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🎃 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:

https://byo.com/articles/session-meads/
https://brewingmischief.com/harvest-pumpkin-spice-metheglin/

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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 😅 )

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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" 😆

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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

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

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

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" 😆

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4.5ish gallons of oatmeal stout wort at an OG of 1.059 - I'll add a bit more water to dilute it down to my target of 1.056, but that's about where I was aiming!

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Brew day yet again - today's recipe is "Breakfast in Bed", an oatmeal stout (BJCP 16B). I figure it's definitely getting to the time of year for darker beers for one, and also that I'm not trying any more lagers until my basement is cold enough to deal with temperature spikes (or I can ferment in the garage).

Here goes nothing!

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So apparently my next beer's going to be an oatmeal stout...

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Man, I'm psyched to make that Hüll Melon hopped Pilsner... :blobcat_bongo:

Only two more weeks...

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The hop harvest is in and I completely forgot to take pictures... 😅

BUT

The wizard of the plants says that if I want more hop varieties planted, I should do that before the winter, so I'll probably spend the next few days pondering which two hops I'll pick from Ariana, Callista and Hallertau Blanc. 🤔

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Squeezing the blackberry wine today.

#WineMaking #Wine #HomeBrewing

So anyway, @trekkie3k and me are pondering what to brew for the winter that will be ready to drink until Christmas 🤔 So far we are at at Weizenbock, but that might be such an obvious winter beer it's a little uncreative 😅 #homebrewing

What I can tell you, is that it's quite boozy. Calculation said 5.5 ABV. Either I'm a lightweight today or this is a conservative estimate. @trekkie3k feels fine though, so it might be just me.

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Got "Get the Golem" bottled today - two cases of an international dark lager that'll hopefully be drinkable in a week and a half or so... we'll see.

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So, that "Bavarian IPA" we brewed 21 weeks ago. For reasons™ we opened the first bottle today. And I must say, it's very different from last year, when we gave it 7 weeks. The bitterness is really front and center now and the fruity hop aromas moved into the background. Very interesting result

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The heat has hit my garden apple harvest this year. I usually get at least 10 litres of juice, but this year there was no more than 3.

I think an early lunch is in order before having a cycle with the trailer around some local foraging spots.

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Bitter Norwegian pale ale 6%

Using 1ml of hop extract at 60 minutes produced way more than the 10 IBUs I was told it would. This beer is quite bitter. I mitigated it a bit by adding calcium chloride to the finished beer, but it's still fairly bitter. I am a bit concerned for the 10 gallons of lager that got 4 ml of the exact (it's still fermenting).

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I made a data dashboard with #LookerStudio for the coffee I have in my freezer. It's the first time using Looker Studio, so I'd be grateful for any comments or feedback! The tables and charts are cross-filtering, so the info should change depending on what has been selected. The reset button reverts the report to the default view.

https://lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/2abad762-c3f9-4ee8-9346-ddfd7ef8ae61

#GoogleSheets #Coffee #SpecialtyCoffee #CoffeeNerd #HomeBrewing #FilterCoffee #PourOver #HomeBarista #HomeBrewer #CoffeeAtHome #dashboard

It's a sort of pale ale with muscato grapes, fermented with Marem berm (not a kveik, but it is a Norwegian landrace yeast) and then dry hopped with Hallertauer Blanc and Iowa grown Cascade.

The acid from the grapes combines with the citrus flavor of the hops and creates the perception of lemon (but not as sour).

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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.

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