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Well, more progress on the Wheat Berry Ale<\/a> that I’ve been working on. When I got home after work today it seemed that the fermentation had progressed to the point where I could add the berries. This, however, isn’t quite as simple as dumping them in, because they will ferment more, causing more krausen, and I need to get the beer off of the trub (oil \/ yeast \/ hops gunk left in the carboy). So, first I had to first rack (transfer) the beer to a 5 gallon carboy<\/a> and set it aside<\/a>. Then I washed and sanitized the inside of the 6.5 gallon carboy, which due to the incredible amounts of gunk inside<\/a> was no simple task.<\/p>\n Then it was time to take the thawed berries<\/a> (which had been previously frozen to -15\u00b0F<\/a> and were thusly frozen quite solid<\/a>) and add them to the carboy<\/a>. After getting getting the berries into the carboy<\/a> I then had to simply rack the beer back on to the berries<\/a> and give it a gentle stir.<\/p>\n After putting the carboy to ferment one could see berry chunks floating in the beer along with a settling layer of a whiteish fluff<\/a>. This became even more apparent after it sat for a few minutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n (And that has been another link-er-iffic post, this time made with context-appropriate links instead of bullet points. Oh, and I forgot that I snapped this, and I guess it came out decent: a picture of me from when I was grinding metal to make the<\/a> power supply bracket<\/a> for the forthcoming rez.nuxx.net<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Click for more: Page 1 · Page 2 Well, more progress on the Wheat Berry Ale that I’ve been working on. When I got home after work today it seemed that the fermentation had progressed to the point where I could add the berries. This, however, isn’t quite as simple as dumping them in, because\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500","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=7500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14129,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500\/revisions\/14129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}