After a 2 year break from brewing I decided to take a stab at a hybrid based on the Avery White Rascal recipe while giving a nod to my wife’s favorites Namaste and Guinness Irish Wheat. I had some Lemongrass stalks I saved from our garden this summer and a pepper mill from her Aunt Barbara, a...
Well it's now Sunday evening, but it was a busy day. Started off running my wife to the pharmacy for a new script to help manage her tachycardia that started right after Christmas. She went shopping for our youngest birthday with my sister-in-law while my oldest daughter and I kept the house...
Thanks. I only thought about aeration as a possible cause of stalled fermentation and would place it in the cold cellar at 52 but had concerns about the yeast being old and/or fermentation stalled.
Thanks for the advice about too many gravity readings. I wanted and got confirmation it's still...
I brewed a small partial mash and extract lager 2.75 gallons this past Saturday and pitched nearly an entire packet of expired S-23 I had added to sanitized cup containing about 3 oz of DME boiled in a cup of water at the start of my mash.
Anyway, I figured I may have over pitched a bit but...
Woohoo!! I have a bubbler going in the basement this morning! With yesterday's New Moon in Capricorn during a Mercury retrograde and the dreary weather outside I thought it made a good day to restart a hobby my beloved wife got me into.
I haven't brewed in almost two years, but an afternoon...