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[positiveContact]

Wait for a heat wave and ferment in your garage. That's what I do. Though I have done in cooler months while fermenting in a closet with a little electric heater and brew belt!

 

the way I'm setup right now I kind of have to ferment in the basement but it's easy enough to put a space heater in the ferm chamber.  feels wrong but it wouldn't be working too hard.

[Gusso]

That Kveik loves the fucking heat!

[positiveContact]

so next beer I brew will be with this yeast.

 

20 lb pilsen

3 lb white wheat

1 lb caravienne

 

mash @ 151F

 

1oz nugget @ 30

2oz sweet orange peel @ 15

1oz ground coriander @ 15

2oz amarillo @ 0

1oz citra @ 0

4oz amarillo @ hop stand

1oz citra @ hop stand

 

ferment on voss @ 99-100F

 

not sure if that's too much on the spices but I want to make some orange flavor pop in this thing.

[positiveContact]

cleaned my 2 corny kegs and fermenter.  tomorrow I'll sanitize, measure the water, measure the grain.  4th of July I brew.

[Gusso]

I may use Voss or Lutra for a brew tomorrow. Might as well let the heat be an ally. Looking to use Mackinac hops for the first time.

[positiveContact]

I'm going to enjoy only having to chill to the 90s in this weather.

[positiveContact]

Just mashed in

[positiveContact]

got the temp controller set to 98.6F (37C).  I had to put the heater in there because I accidentally chilled down to 95F.  this is not usually a problem I have

[Gusso]

I predict active fermentation within 2-3 hours.

[Gusso]

got the temp controller set to 98.6F (37C). I had to put the heater in there because I accidentally chilled down to 95F. this is not usually a problem I have

98.6. Human Beer - send Vagus a growler.

[positiveContact]

98.6. Human Beer - send Vagus a growler.

 

I thought it was fitting LOL!

 

a few things happened during this brew:

 

1) I didn't have as much sweet valencia orange peel as I thought so I used 1.5oz.

2) my dedicated beer spice(coffee) grinder is broken so much of my coriander just went in as whole seeds.  I don't think it will matter too, too much.

3) I upped the amount of amarillo b/c I only had an oz left so I increased the hop stand amount to 5oz.

4) I did a FWH for the nugget

5) the boil was low and of some unknown amount of time beyond 30 minutes because I was simultaneously smoking some chicken and the chicken needed my attention.

6) I just noticed my space heater tripped it's internal circuit breaker so I plugged in my backup but I have a feeling until I get this up to 37F I'll have to keep an eye on this.

 

 

ETA: Gusso, check yo PMs!

Edited by postSingularityHumanoid, 04 July 2022 - 02:27 PM.

[positiveContact]

I predict active fermentation within 2-3 hours.

Likely this happened but hard to know for sure since I was heating my chamber.

[positiveContact]

Still cranking hard this morning. Should I put the spunding valve on soon? Not sure how long this will be active....

[positiveContact]

seems like it's probably done.  1.004 down from 1.061.  daim!

[Gusso]

Did you put on the spunding valve at some point?

[positiveContact]

Did you put on the spunding valve at some point?

 

I did pretty soon after I made that post.  I probably didn't get quite as much natural carbonation in there as I normally would but any CO2 saved is still good.  I just unplugged space heater.  I think I'm going to crack the lid to let it cool down a little bit (basement is cool) before I crash it down really hard.

[positiveContact]

Hard to tell what this is going to be like at this point but I'm thinking pretty clean. Even at 80+ f and with a lot of yeast in suspension it tasted fairly clean. I'm running a small fan to let the fermenter cool down to something closer to my basement temp to conserve some electricity.

Edited by postSingularityHumanoid, 07 July 2022 - 10:48 AM.

[positiveContact]

so this beer is good but I'm not sure I'm super crazy about this yeast.  not that it's bad but it's kind of a weird place between being clean but also just slightly "belgiany".  I'm not sure what to make of it.

[Gusso]

I like Voss but there's other Kveik yeasts I like more. Hornindal is great in IPA's, Lutra (dry or liquid) is very clean.

[Gusso]

I think this Voss at 104° is going to be interesting...