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Just finished bottling 3 gallons of a Brett fermented Hoppy ale that was conditioned on 3 lbs of apricot purée and dryhoped with Australian Enigma and Galaxy. It was fermented with Escarpment Labs Brett D
Airlock sniffing is an integral part of my “quality assurance program” as well. At least that’s what I’m saying it is. Better than glue eh?Sniffed an airlock. Oh, wait…
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Also, I'm back to having no empty taps!Kegged my all-Mosaic APA. Lot of melon flavor in there.
Thats awesome! I have 6 taps all with beer right now, but two are getting dang close to kicked...and I don't have anything in the fermenters. UGHAlso, I'm back to having no empty taps!
I believe most folks put fruit in the secondary. How much I couldn't tell you but I imagine how much of the fruit taste you want and what kind of fruit you are using based on how many gallons...subtle or in your face. I've read putting fruit in the primary will scrub away alot of the taste vs secondary which will preserve much of the fruit flavor profile.Great story! Being new to all of this, do you mind if I ask you when/how much you add to the beer? In the primary or secondary? Thank you!
Well at least you will have sanitized airway passages !!! Wow !Today I watched bubbles for a while and checked on the shipping status of some parts I ordered to add a second pump to my brewing setup. I have two temperature controllers in my setup but I have been manually controlling the hot liquor tank and stirring it. The new pump will allow the controller to set the temp and keep me from over shooting my sparge temps.
Yesterday I brewed a golden ale and it seemed to turn out OK even though I had a couple troubles getting it done. Started off by accidentally snorting some camden dust while I crushed them up, man did that stuff burn. I normally smash the tablets in the bag with the end of a screw driver handle but this time I had a whole package loose in a mortar and pestle which created some fine dust to float up. I could not see the dust but sure did feel it. It took a while for my nose to stop burning but part of that could of been the tap water I used to rinse my nose out. Then when I mashed-in I started to hear something funny coming from the pump, a kind of soft ticking type noise. It wasn't until I dumped all of the grain in that it dawned on me that I forgot to connect the false bottom to the ball valve on the mash tun. Even with the pump throttled down the crushed grain did not plug it up and I had good flow or I might of caught it earlier. That was first time I have done that so I am blaming it on being under the influence of camden. Took about 20mins to scoop the grain out and clean the RIMS and pump so the temp dropped to the low 140s so it should be a pretty dry beer. Everything after that ran pretty well but with bad thing coming in threes I kept wondering what was going happen next.
say what? as an adult, i can see you are already 120% more liked then me here!After my previous (very hilarious, come on guys need more likes) post,
Not today but yesterday; made another batch of hard seltzer,
Sat in commute time traffic crawling for a couple hours
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