The 20 second O2 beer resulted in estery beer. Not as much as normal though. If it were cold and carbonated, it would be tolerable. Today, I will be using an insulated fermentation bag. It got it from MoreBeer. This thing will house a fermenter and some ice jugs. This should provide a cooler ambient temperature without violent temperature swings. Using this, we will see if the painful esters will be gone from the beer. Or if there is no change.
8lbs 2row
0.5lbs C15
1oz Hallertau Mittelfruh 2.7% AA
WLP001 x2 with starter. 12-11-14 Lot 1009275 and 12-18-14 Lot 1009725
Crystal Gyser Spring water
Whirlfloc
Servomyces
11:37 - Boiling O2 stone now.
12:21 - Mashed in at 152. We started a little high. 156. It's better to fix too high then too low. So it took 5 minutes or so to get it down.
The guys at MoreBeer are screwing with me. I asked for 8lbs of unmilled 2row and 0.5lb of Crystal 15 unmilled. They sent 10lbs of 2 row, milled. And 1lb of Crystal 15, milled. I too lazy to measure it out so I just eye balled it. And now I need to throw away grain. I hate that. I've tried to just put the left over in the fridge but I don't brew enough. It just goes bad. Speaking of which I need to throw out some old grain and hops in the fridge.
The mill is filthy. It needs to get cleaned.
12:54 - Cleaned a keg. I think I'll keg the beer that's in the fermenter.
1:28 - Ok. Kegged the beer. Cleaned some of the kegging gear. We are in the first runnings. So far, the brew day seems to be going well.
1:46 - Pre-boil gravity is 1.030. A little less than I thought we would get. We should get about 1.040. Everything going ok so far.
4:00 - Fermenter is in the new bag. I've hooked up the nerd box to track the temps.
Interesting things that have happened include:
Ellie made me chicken. It was good. I ate it during cooling.
I made Ellie babysit the beer while I went neddlessly to the pharmacy.
When I put in the chiller, it kills the boil. So I up the gas until we get a boil back. I had my headphones in and got busy. It boiled over. Sugary goo all over the floor now.
It's time to clean up.
4:54 - All done. The gravity came in at 1.040. So a little low. That's ok. We can just drink more of it at one time. Will report back on how the ferment goes. This has been my most productive brew day ever. Not only did I brew a batch of beer but I also cleaned a keg and kegged a brew.
I'm sober. I think I need to fix that. Mrs. Avery isn't. She drank the last batch like a champ with her dad. She made a shandy with lime.
