StokedBrew
Well-Known Member
I'm no sympathetic fool, and seek no pity, but you know how sometimes you just have one of those weeks that just seems to get more and more f$!ked up. Here's my story of trivail, and perseverance!
Olympia, WA was hammered for over a week with unrelenting force by mother nature. First, an all-time record snow fall. Next day, an all time record ice storm. At this point the infrastructure of society was beginning to collapse, or so it seemed. Businesses were staying closed, roads impassable, trees were falling everywhere, threatening roads, homes, and power lines. So...... lose power for 6 days. That sucks, especially when you're in early fermentation of a Dunklewiezen, and your house and fermentation area dip to 40 degrees. The tropical fish tank goes caputz without heat, light, or circulation. Everything dead from a 4 year well established reef tank. Gone! I also spend endless hours shuttling my Dumerils Boa constrictor from house to house, attempting to keep her in a warm house while most of my friends and neighbors were losing power themselves.
Then my car gets broken into while I'm sleeping at a house who has a fireplace for their only source of heat, and like me, no power. The thieves steal an iPod, cables, 2 bags of clothing, my work shoes, and a checkbook. And a large pizza. So, I'm forced to go shopping in some poor conditions, and close out a bank account I had held for 14 years.
And just today I realize while my house was 40 degrees, the sanitized solution hooked up to the blow off hoses attached to the Dunkle had been sucked back into the fermenter, totally compromising the integrity of the beer! So now I've lost 10gallons of great beer.
Anyhow, the redemption tale is that just now I am making a San Diego Super Ale yeast starter so that i may brew tomorrow an all Summit IPA. Get the supply line going again and move on from what has been one helluva week.
Brew on my fellow Americans!!! (internationals too!)
Olympia, WA was hammered for over a week with unrelenting force by mother nature. First, an all-time record snow fall. Next day, an all time record ice storm. At this point the infrastructure of society was beginning to collapse, or so it seemed. Businesses were staying closed, roads impassable, trees were falling everywhere, threatening roads, homes, and power lines. So...... lose power for 6 days. That sucks, especially when you're in early fermentation of a Dunklewiezen, and your house and fermentation area dip to 40 degrees. The tropical fish tank goes caputz without heat, light, or circulation. Everything dead from a 4 year well established reef tank. Gone! I also spend endless hours shuttling my Dumerils Boa constrictor from house to house, attempting to keep her in a warm house while most of my friends and neighbors were losing power themselves.
Then my car gets broken into while I'm sleeping at a house who has a fireplace for their only source of heat, and like me, no power. The thieves steal an iPod, cables, 2 bags of clothing, my work shoes, and a checkbook. And a large pizza. So, I'm forced to go shopping in some poor conditions, and close out a bank account I had held for 14 years.
And just today I realize while my house was 40 degrees, the sanitized solution hooked up to the blow off hoses attached to the Dunkle had been sucked back into the fermenter, totally compromising the integrity of the beer! So now I've lost 10gallons of great beer.
Anyhow, the redemption tale is that just now I am making a San Diego Super Ale yeast starter so that i may brew tomorrow an all Summit IPA. Get the supply line going again and move on from what has been one helluva week.
Brew on my fellow Americans!!! (internationals too!)
