e lo
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Today will be my last chance to brew before I defend my thesis in June, so I figured I'd better make it count.
I did my first double brew day, and it was a gas. I just finished cleaning up, and it's 7:30. Not bad for a first double day, esp. without a sculpture -- lugging sparge water out from the kitchen to the patio is a PITA!
Anyway, I mashed in a SMaSH (Munich & Fuggles) at about 10:00 this AM. A later start than I wanted, but not too bad. I crushed finer than usual, because I'm still trying to get my eff. above ~70%. Well, I improved my efficiency into the kettle to 78% (yay!) but at the cost of my first stuck sparge (boo!) Got it flowing again after some jockeying around, and proceeded as normal.
Got the second batch (a Wit) mashed in as the first one was boiling. No drama with this one, fortunately. All in all, a damn fun day of brewing!
I did my first double brew day, and it was a gas. I just finished cleaning up, and it's 7:30. Not bad for a first double day, esp. without a sculpture -- lugging sparge water out from the kitchen to the patio is a PITA!
Anyway, I mashed in a SMaSH (Munich & Fuggles) at about 10:00 this AM. A later start than I wanted, but not too bad. I crushed finer than usual, because I'm still trying to get my eff. above ~70%. Well, I improved my efficiency into the kettle to 78% (yay!) but at the cost of my first stuck sparge (boo!) Got it flowing again after some jockeying around, and proceeded as normal.
Got the second batch (a Wit) mashed in as the first one was boiling. No drama with this one, fortunately. All in all, a damn fun day of brewing!