2.5g Kristallweizen from a late night Saturday/Sunday morning brew.
Mini fridge with STC1000 controller.
Oh ya, and the step sons Mr Beer.
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Here's my very first brew... a 1-gallon all-grain Chinook IPA type-thing (lost some volume to whole leaf hops and I'm sure my gravity is higher than I wanted).
Still, went pretty well for the the first time!
First one is four gallons of Gose after 24 hours of just homemade lacto starter pitched, sitting at 90 degrees for the day but now dropping to 65 before pitching 1056 tomorrow evening. Second one is 6 gallons 0f MO/mosaic pale pitched with Conan at 48 hours. Most active fermentation I have seen yet! :rockin:
I have a Gose planned for my next brew day. Whenever that finally happens. How did you do your starter? Lacto culture or just grain in water?
It was just a homemade lacto stater of: 1 cup milled 2-row, 1/2 cup 100 degree water, 1/2 cup 100 degree starter wort, left for 2 days in a mason jar with cling warp and a rubber band over the top. I warmed it up to 90 degrees for six hours before pitching. I should have left it that temp for the whole time, but it still worked. Pitched that starter into 100 degree wort and I had my ferm fridge at 90 for the first 28 hours. now warming to 65 for 1056 pitch.