This is the season of our slow ferments

[david_42]

So, I mangled that quote rather thoroughly. Going on day 34 for the blackberry wine (0.996) and at day 6, the GF Pale is only about half way done. Both taking up space on the kitchen counter. I've been holding the house between 62F and 64F, so I shouldn't be surprised. The GF Pale is a very strange yellow-green and will probably require filtering. All pellet hops and the bazooka didn't do a very good job.

 

[smizak]

I've got an oatmeal stout that went gang busters to 1.020, but is now slightly, slowly fizzing along. Only dropped one point in three days now.

 

[magnj]

Pitched a starter of Pacman I made from bottle harvested yeast and it took ~48 hours to start and is really looking weak but I'm sure it'll get there.

 

[malkore]

my new little basement brew-nook is hanging in the low 60's. I pulled my marzen upstairs today for a little diacetyl rest before putting it in secondary for a few weeks.

I have a wine kit I'm about to start, I'm hoping its warm enough in there for it, as its only starting to get cooler here.

 

[dwarven_stout]

That was an awesome mangled quote. At least this isn't the season of our disferments- that would be unfortunate. Beer bottles would probably implode.

 

[passedpawn]

winter of our discontents? steinbeck? that isn't really close.

 

[SteveM]

winter of our discontents? steinbeck? that isn't really close.

I'm going to give him a pass on that. Technically, it isn't winter yet, and "season" has the right meter. "This" instead of "now" is harder to justify, but it's close enough.

The remark about filtering catches my interest. Not many home brewers filter.

 

[mordantly]

The remark about filtering catches my interest. Not many home brewers filter.

huh? gravity doesn't filter our beer?

 

[david_42]

I rarely filter beer, but the GF Pale is nasty looking. Some times gravity just doesn't do the trick, I'll decide in 2-3 weeks.