First brew in way too long
So my buddy and I built this 20 g e-herms system 7-8 years ago. It is a 30A co troller controlled by the Strangbrew Elsinore controller software running on a raspberry Pi3.
We used to brew 2-3 times a month and host tasting parties to help keep the beer pipeline moving. Then kids happened and brewing took a back seat.
My wife has been pushing me to get back into brewing, so I’ve spent the past few months getting my shop ready. Installed a water heater, ran the electrical, built the stand, went through the controller and checked and updated some wiring, and moved all our equipment from my buddies shop over to mine.
This Saturday we had our first brew session. Started heating mash water at 5:30pm and had it in the fermenter and everything cleaned and put away by 10:30.
Brewed up a brown ale. Target OG was 1.054 with 10.75g into the fermenter. Measure OG was 1.057 and we hit 10.75g into the fermenter.
Now hoping the yeast are happy and get us to an FG of 1.013ish.
for not having brewed regularly for quite a while, we were very happy to hit our numbers and to have a fairly smooth brew day.
Time to RDWHAHB! (A home brew cinnamon apple cider to be exact)
Cheers.
So my buddy and I built this 20 g e-herms system 7-8 years ago. It is a 30A co troller controlled by the Strangbrew Elsinore controller software running on a raspberry Pi3.
We used to brew 2-3 times a month and host tasting parties to help keep the beer pipeline moving. Then kids happened and brewing took a back seat.
My wife has been pushing me to get back into brewing, so I’ve spent the past few months getting my shop ready. Installed a water heater, ran the electrical, built the stand, went through the controller and checked and updated some wiring, and moved all our equipment from my buddies shop over to mine.
This Saturday we had our first brew session. Started heating mash water at 5:30pm and had it in the fermenter and everything cleaned and put away by 10:30.
Brewed up a brown ale. Target OG was 1.054 with 10.75g into the fermenter. Measure OG was 1.057 and we hit 10.75g into the fermenter.
Now hoping the yeast are happy and get us to an FG of 1.013ish.
for not having brewed regularly for quite a while, we were very happy to hit our numbers and to have a fairly smooth brew day.
Time to RDWHAHB! (A home brew cinnamon apple cider to be exact)
Cheers.
