APA again

Took the Cascade dry hopped APA to the company softball game, not much left! So am brewing another batch, will dry hop both kegs with Cascade this time. Other than that, its the same recipe as before. Will be fermenting in the external chilled Brewhemoth. Can't wait to see how it works. Have my latest 10 gallon batch of Rye Twist on dry hop. One ounce each of Chinook, Centenial, and Cascade, sitting at 38 degrees thanks to the internal/external chiller. Its also sitting under 10 psi of CO2 thanks to the Carbinator attachment on the Brewhemoth. In a week, it'll be ready to keg AND serve, properly carbed!
And here is how it looks.

The Lager Brewhemoth

Fired up the external chiller side tonight. While it was only air in the Brehemoth, the temperature went from 75 to 60 in 5 minutes. I was impressed!

Tis Cider Season!!!

Putting together a cider today. 2 gallons of Louisburg, three gallons of Musselman's. Boost the av a bit with a pound of light brown sugar. Will be bringing back cider from Iowa in two weeks to do another batch. These are getting a dose of Wyeast Cider yeast.

A Brewhemoth made to Lager

Lagering has always been tough. Keeping the beer at 48 degrees thru fermentation, then letting it warm up to a diactyl rest, then slowly ramping down as cold as possible to lager. The internal chiller on the Brewhemoth works great to 20 degrees below ambient, then what? This model should lower ambient 20-30 degrees! 100 foot coil of tubing surrounding the Brewhemoth, well insulated with 25 degree liquid flowing thru it. Just what the doctor ordered!

Next weekend it should be filled with an American Lager. We'll see how it does!

Saturday's Brew

15 gallons of Cheswick Bitter brewed,
21 pounds of Maris Otter
1 pound 135 Crystal
1.5 ounces of Target at 60
3/4 ounce each of Northdown and Challenger at 15
Will dry hop in the secondary and in keg/casks with East Kent Golding
Ended up using S-04, went to Wormsway to get Wyeast 1968, they were out, substituted 1028, made a half gallon starter, and nothing happened. A little foam today. A total waste, need to plan my brew days better to avoid this.

The internal works of my beer engine. This might be added to the Brewhemoth line. It pours almost a half pint at each pull. Cannot wait till I brew a batch of bitter to use this on. Will be putting together a nice box, so I can mount it on my kegerator.

Rye Twist

13 pounds of Maris Otter
2 pounds of Vienna
1.5 pounds rye malt
1.5 pounds of wheat malt
2 pounds of Carastan
mashed at 154.
Hop schedule
1 oz Chinook at 60
1/2 oz each Cascade and Centennial at 30
1/2 oz each Cascade Centennial at 10
1/2 oz each of Cascade Centennial Chinook at flameout
Supermoss at 10 minutes
Fermenting at 68 degrees

A Miracle!

Brewing tomorrow, getting ready to dump the Scottish 60/, after all fermentation temps as high as 98! But tasted it first, other than being a little thin, it taste pretty darn good! Go figure! Instead of dumping, I'm kegging!

Chiller Troubles

The homemade glycol chiller worked great, but was very noisy and blew hot air out thru the condenser. By popular demand from the family it had to go. A free freezer happened by my way, it works, but seems my bigger pump generated too much heat, that and what the beer added, was too much for the bucket of water. Beer at 98 degrees. Got rid of the bucket, increased the amount of water in the freezer, still no go. I wanted to stress the yeast for a little extra esters in this brew, but this is over the top. Its running now with a smaller pump, keeping my fingers crossed. My Scottish 60/ may not be the best ale I ever made.

Beer Engine

Next design project is to be a beer engine. Need a stainless steel pump, that can deliver a 1/4 pint per pull. That takes a cylinder, will have to make a piston.....where to buy wipers.......

Scottish Mild

10 pounds of Maris Otter
6 ounces roasted barley
Makes ten gallons of Scottish 60/ ale, fermenting at the high end of Scottish Ale yeast gives a hint of esters, net result a very tasty mild ale!
Will harvest the yeast for grozet and an American Ale.

Vienna Lager Lagering

Made a Vienna Lager two weeks past. 100% Vienna malt and 100% Hallertau Mittelfrau hops.Its now in the lagering stage. Going in was tasty, should be really good after 4 weeks lagering.