{"id":176,"date":"2007-04-14T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/wordpress\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-03-15T17:29:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T22:29:30","slug":"brew-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/14\/brew-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Brew Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After about 6 hours of preparation, brewing and clean-up, brew day is over. It was a lot of work and pretty intimidating, but tons of fun. hopefully in about 5 weeks i can bring a couple of bottle to the beer guys for a tasting. Unless it sucks, which it very well may. I brewed an imitation of Three-Floyds Alpha King, a Pale Ale trying to pose as an IPA with a good amount of hops. I was shooting for a 1.066 original gravity, but only managed 1.055, Not as efficient as I hoped, but still should be up to 5.5-6% abv if the yeast works well. Here&#8217;s some pics of how it went&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Curley Stout<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/bp0.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiFMgSfgMFI\/AAAAAAAAAAc\/NooSVynQiCM\/s1600-h\/The+grains+are+ready.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiFMgSfgMFI\/AAAAAAAAAAc\/NooSVynQiCM\/s1600-h\/The+grains+are+ready.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiFMgSfgMFI\/AAAAAAAAAAc\/NooSVynQiCM\/s200\/The+grains+are+ready.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiFMxyfgMGI\/AAAAAAAAAAk\/OBIsZ8TAVrc\/s200\/Riss+heats+the+strike+water.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/bp1.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiFNCifgMHI\/AAAAAAAAAAs\/mQjm-Amu3rY\/s1600-h\/Checking+the+temp+of+the+mash.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiFNCifgMHI\/AAAAAAAAAAs\/mQjm-Amu3rY\/s1600-h\/Checking+the+temp+of+the+mash.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiFNCifgMHI\/AAAAAAAAAAs\/mQjm-Amu3rY\/s200\/Checking+the+temp+of+the+mash.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiFOYSfgMNI\/AAAAAAAAABc\/97yw62KRaIw\/s200\/Draining+the+mashtun.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/bp0.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiFNZSfgMJI\/AAAAAAAAAA8\/YtSSIngmZ-I\/s1600-h\/mmm+grains.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiFNZSfgMJI\/AAAAAAAAAA8\/YtSSIngmZ-I\/s1600-h\/mmm+grains.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiFNZSfgMJI\/AAAAAAAAAA8\/YtSSIngmZ-I\/s200\/mmm+grains.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiFNnyfgMKI\/AAAAAAAAABE\/Bgtnw0pBQ1g\/s200\/Second+hop+addition+-+some+columbus+pellets.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">36 hrs into fermentation&#8230; 48 hrs into fermentation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/bp3.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiQSPSfgMPI\/AAAAAAAAABs\/FYq94UKx5Ac\/s1600-h\/Fermentation+36+hrs.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiQSPSfgMPI\/AAAAAAAAABs\/FYq94UKx5Ac\/s1600-h\/Fermentation+36+hrs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiQSPSfgMPI\/AAAAAAAAABs\/FYq94UKx5Ac\/s200\/Fermentation+36+hrs.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_Wa1OikTt2TQ\/RiQSgSfgMQI\/AAAAAAAAAB0\/BNppqBOE2D0\/s200\/Fermentation+48+hrs.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After about 6 hours of preparation, brewing and clean-up, brew day is over. It was a lot of work and pretty intimidating, but tons of fun. hopefully in about 5 weeks i can bring a couple of bottle to the beer guys for a tasting. Unless it sucks, which it very well may. I brewed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118,88,111],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/The+grains+are+ready.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}