It’s one of those things… brewers, like many hobbyists have a tendency to at least seem like they’re doing less during the long hot days of Summer. I’ve been doing less too, but for a lot longer than the hot months. Between rather unexpectedly purchasing a house, being absolutely slammed with the real life job, and working on Baltibrew stuff, I’ve slacked on SYD. To my shame. My Twitter account spent about six months broken, and I just plain didn’t have time to devote to keeping things very well updated, much less upgraded as I promised back around Christmas.
That said, with things calming down at work, Baltibrew running at least a little bit more smoothly, and the house… well the house is probably never going stop being interesting, I’m back to thinking more about beer, back to working on upgrades, and back to brewing more.
I’ve finally got my own fermentation space, and I spent Saturday and Sunday working on upgrading my rig from batch sparge only to a fly sparging rig with a copper manifold in one of my mash tuns. The result was a Roggenbier which will be my first solo entry into a competition. The tun worked well, and the sparge seemed to go off almost too well, perhaps maybe even a little bit fast. All of this got me back to thinking about the mash series I’ve been working on, and the importance of detailing mash efficiency, etc. (more…)
Tomorrow opens the inaugural