LET'S MAKE BEER FOLKS

[Steve Killen]

I cannot, though I desperately want to, until after Tuesday. The semester
is coming to a hard spike in work for me. I encourage you to do 10 gallons
this weekend, though! And when you do, take pictures! :)

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Clinton Ebadi <clinton at unknownlamer.org>wrote:

>
> Greetings,
>
> We have had equipment capable of producing ten gallon batches of beer
> sitting around for *weeks* ... and we've not brewed beer since
> Sebastian's batch (a month this weekend!). We're also down to *two*
> weekends left for solstice beer :(
>
> NON-BREWING PLANS:
>
>  Friday - ???
>  Saturday - Rennfest!
>  Suturday - Moving 2 Y^3 of dirt into planter beds (this is a magical
>            eigth day of the week)
>  Sunday - HCoop board meeting, but not until six...
>
>
> MY BREWING PLANS:
>
>  Friday - ?? Shall Clinton dare an attempt at beer production?
>  Saturday - Nope, Rennfest
>  Sunday - (if (on-hand? 'Chamomile)
>              '10-gal-ginger-chamomile
>              '5-gal-nowruz)
>
> To do the ten gallon batch, we'll need a wee bit more vinyl hosing and a
> second aerator gadget (unless it can be placed before the tee?). I'm
> also going to split the batch between US-05 and some Belgian yeast or
> another.
>
> And a new fermenter (bpt said something about acquiring one or two).
>
> Also, realistically, we need to get a 50lbs bag of grain (we'll be done
> with it by the end of May I think... damn). I can buy it (with everyone
> giving me cash money and/or tribute for grains later, at cost), but I
> can't store it here... we have way too many weird tiny bugs (curse you
> animal-rich ecosystem in my backyard!) and I think they'd get into the
> grain.
>
> I also need to get my blackberry-hibiscus cyser racked out of the 6 gal
> carboy (that can wait a bit / I can easily do that alone this week and
> probably shall). And... bottle the 5 gallons of cyser (that also can
> wait a bit since it's stabilized and should be aging acceptably in
> bulk).
>
> Does anyone want to make mead or fruit+mead wines? I think I can locate
> five gallon buckets of honey, but those are more than 50lbs and $3ish/lb
> IIRC.
>
> MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION: Will anyone be around to assist with brewing
> Sunday? My current assumption is that I'll be lucky to have one
> assistant... but beer must be made.
>
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