Brewer's Notes
What an ugly surprise. Yesterday, I was adding some sugar into my split batch saison, and saw this. Unintentionally I managed to contaminate the batch with Brettanomyces. I have played with Brett quite a bit in the brewery, but how it managed to sneak into this batch remains a mystery.
Brewer's Notes
Well, I promised more stuff on water, and haven't gotten around to it. Apologies. I got detoured with the Blacklands Malt, the malt analysis sheets, etc. All around - poorly planned on my part. The Brew-Magic is sitting waiting for the PLC to arrive. I got the software
Rambling
Apologies for taking so long for another post. It's been a fairly busy month for me so far, and it doesn't seem to want to let up. I have been trying to plan for a large series of brews, and perhaps have talked myself out of
Malt
Small, local malting companies are springing up all over the US. A few years ago, it seemed a small scale malting trend centered around larger nano- & micro-brewery centers, both east, west and north, but not much in the middle. It was a matter of time before one came to
Rambling
A simple tasting description: Tastes like a saison... lots of spice and phenolics. Orange and other spices are in the background. Mouthfeel is light to medium. Love the foam and the spritzy finish. This is a fairly classic saison and sessionable with just a little alcohol at 6%. I think
Process
I am on a saison kick… maybe more like a saison obsession - they taste like summ and it has been cold this winter. I thought I might do some “rambling” and exploration here about saisons and water profiles, since there seems to be some confusion relative to what is
Rambling
I finally got around to making a couple of labels. I cheated and used photos - despite my intent to break out pens and paint. Just ran out of time. I like the general designs - and the changing logo colors to match the themes.
Rambling
On the AHA forum, Denny Conn posted this link to a sobering article.It really got me thinking. I have 4-5 batchs of strong beer in my pipeline at any given time. I am the only drinker in the house - and while I give a lot of it away.
Brew-Magic
Remember somewhere I posted that I liked shiny things? I do, very much, but I also like being lazy and letting PBW and Sani-Clean do most of the work for me. I have spent a lot of afternoons at the local brewery drooling as they did a simple CIP of
Brew-Magic
Pumping can be either the most glorious or most heinous activity on a RIMS system. Lot's of things can go wrong, but it is so convenient and wonderful when it all goes right. The Brew Magic™ system is extremely well made, but the pumping system brings all of
Rambling
Forgive the construction. Decided to reorganize some of the site to make it more useful, and will try to add some drop down menus for the bits like recipes, series posts, etc. One of the cooler things is that I can now post recipes in BeerXML format. This will make
Rambling
I think it is good once and a while to be humbled... and today, well, is one that I would rather forget. Ok not good to be humbled... maybe good to tell the tale? I fill my HLT directly from the R/O filter, and somehow, got distracted while measuring