So I got my hands on a 6.5G(24.6L) Anvil foundry for a few reasons. First of all I have a lot of beer around and I like to make test patches. Making them in...
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Light Ale Brew Day 12-15-23
So I decided it was time to do some split batches and decided to play around with yeast. Well my fridge died and I don’t want to use the yeast in there so I...
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UPDATE: Anchor Christmas Beer Brew day 11-12-23
Fermentation kicked off in less then 24 hours as it normally does with Imperial Yeast. After about 3 days fermentation was pretty slow and gave it till day 5 before adding in my dry...
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UPDATE: Back Yard Yeast Experiment: Brewing the beer
So the beer ended up fermenting rather quickly and actively and down to 1.010SG which give me about a 4.33% beer. Transferred it to a small 1 gallon keg and carbonated up the beer....
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Back Yard Yeast Experiment: Brewing the beer
Ok, Not that I have collected the yeast and isolated it, check that out here. From that we started with a small yeast starter and built it up for this batch, check that out...
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Back Yard Yeast Experiment: Building my yeast counts
So I harvested some yeast from my back yard, you can read about that here. After harvesting I had put together some plates per Bootleg biology. The plates were pretty easy to put together...
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Anchor Christmas Beer Brew day 11-12-23
Collected the water the night before and also milled the grains. Setup the Anvil to start in 9 hours so when I wake up the water will be at temperature of 150F(65.5C). Woke up...
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UPDATE: Dirty Bucket Brewing Session Ipa brew day 10-29-23
Here is the brew day here OK fermentation as always kick off really quickly with Imperial yeast and I ended up delaying tossing in the hops till right after heavy fermentation. Tossed in the...
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UPDATE: Todd’s not ESB brew day 10-15-23
Check out the brew day here. So this beer kicked off quick and finished rather quickly. I ended up letting it sit around a few extra days as I was very busy. Pulled a...
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Back Yard Yeast Experiment: Harvesting my house yeast Take 1….
So like the title stated, I’m trying to harvest a yeast strain that ferments wort and also that taste good. I have spent the last year reading about this. I have also been doing...
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