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Posted in Homebrew on Mar 22nd, 2007
Last week, I pitched a second tube of belgian ale yeast to the dubbel in anticipation of it’s bottling. It hadn’t started refermenting 24hrs after pitching, so remembering that belgian yeast is pretty temperature sensitive I added the Fermwrap to the carboy and within a few hours some light activity had started. Based on that […]
Posted in Homebrew on Mar 18th, 2007
After a long break from brewing, I brewed a batch of a Petrus Oud Bruin clone today. I brewed a little over a half batch, with a final volume of 3 gallons. It was my first all-grain brew, and it worked out perfectly, with my original gravity coming in just a hair above the […]
Tonight I opened a bottle of the Rochefort 10 clone that I brewed in December and bottled on January 24th. It’s been in the bottle 7 weeks exactly.
I had first opened a bottle about 3 weeks after bottling, and at that time there was little to no carbonation. Now, 4 weeks later, there was some […]
The “relax, have a homebrew” cliché may have some value to it.
I finally unearthed the dubbel from the primary fermenter and upon taste-testing, have determined that it is turning out fine.
Here’s a list of what I did “wrong”:
mashed in two separate batches, since my mash tun was too small
went shopping during the mashing process, only […]
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