What are you brewing?
How did your special beers for Easter turned up? Do you have something ready to drink or are you waiting for it to be ready?
Let’s share what is fermenting, some good tasting #beer you made, something that didn’t end up how you liked, happy little accidents that ended up well… Just everything homebrewing, #wine making, #cider , #mead …
After last month post when I tried to post it through Mastodon, I would like to remind everyone here to leave the @homebrewing in the replie so everyone can see it on Lemmy.
I have a beet root sherry going slowly but steadily. This time I’m maxing it out in sugar/alcohol, aiming for 18% plus plenty of unfermented sugar. And I’m going to get a little oak cask to let it oxidize slowly through the pores just to see what happens.
And it is soon time to start some Finnish low alcohol Sima.
Great link on Sima! We’ll be making about two buckets, 20 litres :)
@homebrewing this months photo is from tour of local brewery I was on last week. It is the bottom of the primary fermentation tanks - cylindrical-conical tanks. They are 8m in diameter and 26m high. If I recall correctly they can take about 4 batches which is what they brew per day (in 24 hours, in season they brew 24/7 5days per week).
From outside they look like this:
So… 24/5?
Nothing. No time or energy right now. This season of life is poopy. I gave up all my hobbies. This one I miss the most.
That’s a bummer. Hopefully you will be able to pick some hobbies sooner than later even if it isn’t homebrewing. I just think that we are wired to do some things just for fun however small they are otherwise we get bit insane.
Haha same. I just hope all my yeast survives until my poopy one reaches daycare and we can start to reclaim some free time again.
I hope your poopy season has an end in sight…
Gearing up to do couple runs of tomato paste wash for maceration, need to second distill some fast teddya and set to mature with oak. His Lordship is currently soaking coconut in burbon to add to a porter
Tomato paste wash? Did you just happen to have some sort of windfall of loads of tomato paste that you had to use up quickly? Why would you do this?
Ohhhhh my friend you’re about to get a shiny new thing to play with!
TPW actually gives you a wonderfully neutral self clearing product that makes a great vodka base. And it’s cheqp as hell to make
Interesting. I personally have no interest in making vodka. It sounds more like the reason this turns out well vs turbo wash is due to the lower ABV/not stressing the yeast out as much, vs the tomato paste really doing a lot.
Yes, this looks exactly like my brewing setup. Minus the stainless steel stuff. And the organization. And light.
