This week was one of purchases: I bought a refrigerator for the kegging of the beer and a 10 gallon mash tun and spraging cooler to better extract the grains during mashing. I tried the mash tun just the other day on the new batch of Kick Ass Sassafras but thanks to a smaller false bottom and my vigorous stirring in the grains, the bottom slightly lifted thus allowing grain under it. This led to a sprage lock and I had to hand dip the wort. Lesson learned.
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| New Fridge and Mashing Equipment |
Got the results back from the contest ... the porter fared excellent but needs to be smokier, the Smoking Wheat had a slight metallic taste ... unsure the cause but will find out, and need to be even more smokier, and lastly the Sweet Sharon still isn't fairing very well in the contest, but everyone that tries loves it. I will change the base recipe the next time.
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| Slowly Taking Over the Kitchen -- It's Mine, All Mine |
All of the judge's notes have been taken into consideration and adjustments have been made to the recipes to improve their flavors.
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