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Kind of ressurecting here. Brewing a Stout Thursday or Friday. 6 gal into fermenter 5.5 pounds Maris Otter 2 pound flaked barley 1 pound roasted barley 1 pound black patent 90 minute 148F mash. HERMS system 168 Mashout with about a 20 min ramp time from 148. Current plan is Maris Otter...

Afghanistan, but he was an American contractor.

Bought the ingredients to make my Bohemian Pils. They were out of WLP800, so I grabbed 802.. Might finish a tad dryer.. Going to make a 12 gallon batch Monday, and will start the first stage of the starter tomorrow.

Kegged my Hefewizen.. Went to bottle the remnants. @#($&(@#ing capper broke.

5 gallons Hefewizen 1603 + 5 =1608

Home sick from work (food poisoning, so I can't fly for 3-4 days) Took a sample of my Hefewizen.. 1.045 to 1.012 in three days. At 62F, that's one helluva fast ferment. WLP300, it's always this quick. I'll let it sit for another day or two and then keg it. Spent the afternoon cleaning the...

When I had to go to the old RMV in Brockton, I think it was to add HAZMAT to my CDL, it was an all day affair. After 4 hours to get seen "You have to go to Boston or Springfield for that"

Kegged 5 gallons of Bitter JO IIPA 1215 + 5 g = 1220

The bottle label

It's done.. Broke out a bottle to celebrate a year since my wife had a brain tumor removed. No, she wouldn't pose for a normal picture.. It is AbbyNormal Glutton Free Framboise Lambic after all.

Put my 14 day dry hops into the current batch of BitterJO IIPA. Based on the sample, I may have over hopped it during the brew. I was using up older hops, and was using the hop age calculator to adjust the quantities.. I may send a bottle out to get an actual IBU. It's beyond Ruination (Stone)

I landed right behind AirKraft when they came in. My company puts us up the the Downtown Marriott. The Rams are staying there. I wore my old logo Pats hat to the Lobby. As the Rams were coming into the Hotel.

I found the ONE bar in Dakar, Senegal that had US Football on. We were leaving as the sun came up. FWIW, La Gazelle beer, makes BMC products look like the best craftbrew ever. But I had to drink, because there were sober kids (me) in Africa.

Friday, I've been too busy to post. Brewed a batch of Bitter JO IIPA. Used my new HopStopper 2.0, worked excellent Deep cleaned my fermenter while it was sparging. Cleaned all 3 lines in my keg fridge. Cleaned and sanitized/purged my 2 empty kegs.

Installed my @Buckeye_Hydro Chloramine RODI system today. It was a piece of cake.. Fixing the unholy amalgamation of Pex, Copper, Galvanized, QWEST and Sharkbite the previous owner had at the Laundry/Utility Sink took most of the day. Took my wife to get LASIK and went to the LHBS to get...

And if the card don't give it away, I turn 40 Sunday.

Measured out hops for Bitter JO Imperial IPA. This is for a 5g batch. How do you say it's hoppy. (Full disclosure.. Some of the hops are older, so I upped the amount to get the same AAU in the brew)

I went with Buckeye Hydro (he posts here a lot). I got a Chloramine Special RODI system. Local utility treats with Chloramine, while the water is good it's VERY inconsistent. They swap between river, lake and ground water all the time with no real notice. At homebrew scales, its far more...

Finally got around to buying my RO system for brewing water.

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