Owly055
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I got home from celebrating the big 60 a few hours ago.....After working on a Perkins engine in an excavator.....My birthday present (to myself) was a new pressure switch which I had to install in my pump house ;-) Actually I do not celebrate birthdays, and I had a quiet evening at the local watering hole ......the Grand Hotel in Big Timber, Montana, which has been my "office" since about 1984, when it re-opened. One Prickley Pear Pale ale, and a coconut panko fried shrimp with Thai hot sweet and sour sauce (in house recipe). I didn't have time for the house smoked prime rib..... it was a one beer evening..... water has the priority over beer here!!
After listening to a voice mail from my mother lamenting that having a 60 year old son made her feel old...... I decided that the proper way to celebrate was to brew!! Instead of grabbing a recipe book like many folks do, I went out and ground about the right amount of grain, choosing grains from my inventory, and deciding how much of each to use... This while the strike water was heating. Hit mash temp dead nuts!! Ground the grain and came in and the water hit strike temp within about 5 min. Doughed in, and quick sat down with Brewer's Friend and entered the pounds and ounces before CRS deleted it. Oldtimers disease......what a difference a day makes! looked at my hop list, and decided what to include from my inventory.
Backwardgate ........ That's what I call my beer.... does anybody else brew this way? I've found that if you know your malt and your hops....... and your yeast, it's hard to brew a bad beer..... I know what I like. I know what the grains are going to give me, and what each of my hops contributes.......... I still brew the occasional "dumper", but those are wildly experimental, and I can count the "dumpers" on the fingers of one hand and have fingers left over....... If you never have a failure, I would say you are not being very creative.
I ran off the page for my log.... punched it with my 3 hole punch, and dropped it in the log............ I hadn't numbered brews for a month or so, and so brought my numbering up to date......... Brew 100.... 100 brews since a year ago February....... I didn't plan it this way........... BIAB without the bag during the mash, the technique I now use exclusively. The bag is just a filter. It may not work for you.....but it works for me!
More and more I find myself beginning a brew before I have the recipe worked out. I bitter with Summit or Magnum...... everything else is usually late addition, so I may not have settled the hops bill until the boil is more than half over.... backwardgate.
H.W.
After listening to a voice mail from my mother lamenting that having a 60 year old son made her feel old...... I decided that the proper way to celebrate was to brew!! Instead of grabbing a recipe book like many folks do, I went out and ground about the right amount of grain, choosing grains from my inventory, and deciding how much of each to use... This while the strike water was heating. Hit mash temp dead nuts!! Ground the grain and came in and the water hit strike temp within about 5 min. Doughed in, and quick sat down with Brewer's Friend and entered the pounds and ounces before CRS deleted it. Oldtimers disease......what a difference a day makes! looked at my hop list, and decided what to include from my inventory.
Backwardgate ........ That's what I call my beer.... does anybody else brew this way? I've found that if you know your malt and your hops....... and your yeast, it's hard to brew a bad beer..... I know what I like. I know what the grains are going to give me, and what each of my hops contributes.......... I still brew the occasional "dumper", but those are wildly experimental, and I can count the "dumpers" on the fingers of one hand and have fingers left over....... If you never have a failure, I would say you are not being very creative.
I ran off the page for my log.... punched it with my 3 hole punch, and dropped it in the log............ I hadn't numbered brews for a month or so, and so brought my numbering up to date......... Brew 100.... 100 brews since a year ago February....... I didn't plan it this way........... BIAB without the bag during the mash, the technique I now use exclusively. The bag is just a filter. It may not work for you.....but it works for me!
More and more I find myself beginning a brew before I have the recipe worked out. I bitter with Summit or Magnum...... everything else is usually late addition, so I may not have settled the hops bill until the boil is more than half over.... backwardgate.
H.W.
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