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I'm making a starter for an AG Bell's Two Hearted ale clone (my 1st clone attempt!) that I will brew tomorrow. Also doing the cleaning/prepping for said brew day.


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I transferred a five gallon batch, of my "Toasted" Amber Ale, to a keg. Superb caramel malt aroma, from my home toasted crystal malt. Wlp007, put in work and finished clean in less than 9 days. Gotta love it... Given the O.G. was only 1.040.

Also, harvested that yeast slurry, to pitch into my next couple batches.
 
I drank beer today... Thats bout it! Im working on kicking a keg to refill it. Yeeehaaawwww!!


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Yesterday I made a yeast starter. I wanted to pitch at high krausen, but I got started brewing later than anticipated, and missed that by a few hours. Oh well.

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I'm about 15 minutes into a 90-minute boil on a Briess 2-row/Crystal SMaSH IPA.

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This is weird brewing in temperatures above freezing for a change! :ban:
 
Brewing a partial mash Cold Smoke scotch ale clone kit from Austin Homebrew right now (got the mash rest started, just waiting impatiently). This is my first ever partial mash after several extracts. So far, so good (knock on wood)!


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Bottled a 2 hearted, dry hopped an amber, brewed a Blue Moon, harvested yeast, drank a variety....Life is good

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Yesterday I made a yeast starter. I wanted to pitch at high krausen, but I got started brewing later than anticipated, and missed that by a few hours. Oh well.

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I'm about 15 minutes into a 90-minute boil on a Briess 2-row/Crystal SMaSH IPA.

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This is weird brewing in temperatures above freezing for a change! :ban:

I've also got two homebrew virgins come over in a few minutes that I'm hoping to introduce to homebrew... and if they want to drink, they'll have to be introduced, since all I've got is homebrew on tap and in bottles here! :rockin:
 
Brew buddies came over and we bottled the black IPA and brewed a White House Honey Ale. Hopefully that will be my last extract batch! :ban:

We also shared a 2012 Dark Lord (a bit too raisiny, but still a very special beer) in honor of one of my friends having started a new job, and we discussed plans to acquire DLD tickets for this year.
 
Hooked up my IIPA named "Ball Grabber" to the keg last night to carbonate, checked it today, the CO2 was empty. Got to the LHBS just after they closed, but they saw me with tank in hand, opened the door for me.

Also cold crashed my brown ale.

And, finally, worked on kicking my almost empty keg of chocolate porter, since I need an empty keg for my brown ale.
 
Yesterday I made a yeast starter. I wanted to pitch at high krausen, but I got started brewing later than anticipated, and missed that by a few hours. Oh well.

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I've just recently used a stir plate for the first time, and there was no stage recognizable as "high krausen." The stirring actually kept anything like krausen or even foam from building up. What am I missing or doing wrong?
 
I've just recently used a stir plate for the first time, and there was no stage recognizable as "high krausen." The stirring actually kept anything like krausen or even foam from building up. What am I missing or doing wrong?


I never see anything that I could call high Krausen, and I pitch it anyway, and I'm making pretty good beer! RDWHAHB!,


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I've just recently used a stir plate for the first time, and there was no stage recognizable as "high krausen." The stirring actually kept anything like krausen or even foam from building up. What am I missing or doing wrong?

I don't know. I'm fairly new to using starters, but every starter I've made definitely had a significant amount of krausen build up, even on a stir plate.
 
Today I'm brewing my take on a Fat Tire. I borrowed from a recipe I found online called "Flat Ass Tired". Here's the start of the 60 min boil.1394995270166.jpg

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Pri: empty
Sec: empty
Keg: Vienna Lager
Bottled: Robust Porter and American IPA
 
Need to figure out this mobile app. Sorry for two pictures and for the orientation being sideways.

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Pri: empty
Sec: empty
Keg: Vienna Lager
Bottled: Robust Porter and American IPA
 
I saved a 6 gal ale pale with spigot along with a bench capper and hydrometer from someone's trash. Stuff looks like its never been used.


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Im thinking of kegging an IPA thats only been dry hopped for 2 days now... Whatda think?


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Im thinking of kegging an IPA thats only been dry hopped for 2 days now... Whatda think?


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Do it! If the beer was at room temp, the hops will have had enough time to be infused. I dry hopped w/ 4oz's for two days, on my last IPA and the aroma was crazy.
 
I'm postponing my brew day, until tomorrow, because it's pretty hot outside. I don't even want to attempt cooling down 5 gallons of hot wort, right now.
 
Scrubbed out my new 15 gal BK & attached the SS QD to the faucet so I'll be ready for at least three brews this coming week.


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Attended my brew clubs monthly meeting and got to hear a special presentation by Adrian Barrera, brewer at Tioga Sequoia. He brought some awesome beers and an almost overwhelming amount of information. He seemed like a great speaker, but the Double Hopped Sherman IPA, Tecumseh Imperial IPA and his yet un-named Black IPA might have biased my opinion.
 
Finally bottled my Flemish red with grapes after 19 mos in the fermenter. My first sour. A pic of the liquor pre-carb and the pellicle pre-bottling. ImageUploadedByHome Brew1395020790.736034.jpgImageUploadedByHome Brew1395020808.992611.jpg


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