[colterw]

Haha same issue here, I have a sick kiddo at home today and I have a random day off. So my brew day got killed for this week. Oh well!

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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[colterw]

What electrical do you have left?

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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[colterw]

Great color on that beer I can’t wiat to taste it.

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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[colterw]

I will not be at the meeting tonight because of child care but will make it to the tour. I am excited it should be very fun.

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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[colterw]

Haha good catch because that is a typo it should be 2 oz if Galaxy at 5 min. I am going for a hazy not bitter IPA.

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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[colterw]

This article talks about beer aging in general. I love the chart and it shows the oxidation over time: https://draftmag.com/required-reading-the-chemistry-of-beer-aging/

I would love to try one of those 7 year old quads sometime. I my guess is there would be very little hop flavor left and it would be more malt forward. The thing with Belgian beers is how the yeast flavors mellow with time as well. Where as a barley wine would not have much yeast character.

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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[colterw]

I think this is more of a cellaring experiment for big barley wine type of beers. To be honest it is also a single data point so I am always skeptical of their results. Especially since they rely so heavily on P Values for significance.

I just wanted to start a discussion around how long people age their big beers for? I haven’t ever made a barley wine or imperial stout so I was more curious.

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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[colterw]

We may need to start a garden hop swap!!!

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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[colterw]

I can’t wait to sit down there and drink beer!

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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[colterw]

That looks awesome!!! How are you going to deal with moisturizer? Mainly steam from the boil?

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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[colterw]

I saw that and that would work. I am a huge fan of the tilt because it’s a great device and they are not trying to sell you a cloud service. The Brew Bug did pretty much the same thing but shut down their cloud service when it went out of biz. It’s a little more work to get it to log continually bud not that much. There is a cloud based brewing software called brewfather. They integrate with tilt if you want to attach that to your brew logs. https://brewfather.app/

To be honest I could do a better job on my brew logs.

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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[colterw]

I like how my tilt works but the key is having software to do the logging. Just using the app will not log the gravity like mine does. I use Fermentrack and that is project in it’s self. I would recommend that you have a way to keep it logging at lest to google docs. My neighbor has a tablet that is always online with the app open and logging to Google sheets.

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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[colterw]

Ramping up the them to 70 today. The Dubbel’s current gravity is 1.006. I pitched on Monday at 1.056 and by Thursday we are 1.006. I think I will see a few points lower to finish. Maybe 1.004 or 1.002. I was worried about not having the OG to make this true to style but I should come in at 6.5 to 6.7 ABV.

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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[colterw]

48 hours and already at 1.012 I think this beer could go pretty low. I will totally hit 6% ABV. Went out this morning and check on it and it had blow off again, this yeast is a monster.

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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[colterw]

Adventures in every batch. Remember Belgian yeast means blow off tube. I thought about it and paid for not acting on it. But the Imperial Triple Double ferments like a champ.

The video is post cleanup the attached photo is the blowoff.

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