The Beer League

so today is mine and gerry’s first double brew day of this year. in preparation for st paddy’s day we’re brewing the light and hoppy recipe. we’re also brewing a dry irish stout, which i will be pouring next month at hampshire’s deathfest. we started at 7am and will be going straight until about 5pm when we head to the moan and dove to meet with our fellow beer geeks. we will even have a guest brewer, pam, arriving soon.

our first mishap occurred about an hour ago while gerry and i were milling the grain for the light and hoppy. thankfully it was toward the very end of the grain when it happened. we didn’t notice at the time, but a small, steel ball bearing went flying out of the mill across the basement, making the mill useless to us. we triggered the drill to start moving, but no grain was being crushed. so i ended up finishing off the small bit of grain in the blender on chop mode while gerry fooled around with the inner workings of the mill. that’s when he found the ball bearing and realized what had happened. we’ve now got the grain soaking and some water boiling and gerry is in the process of taking apart the mill. fun fun. meanwhile i’ve been doing some dishes and laundry to try to keep this place at least somewhat clean during this whole process. oh and blogging, yeah. more posting, pics and video coming later.

UPDATE:

measuring the grain

our new mill

perl wants to help

gerry and pam milling the grain for the stout after fixing the mill

racking the light n hoppy to a carboy

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