Brewday 11-23-2014

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On deck for today, Dead Guy Ale. One of my fav's this time of the year. getting ready to fire up HLT once last 2 gallons of RO water is finished making. Jammin to "Left Hand Free" Alt-J

View attachment deadguy 11232014.pdf

 

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Had a leaky valve but finally mashing.

HERMS

Mash Working

 

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35 mins into the mash, holding a perfect 150 deg. Slightly Stoopid playin.

 

[estricklin]

Nice, who's your "brew dog" there?

 

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That's Riley, my brew dawg.

Mashout started, jumping temp to 175

*Rebelution - Bump* playing

 

[Yooper]

Sounds great! Thanks for the pictures- I love looking at brewing set ups.

 

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Mash Out

HLT setup

looking for 174-175

Once I get there, I maintain with a "low glow"

 

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First runnings

Under the hood of the HERMS

Ye ole spanking paddle lol

Still got a way to go, need 7.5 gallons for the 90 min boil

 

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I like that measuring stick... I might have to make something like that.

 

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Don't think I can't go from this;

to this in about 15 seconds. lol

 

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I like that measuring stick... I might have to make something like that.

works like a champ and its fast. When it gets 'busy' I don't have time to be messing around lol

 

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works like a champ and its fast. When it gets 'busy' I don't have time to be messing around lol

That's kinda what I was thinking. I'm still a few weeks out from my next brew (yay holidays stealing my brew weekends). I'm also looking at making the switch to all grain and maybe a new brew pot. So not in a huge hurry.

Is it just a wooden dowel and are the markings burned on or just ink?

 

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24 mins into the boil, salts added and first oz of northern brewer Hops. *Bob Marley* on.

Todays yeast if from a local vendor, 2nd time I've tried them and wow, can't complain, esp when they make Pacman available all year!! Yeah, pretty f'ing sweet.

 

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That's kinda what I was thinking. I'm still a few weeks out from my next brew (yay holidays stealing my brew weekends). I'm also looking at making the switch to all grain and maybe a new brew pot. So not in a huge hurry.

Is it just a wooden dowel and are the markings burned on or just ink?

I went to lowes and got a wooden dowel like what's used for hanging clothes on, added a 1/2 gal at a time, marked the rod and then came back and burned it in.

 

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Pre boil came in too high again, looking for 1.055 and got 1.065. It must be my crush, makes my eff way too high (90-95%) It's not a fluke, pretty constant with last dozen brews. Maybe I should go back to batch sparging.

 

[doug293cz]

Pre boil came in too high again, looking for 1.055 and got 1.065. It must be my crush, makes my eff way too high (90-95%) It's not a fluke, pretty constant with last dozen brews. Maybe I should go back to batch sparging.

Or, cut the grain bill back and save a buck.

Or, just enjoy the extra buzz

Brew on

 

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Worked out pretty good last time, I guess because of the dryer air, I evaporated an extra .75 gal. So by the time I added a little topoff water, it brought my OG back down to where I wanted. I'll take dumb luck any day.

*Dead playing*

 

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It is written, one must enjoy a home-brew whilst brewing a home-brew, it pleases the beer gawds.

Previous Dead Guy

nom nom nom nom

irish moss added, .5 oz saaz added at the 10 min mark, and another at the 2 min mark. *something weird as hell praying on pandora*

 

[Fordmi]

Very nice. My brew day had to be postponed because I brew outside and we have abnormally high winds today.

My efficiency went up quite a bit when I got my own mill. Most of my recipes just got an adjusted OG and expected ABV. I dialed back the grain bill on some of the beers that were high ABV to start.

 

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runoff

ended up shy on final volume again, by about a gallon. I think this is mostly due to switching over to beersmith from promash and needing to get everything dialed in. OG prior to adding the topoff water was 1.088 target was 1.065, after adding topoff water the OG went down to 1.069, not far from target.

Another brewday done and in the books. *Playing the Blues*

 

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It is written, one must enjoy a home-brew whilst brewing a home-brew, it pleases the beer gawds.

Maybe this is what I'm not doing right. I always seem to run out of beer before I try brewing the next batch. I need to plan better. And/or get more kegs/fermenters.

 

[estricklin]

It is written, one must enjoy a home-brew whilst brewing a home-brew, it pleases the beer gawds.

Previous Dead Guy

nom nom nom nom

irish moss added, .5 oz saaz added at the 10 min mark, and another at the 2 min mark. *something weird as hell praying on pandora*

It is written.

I like to have one during the boil, I call it a "Victory" beer.

 

[Happywanderer]

Nice setup. That's a ton of plumbing.

I drink a Victory brew after cleanup. Motivation to not let the grain sit in the mash tun. That and the ants.... damn ants....

 

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Less than 24 hours later, full on yeast action

 

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Nice setup. That's a ton of plumbing.

I drink a Victory brew after cleanup. Motivation to not let the grain sit in the mash tun. That and the ants.... damn ants....

Yeah, it's a little excessive. But only having to turn 2 key switches for the entire run is pretty sweet. However, moving the hoses around to the various quick disconnects looks a little like a phone operator from back in the 70's.

 

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Flu bug has been running around my house for weeks so I got a little lazy, left it in the fermentation chamber an extra week. Aged a month, and will chill it back down and will put it on gas this weekend. Should be good to go in a week.