Homebrewing

• Quarter to 80
• Mair 80 Bobbin
• Note: Brew day! Watching the boil and waiting for hop addition number 2 and I’ve already drafted the blog post.. WHAAAT? So obviously, all is going well thus far. It’s my first unique recipe, so fingers crossed!
• Alice Porteresque
• 80 Chillin
• Note: Learning first hand what it is like to be a fermentation vessel this weekend.. too much live yeast still in the small sample of newest beer that has been fermenting and conditioning for four weeks.
• Note: My left arm is deserting me.. Trying to slide beer and gas lines in to john guest fittings is not as easy as the videos suggest.. pushing with all my might, albeit at very awkward angles and the pipes in at least 50% of the connections leak CO2 with the slightest of movement.
• Note: Swapped out the gas regulator for my kegerator this evening.. hopefully that’ll be the end of the CO2 leaks..
• Note: My next brew day is Sunday and for the first time I’ll be kegging a beer on the same day as making the next one! Going to try and focus on reducing potential oxygen uptake during kegging.
• End of the Beginning
• Export From 2020
• Note: Compared to the last four brews of reasonably high alcohol imperial stouts this brew is going much, much faster.. already at the boil stage about 2.5 hours earlier than on my last (and best) brew day.
• End of the Imperial March
• Note: I have one 500 word assignment section to write this morning before reviewing the whole thing and trying to crowbar some figures and\or tables in wherever I can.. too me in this format they are somewhat unnecessary but it seems like the course organiser might be expecting them so will do what I can.
• Note: For my first recipe based homebrew I’m going for a Scottish Export type beer.. ordering each of the ingredients is far more fun than ordering a premade mystery box!
• Photo: After 17 days in the fermenter (much longer than I normally leave it), I’ve transferred my latest imperial stout into a keg. In order to try and nail whether my ‘too much yeast in sample’ theory on preciously misses final gravity targets was correct, I took samples at start, ~25%, ~50% and ~75% of the way through the transfer for refractometer measures and an additional hydrometer sample at ~75%.
• Note: I never really got into podcasts (pre-this morning I was subscribed to one) and I’ve never listened to an audiobook.. but I am thinking that in lieu of lectures for my upcoming pgdip course, I should try to see if either or both would be a good fit to enhance my studies.
• Note: Potentially still another day or two of fermenting for my latest brew but I am again very far from hitting the final gravity targets.. Having a read into it, and a few sites suggest that I need more wort aeration when transferring the cooled wort into the fermenter.
• Note: I just did my first yeast dump on current brew and pretty much no dead yeast so far.. sounds pretty active! Hopefully this is a sign of good progess.. gravity dropped from 1.
• Not Black & White
• Of Sugar Munchers and Chilly Gas
• Chinook What I Made
• Crying Tears of Hazy Gold
• And So It Begins
• Brewshido - A beer journal - Intro