What are you doing with homebrew today?
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Temp was 48 this morning and has hung there all day. With a good amount of yeast, low temps, and quick cooling this should be nice and clean.
After a quick but tough mountain bike ride, I am now preparing to brew my Belgian pale ale. Instead of overbuilding a starter, today I will just use a full pouch of relatively fresh (1/30/22) WLP550, then work off of the slurry for future brews.
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Brewed the Bell's Two Hearted Ale clone today. Relatively easy day. Pitched BRY-97 for the first time.
Sazz has gotta be my favourite Nobel hop delicious in a pilsner- saison -blonde ale.
Well my research of recipes on this site showed Saaz as the most used hop in Belgian pale ales, so that is why I chose it. I have a good feeling about how this beer will turn out.
Started cold crashing the dark mild down from 21c to 12 in 20 mins wowie 
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The only time I used Saaz was in my version of Shady Bohemian, that was such a great brew!
It will be on my list once I get back in the saddle...
The curve flattened out around 7c I'll hold it here awhile and let the glycol cool down abit more then step it down to 0c ish.
No work for me today we got a drenching last night all roads are flooded
This is the creek next to my house we've not seen water over the road here
Since I'm off work and faffing about in the brewery I thought I'd add my finnings and ascorbic Acid to my beer. Here is my go to how I do it bonus I've kicked Mentors Amber so I'll use the built up 10psi to purge my bottle and add more pressure to kegmenter that's crashing it's got 5psi on it from the spund.
Step one I starsan the bottle and jumper line liquid to liquid
Either or mix up geletin solution I add .4g ascorbic here at same time.
Push out most the air in the bottle.
Grab a gas to gas jumper lead or just attach to your keggerator gas post (if no kicked keg)
Purge finning bottle and pressurise more than receiving keg.
Grab your liquid to liquid jumper line
Add disconnect to bottle first (you can run some liquid through now to purge that line)
Discharge liquid into recieving fermenter.
I let a bit of beer flow back into bottle to clear the floating dip tube of geletin recharged the bottle and sent it back in.
Then why not use the remaining pressure from kicked keg to up pressure in crashing fermenter.
I'll go clean that keg now and the jumper line oh fun (sarcastic emoji).
Well hope you can use something here.
Any flaws in my process let me know its new to me.
Step one I starsan the bottle and jumper line liquid to liquid
Either or mix up geletin solution I add .4g ascorbic here at same time.
Push out most the air in the bottle.
Grab a gas to gas jumper lead or just attach to your keggerator gas post (if no kicked keg)
Purge finning bottle and pressurise more than receiving keg.
Grab your liquid to liquid jumper line
Add disconnect to bottle first (you can run some liquid through now to purge that line)
Discharge liquid into recieving fermenter.
I let a bit of beer flow back into bottle to clear the floating dip tube of geletin recharged the bottle and sent it back in.
Then why not use the remaining pressure from kicked keg to up pressure in crashing fermenter.
I'll go clean that keg now and the jumper line oh fun (sarcastic emoji)
.Well hope you can use something here.
Any flaws in my process let me know its new to me
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Wow. You lost me with overflowing creek.Since I'm off work and faffing about in the brewery I thought I'd add my finnings and ascorbic Acid to my beer. Here is my go to how I do it bonus I've kicked Mentors Amber so I'll use the built up 10psi to purge my bottle and add more pressure to kegmenter that's crashing it's got 5psi on it from the spund.
Step one I starsan the bottle and jumper line liquid to liquid
Either or mix up geletin solution I add .4g ascorbic here at same time.
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Push out most the air in the bottle.
Grab a gas to gas jumper lead or just attach to your keggerator gas post (if no kicked keg)View attachment 19518
Purge finning bottle and pressurise more than receiving keg.
Grab your liquid to liquid jumper line
Add disconnect to bottle first (you can run some liquid through now to purge that line)
Discharge liquid into recieving fermenter.
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I let a bit of beer flow back into bottle to clear the floating dip tube of geletin recharged the bottle and sent it back in.
Then why not use the remaining pressure from kicked keg to up pressure in crashing fermenter.
View attachment 19520
I'll go clean that keg now and the jumper line oh fun (sarcastic emoji)
Well hope you can use something here.
Any flaws in my process let me know its new to me
Yeah it's a little soggy round here
Moved the fermenter inside. Was sitting at 56 degrees, climbed a few degrees today and 1.016. Got about 7-8 points left so I’ll start letting pressure build up and temp build to finish it off.
Wow, the blow off tube is puking. I really did catch this just in time.
Luck of the Irish
Luck of the Irish
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Smart move mate. TOO many folks don't realize how dangerous that 'little bit' of water really is. I've been knocked off my feet in ankle deep water before. That got my attention.
Gives a good excuse to stay home and watch the temperature controllers.
Doing a little "engineering" today, took stock of what "spare" equiptment I have around and started planning a temperature control system(going to be WAY more MacGyver'd then that sounded) for one of my fermenters. Ordered a few parts, my preference has always been for lagers...considering just going "all in" on it.
Just mashed in 1lb of enzyme malt I found in my freezer tonight...don't remember what I bought it for, but it's been in there a while. Going to top crop some WLP800 and build up a yeast sample to use for my next brew.
Just mashed in 1lb of enzyme malt I found in my freezer tonight...don't remember what I bought it for, but it's been in there a while. Going to top crop some WLP800 and build up a yeast sample to use for my next brew.
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