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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

HomeBrew Wednesday # 1

Happy Home Brew Wednesday  
 
This will be my first home brew Wednesday blog post. Today I will talk about what I have been doing in the brewing world and some of my up grades in my home brew equipment.  
 
 
Back on January 10 one of my local breweries (Draft Line)  had an event called Brew and Chew.  As the Head brewer said " we will BREW some home brew and  CHEW on some brewing facts. There was around twenty homebrewers on hand. All brewing our own 5 to 10 gallon batches. I brewed a Pale Ale with all Nelson Sauvin hops and cultivated Wyeast 1272 from my last brew of ESB.  What a great brew day.
 
(in the center) Jamie McMillan , Draft Line Brewing head brewer
-Photo courtesy of Kellie Evans
 


A great angle of brewery with me in the middle with the hat on
-Photo courtesy of Kellie Evans-
Wort Chilling with an awesome immersion chiller.
-Photo courtesy of Kellie Evans-




Yeast starter cultivated from my ESB batch. (Wyeast 1272)
-Photo courtesy of Kellie Evans-
 
 
From the Brew and Chew I picked up a few techniques to bring my Brewing up to the next level. Up until that day I had only batch sparged, but from some of the other home brewers I was able to get some ideas on how to build a fly sparge system, which I used on my next brewday.
Diagrams for my fly sparge system
My Fly sparge system in action.


 
Brew today, See you Tomorrow.