As promised in my previous post, here are some more brewing photos. This morning I put up a 5 gallon batch of Honey Porter to ferment. And what a mess I made! Yikes! I think this is inherently a messy hobby.
This is my highest gravity beer yet, coming in at 1.064.
I did the standard drill. Steep the grains:
Perfect temperature, 165° F
Hot Break!
Boil it for 45 minutes.
Cool; put into carboy; pitch the starter.
That Erlenmeyer Flask is really cool!
Put the beer in the closet to ferment.
Here’s the mess.
I used to use a Big Hose for the blow-by. I had to use that piddly little hose this time because my old Big Hose won’t fit in this plastic carboy. And what a mess it is making. The hose came flying out of the bucket and blew beer snot all over the side of the bucket and on the floor. I had to drop a bolt onto it to keep it down.
I found that bolt lying on the ground in Virginia way back in 1974, and I picked it up and kept it for some unknown reason. It has been through three moves in two States, and it keeps showing up on the desk. I never knew why I had kept it all these years. I guess this is why. The thought of using it for this purpose came to me like a bolt out of the blue…. um…. sort of.
Here’s a closeup.
That ought to hold ‘er down for the Big Bubbles
By the way, this time I do not have a delayed fermentation. This started one hour after I pitched the yeast. Good stuff.