4 Dog Brewery

Robobrew I need an elbow for the mash hose to get it to circulate properly. Thunder storm in the middle of my boil. I had no idea there was a storm coming. I did read a possibility of a storm yesterday, but they can't predict their next bowel movement, so predicting the weather? Sure... Robobrew tripped but came back with no ill effects that I saw, so brew on Chris. Ingredients 11 lbs. CMC 14 ozs. Victory 6 ozs. Crystal 40 4 ozs. Acid Malt 21 g Chinook at 60 min. 45 g Chinook at 10 min. 100 g Chinook at 0 min. US-05 - ( noticed no more 15 g sachets, so since they are kind of old, tossing in 45 g ) 75% RO water 25% Well water O.G. - 1.048 F.G. - % - SRM - 6.4 BU - 40                                                                      BREW NOTES Good brew day even though Elsie is home and cleaning everything. Hard t...

This is mine and Marty's wine from Costco. Fermented in carboys and the gravity seemed kind of high. My hydrometer was 1.098 for mine and over that for Marty's. I went up in the carboy as far as I should of for over flow and not too much water. I will top up with boiled and cooled RO water as per instructions.  O.G. - 1.096 - MINE O.G. - 1.098 - MARTY F.G. - 1.000 - Mine - ( Topped up with too much water, tastes like a peach cooler )                                                      WINE NOTES I bought pails for future batches, so I have to deal with these carboys until the next batch. I am down about 2 L in my carboy thanks to the plugging up in my syphon hose. I did a much better job with Marty's wine which I got most of it. Next time I can do things in the bucket which is a pain in the ass with the carboys. April 12 - Put together 2 kits in ca...

Mr. Conical Brewing in the laundry room. Lots of steam, but window open, fan on etc. Ingredients 22 lbs. CMC 2 lbs. Munich I 8 ozs. Acid Malt 154 g Hallertauer at 60 min. Escarpment Labs Isar Lager 75% RO water 25% Well water Using 2 pacs of lager yeast. 44 days old now. 3.5 L starter to a 4.5 L starter to get an over build of 200 B cells in a one litre mason jar for my next brew. I am making my own LME as the one store here charges way too much and the other so called HB store in Lindsay has none. I asked him last summer if he is getting some and still nothing on his useless website. I think he is letting his stock go down to nothing and closing up shop as he is getting out of just about everything. Not much of a business man in my opinion. No ads, no promotions, no nothing. No wonder he is going under. O.G. - 1.048 F.G. - % - SRM - 3.7 BU - 25 HOME MADE STARTER I got a bit of grain from the old mash tun into the pot. Should of used a filter bag but will next step. I hope it didn'...

Mr. Robobrew Maggie the Easter Dog Ingredients 11 lbs. CMC 1 lb. Munich 4 ozs. Acid Malt 77 g Hallertauer at 60 min. WLP029 75% RO 25% well water - ( Still seems to be okay ) O.G. - 1.048 F.G. - % - SRM - 3.7 BU - 25 This is the same recipe as my lager is going to be. I will have 3 kegs of this, so it is time to brew a lager. I will have time to age this in one of my many fridges. I am not using that many fridges at the moment and will cpbf most if not all of my beer to minimize my usage of fridges. Crash cool, filter, carb up and cpbf and stash them in the black fridge which is on no mater what is in it.                                                     Fermentation Notes Next Morning - Going good. April 8 - Same. Good seal on the big mouth carboy. April 11 - Steady bubbling, but slowing down finally. 10 days or so to go. April 16 - On the bench. Clearing ...