Ozark
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I made myself useful yesterday. I put a new counter top on my outdoor fish-cleaning table and installed a new deep sink in it. It's now a combination fish cleaning/brewing table.
My California cousin showed up on a big Gold Wing motorcycle, he's coming back from Florida after completing the Four Corners Tour. A friend I used to work with showed up about that time, and we all found the Oktoberfest assortment in my garage 'fridge.
So we broke in the new improved table and brewed a batch of beer. I had a 60 lb. bucket of wheat malt syrup, so we based a recipe on that:
Dunkel Weizenbock - 10 gallons
18 lbs. wheat malt syrup (65% wheat, 35% barley)
2 lbs. crushed chocolate malt
2 1/4 oz. Hallertauer hop pellets (bittering) 4.2% alpha
1/2 tsp. Irish Moss clarifier
3/4 oz. Hallertauer hop pellets (finishing) 4.2% alpha
2 packs SAF-23 dry lager yeast
Starting gravity - I dunno, 'bout 1.060, I guess. Didn't check it - I was drinking Oktoberfest.
Today I've got two 6 1/2 gallon carboys with 5 gallons of beer in each, happily fermenting away on the concrete floor of my downstairs carpenter shop. The temp is about 65 deg., and they've got about 1/2" of white foam. The beer is blacker than Toby's ass.
It's good to get back into brewing, it's been a long time since I made a batch.
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Forsythian
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Ozark is brewing again? 
Just remember... you can NEVER have too many friends!
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Ozark
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Forsythian said:
you can NEVER have too many friends!
Yeah? I've got lots of experience with that. Like when they start sorting thru all the bottles of homebrew in my 'fridge - "Hey, ya got any more of that #16? #16 sure is good stuff!" Ya gotta hate it when the heathens get picky.
As soon as those two primary carboys slow down in a couple of days, I'll rack them off into 5 gallon secondaries. I'm gonna brew again that day, chill the wort, and siphon it right on top of the yeast sediment in those primaries.
I like doing that - fermentation kicks off right away. I think I'll make a light-colored heavy-bodied beer this time with no specialty grains. It can pick up some color and flavor from the yeast dregs of the dark batch I've got going now - that'll make it a malty amber lager, and I'll call it an Oktoberfest.
p.s. - I spent today trolling a deep-running plug along the rocky bluffs from Barker Hole down to Beaver Creek. Caught one 19 1/2" walleye, 2 short bass, 2 drum, and a bunch of perch. I usually won't keep just one fish, but the walleye got fileted for supper.
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Forsythian
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Ozark said:
I spent today trolling a deep-running plug along the rocky bluffs from Barker Hole down to Beaver Creek.
Yeah, well, I spent yesterday working 
I plan to get out there this evening for an hour or two... tomorrow's booked pretty well but Sunday I'm thinking about spending the day in the Elbow/Fine Addition area. Hopefully these last few cool nights have energized the smallmouth. Kdock's not done much for me lately...
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