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I decided that I was going to go out and get myself up to speed with a sparge setup that made sense. I wanted to use a cooler that held between 4 and 5 gallons of water, I wanted a sparge arm that had a nice spray and I wanted something that was in expensive.
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For anyone like me who uses the plastic buckets, you love to hear and smell the hoppy burps coming out when your brew is fermenting. Well I have always wanted to sit and watch it all unfold, but don’t have the time or patience, so Stonch has made it easy for me and everyone else [...]
This afternoon I brewed my Oktoberfest and took some pictures of the process. The first shot is while I am heating up the sparge water and waiting for the mashtun to get done doing what it does. I Batch Sparged on this batch because I was feeling lazy. I mashed at 158f, mashed out [...]
I brewed my first extract brew in a long time and I used Beer Smith to make the recipe. Here is what I did:
3.00 lb Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) Dry Extract 30.0 %6.00 lb Pale Liquid Extract (8.0 SRM) Extract 60.0 %1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt – 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 10.0 %1.00 oz Chinook [...]
This weekend I am going to be using my Beer Smith generated recipes to brew up two brews. The first will likely be tomorrow night and it’s going to be an Extract IPA. I decided that I was in need of a beer to have on tab while I work on the Oktoberfest (yea I [...]
So one of the many blogs that I watch, Stonch had this awesome time laps video of his fermentation process:
If you look on the left hand side of the page, you can watch the finalvideo of last week’s fermentation. That’s six days of yeast orgy condensed intothree minutes of fascinating viewing.
Great stuff from Stonch at [...]
I have to say, I was a skeptic about this whole “paying for something”, but I have to admit, I am into the first day of my 21 day free trial of Beer Smith and I have to say, they had me at hello.
After another frustrating process of concocting my next recipe on my [...]
