Yeast pitched. No drama brew day
What are you doing with homebrew today?
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Again, did I miss a memo? I thought now was ALWAYS a good time to brew some beer. Any beer. I don't care about seasons, mostly because it's a different season somewhere on the planet. "It's 5 o'clock somewhere" -- J. Buffett
OK
some people like to brew seasonally I guess
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Are you sure?
As I am on GMT +2? Currently same tiime as the Netherlands and Germany. 1 hour difference with the UK
Sitting at my wood fire, getting slightly pickled...
Hoping I can make +3 or +4 hours from now
Got a link or somethin? Can it be done with just a browser, or do I need to download something else? Don't have a camera on this machine, so it'll be mostly just watching/listening anyway.
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I think (hope) this has the link
https://www.brewersfriend.com/forum/threads/2022-current-zoom-happy-hour-details.15358/
https://www.brewersfriend.com/forum/threads/2022-current-zoom-happy-hour-details.15358/
Cool beans. Got the crippleware version for the moment, and look forward to the 40 minutes it'll let me go. Keeping the link handy.....
Enjoyed the meeting. Was good to listen and learn from folks that have been doing this a while,and put faces to some of the names. Don't have a camera on my desktop PC, so maybe next time I give all of ya a good scare by using the laptop.
It was nice chatting with you Tim! Hope to see (or hear) you next time
Ruby English Ale is bubbling away. Problem is fermenter was at 77 degrees when I got up. I ferment this yeast at 72 normally. Electric was out for 5-6 hours so house went up a few degrees so that didn’t help. Verdant is pretty violent
Started a cider.
Well the somewhat suspect smack packs of 2112 swelled up, just mashed in an amber lager.
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Very interesting. I had written them off! How long did they take to swell?
Hmmm, don't think I've ever had much cider, certainly not a memorable one. Might have to make a small batch. Does the Wally World stuff (which claims to be 100% juice) work well? Just juice and yeast?
We kept bees when I was a kid, and I learned a lot about honey (as well as the fact I'm mildly allergic to honey bee sting)Wally World's 'pure' honey is usually about 70% corn syrup with a bit of honey for flavoring, made to look like nice elderberry honey (VERY clear). Don't have much elderberry in this area, but TONS of clover, which makes a very dark honey. Pure honey won't go to sugar as it would be pretty useless for bees to store it like that. I usually try to get honey from local bee keepers. I'm thinking something along the lines of a Honey Apple cider. That sounds like it would make ya slap yer tongue for having too much fun. Anybody try doing it with different yeast? What was the target flavors (besides apple which is a good flavor). Somethin' tells me I'd probably make some really bad vinegar, much like my first attempt at mead. That did NOT go well.
Time to replace my 1 gallon carboy that I knocked the bottom out of by pouring boiling wort in it. Silly me didn't check to see if it was tempered first.
One swelled up tight in 2 days(8/15 expo date) the other two APPEAR to have swelled a little(7/2 expo). either way, I'll just pitch all 3 and see what happens.
Check out Zambezi 's thread might get some helpful insight
https://www.brewersfriend.com/forum/threads/primitive-cider-again.14158/
Icing down my keg of Festbier. I’ll transfer it in a few days to a serving keg which will sit in the back of the fridge until mid September
Duly noted. I've heard rumors that it's a really bad idea to run cider in the same fermenter that one runs beer in, particularly if plastic? Anyone else hear of this and if so, why?
