25 February 2006

posted by benjy

I couldn’t decide whether to brew or not today, but the weather turned out nice (about 50 and sunny) so we made some beer. A simple recipe, Boathouse Bitter version 15, just Maris Otter, some dark crystal, and Glacier and Willamette hops. IBU’s were 35, and the gravity turned out right on target, at 1.038. When I made up the starters on Friday night (from the yeasts used three times before, and that were stored in 2 litre flasks), I didn’t use any yeast nutrient, since I did when I made the original starters and we’ve been having low attenuation, but we did use yeast nutrient in the recommended dose in the boil. Fermentation temperature is right at 68. Let’s hope the yeast does well this time.

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