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So, the #beer is in the fermentation fridge. We endend up with 21l with a gravity of 1.048 - overall a little bit below the amount and gravity we were shooting for, but within the range of what we consider a success. If we get proper fermentation this time (🤞) we should end up with something nice. It should at least be hoppy (see picture).

@trekkie3k and I will finish our beers, clean up and that will be a wrap for this #brewday.

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Grain is crushed. Water is ready. Due to limitations with our setup we're doing 20+12l instead of 15+17.

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Let's prepare for today's #brewday. Here is the grain.

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Ingredients came in the mail. Shop only had 1kg and 2,5 kg packages of malt. And since I don't want to have any leftover grain right now, we slightly adjusted the grain bill:
* 3,5 kg pale ale malt
* 1 kg Munich malt
* 0.1 kg of souring malt, since we do have quite the hard water around here.

That's 0.3 kg more malt, but our setup tends to be in the lower end of yield. And if we get more, those dry beers can take a little bit more voltage.

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I'm still a bit nervous, because the last #IPA brews we did had severe issues with fermentation and turned out bad.

Fermentation started extremely strong the first day, then came to a screeching halt.

We used the SafAle S-33 the last time, so we hope the SafAle S-04 will fare better.

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The next #brew has been decided. We'll try an IPA recipe with local aroma hops (Hüll Melon, Mandarina Bavaria). German Brewing Blog Malzknecht had interesting results: fruity and super dry.

https://malzknecht.de/rezepte/rezeptbewertung/mandarina-bavaria-huell-melon-ipa-rezept/

This might be a better fit for our "queer beer" than the last brew.

We bought the ingredients in bulk this time. Malzknecht suggested to dry hop the beer, so we'll do our first dry hop with the leftover aroma hops.

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Here's a portion of our last brew as a test batch for an anniversary #beer for our local gay bar.

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Thank God it's #Brewday!

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