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Here is where I will post stuff about beer. Home brew, craft beer, or just beer info in general. Nothing fancy, just beer talk. So drop me a comment and let me know what you think.

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Batch #5 Update

Good ole Southern heat peaked into the mid 90s this week making me worry about how my fermentation on batch #5 is going. The t-shirt wrapped fermenter and fan method that people told me about on Twitter is working like a charm. Everyday I check the temperature of my carboy and it is hovering 68-69 degrees with an ambient temperature of around 75 degrees. Thank you Twitter people for chiming in and helping me out.

The krausen hasn’t fallen yet and the blow off is still randomly blowing bubbles, so racking to the secondary is going to have to wait at least until after the weekend. As you may can tell I am very eager to drink this beer. It will be ready for me to drink by the time I head up to Kansas City for my summer vacation.

Will keep the updates coming.

Cheers

Sweet Stout (Batch #2)

Looking at the Northern Brewer catalog I stumbled upon a sweet stout kit. Having become found of some stouts I decided this would be batch number two. It is suppose to have a creamy mouth feel, nice chocolaty body. A great after dinner beer. I was able to bottle 44 of them and have drank two of them. Not to shabby if I say so myself.

Sweet Stout (Steeping Grains) Airlock bubbling like crazy! Sweet stout fermenting away