Beach Brew is the Q2 community brew offered up by @Zefram
What are you doing with homebrew today?
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Ah woops
Pitched SO4 into the bitter wort this morning and the temp control is set to 64F. Should be a quick turn around with this yeast. No pressure until ferm is almost complete
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Started my very first Bavarian Wheat Beer. OG 1.050. Yeast with this extract kit (M20 Bavarian Wheat by Mangrove Jack's) smells absolutely fantastic. Apparently it produces aroma of Banana and aftertaste of Cloves and one sniff had me believing. No activity in airlock yet 6 hours down the line but it is early days. This is the first named specialist yeast I have used. Before that Munton's Gold was my most adventurous with mostly favourable results. I guess I have led a relatively sheltered life all these years of brewing. It seems like another path of adventure is about to unfold.
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And so you should, they are beautiful!
I always drink the equivalent of 5 bottles of water a day out of habit. So when I drinking it’s not a huge adjustment.
I rarely drink more than 3 beers on any given day anyway, unless I'm watching a ball game with someone, and even then, I limit myself to one beer per half, and never more than 6 in a day. Usually by the time I get to the first beer , if I've been working outside, I've probably had about 4 gallons of water poured through me, too. I take my 2-gallon Coleman water cooler with me in the morning, refill it at lunch, and maybe again before the afternoon is over. RARELY do I ever pour any water to waste out of that cooler. When I stop to clean up for dinner and cool down is when I usually have the first beer. The next is with dinner, and MAYBE a 3rd after dinner. Today's total was exactly 1 beer, an Andygator. If I don't have any in the fridge, I will typically just do without, or pop the cork on a bottle of homemade wind and have ONE glass of that. I still drink a lot more than I used to simply because I make it and enjoy trying different things.
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I like that set up.
How did you sort out the connections at the top?
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The top just returns to the fermenter from the gas post. There is a tee with a zip lock bag. Just to add a little surge capacity for CO2. Keeps any vaccum from forming in the fermenter. (Has happened for whatever reason)
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Done some unplanned cleaning. Looked like there had been an explosion in my fermenter this morning. Inner lid was almost fully caked. The M20 Bavarian Wheat yeast got going overnight. Only a small bit actually came into the airlock, however. Cleaned up, reset lid and airlock, bubbling nice and steady since but already noticeably slowed up some. Must say it looked about the healthiest head in the bin I have yet seen. Nice aroma too. I was having to operate too quickly to take any piccies - no point taking any more risks of contamination than absolutely necessary. Should now be plain sailing until day 6 gravity reading.
I am preparing to bottle AC Pale Ale.
Earlier, I made a few minor changes to my iteration of the Community Quarterly Brew, namely to use Magnum to get 30 IBU’s at 60 minutes, reducing the 30 minute Tettnanger, adding a 20 minute dose, then twice that much at 5 minutes, instead of at 3. Since Tettnanger is not something I use regularly, I am going to use a whole 1 ounce package in this brew. Later I will head to lhbs to pick up grains and hops.
Earlier, I made a few minor changes to my iteration of the Community Quarterly Brew, namely to use Magnum to get 30 IBU’s at 60 minutes, reducing the 30 minute Tettnanger, adding a 20 minute dose, then twice that much at 5 minutes, instead of at 3. Since Tettnanger is not something I use regularly, I am going to use a whole 1 ounce package in this brew. Later I will head to lhbs to pick up grains and hops.
Checked on my Frankenbeer, and it's still happily bubbling along at 16C. Still a bit of a mess in the fermenter, but should see it start to settle out in a couple days. Will drop the temp to 12C then to start clarifying, then 6C for another week. Lotsa stuff in suspension, but seems I remember the same from the last brew. I've slept twice since then, though.
With 2 empty fermenters, it’s time to make another batch, and @Zefram Beach Brew is up next.
I do like that mini-keg. What size is that? It looks like a couple of those would probably hold a 20L batch. I'd do another batch, but it's too warm here now to try to ferment without the fermentation fridge. Frankenbeer's still chugging away out there after a week. I'm hoping this one dries out some because I want the Citra hops to pop in it. Maris Otter can be a little sweet on the finish. I like it, but perhaps it's hiding something that I'd like to taste? Maybe time to switch back to a good pils for my summer brews.
Yup purge it out set the psi like 5 and the foam should settle out.
As your drinking the carbonation my drop a bit but before bed tonight just turn it back up to carbonation pressure that's how I'd roll with it.
Either that or get a.bigger mug
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Just dry hopped my IPA with 4 oz of hops.
That's a decent dry hop!
A combination of hops or?
I really like these. I have 2 actually
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