I am brewing again.
I went to the beer supply store this morning and procured the ingredients that I need to make a batch of Honey Porter. Then, immediately I started putting together the yeast starter. The starter needs to ferment for 24 hours before I can pitch it.
I was just about to start my mini-boil when I noticed this.
OH NO!
The tip end of my thermometer has broken off. That end was full of little lead pellets to sink the bulb end in the beer. I can’t use that in the beer with lead pellets falling out!
I had the thermometer hanging on the brew bucket under the blankets so I could see the temperature of the bucket. I looked under the blankets and found this.
Yep. There are all those little lead pellets…. and the tippy end of the glass thermometer as well.
You can’t brew without a thermometer, so I hustled back to the beer supply store and was advised to upgrade my thermometer equipment to something that is a little less breakable. I ended up with this:
That is like the biggest meat thermometer on the planet! And it is made out of stainless steel instead of glass…. so certain klutzes can’t break it.
Arrr arrr arrrrrrr. That is a Manly Thermometer fer sure!
Brew On!