Sour Mash Beer…
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Well, there it is, beer batch #4 all fermenting away. It’s been about 20 hours since the yeast was pitched, and it’s happily fermenting. I attached my new digital thermometer to the side in order to keep an eye on things. It’s currently at 70.3ºF which is a bit hotter than the recipe calls for, but it should be all right. Maybe I’ll knock the temp in the house down a degree to try and bring it down a little.
Regardless, it’s fermenting away… Hopefully it’ll be good. Oh, this is the batch that was made with the sour mash. I overshot in adding water, so it’s a little weaker than I intended with an OG (original gravity, or density before yeast is added) of 1.040. The target was 1.045 or something like that. This means it’ll be a little lighter and slightly less alcoholic than intended, but not by much…
Oh, and if you want to see a video of the beer churning around, look here: http://www.nuxx.net/albums/brewing_beer/DSCN0458.mov
That THUNK THUNK THUNK sound in the background is the bubbles coming out of the blowoff hose and reverberating through the bathtub. Each bubble is about half the size of a ping pong ball, so you see that making beer really kicks out a lot of CO2.
That picture is bringing back happy beer memories. :D I hope to join you on a batch soon. Things should even out in my schedule soon.
Hehe, that’d be neat. I definitely want to have some ready for porch-drinking come summer time.
Yay beer! Dare I ask how you clean yourself now that the beer is taking a bath? :P
Hehehe, in the shower off of my bedroom. :P
Yes, for some reason there are more bathrooms in this place than there are residents.
fizzy beeeeer! yay! :D
I am personally excited to try your cider attempts when you get around to it.
Hehehehe…. Actually, I plan on doing a cider whenever cider is available again. I don’t think it should be too hard, although the cost of ~5 gallons of cider might be a bit high. I’m thinking a spiced alcoholic cider?
mmmm. looks good. here’s hoping you intend to share…. :)
Thank you. :) And with regards to the sharing… Most definitely. This one is a good month or so out still. :)
What’s insane is it seems like there is a half ass smiley face on the jug,..hehe
Heh. That’s the edge of the bathtub and the toilet… If you look close, you can kinda see the camera, tripod, and me.
I like the “half ass smiley face” explanation better than yours…