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[TheDarkSide]

Heating up the ice... err... water for a -5F brew day. Bobcat Brown with a mineral experiment.

Edit: Just checked the thermometer again. It's warmed up to a balmy +0.8F. Better dig out the

I love these brew days. They are the ones where I get up and realize it's below zero and say...Fuck it!! I'm going back to bed!

Way to bring it like a maun!!!

[Ozwald]

Heating up the ice... err... water for a -5F brew day. Bobcat Brown with a mineral experiment.

Edit: Just checked the thermometer again. It's warmed up to a balmy +0.8F. Better dig out the

I love these brew days. They are the ones where I get up and realize it's below zero and say...Fuck it!! I'm going back to bed!

Way to bring it like a maun!!!

A few years back I wouldn't have brewed all winter if I was waiting for above zero temps. I think it was 08 where it didn't get above -15 for about 3 or 4 weeks & I remember working on the mountain in -50 (pre-windchill) putting seatpads on a chairlift @ 10k'. It was so cold we couldn't even snowboard back down, you just stuck there. We ended up getting out being towed via snowmobile, downhill.

My record brew day for standing out in the cold was -20. A record I have absolutely no interest in trying to beat This one was such a disaster dealing with my mashtun on it's retirement brew that after a while I didn't even notice what temp it was since I was too busy cussing out the ol bastard. It did take a lot longer than normal, so the day finally warmed up a bit but I didn't see any palm trees sprouting.

The worst part is that I like to have all my water ready to go in the HLT the day before so I can just step outside & hit the flame. For some reason those ball valves just aren't happy with that idea when it gets below freezing. That & frozen toes after you spray yourself once or twice trying to unfreeze a line.

Edit: The wort tasted really good, so I'm thinking my mineral experiment may have taught me something. I'm playing around with sodium levels & I increased it instead of trying to chop it down. Depending on how the beer comes out after fermentation, it looks like something I might be digging deeper into.

[spiderwrangler]

I haven't had that many problems fly sparging since... umm... maybe my very first go at it.

Well there's your problem...

Brewing a GF IPA as we speak... we'll see how it turns out.

[Millhaus]

Boiling a German Pils now. Mashed in this morning at 9:00 and it was not too cold here in Charlotte, 32F.

[spiderwrangler]

Second in as many days... Citra Pale Ale.

[PorkSlapper]

Alt bier is sitting in the mash tun. 30F and rocking the or my jean cut offs at least.

[spiderwrangler]

Starting in on my 3rd batch since yesterday... all of them brewed no pants of course... This one is a Galaxy Pale to pair/compare to the Citra one... and get JZ off my back

[adamK]

About to try a best bitter/esb via the no sparge method. First attempt at what I hope will become my new method for low gravity small batches.