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Her: Are you aware of how much beer you have in the basement?
Me: It's not as much as it looks like.
Her: It looks like a lot.
Me: It's 'some'.
Her: It's a lot.
Me: There's a case of empties down there, an empty case, and while there are 3 or 4 full cases, the rest are half at most.
Her: It's still taking up a lot of space.
Me: So's all the other stuff down there.
Her: Yes, but we're talking about your beers.

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Mead Recipe - Smoldering Pear & Star Anise Bochet

https://cool-as-heck.blog/mead-recipe-smoldering-pear-star-anise-bochet

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Is that just me or does that hydrometer look suspiciously like something else?

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https://www.braupartner.de/brewbrain-float-pro-digitale-wlan-gaerspindel-hydrometer

I just bought malt extract 😱 😱 😱

(Just to make yeast starters but still…)

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Just pulled the trigger on a new JaDeD chiller as the next thing I need in my garage. Yay. 😀

I mean, I'd love to have a mill or a lot of other things, but honestly, a better cold break and reducing my water consumption while brewing will help my brewing at this point more than a lot of other things.

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Mugwort and hops into the kettle.

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While trying to open a stuck shut yeast jar the freaking glass jar cracked! I didn't let that stop me so I cut a hole in the lid and rescued my precious yeast 😆

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Brew day today! I'm brewing a West Coast Pilsner with Calypso hops and a Blonde ale with fig leaves and mugwort.

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I'm drinking a glass of saison fermented with a wild culture I got from wild cherries growing near the river in Leavenworth, WA last summer. This is from a low fill at the end of the bottling line.

Yeast seems to have a little fruity funk, but also accentuates the malts a lot. This is an uncarbonated taste and there's some additional sweetness from the priming sugar so can't say anything for certain yet, but it's definitely interesting.

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Positive for the day - my brother's willing to drop off some beers for me at a competition site that doesn't accept shipping, and where drop-off doesn't fit with my schedule for being up there.

Stupid draconian NJ liquor laws.

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I find myself brewing more and more beers following the "Pilsner Malt plus homegrown hops plus whatever yeast I can get my hands on" philosophy.

I thought this was a coincidence but maybe that's because I always have to order from at least two homebrewing shops to get all my specialty malts for anything even remotely dark.

Seriously, Brouwland, where's the Weyermann Munich malt?

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Uh… ladies? You're supposed to grow UP those poles…

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Surprise brewday!

I had a couple of leftover ingredients and not much to do so I decided to test the Braumeister's maximum malt capacity and make a blond Bière de Garde.

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Remember when I fantasized about getting a house lager strain of yeast that I propagate from batch to batch?

I don't wanna jinx it but it looks like Brauhaus Grohe, the best brewery in Darmstadt will hook me up with a jar of their lager yeast.

I'm super excited about this.

Okay, it's probably just a slightly mutated run-of-the-mill W34/70 strain.

BUT IT'S MUTATED IN A LOCAL BREWERY WITH OPEN FERMENTERS!!! 😍

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Both versions of the American Wheat Beer (plain and apricot) are bottled *finally*. OMG. Now to feed the kids, and do cleanup after.

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On a more positive note... after the disaster that was my day yesterday, I'm *finally* prepping to bottle the 10 gallons of American Wheat Beer that are in the basement.

First batch of sugar water (for bottle carbonation) is cooling on the stovetop, and I'll make the second after running my youngest to a doctor's appointment.

Goal is to bottle both fermenters full of beer after my afternoon meeting, though if it runs into the evening, that's fine too. (At worst, I miss my eldest's back-to-school night, and my wife can cover that - it wouldn't be the first time.)

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@knead_i_say_more always says I should do more in the garden with her.

Should I plant a bunch of Gutedel vines and start making wine next year?

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I've decided to forego the dryhopping. It's more in-style for the beer, and... hopefully it means I can bottle Wednesday when I have more time.

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This time, the hydrometer did exactly what I expected and its readings spiked upwards instead of downwards (it's back up to 1.019 now). I did, after all, just add water and sugar to the mix.

I might give it an extra day or two before I go to dryhop.

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Apricot nectar's added to one of the fermenters. Next step is dry hop in 2-3 days.

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Bucket number 1 of the American Wheat Beer is showing 1.012 SG. Bucket number 2 is at 1.013.

I'm still amused at the slight initial difference in the readings - they're from the same 10 gallon batch - but they're settling out now.

Tomorrow I dose one up with apricot nectar. And on Monday, it's some dryhopping with Galaxy.

Bottling *should* be Thursday.

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Both beers are now in the BJCP-range (alcohol-wise) for an American Wheat Beer, so... I'm happy.

Having my wife pick me up the apricot nectar tomorrow so I can dose one of the batches and we'll cross our fingers...

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I got stuff to make another batch of braggot already, not necessarily because the braggot was that good (it was pretty decent) but because both me and my roommate are now hooked on spent grain pizza dough and we've run out of spent grains from the last batch

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