Any homebrewers from Germany present who use canister water for brewing instead of tapped water?

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E se…ma coi se non si va da nessuna parte

Dicembre uff che mese difficile. In fondo Dura SOLO fino al 6 gennaio! Da tempo alcuni ragionamenti restano li, fermi a fermentare e possono marcire oppure può nascere qualche cosa di buono o...

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This is one of the rare times I have two beers fermenting at the same time... though on the other hand, the last time I did it was last year at this time, when I was starting to brew for hosting around my son's bar mitzvah.

Though on the other hand, I had to move the buckets onto the work table down there because the workers will have to get by to load out the broken fridge, and bring in the new fridge, which is a lot of heaving of things (you'd be surprised how much buckets of fermenting beer weigh).

So imagine my surprise to see that the rye IPA started fermenting again...

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Bottled honey wine today. 25 750ml bottles, and 2 1.5 liter bottles.

Grapes from the 100 year old vine. Honey from the bees. 5 gallons from the grapes and 5.5 lbs of honey plus water to top it up and another 1.7 lbs of honey to back sweeten it.

It tastes pretty good actually, not dry and not sweet.

More details in the ALT.

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Drinking a gruit I made with homegrown mugwort and alecost. It has a nice herbal flavor that's hard to describe, alecost is pretty unique, sorta mint and sorta cinnamon but not actually either of those things.

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@ZahmbieND @Lats oh wow! I was joking, but you can!

Brooklyn BrewShop: How to Dry Spent Grain

"...t’s no secret that food waste is a big problem in our world and the beer making process is no exception. Grain is a byproduct of brewing and once used it’s called “spent grain”. Many breweries cart their spent grain off to local farms for feed so it doesn’t go to waste. However, many of us making beer at home don’t raise chickens or share a yard with Old MacDonald, meaning we tend to throw away our spent grain for lack of another use. This is why we began experimenting with ways to make the grain a more useable ingredient in our kitchens, developing over 50 recipes that utilize what would otherwise be a wasted byproduct. .."

https://brooklynbrewshop.com/blogs/themash/how-to-dry-spent-grain

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We had #homebrewing club XMAS exchange today… gave out the pumpkin spice ale, Kőlsch, and sour raspberry…. Everyone seemd to like the pumpkin spice label.

I'm drinking my home rewed Honey Tripel. I used honey from my bee hive instead of candi sugar and also fermented it with a wild yeast culture I got out of some honey from a neighbor's hive 12 years ago.

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As I mentioned in another thread, our basement fridge died mid-week without us noticing, and... my yeast for Nebbish was in there.

It doesn't seem like it was the worse for wear, though - after letting the wort chill outside in the cold until Shabbat nearly started, I got it downstairs and pitched.

And this morning, it seems like it's on its way, already starting to chew through it according to the hydrometer...

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Honestly, you just have to love technology.

I have two wifi-enabled hydrometers (iSpindel) in my two fermenters in the basement. They talk to Brewfather (my brewing management app), and keep me updated as to what's going on in those buckets in the basement.

The app nudges me when I brew while working, to remind me to go out to the garage and do something, which is useful on cold, blustery days like today (okay, I wasn't working today) when I don't want to freeze my yehubies off.

And it all just works.

So much easier, actually, than when I was brewing in a pot on the stove, with a manual hydrometer and all that...

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OOooOOoooOOoooo.

Despite feeling like there've been multiple screwups during the brewing, I hit my target OG on the nose.

It's chilling on the back porch (it's at 81F, need to get into the 60's to pitch, and it's 40F outside), so it'll be a few hours before I get there.

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Beer is happening. Also, remarkably, the attempt at a "small beer", using the same grain for another batch also is fermenting. Should be almost a nonalcoholic beer, based on how little sugar is in there. #beer #IPA #homebrewing #alcohol

Feeling brave: made a blueberry stout

https://sopuli.xyz/post/37385845

Please forgive me, I forgot to show the mandatory open fermentation kräusen shot for the Schwarzbier.

This is day five of the fermentation and the kräusen slowly die down, so I filled the airlock with water and started to raise the fermentation temperature from 10°C to 12 for a diacetyl rest. I guess I'll have to raise it to 15°C in the end but for now I can just close the fermentation and wait another week.

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And so it begins.

After tossing the basement to find my missing brewing gear (mostly my iSpindels - the hydrometers I drop in the fermenters so I can track what's going on), it's brewing day for a lovely dark mild (appropriately named Nebbish).

Water's coming up to temp outside in the cold. At least I can do minimal-chill when I'm done with the boil toay?

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Dear Homebrewers that presently (or in the past) use malt extracts with specialty grains,

I am about to try a new recipe for an Altbier.

This five-gallon recipe (from the book, Altbier, by Horst D. Dornbusch) calls for a total of 3.5 pounds (~1.6 kg) of specialty grains (Munich, Vienna, and Crystal) to steep with 5 pounds (~2.3 kg) of liquid malt extract and water.

That sounds like a sh!tload of extra grains to me. The recipe I've used in the past calls for a little over one pound (~0.5 kg).

Thoughts?

Tak! (Thanks!)

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Trying to sample and test my raspberry sour…I did rack on top of some more raspberry puree and seeing white specs on top.

Any #brewers experience such a thing dealing with sours? Is it safe?

Was planning in packing and serve at XMAS exchange this weekend.

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