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Wow! I go away from the website for a few months, and the spambots have inundated my comments sections. Don’t bother looking, because I have deleted all 200 comments.
Really, does this look like the type of website to literally pimp “Nude hairy grannies”, or “Ebony Lesbian Festival”? It’s a beer website, ferchrissakes. I literally threw up in my mouth a little when I read through the comments section to weed out the spam. I’m not offended, just the thoughts of hairy granny pics out on the web is… ugh.
And spammers, if you are going to attempt to post comments to a message board, at least use full coherent sentences. You make yourselves look dumber than the idiots that fall for your malicious websites and phishing scams.
OK, I’m better now. Mostly.
As I promised in my last post, I have some back-filling of brewdays and recipes and beer-y hijinx to do. It took some research on my computer to figure out where I needed to begin, but I narrowed it down to a Brown ale I brewed on Sept 26th. This was my second attempt at this particular beer, which was to be presented to Fright Rags, a local horror-themed apparel company. The first batch was one of the many batches I lost to inadvertent infections. I had by this point purged 5/6 of the “bad” batches, changed out all of my racking gear, and performed a shock-and-awe cleaning campaign on my fermenters and bottling bucket. I figured I was in the clear to brew again.
With a few changes to the first batch, this was the recipe for 9/26/10 (5 gallon batch size)
- 8lbs Maris Otter
- 1lb Vienna
- 1lb British Mild
- 3/4lb Cara-Amber
- 1/4lb Chocolate Malt
- 1/8lb Dark Crystal (~130*L)
We mashed in at 154 for an hour or so (this was also a hop picking day).
After drying, the Nugget harvest filled the 7.5 gallon kettle and then some
Hop harvest 2010: 26.55oz Willamette on left, 33.35oz Nugget on the right. Next year we add Cascade and Fuggles to the mix
After the hop bines had been thoroughly denuded of their wonderful blossoms, we sparged and started on our hop schedule. All hops used were homegrown:
- 1oz Willamette and 3/4oz Nugget added during the sparge
- 1/2oz Nugget added at start of boil (60 minutes)
- 1oz each, Nugget and Willamette added at 5 minutes
- Yeast used was WYeast 1028 in a 1/4 gallon starter
The brewday itself went fairly well. It was a nice and sunny adventure in brewing. Unfortunately, I realized that later on that there was still some brew funk lurking in my equipment, and this batch ended up as a future marinade for our steaks. I still have it, in the hopes that it turns into something drinkable, but so far, experiments of that nature have not panned out well. Only time will tell, though.
It really is too bad, since the beer looked really nice in the kettle:
Brown Ale number 5 is coming to a close. You looked so pretty, yet ended up crazy in the end.
We would get our retribution later, though. Stay tuned…
