A random Hello!

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology thanks for stopping by! I have always wanted to visit Hong Kong, a fascinating place! I hope you found what you were looking for on my blog, if not, and you want to fly me over to Hong Kong,  I'll be happy to meet with you!

Some International Home Brewing

Looking at all the countries that I get readers from can kinda be daunting when you think about where I am. If you read this and "your not from around here", I'm in Springfield Missouri. Basically, if you threw a dart at the middle of a map of the United States, you'd get pretty close. And thinking that I now have readers in Canada, UK, Germany, Poland, Russia, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, and Singapore, it feels amazing. Let me say Hello, and thank you all for stopping by! I would love to here brewing stories or just talk beer with all of you! Leave me a message, send me an email, you can even snail mail me! I have a big world map and would love to put up a pin where your at! Tell me your local brewing laws, what your favorite beer is, or just say HI.  Keep drinking good beer out there!

Keeton

The two meads decorated for Christmas! Don't worry, I used LED lights so they wouldn't transfer heat! They may get more lights as it goes, they may get a whole new shelf and decorating....

The Brew Is Brewed

My Winter Snowman Ale is Brewed and fermenting as we speak. Mainly Light and Amber malt was used along with some Chocolate and Belgium grains. I steeped the grains for about 15 minutes longer than the recipe called for. It boiled for an hour, Irish Moss was added at 15 Min left and Spices (Cinnamon, allspice, and ginger) were added at 5 Min left.  Original Gravity was 1.080 on the dot and 24 hours after pitching the yeast, I can barley keep the trap full. It's blown twice tonight. I'm going to to let it run dry and give it a week after racked with some new sugar just to kick it a little and then bottle it. On Monday I'll have all the brew numbers plugged into my iBrewMaster App and be able to post all the specs on the brew.   I'll update this as I work the brew.

I also racked both Mead brews and the Cider. Both Meads were given another 1.5 pounds of clover honey  and the 3 gallons of cider got half a pound of brown sugar. All three are chirping along and loving the now sugar.

Brew Update

I've moved to a new brewery and haven't had time to post anything new in a few weeks, but I'm back! The Root Beer that I put together was only about 2.5* but the cider I made was 4 out of 5! I have two different 5 gallon batches of mead going and a newer batch of cider with a new recipe to go with it. I have used the same yeast starter for all the batches of mead and cider I've started now.
 
Tomorrow, all three get racked, honey, and or brown sugar gets added, lees get pitched (thrown away) not pitched like new pitched... hahaha I made a brewers joke.... and I'll make a trip to the Home Brewery to pick a great winter brew recipe to start the next couple days...

And at the end of the day I'll have some new pics to post of my pets!

Welcome!

I'm hoping that I'll be able to provide some answers and information on here about brewing and fermentation that I learned the hard way down a long road. Simple little things like placing your fermentation traps in zip lock bags after you clean and dry them to keep dust out of them in between brews. Feel free to ask me anything about brewing, I won't guarantee I know it but I can find the answer!



Happy Brewing,
Keeton