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Dunno how you use one of these yet, a guy sold it to me for $5 at his garage sale. Any more competent beer brewing folks have opinions on the usefulness of this? (I assume for mashing grain?) #homebrewing

HULLWRECKER a big metal thing for cranking stuff

Today is a good day to bottle some mead

#mead #homebrewing

Sample of mead from the carboy. Shows good clarity and clocks in at about 7% - I prefer a lighter abv these days. This batch is spiced with orange black tea. Used champagne yeast for an extra dry bite. Floral notes come through nicely from the clover honey.

Time to test my homemade beer

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I saw some little flies on my glass of beer, shooed them away. Taking a drink I notice a little fly in my beer. I fished it out and another. I see they are fruit flies so I guess the beer passes the fruity test. It is the Hefeweizen.

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Made the mistake of mentioning my beer and wine brewing experiments to a relative, reminding her of her husband's failed first attempt at beer brewing, which apparently included glass embedded in walls and the ceiling , when most of the bottles simultaneously exploded, sending boozy shrapnel all across the kitchen, which also resulted in a brand new couch ruined by the family dog when he lost all control of his bladder as a result of the explosion of bottles. Apparently her husband has not yet been entirely forgiven for the incident. He was forced to immediately sell all of his equipment the next day. #homebrewing #beer

Wild yeast Honey Tripel: used honey from my hive instead of candi sugar; fermented with wild yeast originally harvested from my neighbor's honey about 12 years ago.

Aroma of honey in the nose that follows through in the flavor along with the fruity and vanilla/clove flavor typical of this yeast, not sour, good balance of bitter and sweet, easy to drink after a day's work in the garage and garden.

#Beer #HomeBrewing #WildYeast #BeeKeeping #Honey

I'm holding a glass of light copper colored beer up, my neighbor's oak tree, house and landscape and sky/clouds can be seen in the background

Home brewing

Sometimes, the choice of beer to be brewed is not based on current trends in craft beer or on re-brewing a tried and tested favourite but on the ingredients I have lying around that really need to be used up. Fast.
Hence my wheat ale/saison, made with five different 'end-of-packet' hops, some less-than-fresh wheat malt donated by a sadly closed down brewery and some hefeweizen yeast that's been in the back of the fridge for far too long. #beer #ale #homebrew #homebrewing

The photo shows a glass of the brew, which I have named 'Not The End Of The World ' because it turned out better than expected.
My verdict:
Decent clarity, amber colour, good head, floral hop aroma, firm bready malt flavour balanced by an excellent hop complexity and followed by a long bitter finish.

Jinx here, making sure that I use my new HLT properly. Underletting into the mash tun, it leaks a bit but it's easily fixable. #brewing #homebrewing

A small tabby kitten sitting next to a stainless urn on a workbench.

The stainless urn has a pipe connecting it to another urn above it on a small platform.

#brewday has commenced with my son doing all the heavy lifting and me barking orders. We're making a New Belgium Springboard clone. Waiting for the mash water to heat up.
#homebrew #homebrewing

Hey, homebrewers that grow their own hops.

Since you, presumably, don't have your own homegrown hops analyzed for alpha acid content, do you just take a guess how much to use when you brew your first batch of beer with them and fine tune the quantity with subsequent batches?

Do you find much variation in the bittering (and flavoring) properties of your hops from year to year?

Thanks!

#hops
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3 weeks after mercilessly cutting all the hops to the ground, some of them are already 2-3 feet (~1m) up the lines and there are tons of shoots all over the place looking for something to climb (often each other).

#Hops #HomeBrewing #Gardening

A load of green. Hop shoots going gang busters on the side of my house

Just in time for summer, I have a box of assorted #homebrewing equipment for sale in #PDX

I have a couple small brew pots, a couple Northern Brewer beginner level kits, and a bunch of bottles with plastic racks for them. Plus a bunch of other stuff.

US$60 as is. Please let me know if you're interested. Priced to move. (My partner is allergic to hops, so ... )

The hoppy IPA-ish beer I brewed (nearly) 2 weeks ago seems to be done fermenting at 1.008 (temp corrected) making it 7.5% abv.

It tastes pretty good, has a nice bitterness on the higher side for my palate but not too painful. Aroma is tropical/pineapple. It definitely needs a dry hop to bring it to where I want it to be, but overall, I think it's turned out well so far. I wish it wasn't as dry as it is, but it's not wrecking the beer by any means.

#HomeBrewing #Beer #Gravity

A close up photo of a hydrometer floating in a sample of beer, showing the Specific Gravity to be 1.006. The reason I wrote 1.008 in my post is because the beer temp was higher (75F) than the calibration temp for the hydrometer (60F) if the beer had been the correct temp the hydrometer would be floating at 1.008

It looks like my young Santiam hops plant might have the early stages of some sort of disease. A quick glance through my hops book and plant disease book didn't reveal anything obvious. I plan to do some deep searching this weekend. In the meantime, does any hops grower know, off the top of their head, what this might be?

Here's what I found for the Santiam's disease response:
Downy mildew: resistant
Verticillium Wilt: tolerant to moderately susceptible
Viruses: Free of all 5 major hop viruses at the time of its release (1997).
Powdery mildew: tolerant to resistant.

#hops
#humle
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The new tap for my brewing kettle arrived today.

I curse my cheap and rickety brewing setup every time I have to mash with it or clean it. But since it is just a heated kettle for boiling down and preserving fruits and a Brew-in-a-Bag, spare parts are easy to get and the system is absolutely unmatched when it comes to maintainability and customizability. I always could repair it and I can pull off all the weird mashing schedules I want.

So here's to brewing on rickety systems 🍻

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