- Took my porter off tap. It is harsh, vegetable'ish, too heavy on the soy, shall I go on? 
. Put it back In a carboy with some vanilla beans. Plan on letting this sit for another few weeks and see what it is like.
- Put my 2nd batch of Apfelwein on tap. Sweetened with 2 cups of Sucralose and it is perfect sweetness for my taste!
- Put my Allagash White Clone on tap. Man even flat this was stellar. Spicy, but not over the top, great wheat taste. I am really looking forward to this getting carbed up!
- Took the lees from the Allagash clone and made a starter for my 3rd batch of Skeeter Pee.
- Brewed up the Skeeter Pee and have it aerating where I will add the starter Tuesday.
- Finished the day off by brewing an American Hefeweizen which I plan on racking into cherries in ~10 days.
Cleaned it all up and am enjoying a mug of the Apfelwein.
My lessons learned for the day:
- Candy thermometers suck, are not accurate and probably have significantly contributed to some of my previous brews poor efficiency. I used a new floating thermometer as a second reading and the candy thermo was reading more than 20 degrees F higher than the actual temp
- Because of the above issue, I used to use my copper wort chiller to swirl the wort to try and get the temp down. Today using the new thermo I didn't swirl at all and was left with good solid cold break / chub at the bottom of the pot which was easy to leave there instead of getting it all in the carboy.
Today was a good day
. Put it back In a carboy with some vanilla beans. Plan on letting this sit for another few weeks and see what it is like.- Put my 2nd batch of Apfelwein on tap. Sweetened with 2 cups of Sucralose and it is perfect sweetness for my taste!
- Put my Allagash White Clone on tap. Man even flat this was stellar. Spicy, but not over the top, great wheat taste. I am really looking forward to this getting carbed up!
- Took the lees from the Allagash clone and made a starter for my 3rd batch of Skeeter Pee.
- Brewed up the Skeeter Pee and have it aerating where I will add the starter Tuesday.
- Finished the day off by brewing an American Hefeweizen which I plan on racking into cherries in ~10 days.
Cleaned it all up and am enjoying a mug of the Apfelwein.
My lessons learned for the day:
- Candy thermometers suck, are not accurate and probably have significantly contributed to some of my previous brews poor efficiency. I used a new floating thermometer as a second reading and the candy thermo was reading more than 20 degrees F higher than the actual temp
- Because of the above issue, I used to use my copper wort chiller to swirl the wort to try and get the temp down. Today using the new thermo I didn't swirl at all and was left with good solid cold break / chub at the bottom of the pot which was easy to leave there instead of getting it all in the carboy.
Today was a good day
