mattmmille
Well-Known Member
More kombucha...going to Baseball at Ritter Park at 5:30. Home by 8:00...then maybe a beer or two. @ Hello. Don't make me drag that lake.
My Rye Pale Ale.
Bottle shop run because payday. I've got the normal Black Butte and Grapefruit Sculpin in the fridge for later tonight, the rest waiting (except for waxed bombers which are being held onto).
Had a decent day today. Decided not to work today. Been working way too much recently and I'm worn out. Slept in and had a great lunch.
And a small pick up from the store.
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Post fishing beer. Caught and released 10 fish!
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Water. There is about to be a lot of beer consumed tonight though.
Begin long rant:
I came home early from a super easy day at work today in a great mood, until I went down to the basement.
Flashback 2 weeks ago. There was a local brewing competition held. It was called Iron Brewer. Everyone showed up with their homebrew setup, we all draw a random ingredient, have one hour to formulate a recipe, and start brewing. I ended up with licorice root. I brewed up a Belgian Dubbel. Brew day went super smooth, hit all my numbers, wort was tasting fantastic.
Back to today. I have one of those SS Brew Tech Brew Buckets with the FTS temp control system. For those not familiar, it's basically a metal coil that sits down in the wort. Then I have a cooler full of water next to it. I either add ice, or a fish tank heater to it, depending if I need to cool or heat the wort to keep it at the desired temp. This has been working fantastic for the past couple months.
They recently came out with "extensions" for it, to make the coil sit farther down into the fermenter to get more accurate heating and cooling. I purchased those, and installed them before I added the wort I made for this competition. Well, apparently, I didn't tighten them down enough and they became loose. Today, while it was heating up, it decided to leak, and it sucked all 8 gallons of water I had in the cooler, and placed it inside the fermenter, causing the fermenter to overflow, and spill all over the table and the ground! Not the way I wanted to spend my evening.
End rant
Short version... Batch of beer is shot. Don't have enough time to re-brew for the competition judging. F*ck this week.
Post fishing beer. Caught and released 10 fish!
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Nice. Glad you are still alive.
Wanted to post this earlier but I'm too stupid to do it on my phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoXauHivDrQ
Post fishing beer. Caught and released 10 fish!
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Water. There is about to be a lot of beer consumed tonight though.
Begin long rant:
I came home early from a super easy day at work today in a great mood, until I went down to the basement.
Flashback 2 weeks ago. There was a local brewing competition held. It was called Iron Brewer. Everyone showed up with their homebrew setup, we all draw a random ingredient, have one hour to formulate a recipe, and start brewing. I ended up with licorice root. I brewed up a Belgian Dubbel. Brew day went super smooth, hit all my numbers, wort was tasting fantastic.
Back to today. I have one of those SS Brew Tech Brew Buckets with the FTS temp control system. For those not familiar, it's basically a metal coil that sits down in the wort. Then I have a cooler full of water next to it. I either add ice, or a fish tank heater to it, depending if I need to cool or heat the wort to keep it at the desired temp. This has been working fantastic for the past couple months.
They recently came out with "extensions" for it, to make the coil sit farther down into the fermenter to get more accurate heating and cooling. I purchased those, and installed them before I added the wort I made for this competition. Well, apparently, I didn't tighten them down enough and they became loose. Today, while it was heating up, it decided to leak, and it sucked all 8 gallons of water I had in the cooler, and placed it inside the fermenter, causing the fermenter to overflow, and spill all over the table and the ground! Not the way I wanted to spend my evening.
End rant
Short version... Batch of beer is shot. Don't have enough time to re-brew for the competition judging. F*ck this week.
Had a decent day today. Decided not to work today. Been working way too much recently and I'm worn out. Slept in and had a great lunch.
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Karbach Staycation
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Real Ale 19th Anniversary Baltic Porter
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And a small pick up from the store.
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Post fishing beer. Caught and released 10 fish!
View attachment 278268
Water. There is about to be a lot of beer consumed tonight though.
Begin long rant:
Short version... Batch of beer is shot. Don't have enough time to re-brew for the competition judging. F*ck this week.
Where/what was that wondrous concoction? My arteries are getting harder just looking at it.
The real question is, did you hook the big fish?
That sucks man.
Is that an old church? Sounds heavenlyEverything on tap. Church brew works in Pittsburg.
Bud light at a concert. It's so loud here.