Brewing With Total Confidence
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Cracked the first bottle today, one month after bottling. As expected, the hazelnut extract is just way too dominant to make it "drinkable" at...
I think it will be more of a sweet crude, actually... The hazelnut extract was pretty strong at bottling, but I've read that it will mellow out...
Finally bottled on Sunday... Man, that hazelnut extract is some strong stuff. I hope it settles down after a couple of months. Oh yeah, did I...
Hell, nothing wrong with brewing in a real cave, either. Especially if you're making a lager!
Nah, that's our fireplace... What I would give for a good old Midwest basement with a floor drain and laundry sink, though.
Three weeks in, and I've put it in secondary at 1.022. :mrgreen:
Strangely enough, my hydrometer is supposedly calibrated to 60º... Ehh, it's all relative. It's beer!
Yeah, I wasn't expecting the addition of lactose to change anything. I've read some people referring to it as unfermentable while others have...
Ask and ye shall receive... I'm calling it 1.026. That puts me in the neighborhood of 6.45% ABV, so I'm a bit more happy with that. The sample...
I was going to wait a couple more days to take a reading, but the regular bubbling you saw from earlier had me curious... 1.034 at one week? My...
Still pooting after nearly a week. http://youtu.be/1GtZsM_ZzVE
So it's Friday morning, and this monster is STILL burping CO2 at a rate of a belch every 4 seconds... :twisted:
The venturi is simply two pieces of 3/8" ID siphon hose and a piece of 3/8" OD poly tubing about 6" long inserted between with three paper...
Saturday brew day: I thought I would use this styrofoam box as a fermentation chamber since the 6.5 gallon carboy in a milk crate fits perfectly...
Saturday brewday: Target OG: 1.073 ... Not bad, I'd say!
Saturday brewday: Yeast monster meets its match...
Saturday brewday: The whirring of the Venturi tube... http://youtu.be/Ef0Ls4H4ufU
Saturday brewday: The boil begins! http://youtu.be/BicONGMappc
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Saturday brew day: First wort hops...