Bitter American
I do have to love a beer that can reasonably go from grain to glass in two weeks. It’s cloudy and there are a few floaties, but it is very nice for what it was meant to be.
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Brewday – Bitter American
I’m back from China and have basically no school for the rest of September. I got a chance to brew yesterday and decided to go for a nice little session beer. I’m calling it Bitter American.
I managed to get things started fairly early for me. Using my new bucket heater to get the mash water [...]
Hoppy Amber Update
I just decided to pull a quick gravity sample from the hoppy amber and it’s tasting very nice. The finishing gravity was a little higher than I expected: 1.016, leaving about 6.7% ABV. No sign so far of the nasty off flavor that’s been plaguing me for about a year…I’ll have to write more about [...]
July Brewday – Hoppy Amber
I brewed my hoppy amber today, a beer I brewed twice last year around this time and really enjoyed. The only thing I changed from last year were some of the hop additions. I’m using new bittering hops because of what I’ve got on hand, and new finishing hops to see how it changes the [...]
Dead Yeast
After two days of absolutely no signs of fermentation, I decided it was time to pitch some new yeast into the rye beer. It seems like all 4 packets of K-97 that I had were dead on arrival, so I ended up going with US-05. My main concern with doing this is that US-05 tends [...]
May Brewday – Stuck in Lodi Rye
Today I’m brewing one of my favorite beers, an American Rye that I like to call Stuck in Lodi Rye. I’m trying something a little different today, a step infusion mash with a protein rest. This beer is made with 50% rye and normally has a bit of a heavy mouthfeel. One [...]
Saison Kegging
mmmmmm, pellicle….
I kegged the Saisons yesterday. The one with the RR culture had that nice pellicle on top, but I went ahead and kegged it anyway. I’m guessing that it will just go ahead and form another one in the keg and finish doing it’s thing. Both of the fermentations finished at 1.010, a little [...]
Saison Hydrometer Readings
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 [...]
Thoughts on yesterday’s brewday
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. [...]
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