Food News Culture and Photography. Oaked Sour Saison (Sassy Saison de Scully) Kind of a slow day at work, plus it’s a Monday so I don’t feel like working.
I don’t remember what the details I provided regarding my sour ale were so I figured I would post this since it technically is a different beer. About two months ago I brewed a Saison using the recipe here. It was a 6 gallon batch that I fermented in primary together. Well after about 7 weeks the beer finally got down to a gravity that I was looking for and I proceeded to bottle half of it. I wanted to have a base to compare my oaked sour version. After I racked the Saison into the secondary carboy I made sure to siphon a little bit of the trub. The only problem is that they work slowly, I wont know if the beer is being soured for at least 2 or 3 months, possibly longer. Notes: (8/6/11) - Racked onto wine soaked oak cubes with the dregs of Russian River Temptation and placed under the stairs. (9/31/11) - Added a little food for the Brett. . (10/5/12) - Finally took a taste test. Yeast Harvesting: A Novel Approach? Wort-O-Matic: Fermentation Can Heater.
As a father of a five year old daughter, I get to immerse myself in playtime with several toys that I would have never touched as a kid myself.
It's nice to finally be able to take some of that playtime and turn it in to a usefully homebrew application. The Easy Bake Oven for instance... If a light bulb can bake a cake, why can't it warm up my fermenters in the winter months? The Hardware For this build, you will need a digital temp control unit that allows for heating, otherwise, this build is pretty inexpensive, and works quite well. From the big Orange hardware store on 11/27 you will need the following: Plastic Lamp Assembly # 078477103180 - $1.196' power cord # 756847000023 - $1.14Pancake Box # 050169002933 - $2.19Spade Terminals (optional) # 032076075163 - $1.99Aluminum Paint Bucket # 082474966013 - $4.68Light Bulb... check your closet Total build Apprx $12.00 Putting it Together The build itself is quite easy.
Connect the terminals to the lamp assembly. How to Make a Heat Stick. How to Make A Heat Stick Use and make at your own risk.
Only use with a GFI outlet otherwise you could die! You can use a different wattage hot water heater element depending on the amperage of the circuit you are using it on. If you don’t know anything about electrical, please don’t use anything higher than what i am suggesting here. A 1500W will work on a 15A GFI circuit with no problem. The items you will need are as follows:
New Belgium Mighty Arrow Clone. BrewGeeks Homebrewing - Blog. Cooking With Beer. Simple BIAB Calculator. Dennybrew. Cheap 'n' Easy Batch Sparge Brewing Revised 4/2/08 - revisions in boldface Italics Some homebrewers aspire to someday go pro.
Some homebrewers like to use pro style systems and techniques for their homebrewing endeavors. Some homebrewers get their kicks from designing fancy automated systems for the brewing. Not me....I like the simple, hands on approach to brewing. What is sparging and how do you do it? Sparging is the rinsing of the grain bed to extract as much of the sugar from the grain as possible without extracting mouth puckering tannins from the grain husks, says John Palmer (How to Brew, John Palmer 2nd Edition 2000, 2001). Fly Sparging The usual way most brewers sparge is continuous (also called on the fly, or fly) sparging.
No Sparge Brewing As described by John Palmer in his BYO article “Skip the Sparge” (May-June 2003), a no sparge brew has the entire volume of “sparge” water added to the mash and stirred in before any runoff has taken place. Batch Sparging Building the Mashtun. German brewing and more. SeanTerrill.com. Homebrew Recipes & Resources. Mrmalty.com. BrewMoreBeer. Brew Your Own: The How-To Homebrew Beer Magazine - home page. Brew Your Own: The How-To Homebrew Beer Magazine - View by Issue - March/April 2009 - Controlling Fermentation Temperature: Techniques. Ted's Homebrew Journal: Brewing One Gallon Batches. I've brewed a good number of one gallon batches (view the list...here) in my day, and I'd like to share some things to consider while trying it for yourself.
Overall, its a great way to experiment, to get in a small batch of something simple, to brew a batch as a yeast starter, or to use the vessels for tertiary aging with added flavors. Both my Mother and Grandma drink cheap bulk Carlo Rossi wines by the 3 & 4 liter jug. Not really sure why, nor how they get through the whole thing before it gets even nastier. But, somehow it makes them happy, and I get as many jugs as I need. Celebrating the Best of American Beer.