I finished my semester yesterday. 7 hours straight of law exams. Everything went very well, I'm hella confident, so what's a guy to do to improve the week even more ? Brew beer of course !
I went with a simple pale/amber recipe (10% C-40, 5% C-150, 2% Biscuit) using Cascade and EKG. I basically threw everything (or almost everything) I still had lying around in the beer to get rid of it and start anew after the holidays.
Mashing went well. The problems arose with the boil. My girlfriend arrived from work, I got "distracted" for 25 minutes and came back to a wort about a milimeter away from overboiling, with the lid on. I tried stirring, but there was no headspace left, so I decided, on a whim, to just dump handfuls of CLEAN snow into the wort. It worked well, for about 5 seconds when I overboiled. Crap. 2 minutes later, the neighbour's dog decides to pay a visit. I handfeed him some grain. You guessed it, I overboiled AGAIN while doing this. The dog goes berserk and tries to lick the freaking burner to get to the sweet wort. So in one hand I'm throwing yet more snow in the wort (the clean supply is running out...) while trying to refrain the dog from licking the flame.
It's not the first time the dog tried to lick the burner. The last time was when I brewed my Old Ale. It turned out amazing, so I'm psyched.
I went with a simple pale/amber recipe (10% C-40, 5% C-150, 2% Biscuit) using Cascade and EKG. I basically threw everything (or almost everything) I still had lying around in the beer to get rid of it and start anew after the holidays.
Mashing went well. The problems arose with the boil. My girlfriend arrived from work, I got "distracted" for 25 minutes and came back to a wort about a milimeter away from overboiling, with the lid on. I tried stirring, but there was no headspace left, so I decided, on a whim, to just dump handfuls of CLEAN snow into the wort. It worked well, for about 5 seconds when I overboiled. Crap. 2 minutes later, the neighbour's dog decides to pay a visit. I handfeed him some grain. You guessed it, I overboiled AGAIN while doing this. The dog goes berserk and tries to lick the freaking burner to get to the sweet wort. So in one hand I'm throwing yet more snow in the wort (the clean supply is running out...) while trying to refrain the dog from licking the flame.
It's not the first time the dog tried to lick the burner. The last time was when I brewed my Old Ale. It turned out amazing, so I'm psyched.
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either way, funny story that got a belly-laugh out of me 
