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Tomorrow AM I am scheduled for delivery of 1 pound each of
Citra, amarillo, cascade, williamette, debittered hops, and Hallertaurer

Time to get brewing
 
Four reconditioned kegs from Williams, thank you Black Friday!


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A box of camlocks and a refractometer from Brew Hardware and a three burner propane regulator from Adventures in Homebrewing.
Still waiting for the three 15 gallon Tall Boy kettles, yeast, grain and hops from Northern Brewer and Christmas day for the SS Chugger pump and three Blichmann burners.
I love Santa and longevity bonuses!
 
8lbs of Belgian Pilsner
1lb of Caramunich
an ounce of Opal Hops, and some 1388 incoming.

I will have 4 recipes on deck waiting to be brewed, this is going to be a good weekend.
 
had a new corker come in the mail today. getting my tripel recipe locked down asap to fill some bottles. stoked!
 
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Pulley system from harbor freight. No more fighting with that wet bag of grains. Aint nobody got time for that.
 
Stepping into all grain finally so got lazy and picked up NBs 10G system with a free 6 gallon carboy. UPS man was impressed with the delivery and multiple trips to the Big Brown Truck.
Now for warmer weather to arrive...
 
Stepping into all grain finally so got lazy and picked up NBs 10G system with a free 6 gallon carboy. UPS man was impressed with the delivery and multiple trips to the Big Brown Truck.
Now for warmer weather to arrive...

No I was not.
 
7lbs of hops showed up for me today! As much as I love supporting my LHBS, with IPA being my favorite style and almost 1lbs of hops going into some of my most recent batches, I couldn't continue giving them $2 an ounce when I could buy in bulk for less than $0.75 an ounce.

Here they are all vacuum-sealed in jars. Now the war for freezer space with SWMBO is on!
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And even though I am familiar with each of these varieties, I couldn't help but setting up a dry-hopped Bud Light tasting test with them.
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I will be, still dry-hopping at the moment. I used 2 grams of hops per bottle (should be close to what I dry-hop most of my IPAs with) and am going to let sit at room temp till Friday, cold crash Friday night and have a tasting on Saturday. Going to invite a few family/friends over to join me in the tasting.

Also, as much as I would love to claim credit, this isn't my idea. I first read about the technique at bertusbrewery.com.
 
Got a few fittings and ball valves in yesterday for modifications to the setup... just have to wait a little longer for the spray nozzle and some temp probes and I should be golden :D
 
Stainless bayou burner came the other day and stainless bayou kettle with fittings came today. Pretty stoked to do a full boil instead of partial, in aluminum on the stove.
 
A bunch of stuff from Amazon,

1/2" Tee, 90* Elbow, nipples, coupling.

Cuisaid scale weighs up to 11lbs. Looks great, with a nice big digital display.

Petro-Gel Lubricant. NSF

and plastic ball jar lids.
 
I got a STC1000 in the mail too! Now once I find a cheap dorm fridge I'll have a fermentation chamber! :rockin:
 
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