This is the part two of my session IPA this round with a different hop schedule. I like to try different hop combinations to see what works best. The night before I collected the...
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Session IPA 2.5 Gallon Brew day 1-21-2024
I really digging this idea of brewing these 2.5 gallon batches and just moving them right into can to can condition all these smaller batches to have more beer in cans but yet also...
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UPDATE: Light Ale Brew Day 12-15-23
Check out the brew day here I got to say, after pitching the yeast a few hours later I had activity in both fermenters but the bread yeast batch definitely had more activity. The...
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New Equipment: Anvil Foundry 6.5G
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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