oven.

Mashin sludge!

The ChocZero sugar-free Maple Syrup arrived today. I am very impressed. It is REALLY good. Totally gonna use it. As far as I know, dextrin is unfermentable, so this might work. The syrup is quite thick, so I'm thinking about adding it at end of boil, so it can be well-incorporated instead...

I have 3 and 6 yo kids. The other day, at like 6:30AM, while they were bouncing off the walls as they do, my girl looked at them through tired eyes and said what we were both thinking, “How do you have this much energy? Can I have some?” My daughter’s matter of fact response was perfect...

I’ve been reading about this. An interesting problem for sure. I have seen people say they used different grades at different times without success. Have seen fenugreek, maple extract, even someone apparently using maple and brown sugar oatmeal. Have also seen the process of stunting the yeast...

I think I'm gonna change it to grade B, and add it during secondary along with maple extract. From what I'm reading, any earlier and yeast will eat it and there will be little flavor imparted. Thank you for the tip!

Now you have me rethinking the end of boil maple syrup thing. If anything it sounds like it should be added as late as possible, maybe in that final vessel. I'm going to have to do some more research on fenugreek and maple extract as well.

Thanks! I'll check into that. I am hoping to get some subtle maple syrup flavor in there. Will research.

Thanks! 👍 I had a chance to chat with the artist when I bought that print. She said she thought Sloth from the Goonies deserved a happier ending, and that was the inspiration for it. 😁

Had to upgrade to a 5L flask for this project! The 2000 would not have cut it!

LOL...

Yessir! Actual recipe is a BF link a few posts above. Following it exactly for this first run; and we’ll see where it ends up!