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  1. 🎃 Fall brewing project: a 1-gallon Harvest Pumpkin Session Mead.

    ~8% ABV, semi-sweet, built to drink young. Pitch it this month and it's ready by Thanksgiving.

    What goes in:
    1.75 lb wildflower honey, about 1.5 lb roasted pie pumpkin, pectic enzyme (pumpkin is a pectin factory, skip it and you're drinking haze), half a pack of 71B, and Fermaid O staggered over the first few days. OG lands around 1.062.

    The important stuff:
    Roast the pumpkin until the edges caramelize. That step is most of the pumpkin flavor right there. Raw puree tastes like squash water.

    Ferment dry at 62-65F, stabilize with metabisulfite and sorbate, then backsweeten with honey to 1.012-1.014 for semi-sweet.

    The spice goes in at packaging as a vodka tincture: cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, ginger, and a restrained pinch of clove. Clove takes over a low-ABV mead fast and never ages out.

    Drinks like: warm cinnamon and nutmeg, roasted pumpkin underneath, soft honey on the finish. Semi-sweet without going syrupy.

    Timeline: pitch mid-September, rack and stabilize late September, bottle mid-October, drinking by November, peak around the holidays.

    Technique sources:

    byo.com/articles/session-meads/
    brewingmischief.com/harvest-pu

    #mead #homebrewing #pumpkin

  2. Brewday! After ten years of homebrewing, I cannot escape my German heritage any longer, so I will embrace it and make a German Pilsner with fresh Hüll Melon hops.

    A 🧵

    (In which I might look back on ten years of homebrewing at some point so if it is too much text, feel free to skip ahead 😅 )

    #homebrewing #BeersOfMastodon

  3. The other day I used my craft beer trained sense of smell to find a fried IC in one of our devices.

    So if someone asks me in a future job interview, what I learned from my hobby that is applicable to my work, I'll answer "Homebrewing taught me olfactory troubleshooting" 😆

    #homebrewing

  4. The other day I used my craft beer trained sense of smell to find a fried IC in one of our devices.

    So if someone asks me in a future job interview, what I learned from my hobby that is applicable to my work, I'll answer "Homebrewing taught me olfactory troubleshooting" 😆

    #homebrewing

  5. The other day I used my craft beer trained sense of smell to find a fried IC in one of our devices.

    So if someone asks me in a future job interview, what I learned from my hobby that is applicable to my work, I'll answer "Homebrewing taught me olfactory troubleshooting" 😆

    #homebrewing

  6. The other day I used my craft beer trained sense of smell to find a fried IC in one of our devices.

    So if someone asks me in a future job interview, what I learned from my hobby that is applicable to my work, I'll answer "Homebrewing taught me olfactory troubleshooting" 😆

    #homebrewing

  7. The other day I used my craft beer trained sense of smell to find a fried IC in one of our devices.

    So if someone asks me in a future job interview, what I learned from my hobby that is applicable to my work, I'll answer "Homebrewing taught me olfactory troubleshooting" 😆

    #homebrewing

  8. CW: Alcohol

    Not actually an Xmas dinner disaster but rather part of yesterday's efforts in home brewing.
    As well as the carrot wine shown, we also made a parsnip wine.
    In the spirit of experimentation, various brown sugars were used in varying proportions across the batches (2× carrot, 1× parsnip) to see how we like the resulting brews and inform future batches.

    #homebrew #homebrewing #carrot #carrotwine #parsnip #parsnipwine

  9. Today's brew is ca phe sua da courtesy of this phin filter that hasn't seen the light of day for quite a while.

    Perhaps next time I should also use the manual grinder from Vietnam to complete the experience.

    #coffee #CoffeeAtHome #HomeBrewing #VietnameseCoffee #CaPheSuaDa #TootSEA