We brewed up a pale ale this afternoon, somehow we ended up a gallon short and with an OG of 1.064 instead of 1.053. We ran the mash runoffs into the kettle, boiled and returned it to the mash tun, also pitched on Merril's 1272 yeast cake that's been through a number of hoppy beers. Racked the graham cracker (aka cookie stank) porter to secondary and were attempting to wash the 1056 cake it left behind. I also managed to cut my thumb open on a growler shard.

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We brewed up 10 gallons of a graham cracker porter this afternoon. Put 4 lbs of graham crackers in the mash and hit our goal temp of 153. OG 1.061. We also racked over Hella Malt Lung to kegs and planted 2 cascade rhizomes in buckets.

Cracker Berrill Recipe:
16 lbs. 2-row
2 lbs. brown malt
1.5 lbs. chocolate malt
2 lbs. crystal 40
1 lb. rice hulls
4 lbs. honey graham crackers
2oz.willammette @ 60 (fhp)
2oz. willammette @ 30
1056 wyeast
Mashed @ 153

had an extra day off work today, so i thought i'd try out my new equipment...even though it was 38 degrees and snowing. i made a parti-gyle batch- 5 gal barley wine with the first mash runnings (1st gyle), and a pale ale with the second runnings (2nd gyle). used the recipe from the parti-gyle episode of brewing tv.

snowing in my mash

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