It's #BottlingDay. The gravity of the beer hasn't changed until Friday. The #beer has been cold crashing for 36 hours. Bottles are washed and currently draining. Later we'll give them a few minutes in the convection oven at 80°C.

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Fermentation is still going, albeit slower. I think staying on the lower end of the temperature was a good tip by @brudibrau (and the recipe). Most people said S-04 takes 48h to 72h, so we decided to put in the dry hops now (after ~52h).

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Fermentation ist starting off strong, but not as rapid fire as the last time we (unsuccessfully) made IPA. I'll take it as a good sign.

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So, the #beer is in the fermentation fridge. We endend up with 21l with a gravity of 1.048 - overall a little bit below the amount and gravity we were shooting for, but within the range of what we consider a success. If we get proper fermentation this time (🤞) we should end up with something nice. It should at least be hoppy (see picture).

@trekkie3k and I will finish our beers, clean up and that will be a wrap for this #brewday.

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The iodine says the recipe is right.

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Grain is crushed. Water is ready. Due to limitations with our setup we're doing 20+12l instead of 15+17.

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Let's prepare for today's #brewday. Here is the grain.

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Ingredients came in the mail. Shop only had 1kg and 2,5 kg packages of malt. And since I don't want to have any leftover grain right now, we slightly adjusted the grain bill:
* 3,5 kg pale ale malt
* 1 kg Munich malt
* 0.1 kg of souring malt, since we do have quite the hard water around here.

That's 0.3 kg more malt, but our setup tends to be in the lower end of yield. And if we get more, those dry beers can take a little bit more voltage.

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I'm still a bit nervous, because the last #IPA brews we did had severe issues with fermentation and turned out bad.

Fermentation started extremely strong the first day, then came to a screeching halt.

We used the SafAle S-33 the last time, so we hope the SafAle S-04 will fare better.

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The next #brew has been decided. We'll try an IPA recipe with local aroma hops (Hüll Melon, Mandarina Bavaria). German Brewing Blog Malzknecht had interesting results: fruity and super dry.

https://malzknecht.de/rezepte/rezeptbewertung/mandarina-bavaria-huell-melon-ipa-rezept/

This might be a better fit for our "queer beer" than the last brew.

We bought the ingredients in bulk this time. Malzknecht suggested to dry hop the beer, so we'll do our first dry hop with the leftover aroma hops.

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Der #Hopfen scheint bald reif zur #Ernte. Aber wie genau erkenne ich den richtigen Reifegrad? Und kann man den irgendwie Lagern?

Habe ja noch nie mit eigenem Hopfen #Bier gebraut.

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Here's a portion of our last brew as a test batch for an anniversary #beer for our local gay bar.

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One strange phenomenon we have: About 60% through the mini keg, the tap only gets gas, no liquid. My guess is, the dip line is to long and is curling up out of the liquid, but I'm not sure 🤔

For now we're just pouring from the keg without the draft system. We'll try with a shorter line with an angle cut next time.

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First Test before the big show next week. Very malty – which is rather typical for a Märzen – and a slight fruitiness from the Hüll Melon. But it could use a little bit more carbonization, so we'll got up to ~1.3 bar.

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The mini kegs are filled and chilled. They need to be ready on the 12th of July – plenty of time, so I'm thinking about just letting them rest for a while 🤔

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The answer is: yes. It did take quite a while though, so this is will be a rather short cold crash.

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I'm thinking of cold crashing the beer before kegging it. We don't have any experience with it, but I'd like to see how well it clears the beer.

The plan is to fill two 10L mini kegs, and 2-3 bottles for the rest. Probably need to give the latter some more time for bottle conditioning after cold crashing, I don't know 🤔

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Did not have much time to visit the #beer since the last post, but luckily it ferments without me 😁

Primary fermentation seems to have come close to an end, no visible activity in the water lock. Sample shows 4.5 ABV. As expected below the recipe, so we probably got something closer to a normal Lager than a Märzen, but we have seen that before when maxing out the capacity of our setup.

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Boah 😮 Dieses Jahr gibt's einen tollen Bürokratieabbau für #Hobbybrauer

Also nicht, dass das eh dringend notwendig war, aber es freut mich, dass es endlich passiert ist.

https://www.zoll.de/SharedDocs/Fachmeldungen/Aktuelle-Einzelmeldungen/2024/vst_bierbrauer_1.html

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Seit Jahren lebt ein Haselnussstrauch in Symbiose mit einem #Hopfen - fragt mich nicht, wie es dazu gekommen ist. Jedenfalls musste ich im Herbst alle Sträucher radikal auf 1,5m kappen, sonst hatten die auch gerne mal 5m.

Der Hopfen suchte nun verzweifelt Halt und ich habe mal eine Rankhilfe improvisiert. Er scheint meine Hilfe anzunehmen.

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