It was rather windy in the evening hours yesterday, so some hop bines needed to be trained to the coir again. That’s about it for today.
Day_Trippr, do you use ferm cap on your starter? Cuz you are way high on that starter to not be scared of the krausen pushing that foam off lol. I cant do a 2.5L starter cuz im afraid itll push off , its happened a few times already.Decanted the crashed starter and got the second spin going...
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Would like to brew Sunday but it's gonna be tight...
Cheers!
Day_Trippr, do you use ferm cap on your starter?
I did a 2.5g batch a couple of weeks ago using only HBC586; very happy with that hop. I only did flameout and dry hop, the flavor is very light citrus with a hint of pineapple and peach.I roused my dry hop charge in my West Coast IPA with C02 and brewed an American Pale Ale with the yeast I harvested from it.
The APA is 100% HBC 586 hops so I'm interested to see how that turns out.
Update on the PF lager. It was in the ferment fridge at 68 for two days, yesterday had to take it out because new beer went in. Had planned to leave it a few more days, but I'm bored this morning and decided to give it a taste. Acetaldehyde ALL gone, just a nice tasty beer left behind. Into the kegerator it went to chill, then carbonate again. Glad I gave it a shot!Have my tail between my legs the last two days. 2nd pressure fermented lager got kegged, tasted fine right before crashing; after kegging, and force carbing, can only describe the taste as yuck. Acetaldehyde out the wazoo. My impatient self probably took it off the yeast too soon. So, degassed the keg, warmed it up, threw some dry yeast in there, and letting it sit for a few days with a spunding valve on it to see if that helps; it did for another one last year that had the same issue. Today, to make myself feel better, milled grain for a simple Cascade Blonde I will brew tomorrow morning. Got the brewery set up to the point where all I have to do in the morning is crack the garage door for ventilation and turn on the burner; water already in the BK (I do BIAB). First time in a long time not starting with water from the oh-so-convenient water heater in the garage. Filled my HLT with water from the sink, wheeled it out to the garage on one of my fabulous furniture dollies, and pumped it into the BK. Why don't I just use the HLT for BIAB, you ask? Well...it's complicated. Would have to install a bent diptube, and the HLT is just so darned shiny I don't want to mess it up.
That Pilsner sounds deliciousHit a neighbor's estate sale. Talked myself out of the Fairlane 500 Fastback project, bought this instead.View attachment 821637
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Checked the kegerator: holding at 34F, so upped the CO2 to 10PSI in the hopes of a future perfect pour. I had to pull a pint of the Red Rye IPA just to make sure.
Tasted the Blackberry SauvBlanc and it's amazing, if a little undercarbed, maybe another week.
Tasted the Motueka Pilsner and when it was flat and cold it was lemon. Now with the bite of CO2, it's lime rind, and the hop bitterness come through at the end. So, so perfect. Now if only we could get some sun.
Tasted the Smoked Porter which is still in the fermenter because I don't have time to keg it yet. It's going to be really good in the fall.
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