I'm brewing sometime this week. I have a pack of Vosso Nova (high thiol Kveik) to try out.
Finally got around to brewing today. I did use the Vossa Nova for the first time. I also used Phantasm powder.
Posted 31 July 2024 - 01:25 PM
I'm brewing sometime this week. I have a pack of Vosso Nova (high thiol Kveik) to try out.
Posted 31 July 2024 - 02:46 PM
Posted 02 August 2024 - 06:33 AM
Finally got around to brewing today. I did use the Vossa Nova for the first time. I also used Phantasm powder.
I was out of the game for a while, what the hell is phantasm powder? You coking up your beer?
Posted 02 August 2024 - 07:31 AM
I was out of the game for a while, what the hell is phantasm powder? You coking up your beer?
It is a powder that is made up from ground up grape skins that have more thiols than most hops. It helps to use certain yeasts when using it.
Posted 03 August 2024 - 05:20 AM
It is a powder that is made up from ground up grape skins that have more thiols than most hops. It helps to use certain yeasts when using it.
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Posted 28 August 2024 - 01:58 PM
Finished up a couple of hours ago. Chilling the wort in the fridge to 65-ish because my chiller only gets it to mid 80's this time of year. Tomorrow, I might brew again but I'll use kveik and ferment around 100.
Posted 28 August 2024 - 04:31 PM
Damn, I really am out of touch these days! Never heard of kveik yeast, and you ferment with it at 100F?! What kind of flavor profile? That'd be banana-flavored diesel fuel with a lot of yeasts.
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Posted 27 September 2024 - 04:20 AM
I haven’t brewed since before my daughter was born
She’s turning 15 this weekend
I last brewed August of 23... that beer is still in the fermenter. Before that it was August of 22. From 2+ times a month to once a year now 0 times a year. Desire is gone. I had kept the stuff around thinking one day I would get back to it but I am not sure that is going to happen. May be time to start selling stuff off.
Posted 27 September 2024 - 07:55 AM
I last brewed August of 23... that beer is still in the fermenter. Before that it was August of 22. From 2+ times a month to once a year now 0 times a year. Desire is gone. I had kept the stuff around thinking one day I would get back to it but I am not sure that is going to happen. May be time to start selling stuff off.
I was wondering. Your kids are at an age where this could happen. I think I remember telling you that I would brew at 4am on weekdays when the kids were young .. finish up, take them to school and then work. I still have four taps running at all times and rotating ten kegs. Of course my kids are 24, 26, 28. I have Omega Bayern up and running now .. a pilsner was first, then a helles and there is a Vienna Lager in the fermenter now .. brewed last Saturday. Upcoming is the AHA Zoiglbier, a "gold lager" and then a Red Lager.
Edited by Big Nake , 27 September 2024 - 07:58 AM.
Posted 27 September 2024 - 10:22 AM
Never thought I’d see these words from Drez.May be time to start selling stuff off.
Posted 27 September 2024 - 11:08 AM
I was wondering. Your kids are at an age where this could happen. I think I remember telling you that I would brew at 4am on weekdays when the kids were young .. finish up, take them to school and then work. I still have four taps running at all times and rotating ten kegs. Of course my kids are 24, 26, 28. I have Omega Bayern up and running now .. a pilsner was first, then a helles and there is a Vienna Lager in the fermenter now .. brewed last Saturday. Upcoming is the AHA Zoiglbier, a "gold lager" and then a Red Lager.
Kids stuff does takes up a lot of time, a lot. I could still make it work with that though. My wife tells me all the time to clean the room up and brew but I have zero desire to do it. Covid killed it. My WFH location was/is in the basement and that is also where I brew. After working down there all day I have no desire to stay there and brew. I could move my work location or where I brew but I just do not see that happening.
Luckily I have lots of good beer around me.
Never thought I’d see these words from Drez.
I know .. I have been hanging on to the stuff for years but I am not sure there is much of a point anymore. Sadly I will get next to nothing for most of it.
Posted 28 September 2024 - 02:15 PM
I think that any one of us could get to this point and say it's okay. I do have occasional "funks" where I don't brew for 1-2 months but seeing empty kegs in my garage or just getting a jolt from going to a brewery, talking with someone who brews, etc. can get me amped up to brew again. The girl I'm seeing is a beer head and worked at a brewery for a bit. She was just here last night for the first time and she loved tapping her own beers here. I would see her glass empty and say, "Let me get you another" and she's grab her glass, laugh and say, "No, I want to tap it myself!". In honor of that I made Red Lager this morning.
Edited by Big Nake , 28 September 2024 - 02:16 PM.
Posted 29 September 2024 - 08:56 PM
Knocked out a Cream Ale with my daughter on Friday, and a lower-gravity Belgian Golden Strong today (1.055 instead of 1.072) I'll call "Little Devil." That's four beers in a couple of months after a 4-year hiatus. These two are for pouring at an art festival in November with my brew club.
Edited by Darterboy, 29 September 2024 - 08:57 PM.
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