In searching out when to rack to secondary, I ran across the Brew Dudes and one of their posts had me cracking up:
” I think my wife is weirded out a little when she sees me in our second bathroom, bent over and sniffing the airlock.”
Glad to know I’m not a weirdo for pressing [...]
Fermentation has slowed significantly. I’m getting about 3-7 bubbles per minute. I’m wondering if I should rack to secondary. I’ve actually been reading up on that. You have those for it, those against it, follow the 1-2-3 rule, or not.My recipe didn’t come with a target Final gravity but did have the ABV listed so [...]
The kids and I Made spent grain bread today and man was it good. I followed the instructions and made one big loaf. Did I say big, I mean huge.
I checked the loaf at 30 minutes. Inserted a long tooth pick to see if anything stuck. Looked clean so I cut into it. The center [...]
Fermentation is well under way. Bubbling like mad. Pretty exciting stuff. My wife is already tired of me talking homebrew.
Woke up this morning eager to see if any signs of fermentation were happening. The lid was bulging a bit, so I pressed it slightly. A few bubbles, but nothing spectacular.
I was being a bit impatient. Did I aerate enough?
The temp. was around 67. I did something (potentially) dumb: I hooked up a heater next [...]
The day (actually night) had arrived.
I had read around on some postings that secondary fermenters should be glass, not plastic due to the headroom and the permeability of plastic. So I decided to use the 7.5 gallon bucket I got at HomeBrew USA for my primary. I’ll pick up a carboy later. Plus [...]
I had been tossing around the idea of getting into homebrew for a while. Not wholeheartedly, just kind of a “Wouldn’t it be neat someday” thing. There is a homebrew store in Norfolk called HomeBrew USA. I got some friends, my dad and my brother together for a beer school on Saturday, [...]
See how I worked the title of this blog in? I bet a lot of people ponder about their first blog post? It does seem like a profound thing. And seeing as though I’ve sat looking at this screen for about 20 minutes, I guess I’m thinking it should be too. [...]
