Brewed our Rye IPA. Now homemade pizza.
Brett C, D, and Q? I guess we know your latest passion. May the yeast be with you!I got some new cultures in today. My first offerings from Escarpment labsView attachment 756839
Get well soon!Tasted some. Both my two coworkers tested positive for the 'rona on Sunday, I didn't get tested but I've probably got it, and just today got my smeller & taster back. Feel like absolute cr*p.
"Ah, beer! The cause of and the solution to all of life's problems!" -Homer SimpsonNot something I did for beer, but, because beer.
Had to run some errands in the big city of Harlem, MT (pop 800) this morning and grammamark gave me a grocery list. Picked up the stuff at Albertson’s and headed home, to find a half gallon of milk leaking when I took it out of the bag. Geez, now I have to quickly find a half gallon container…oh, yeah! Downstairs to the brewery and-problem solved.
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Is that one o them newfangled milkshake ipas the kids keep talkin bout these days?Not something I did for beer, but, because beer.
Had to run some errands in the big city of Harlem, MT (pop 800) this morning and grammamark gave me a grocery list. Picked up the stuff at Albertson’s and headed home, to find a half gallon of milk leaking when I took it out of the bag. Geez, now I have to quickly find a half gallon container…oh, yeah! Downstairs to the brewery and-problem solved.
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I have done that a few times in the past, just not since I started BIAB. I will give it a shot for the next one. And this is why I love HBT; other people think of things that I should have!!!@seatazzz, have you tried conditioning your grain? A little spritz of water about 10 to 20min before you mill the grain helps to reduce flour and keeps the hulls more intact.
I forget the exact amount of water needed as I have a mark on the water bottle but I think it is like 3 or 4oz of water for about 10lbs of grain.
On bubble watch again today, brewed a danish pale lager yesterday and made use of some yeast I build about month ago. Figured it would be OK but was glad to see it was working already this morning. It is a 4gal batch I plan to put in a 5gal keg so I am purging the receiving keg to save some CO2. Make bubble watching more interesting too.
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Also checked gravity on a dark mild I brewed a few days back. Should be ready to keg in a couple days.
I BIAB using a long handled food service slotted spoon for a mash paddle and the fine mesh nylon bags for hops. I clip the hop bags to the kettle and press the wort out using the back of the spoon. I get them pretty dry that way and no burnt fingers.Had an absolute brainstorm during brewday today. Did a Strata Pale with a small bittering addition but some bigger late additions. I have a hop spider, but the only bags I have that are long enough are the Wilser bags that came with my BIAB bag. I do love them, but there's so much flour in there from the finer crush that they get gummed up pretty quick and the wort won't drain out of them. So went with an old bigger mesh bag that I had, just isn't long enough from the spider to the wort in my 15g kettle. At flameout I dropped the hop bag down to get what I could out of it, and pondered on how to get it to drain without burning my hands; that's when Ninkasi told me to look up, and see the dangling bag hoist. Attached that to the hop bag, and voila! Fast drain of the wort from the hop bag, and since suspended used my fancy silicone spatula tongs (if you can find these get them, they are amazing) to squeeze all that hoppy goodness out. Until I can find, or make, new hop boil bags, this will be my go-to. Still patting myself on the back.
@wilserbrewer , if you read this, I absolutely love my BIAB, but I would suggest making the hop boil & dry hop bags out of a bigger mesh? They probably work great for leaf hops, but for pellets not so much, at least not for me. If someone has a suggestion I would appreciate it!
*edit For today's brew I coarsened the crush to try to avoid as much flour but didn't help much. Just throwing that out there.
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