I’ve started home-brewing again and I am currently writing to the sound of a bubbling fermenter. Ruth asked me: “Is it supposed to make that noise.” Yes dear, it is. It’s called fermentation.
The current batch is a Summer Wheat beer and I have a MSB Two Row Lager finishing in bottles at the moment too. Temperature is a little dodgy I think for the finishing so we’ll have to see how we go. Certainly I’ve needed to pop a brew mat under the fermenter to keep the temperature up and get the fermentation going. But I can’t really think of a nice, warm’ish place to finish the beer at the moment.
I’m going to log batches in weblog entries. I’ve always been hopeless about documenting what and how I brew’ed batches. I should also record first and last gravity too but I keep forgetting to take measurements at the beginning. But hopefully having a location and a reminder might improve my process and documentation.
Cool – thanks mate. Will have a look at that.
Are you listening to John Foster’s Beer School? http://www.beerschool.com/
Perhaps you know him from Pixel Corps shows like This Week in Media. I think you’ll like it – geeks do beer.