The 2nd of May is a bank holiday for me. What should I do with it?
Underwhelmed feedback from the non-craft beer crowd at the family get together.
Is it too much to ask for a recipe that is so tasty and addictive people of usual basic macro brewery liking turn into savage animals just to empty my heavy keg?
On the plus side the one tap test for DIY jockey box worked.
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The California Gewürztraminer has been bottled on Day 36! 22 liters total counting 2.5 liters of cloudy lees I'll let clear up again.
#WineMaking #homebrewing #wine #Gewurztraminer #DIY #April12 #WhiteWine
Making a jockey box for my #homebrewing
Thinking of fun beer taps to #3dprint
I like the idea of a chimp…or a punk….
Or a punk chimp:
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/art/punk-monkey-bust-headphone
@uxmark I started #homebrewing #kombucha Takes a while, but much better than the store bought stuff.
Salts are weighed, water's in the kettle, and brewing's begun!
Today's brew: A double IPA, just because I can. Testing out a few new brewing toys while I have some time around work.
It's a nice thing when I get an "extra" four hours because of my schedule to brew during the work day.
Today I bottled my Amber Ale and introduced a new bottling routine that should reduce oxidation risks drastically.
Step 1: Clean a second fermentation bucket (the "bottling bucket") and fill it with your priming sugar solution. Close the lid and put an airlock on it.
And the Results. Are. In!
21B5 (Rye IPA) - 36
X5 (NZ Pilsner) - 34
26D (Belgian Dark Strong Ale) - 31
For comparison:
The Rye IPA got a 27 at NHC, and 30 at DC Cherry Blossom.
The NZ Pilsner got a 33 at NHC and 27 at DC Cherry Blossom.
Just waiting on the scoresheets to see comments and the individual scores. I'd hoped the Belgian Dark Strong would do better, but there'll be other competitions.
Hops already a foot high, zoom zoom zoom growing ( hopefully)
(Past) time to dump this sour stout/old ale blend. It no longer tastes like a mildewy basement but it's still not good tasting. 8 years is too long to mess with stuff hoping it might magically become delicious.
So one positive for today - the Master Homebrewer Program March newsletter is out, and my name's on the Novice tier.
One badge down, and so many more to go... and some of my beers at another competition this weekend.
Oh, and a brew day Tuesday. Something to distract me from my other problems...
Got my results from first-round NHC judging. No beers going on to the final round (I am not surprised - it's all good). And nothing too horrible - a 27 for my rye IPA, 33 for the NZ pilsner, and 31.5 for my schwartzbier.
All in all, it's not bad in my book.
What should I brew next?
Der er ikke et ordsprog der hedder 'Man skal ikke købe æblepresseudstyr når det er æblesæson' - men der burde der være!
En af mine ciderbuddies faldt over den her på Facebook marketplace til 350 kr, så nu skal den bare slibes ned og males på ny og så er der en fuldt funktionsdygtig stor tung ungarsk æblepresse på matriklen.
Yesterday, while half the city was losing power and limbs off their trees…I decided to brew Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Clone (did not have ingredients for cream ale as suggested by poll)
My RAPT pill must be broken or need calibration (or I’m impatient) reading still at 1.025 after 18 hrs… regular hydrometer showing about 1.052
This is a new strain of yeast I’ve never tried from a Canadian supplier
My efficiency and volume was garbage though and I needed to add about 212g of DME
#homebrewing help!!
Brew day tomorrow for a family easter get together. Crowd is not a craft brew crowd…what to brew?
I have taken gravity readings of my Amber Ale yesterday and today and I have tried a sip each time to see how that German terroir would change the character of the Cascade hops.
I'm getting that typical Cascade-y bitterness with pine and grapefruit notes but mixed with a lot of Mango. It's quite lovely. I hope that all makes it through to the final beer.
That terrible "the fermentation isn't complete yet" grainyness has to go though 
Finally got taxes dropped off today. Looks like we'll owe significantly less this year?
Missed reporting the removal of the DNEIPA because of unrelated stress. Transfer / keg / bottle / condition all successful...final product is more amber than I'd like, probably because of some older grain...hazy light amber is just ugly. But it smells so damn good, and the balance appears spot-on. I want it in my body but it's still way too green. It'll probably take a while to get rid of acetaldehyde as I'm pushing the yeast's alcohol tolerance.
I'm otherwise my current usual (stressed / antisocial / miserable but surviving).
Leaving for San Diego for a scouting trip in less than a week. Hoping to find *something* in the context of that excursion that'll bring me a bit of genuine happiness.
