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Yay! I finally picked up a wort chiller… I was planning on making one, but the materials would have cost around $18 – $20, and if I screwed up the bending of the tube and crimped it, I’d be out around $16 of that cost. This one, pre-made from Cap ‘n’ Cork near my house was $36.50. Not bad, and it saves me the hassle of making one.
These devices are typically hooked up to a cold water supply, then you submerge the coil in hot wort (sugary stuff for fermenting into beer) and it chills it. Yeah, the price is a little high, but I’d been spending around US$6/batch on ice. So as long as this works out well, it should pay for itself in around six uses.
With any luck I’ll rack this current batch of extra-strong stuff to the new carboy I picked up today. Then it’ll get parked in the basement for a good month and a half to two months of bulk aging. While this is aging I’ll make up another batch of the golden ale (beer #3) that people seemed to rather like. I personally thought it was great, too…
i have about a week more in the botle before i can start enjoying #3
i think i worked out a good obereon clone using promash based on the different clone recepies I found online.
If you think it’ll be good, please post it. I’d love to try it…
Oh, doing that would require a still…
Not that I haven’t looked into them.
Stills are legal, though. So is making, selling, and owning them – it’s simply the use that is illegal. But I’d never do that…
I’d never think to mash some grains, temper it with charcoal, then boil off the alcohol and a bunch of other volatile compounds, condensing them in a copper spiral run through a bucket of icy brine.
Nope, never.
Huh…that was just in 1998?
My ex and I were outlaws! LOL…started in 1993. :P
I actually thought it was a lot earlier than this…
i really like the colors in this picture.
Thank you. :) That’s just autocolor down in my basement with the saturation turned up one notch…
The night before last I replaced all the normal incansescent bulbs with 100W full spectrum (daylight) ones. I’m thinking both of those things have combined into the really, really rich color off of the table and the wall.
Guh… They probably were just mixing up any old alcohols they could find.
As far as I’m aware, if you are actually fermenting grains/fruits and you then you distill it, it’s not possible to produce anything other than etyhl alcohol.
Actually, I don’t have a still yet, and I’ve got no plans to get one… But a good, nice beer might be good for the time being. Although I’d think that with a bit of soldering I could get a still put together. heh.