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That seems quite excessive on the headspace. I've only had one instance where I needed a blowoff tube and that was because of a miscalculated starting gravity from fresh pears I was using. I have never had to have a 60/40 split for fermentation headspace. To me that sounds like a waste of good...

So this wasn't my story, but homebrewing came up at a Bell's Hopslam cask tasting. "My buddy does homebrewing, but his family only drinks icehouse. One time he brought a growler to share and after giving them tasters and them obviously not liking it he was drinking the growler on his own. After...

Possibility of brewing this weekend... Possibly my first All Grain brew. SWMBO agreed to purchasing an all grain kit today with the tax return.

The plan for this weekend is to bottle the imperial blonde and transfer the cherry wheat to secondaries. The cherry wheat was warmed up from 60 degrees to 70 degrees over the weekend to clean up any remaining sugars the yeast hadn't munched on yet.

So an update on how the beer is going. Checked the gravity last weekend and this morning. Gravity read 1.012 both times. I was hoping for a slightly lower final reading. So to be sure of the temp it was fermenting at I checked. Temp of beer sitting steady at 60 f. That's the low end of ideal...

A couple friends, my SWMBO, and I went to the improv last weekend. We asked the waiter what they had (not much of course) but had a seasonal that I hadn't heard of before. So I asked him what was like. His reply: "well it's a lager ale, not all that dark, not all that light, it's a bit hoppy...

Cause Michigan is a separate trip when we do the loop around Lake Michigan.

Better yet. She suggested it.

So SWMBO and I are planning our honeymoon as a brewery tour tour leaving from our place in Chicagoland and going through these breweries not in this order: Great Lakes Brewing Co., Cleveland, OH Southern Tier Brewery, Lakewood, NY DogFish Brewery, Milton, DE Twin Lakes Brewery...

So SWMBO and I are planning our honeymoon as a brewery tour tour leaving from our place in Chicagoland and going through these breweries not in this order: Great Lakes Brewing Co., Cleveland, OH Southern Tier Brewery, Lakewood, NY DogFish Brewery, Milton, DE Twin Lakes Brewery, Greenville...

8603-5 for cider -1 for addition error in above post =8597

blueberry Saison

blueberry Wheat

cherry wheat

Oak barrel aged stout with milk and coffee

I'll say 1.5... granted I only can do partial mash as I don't have enough room for all grain yet. The reason 1.5 is my first batch was a whiskey stout. While I didn't consider it that great, others were loving it. My second batch was my first time cherry wheat that I completely flubbed when I...

Piss in a glass? some salt and vinegar?

Pils Sent from the home brewery.

That's the plan. Once primary fermentation is done I will be transferring to 5/6 vessels (cherries probably going to keep a couple gallons from me) for secondary conditioning. Oh. And I forgot to mention the type of cherries: Door County tart pie cherries. 50 lbs of them in that bin.

The "high Krausen ring" was really just from the agitation from pouring the 5 buckets in. They only had just started their fermentation last night so a little more aeration shouldn't hurt. (i'm hoping) The lid is far from air tight. But with the winter the way it is currently and the lack of...