Went down stairs to check on the fermenters this morning. Smells pretty good down here. The Stout looks like it is pretty much done. not a lot goin on any more. Just needs to sit another week or two.
The Steam is still just chuggin along. This lager yeast seems to act a bit different. Windsor or 05 would have had a big fast churning stage and then flat line for the rest. This lager yeast just stays on its steady pace.
I can say that i wasnt expecting the yeast to be all floating up on top of the krausen like this though.
The mead seems to be going right along too. Surprised with the 04 yeast on this also. Was worried that it might blow off over the top of the bucket, but so far she looks pretty tame. I dont have the lid on tight so took a little peak last night. I think the last couple times I tried mead it was the same thing. So i guess all is well.
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Finally up to date. Mead
5-13-11 mead day
Mead 3 gallons batch
6 lbs honey
1 orange
about 2 inches of ginger
½ box rasins small lunch size
1 pkt of 04 yeast
Started 3.5 gallons water to boil. Cut up the orange into chunks. fine cut up the ginger. threw this and the rasins in to water while heating. boil for 10 min then flame out and add honey to pasturize. cool with chiller and rack to fermenter.
Am expecting to secondary this.
whoops. gonna havfta do the loose lid trick. got not airlock
oh shit does this taste good right off the boil!
OG 1.064
Mead 3 gallons batch
6 lbs honey
1 orange
about 2 inches of ginger
½ box rasins small lunch size
1 pkt of 04 yeast
Started 3.5 gallons water to boil. Cut up the orange into chunks. fine cut up the ginger. threw this and the rasins in to water while heating. boil for 10 min then flame out and add honey to pasturize. cool with chiller and rack to fermenter.
Am expecting to secondary this.
whoops. gonna havfta do the loose lid trick. got not airlock
oh shit does this taste good right off the boil!
OG 1.064
5-12-11 stout, Steam
Took this week off in order to do some brewing and actuially did quite a bit.
5-10-11
BREW DAY
Fogger stout-Dry stout
6 lbs maris otter
2 lbs flaked barley
1 lbs roasted barley
1.5 oz cluster hops @ 60 min
windsor yeast
First time brewing with a program. gonna use brew pal for the IPOD. but still dont trust these things so will use my better judgement when in doubt.
its 68 in the garage. prog says 2.8 gallons at 165 of water to mash at 152. thats seems high to me, I will use 3 gallons at 162. with my preheated tun it would have over shot. But I will keep some hot water ready just in case.
I win! Mashed in with 162 water and settled out at 153 about 1 min stir to get to 152.
Mash is pretty thick.
gonna sparge with 4.5 gallons 168 prog says 5.25.
I gonna get somehwere in the rangle of 2.25 to 2.5 gallons from first running and almost all of the 4.5 gallons back so thats almost 7 gallons to boil.
seems like I’m forgetting something.
full conversion
came up a little short on the first running. 2 gallons. can only fit about 4 gallons of water for second sparge. might have to top off with the rest of the hot sparge water.
She is black as night already.
wow, only got 3 gallons on second sparge. gonna need that last 1 gallon i kept ready.
I wonder if that flaked barley soaks up more?
ok starting boil at 6.5 gallon.
One of those days where its not getting much boil off
OG 1.046
BREW DAY
Fogger stout-Dry stout
6 lbs maris otter
2 lbs flaked barley
1 lbs roasted barley
1.5 oz cluster hops @ 60 min
windsor yeast
First time brewing with a program. gonna use brew pal for the IPOD. but still dont trust these things so will use my better judgement when in doubt.
its 68 in the garage. prog says 2.8 gallons at 165 of water to mash at 152. thats seems high to me, I will use 3 gallons at 162. with my preheated tun it would have over shot. But I will keep some hot water ready just in case.
I win! Mashed in with 162 water and settled out at 153 about 1 min stir to get to 152.
Mash is pretty thick.
gonna sparge with 4.5 gallons 168 prog says 5.25.
I gonna get somehwere in the rangle of 2.25 to 2.5 gallons from first running and almost all of the 4.5 gallons back so thats almost 7 gallons to boil.
seems like I’m forgetting something.
full conversion
came up a little short on the first running. 2 gallons. can only fit about 4 gallons of water for second sparge. might have to top off with the rest of the hot sparge water.
She is black as night already.
wow, only got 3 gallons on second sparge. gonna need that last 1 gallon i kept ready.
I wonder if that flaked barley soaks up more?
ok starting boil at 6.5 gallon.
One of those days where its not getting much boil off
OG 1.046
Pretty tired of this Brewpal app. It crashes every 2 minutes. sucks. Just got the ibrewer app and so far it rocks.
5-12-11 – the Fogger Stout was really churning up yesterday, but looks like its pretty much done today.
Seems fairly odd for Windsor yeast. Doesnt look as black as i was expecting. But gotta let everything drop out first.
Got a Bonus today! a keg that I thought was StarSan was actually a ¼ keg of Old Republic Brown.
Today is also brew day again. We are going to try a new recipe this time. a California Steam beer.
Zerg Rush Steamroller-
8 ½ lbs 2 row
1 ½ lbs crystal 60L
1 oz northernbrewer @60
½ oz northernbrewer @15
½ oz northernbrewer @5
1 oz northernbrewer @ 0
s-23 yeast mash @ 150
well missed low again added a bit of boiling and the over shot to 154. but we are going to leave it.
getting 3 gallons first sparge.
Added 4 gallons of 170 water. and collected 3.5 more.
Boiled 60 and flollowed the above hops schedule.
pitched 1 pkt of safale S23 lager.
Seems fairly odd for Windsor yeast. Doesnt look as black as i was expecting. But gotta let everything drop out first.
Got a Bonus today! a keg that I thought was StarSan was actually a ¼ keg of Old Republic Brown.
Today is also brew day again. We are going to try a new recipe this time. a California Steam beer.
Zerg Rush Steamroller-
8 ½ lbs 2 row
1 ½ lbs crystal 60L
1 oz northernbrewer @60
½ oz northernbrewer @15
½ oz northernbrewer @5
1 oz northernbrewer @ 0
s-23 yeast mash @ 150
well missed low again added a bit of boiling and the over shot to 154. but we are going to leave it.
getting 3 gallons first sparge.
Added 4 gallons of 170 water. and collected 3.5 more.
Boiled 60 and flollowed the above hops schedule.
pitched 1 pkt of safale S23 lager.
Had a couple of guest brewers from the Rackers show up to brew. Tim brought his system and brewed a Dos Equis clone. Bryan, and Al showed up to help and suck beers!
