Wife informed me she's taking the infant to sister-in-law's for a girls'night sleepover leaving me with toddler. I called mother-in-law and asked if she'd take toddler for the night. Yup.
Who's got an empty house all to himself for a whole evening/night? This guy!!!
Sounds like I'm getting in a brew session and falling asleep to a loud epic war movie.
Morning after. Sitting on the front porch drinking my coffee, looking at the first flush of autumn, enjoying the last minutes of quietude.
Didn't get the war movie in, but brewday went very well. Hit my final volumes spot on, missed OG by 0.001.
Tried my second shaken, not stirred starter. A pint of 1.090 first runnings, 5m boil, chill to tepid. Pitched a pack of Imperial Bartleby (Hornindal), shake, shake, shake. Shake a bit more. At 50min, it was showing some small signs of activity and hissing. At 60m, it was building krausen and sounding like my old Bostonian steam heat. Pitched into 95° wort at 3hrs, ~10p.
Woke up this morning, headed down to the basement to check things out. Fermenter is rolling away. Krausen is an 1" thick, but there's evidence of high krausen at 2.5". Did it reach high krausen and already begin to recede in under 8hrs?! Kveik!
Also accomplished yesterday during my 'day off'...
8.5lb home-cured bacon smoked
2 racks of ribs smoked
Bathroom cleaned
Kitchen cleaned
Laundry done
and put away