And brewing the catharina sour ("Come Fly With Me, Gatinha!") has started, now that I'm clear from meetings for a bit.
A bit more complicated of a mash schedule than I usually do, but hopefully this comes out with something my wife will actually drink.
So I'm working on this West Coast Pils recipe with Calypso hops. I'm brewing 10 gallons of this beer so it will go into 2 different kegs so I was thinking I should dry hop them differently. One with Calypso, of course, but what about the other one? I'm open to suggestions.
Here's the recipe: https://share.brewfather.app/AWn4GZxJwwiCax
Info about Calypso hops: https://hopsteiner.us/variety-data-sheets/Calypso/
Just had last year's NZ Pilsner and this year's back to back and... the new one might not be as clear as last year's, but it's oh so much better.
And last year's consistently scored upper 30's to mid 40's.
Me: We should make time to visit my folks, since it's been a while.
My wife: We have this weekend in August that's free, before school starts.
Me: <typing> Pencil it in.
Her: Okay.
Me: <still typing>
Her: What are you looking up?
Me: Am I a bad person if I'm checking on drop-off dates for a nearby homebrew competition, since they don't take shipping?
Her: Are we going to visit your folks just so you can do this?
Me: No. Never. This is just a bonus.
Got my results from Battle of the Bubbles - yet again, they're really, really, really tough scorers here in Maryland.
My Kentucky Common ("Hold Your Horses") won gold for American Beers with a 36.5 (out of 50). The rest run the gamut, down to 2 pair of bottles I suspect had bottling issues given the comments.
But that's why we enter these contests, to get good feedback and suss out problems with the product. And to hear when folks genuinely love what you shipped them.
Pellicle plentiful
I’ve had plenty of pellicle lately despite not changing anything in my routines. I even have it in some bottles with a small head with air. I’m not worried but I’m curious about the cause. I’ve done a few brews with brettanomyces that are more prone to pellicle but even several without have had a thin white surface. Could it be brett living in the air contaminating or the spring times have naturally more wild yeasts of which some are more sensitive?
So, next Saturday is #Brewday and I'm gonna try to push the output of our brew kit. The kettle has a volume of 30 liters and so far we have used recipes for 30l of total mash water, usually ending up with ~23l of post-boil wort.
But we had good results with keeping the strike water a little lower and using more sparge water, which in the end means we never really maxed out the kettle capacity. Therefore we're gonna try to hit ~28l of wort next time. #homebrewing
I'm looking for a fine scale to measure out brewing salts.
Found an online shop that advertises its fine scales as perfectly suited to measure gold, diamonds, caviar or truffles.
Measuring chemicals is just too mundane, huh? 😆
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