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Wandered into the shed and checked that the STC1000+ I programmed 5 days ago when I dry hopped had begun to cold crash my India Red Ale.
Felt kinda sad my beer doesn't need me anymore.

:(
 
I pressure canned a bunch of starter wort. While I was transferring the jars from the canner to a milk crate, one of the jars had a blowout - the bottom came completely off, which means I spent a good chunk of the afternoon washing the floor, cleaning the stove, washing the rug, etc. I guess it could have been worse, but what a pain in the butt.
 
I cleaned the keg from a Munich Dunkel I kicked last weekend and kegged a English Pale Ale. The EPA is now in the lager chamber cold crashing along with a keg of Vienna Lager. I'll add gelatin in a cpl days then a few days later get it on CO2.
 
Gelled a Robust Porter that I had crashed on Monday. Friday will be keg day!
 
I just cracked the fermenter fridge to get a status check on last weekend's ESB progress. It's still in there!
 
Just pitched my yeast, man it feels good to be done. Later on today I'll be doing some yard work and then setting up again for another brew day :D
 
Well it was yesterday, but put my last batch in the keg for the first time. No more bottles for me. Today I drilled the fridge for the shank and handle. Should be drinking in a day or so.
 
Pitched the slurry from a 2 liter starter of 3068 to my Dunkelweizen. Never used this yeast before. Looking for some pronounced clove aromas from a 62 degree fermentation. Bubbling gently after only 4 hours. Put up a massive blow off bucket because I'm told to expect a very vigorous krasening.
 
Just reset the gap on my mill to a more recirculation friendly 0.045, previously it was gapped using a credit card, so a nominal 0.038, and some pre-RIMS recirculation tests showed that the mash stuck after about ten minutes.

Not wanting to eyeball the gap, a set of feeler gauges was five bucks from Amazon. Erred on the side of too wide than too narrow, now a nice consistent gap all the way across the rollers
 
Tried my hand at making some Invert sugar for an upcoming stout recipe, looks and tastes like it came out pretty close to what I was shooting for.
 
Kegged up my 9% amber IPA. And took a look at a friends kegorator he picked up for free. He got quite the deal! A little TLC and its gonna be cherry.
 
What does inverted sugar add to the stout?

A few gravity points...first time I've tried using it, may not add anything noticeable but just one of the ingredients of the bill. May not be traditional, but
The color turned out like I wanted, didn't burn, and didn't crystallize when I cooled it so I'm satisfied.
 
Checked on my roggenbier in primary (still smells like beer!) then hooked up my new nitro system to pull the first pint of snoatmeal stout. It needs a little more CO2 but it's promising
 

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