BrewinHooligan
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Shipped out 2 boxes of beer, one for a trade and one for my brothers up in Montana to share.
Strangest brew day ever. Decided to brew the Nutcastle from BCS - simple grain bill, simple recipe, brewed it several times before. It was -35° outside, so as usual in the winter I brewed inside the garage with the door slightly cracked. In the afternoon my wife mentions how cold the garage was before we brewed. Eventually discovered that the zone for the radiant heat in the garage had frozen before we started brewing - but having the garage door cracked about a door sure didn't help the system thaw. We finished the brew to find that the hose from the faucet was frozen, so using the CFC - and dumping the water into a frozen slab of concrete - was no longer an option. In any case, the yeast had been pitched after the wort cooled in the fermentation chamber, a 100,000 BTU heater is running to thaw out the floor, and after a couple of homebrews I'm ready for this day to be over! Thankfully the wife was the one who determined the freeze up happened before the brew session began, so I haven't been directed to sell all of my brewing equipment!
kscarrington said:After two days of running the propane heater both zones finally opened up and we have heat flowing to the concrete pad again! And equally important, the beer is happily fermenting away in the fermentation chamber!
Needless to say I can't wait to get my Caribou Slobber from the Northern "pole" Brewers into primary!
Spread the gospel of home-brewing, I may have a new convert.
Well having already done a quick cider using the lalvin 1118 I finally got everything together and did the honourable first brew, the cerveza clone for my wife that bought me the five gallon kit for xmas. Needless to say I can't wait to get my Caribou Slobber from the Northern "pole" Brewers into primary! Hoping to have that going next weekend. Such a cool forum to find and plenty of great advice and comments for a beginner in what my four year daughter and I are calling science experiments, she likes the cider so far (of course the unfermented stuff). My young cider already tastes great, dry and delicious not sure if it will make the months that it needs to truly reach its potential, but there is always a carboy to start another batch in. Cheers!
histo320 said:Brewing my None More Black Vanilla Stout. Halfway through the mash right now and things are going perfect....so far.
1fast636 said:Boiling my 26 stitch ipa (chinook ipa) mashed in last night then the stitches and the little man started acting up so got mash fully done and cleaned up. Boiling today, also goin to make my assistant brewer some spent grain biscuits
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