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Cimarron29414 · 06-22-2010, 10:01 AM

Well, not much traction here, but I'll document this weekend anyway. We brewed the American Wheat this weekend. This time, I removed the boiling water from the burner and slowly poured the malt extract while stirring vigorously. This actually worked great.

We had to stop cooling the wort in the sink because the sink was sagging under the weight. We used a large plastic container with bricks in the bottom to sit the pot on, then we started with hot water and slowly added ice to cool it. We went from 220 degrees to 70 degrees in 55 minutes. We are still going to need a wort chiller, which is a coiled piece of copper pipe you put in the pot and run cold water through it. It is very effective and brings your cooling time to 15 minutes. The gear looks more and more like moonshine stuff!

We now have 15 gallons of hooch fermenting. We will bottle the Irish Red this weekend, which is another first for us. We have friends and family saving their bottles for us, as we will need hundreds for our endeavor. Many quit the bottling and go to kegging pretty quick. This is done because it's a pain in the ass to clean hundreds of bottles all the time. Also, you have wait 3 to 4 weeks for bottle conditioning. Kegging reduces that time to about 2 days! So, you get to drink your beer in about 3 weeks instead of 6 weeks.

However, bottlie allows for an unexpected pleasure in home brewing. Once you start brewing, you get to name your brewery and your product. This has been a really fun conversation. Drinking beer while making beer while naming your beer while naming your brewery. My buddy is a professional web designer, so it offers lots of opportunities for cool label design...

We think we have some good ideas for brewery names, but what about you guys? What about names for the beers?

06-22-2010, 10:01 AM	#3 (permalink)
Cimarron29414 Still Free Location: comfortably perched at the top of the bell curve!	Well, not much traction here, but I'll document this weekend anyway. We brewed the American Wheat this weekend. This time, I removed the boiling water from the burner and slowly poured the malt extract while stirring vigorously. This actually worked great. We had to stop cooling the wort in the sink because the sink was sagging under the weight. We used a large plastic container with bricks in the bottom to sit the pot on, then we started with hot water and slowly added ice to cool it. We went from 220 degrees to 70 degrees in 55 minutes. We are still going to need a wort chiller, which is a coiled piece of copper pipe you put in the pot and run cold water through it. It is very effective and brings your cooling time to 15 minutes. The gear looks more and more like moonshine stuff! We now have 15 gallons of hooch fermenting. We will bottle the Irish Red this weekend, which is another first for us. We have friends and family saving their bottles for us, as we will need hundreds for our endeavor. Many quit the bottling and go to kegging pretty quick. This is done because it's a pain in the ass to clean hundreds of bottles all the time. Also, you have wait 3 to 4 weeks for bottle conditioning. Kegging reduces that time to about 2 days! So, you get to drink your beer in about 3 weeks instead of 6 weeks. However, bottlie allows for an unexpected pleasure in home brewing. Once you start brewing, you get to name your brewery and your product. This has been a really fun conversation. Drinking beer while making beer while naming your beer while naming your brewery. My buddy is a professional web designer, so it offers lots of opportunities for cool label design... We think we have some good ideas for brewery names, but what about you guys? What about names for the beers? __________________ Gives a man a halo, does mead. "Here lies The_Jazz: Killed by an ambitious, sparkly, pink butterfly."