When good brewing goes bad...Xmas beer test run.
Well brew day is in the books...what a cluster bomb...
Planned a great recipe for my christmas beer, a ginger-molasses imperial stout.
Planning is but a small part of a project. For some reason I chose to forgo adding Munich malt, why I don't know. Then my mash temp was low by 3 degrees (not too big a deal). Then my gravity was off by 10 points, as seems the standard for any high gravity beer even though I continue to lower the projected efficieny. And finally I can no longer get the wort below 78-80 now that the water is getting to that temp. I even had a pre-chiller going with ice and salt...still no dice after over 30mins of chilling, stirring, swirling, etc.I guess I'll have to start freezing some water bottles or move to Alaska in the summer! Days like this make me feel like a rookie!
1 comment:
Throw that brew in a fridge set to freezing, it gets it down faster than anything-- By the way, the bell's clone is f-ing fantastic, a tiny bit bitterer than I would have wanted, but there's always the next batch... Got a bomber waiting for you.
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