fleshyorgans

I just thought of the greatest idea for homebrew: a glass fermenter with a fake baby in the middle.
Alternately, hundreds of tiny, plastic babies to toss into the fermenter. When primary fermentation gets going, can you imagine the churning of all the plastic fetuses?
I’m trying to figure out a way that these could be somewhat […]

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Notes about the 7 Bridges Red Ale I’m finishing up:
7/7/7:
Followed instructions exactly. Wort chilling took 1 hour.
Pitched yeast at 1am 7/8/7
OG (adjusted) 1.045, 75F
7/9/7 at 9am:
Prefermentation (patches of yeast on the surface, stationary bubbles around edge)
7/9/7 5:30pm:
fermentation has started.
7/10/7:
fermentation going strong, churning, etc
7/14/7:
Fermentation slowed down.
Light bubbles at edges.
Huge swath of […]

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