Brewing postponed for a few days

Work schedules are being shifted around a bit and I won't be brewing until Saturday or Sunday night, but it will be a fun one.  I bought three brews worth of ingredients today and am excited to get them going.  Until I brew, cheers!

Busy Holidays and Bottlings

The last week or two has been crazy in terms of my schedule with holiday shopping and other things going on.  I didn't have time to brew this week, but did slip in bottling 3 batches.  I bottled my English Barleywine(Batch 006), the American Ryzenbock(Batch 007), and the Scottish 60/-(Batch 008).  Coming in at 12.3%, 6.8%, and 2.1% respectively I should have plenty of options in the coming weeks.  I also switched away from the carbonation tablets that I was using early since I was having issues with bottles carbonating.  I went back to the tried and true method of batch priming.  Everything tasted good going in, let's see how they are in a few weeks.  I should also be able to brew again Christmas afternoon, just have to decide what.

Until next time,

Cheers.

Streaming Batch 008

Just started streaming again. Doing a Scottish 60/- today along with racking a mead and bottling a cider.  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/one-gallon-brewing  Check it out if you are bored.

Brewcast for Batch 007

This morning I am brewing up Batch 007 and you can watch.  Just follow the link http://www.ustream.tv/channel/one-gallon-brewing and send me some comments.

Yet another pre brew day post

Due to the holidays my work schedule changed and I had to work today. I have everything ready to brew just have to do it. Most likely going to be tomorrow evening.
So until I brew, cheers.

Update to Batches 004 and 005

It has only been 3 days since I put together my first mead and first real cider and there are a few changes that I thought I would publish.  Mainly that the yeast never took off in my mead.  I was right and there was just too much sugar in there for the yeast to tolerate.  So, I bought another fermenter today along with some more powerful yeast (Lavlin EC-1118 Champagne yeast) and diluted it down.  I took the gravity from about 1.185 down to 1.140 added a little more nutrient, aerated again, and placed in two fermenters to start chugging away.  Since I didn't get a picture of the "finished" product on Wednesday I took a picture of the racking cane/tube as I was transferring it before it was diluted.

I also neglected to take a picture of the cider, which is fermenting away just fine.  Thought I would show off the beautiful color.  Can't wait to try these.

 

Already have next weeks brew planned out, along with the hops and yeast already purchased.  It's going to be big and its fun.  After that I will try something a little smaller, but for now, I need big beers to warm me up as it gets colder out.

Until next post,

Cheers.

Another Pre Brew Day Post

Taking a week off from beer this week, but that doesn't mean I won't be making something fun.  Check back in on Wednesday to see what's brewing (why do I always say the bad puns and not just keep them to myself?).

Pre Brew Day Post

I thought brewing every week would help me shorten my "to-brew" list.   It just keeps getting longer.  More things I want to try now that its not going to end up as an $80-100 batch, and contests are popping up that I want to enter.  Oh well, tomorrow Black IIPA, next week hopefully a Russian Imperial Stout for a contest and then who knows, maybe a 60/-, maybe a bochet, maybe a bock.