I pulled some hydrometer samples this weekend to see how the saison was coming along.
That’s the one fermented with Fantome yeast, and it’s at around 1.012. The picture shows it at 1.010, but the beer in the fermenter is at about 80°F so I corrected it for the temperature. Not bad for a saison after [...]
Yesterday turned out to be my 60th batch of homebrew. Both fermenters are bubbling away nicely.
Yesterday seemed to go really smooth compared to some of my more recent brewdays. I think the biggest difference was that I brought my kettle, hlt and burner up the night before and got all my mash water measured out. [...]
It looks like I’m actually brewing again, hooray! I’ve still got 15G of Belgian Pale Ale in fermenters sitting behind me that all needs to be kegged before I can use the fermenters for the saison.
11:05 – Mashed in a few minutes ago and just realized that I haven’t set a timer. 148°F, 5.2pH.
12:09 – [...]
I’ve got this Sunday set aside for brewing, but I still need to keg the beer from the Brueday we did the last weekend in March. I think Sunday’s going to be pretty busy with kegging 15G and brewing another 10, but it’ll be well worth it. I’m still not brewing my 2009 RIS [...]
