My Adventures in Home Brewing
Posted in Beer on Nov 25th, 2009
So, I transferred the Northern English Brown (Kelly’s Bait Gobbler) to the keg tonight… After the keg has chilled over night, I’ll hit it with about 25 – 30 psi of CO2 to force carb. A few days and it will be ready to drink! I bet my good friend, Michael, is ready for delivery. [...]
Posted in Equipment on Nov 24th, 2009
So, the Loopy Trout Brewery got the approval from the CFO to purchase a refractometer. I picked up this Auto Temperature Compensation refractometer from Austin HomeBrew Supply: This will allow me to take gravity samples at any point during the boil. If I need to measure the gravity to calculate my efficiency out of the [...]
Posted in Brewing on Nov 13th, 2009
Well, didn’t I pick a great day to brew? It was warm outside, but very humid and rainy… Would the weather stop the Loopy Trout Brewery from firing up…. heck no! This batch is for my good friend Michael. Anyway, when picking out what type of beer he wanted we tossed around a few ideas [...]