Bottled the 12 Beers of Christmas-West Coast: Honey-Ginger IPA. Tomorrow, packaging, and in the mail Thursday!
Feeling much better this afternoon, so went ahead and milled grain (24lbs, horey clap) for tomorrow. I can always beg the husband to help me lift the bag, or I might just scoop out as much wet grain as I can until I can lift it. Still have the headache, but no body aches anymore and less fatigue; might also be due to the fact that I just did more in one hour than the last two days, what with weighing grain, milling it, and dumping out the leftover water in the keggle from last week. Bonus, I now have two empty grain bags to dispose of the spent grain. If I wake up feeling like sh*t tomorrow I'll just leave the grain in the sealed tun and save it for next weekend.@seatazzz, 1/2 is better than not being able to brew at all because of a messed up back. Hope you get well soon.
Glad to hear you are already feeling better, getting sick sucks. Especially these day when you have to worry if it is more than just a cold. Sounds like you have options and a plan for the heavier than usual grain.Feeling much better this afternoon, so went ahead and milled grain (24lbs, horey clap) for tomorrow. I can always beg the husband to help me lift the bag, or I might just scoop out as much wet grain as I can until I can lift it. Still have the headache, but no body aches anymore and less fatigue; might also be due to the fact that I just did more in one hour than the last two days, what with weighing grain, milling it, and dumping out the leftover water in the keggle from last week. Bonus, I now have two empty grain bags to dispose of the spent grain. If I wake up feeling like sh*t tomorrow I'll just leave the grain in the sealed tun and save it for next weekend.
Eking out the most from a 5G kettle.
I ain't got that kind of patients(no more).Mash...
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Sparge added, creeping up on boil, getting nervous...
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Stable boil, no boilover...
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Phew!
Just try to figure all this out after you've had a homebrew or two.there's three tubes? lol i gotta admit, that looks really weird to me!
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