07/28/2012 – Harvest 07/29/2012 – Pitched yeast Sugar added to bump up gravity 08/04/2012 – Pressed wine Debby offered to share a carboy of the Syrah (since I am so fond of the 2011 Syrah and she is very generous). I’m taking it over from secondary on. 08/20/2012 – Danger… rubber tyre (sulfur ho) Upon Doug’s suggestion, I sampled the Syrah and certainly detected the a stinky smell. Let’s hope his magic bullet can salvage the batches. 09/10/2012 – Racked Added…
07/28/2012 – Harvest Harvested 320 lbs of Tempranillo grapes (among many others) at Doug Norman’s vineyard. He and Debby kindly gave me 70 lbs of must. The grapes were in pretty rough shape. Many of the clusters had spoiled sections in them (probably due to having too many buds left on the plants to be able to ripen fully). They were also swarmed by small flying bugs (beetles?) that seemed to be focused on the Tempranillo but not the…
07/14/2012 – Brew day Russian Imperial Stout with Chocolate and Peanut Butter 1 lb, 9 oz – Chocolate malt 1 lb – Rolled oats 1 lb – 6-row malt 0.5 lb – Roasted barley 0.5 lb – Caramel 120L 0.25 lb – Carapils 6 lb – Gold LME 3 lb – Extra light DME 1 oz – Chinook pellet hops (60 min) 0.75 oz – Spalt pellet hops (60 min) 0.5 oz – Spalt pellet hops (20 min) 1 tbsp…
07/06/2012 – Created a starter American ale yeast Wyeast 1056 – 1.6 L starter 07/08/2012 – Brew day 1 lb – English maris otter 0.875 lbs – English medium crystal 0.75 lbs – Flaked barley 0.5 lbs – Belgian aromatic malt 0.5 lbs – British chocolate malt 0.5 lbs – Belgian special B 0.25 lbs – English black malt 3.15 lbs – Gold malt syrup 2 lbs – Mutton’s light DME 0.5 tsp – Yeast nutrient 3 oz – Willamette…
06/30/2012 – Yeast starter 160 grams of DME in 1750 mL of water (boiled down to 1600 mL) Wyeast 1056 American Ale yeast 07/01/2012 – Brew day 1 lb – Briess caramel 40 9.15 lbs – Gold malt syrup 1 oz – Centennial hop pellets (60 min) 1 oz – Centennial hop pellets (20 min) 2 oz – Centennial hop pellets (5 min) No Irish moss or yeast nutrient this time. Target O.G.: 1.064 Actual O.G.: 1.060, 15 deg Brix…