We racked the JHB clone to the firkin tonight, in preparation for a gigantic brewing session tomorrow. This week we’ve been building a mash screen for John Brush’s 60 gallon commercial soup kettle so we could do a big batch brew. We’ve got the screen built up, it’s five feet of 3/8″ stainless steel hose braid connected to a brass barb that’s connected to a 1.25″ PVC end cap that slides into the drain tunnel on the bottom of the soup kettle. The screen is from the stainless steel jacket of a high pressure plumbing supply line with the inner hose removed. It coils up on the bottom of the soup kettle and then the stainless false bottom from one of our half-barrel kegs fits over that to take the weight of the grain. We’ll see how it works!

The JHB fermented out to about 1.011 from the OG of 1.037, so it’ll be about 3.7% ABV if it drops another couple of gravity points while conditioning. The firkin was dry hopped with four ounces of Tettnanger. For the past 5 days the primaries were kept at about 55F which helped to drop out the yeast.