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Only boiled 25% of the DME with a half volume boil. The rest added at 50 minutes which cools it down to almost 170F. Used an old keggle to put the boil pot in to cool, it worked ok, I didn't use any ice so it took a while to cool it off but the hops was in a bag so it wasn't lingering at high temps at all. Yeast pitched on the first half when it was cool.

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Only boiled 25% of the DME with a half volume boil. The rest added at 50 minutes which cools it down to almost 170F. Used an old keggle to put the boil pot in to cool, it worked ok, I didn't use any ice so it took a while to cool it off but the hops was in a bag so it wasn't lingering at high temps at all. Yeast pitched on the first half when it was cool.

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This is what 3 lbs, or 1.4 kg, or dry DME looks like when it makes a cake on top of the boiled wort. All the chunks mixed up by the time it was cooled off.

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An old keggle I've never used. The pressure canner pot fit in in so I used it for cooling. It's a 15 gallon stainless beer keg with the top cut off, vs the center of the top cut out leaving handles.. this has no handles. I didn't make it. It's sitting in a big rectangle sink.

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A photo of yeasts pitched on top of the first half of cooled wort. The wort is very dark and smells good. The yeast is dry and floating on the surface. The scissors to open the yeast packet were NOT sanitized!

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A photo of a Speidel fermenter that is half full. There is a piece of blue painters tape marking the first fill level. It has orange plastic port fittings. It is sitting on a towel on a concrete floor, There is various crap and boxes around it.

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Chickens love the spent grains. Second half done same as first except only the boil was cooled and then added to the fermenter and then topped up with cold water. OG is about 1.052 which is a bit higher than the 1.048 target but it was at or above the 8 gallon mark. Lifted 💪 to the bench, and cleaned up and sealed and airlock filled. Suppose to keep it 60-62F 15.5-16.5C for fermenting.

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Chickens love the spent grains. Second half done same as first except only the boil was cooled and then added to the fermenter and then topped up with cold water. OG is about 1.052 which is a bit higher than the 1.048 target but it was at or above the 8 gallon mark. Lifted 💪 to the bench, and cleaned up and sealed and airlock filled. Suppose to keep it 60-62F 15.5-16.5C for fermenting.

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A photo showing chickens eating spent grains. The rooster is standing alert because he saw or heard something.

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A photo showing a stream of water falling into the fermenter from a bench above. A large blue water container is the source.

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A hydrometer floating in the beer showing the the specific gravity is about 1.052. It's a bit foamy but close enough reading.

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The Speidel fermenter on the bench and showing it filled to just above the sticker that says 8 gallons. There are some empty beer bottles, wine bottles, paper towels, a bottle capper, bottle caps, a milk crate, a photo of a dog on the wall, a piece of artwork that says seagrave, a pink board, a face mask, sunglasses, a tape measure, stainless steel rope, crimping pliers, probably a partridge in a pear tree.

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My notes, or first draft of. Beer making done.

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My notes, or first draft of. Beer making done.

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A screen shot showing beer making notes for a Scottish Ale extract kit.

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2025 Beer Brewing.

March 23, 2025

Scottish Ale 80 8 gallons.

1lb Caramel 40L

.25lb Caramel 120L

.125lb Chocolate Malt

8 Ibs Pale DME

11g Saaz

29g Kent Goldings

Made in 2 halves. Partial half boil each.

Heat up 2 gallons of water. Calculate volume of water when you lose track of how many half gallons...

Steep grains 20 minutes @ 155F. Let drain, SQUEEZE! & (it's in a bag, the goodness isn't all out of it.)

Add 1 Ib Pale DME

Heat up, toss in 20g pelleted hops in a bag when it reaches 185F and start timer for 50 minutes.
The less DME allows more hops utilization by about 25%, | didn't have more anyway.

Bring to boil, turn down, try to keep above 200F but not rolling boil.

@ 50 minutes remove from heat, remove hops, maybe squeeze, add 3 Ibs of Pale DME stir!

@ when you get to it cool it off. First half cooled and 2 gallons cold added to it.
Second half wort cooled and added to fermenter then topped up with 2 gallons cold.

8 gallons = £,

First full half OG 1.050+, siphoned to fermenter.

Yeast pitched on first half that was measured and below 62F.

Repeat for second half.

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It was around 36-43 hours for the beer to get actively fermenting at less than 60F / 15.5C with US-05 yeast. Looked like about 20 mm of krausen on top and the Speidel was bubbling about every 3 seconds.

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It was around 36-43 hours for the beer to get actively fermenting at less than 60F / 15.5C with US-05 yeast. Looked like about 20 mm of krausen on top and the Speidel was bubbling about every 3 seconds.

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A photo showing the dial of a probe thermometer. It reads about 59F degrees. The probe is located between the exterior of the plastic fermenter and several layers of synthetic fleece.