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So the Witbier has been in the primary for a week. It is approaching its final gravity, so it looks like we’re on target. Thie wort collected did not hit the target OG, 1.052. It fell way short at 1.040, so it looks like this is going to be a Witbier Mild weighing in at [...]
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Quick post to say that I updated the brew day post for the Hazy Daze Wit by uploading some pictures so that people not familiar with homebrewing can get a clearer picture of the process. Also, the fermenter is bubbling away. The starter I made provided a big enough yeast colony to firmly take root [...]
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So it’s brew day today. This will be the first all-grain batch using the new system. This is intended to be a Belgian Witbier that I’m calling Hazy Daze Wit. I’m going to take some pics and do a more journal-oriented post so that I’m trapping some of the decisions made along the way which [...]
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I’m committed. I just put the airlock on a starter for the Hazy Daze Wit – a Belgian Witbier that I spoke about brewing about two months ago. I took 1.25 cups of DME and brought it to boil in a little over a quart of water. I added a pinch of yeast neutrient as [...]
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Anyone who knows me or regularly reads this blog knows I received my all-grain equipment two months ago, and made big plans to brew a Belgian Witbier. Two months later … where’s the f’n beer?!?! Well, we hit summer here in the high desert of Central Oregon, and I didn’t have air conditioning. The fermentation temperatures would [...]
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I met some of the members of the Central Oregon Homebrewers Organization (COHO) here in Bend, Oregon over a year ago, and have meant to go check out a meeting for some time. Well, Wednesday was about damned time. I looked up when the meeting was going to take place, and they had it posted [...]
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Sometimes the brew gods are on your side. The past 30 days has definitely been a stretch where they’ve been hooking me up in a big way. First, my birthday yielded several brewing books and the all-grain system that I’ve been wanting for a while. I brewed what I think will be a good IPA [...]
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The days are getting hotter, and I have a brand new all grain system waiting to be christened. What to brew … what to brew? I’ve got two ideas for the inaugural beer that I want to explore here. Because of the growing heat, and because I miss the hell out of the original Celis [...]
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In the I-have-a-cool-wife category, I finally have the all-grain equipment that I’ve been wanting for a while now. My birthday was May 21st, and my wife hooked me up with the cash to finally get the infusion mash system that I wrote about a few posts ago. I knew that I wanted to get a [...]
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That’s right kids … it’s time for another Brewerman brew day. To celebrate my birthday yesterday, and in preparation for the sometime-in-the-not-too-distant-future man trip (date and time TBD), I’m brewing the 5th edition of the Butterface IPA. The Butterface is an ever-changing recipe for a somewhat assertively-hopped American IPA. The original recipe used Chinook, Cascade, [...]
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