{"id":7117,"date":"2005-03-23T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/03\/23\/sour-mash-beer\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:04","slug":"sour-mash-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/03\/23\/sour-mash-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sour Mash Beer…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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 70.3\u00baF 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.<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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<\/sub>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click for lots of detail… 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 70.3\u00baF which is a bit hotter\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14512,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions\/14512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}