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Wow! After eight days, the Belgian wit is still very actively fermenting. You can still see trub bopping around inside the carboys at high speed. It also still has a very creamy krausen head bubbling away. I’m really surprised.
The Two Hearted Ale is also still going well. It, too, has a large bubbly krausen head [...]
Yesterday’s brew day went well. I had the wort in glass by 2:00 p.m. It had a wonderful aroma from the 8 oz. of Centennial hops (imagine that smell while you watch the following move:).
When I got up this morning, the krausen was just about to shoot out of the blow-off tube, so the fermentation [...]
Today’s Blue Moons Belgian Wit brew day was uneventful. When I brew alone, I tend to be on my game and as a rule, the brew sessions go well. Of course, it is much more fun brewing with others, but I enjoy solitary brewing, too. I got up early to try and beat the heat, [...]
The Belgian Strong Golden is off and running! The Wyeast 1388 has got to be one of the strangest yeasts I’ve ever brewed with. The ferment took off in a little over three hours and a large krausen head formed by 7:00 p.m. last evening. It was blowing CO2 like crazy! [...]
The obligatory pre-brew photo…
The mash-in went perfectly! We hit 149 degrees on the mark.
Once we looked at just how much a bag of cane sugar is, we both decided to back off from 6 pounds of sugar to 5 pounds.
Per Jamil, we’re doing an extended mash – 80 minutes.
The OG seemed a little [...]
