Like today.... we started out, after tea/cacao, on re-racking a beer that we brewed about 10 days ago. It turned out pretty well, already at 7.2% alcohol. It'll be a little higher after bottle aging for a few weeks. It's a close of Pliny the Elder that Rich likes.
Yesterday Crystal and I brewed another beer, I Eat Oatmeal for Breakfast in Kentucky, from Boomchugalug.com. Man that was a crazy beer, started with lots of grains:
We've taken to brewing in the greenhouse, since it's super windy and there's nothing planted in there yet. That 6 gallons of liquid worked with all that grain, a fair amount of malt, coffee, a pound and a half of chocolate and a few hops. It came out dirty and oily and smelling like heaven. That beer is now happily bubbling away on the bar, as it will for a few days before we re-rack it and move it out to the battery building to sit in the secondary for a couple weeks. We're actively trying to collect enough bottles for bottling day.
That's the beer bubbling away
Stirring in the malt
Adding in some hops
Cooling down the wort so we can put it in the brew bucket
More cooling
Racking the beer into the brew bucket, look at that dark stuff!
The coco butter will float on top, when we re-rack we have to leave it behind
There was LOTS of trub left behind when we re-racked the Rich beer. Crystal saved it and is now making a bread starter with it.
The rest of today? Worked on a motorcycle that needed some fuel system work and fixed a bum turn signal. Then I completely rewired a trailer I use for hauling stuff. Also put new LED lights on it all around. Finished with a little ride on the motorcycle and a good dinner.
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