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Cake day: July 23rd, 2024

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  • (I hope that I didn’t just miss the irony here) That‘s something I’ve recently seen a video about. It’s a genuine invention meant to save construction workers the effort of building wooden casks and pouring concrete. The exact forms they “print” here look like some sort of test course to me though.






  • Totally forgot got mention it: These are actually wild hops! Foraged next to a rural road with not zero, but little traffic.

    And yes, it’s a sous vide stick. The one by Inkbird, which I got relatively cheaply. It sits in a hop tube so no grains can get into it.
    After use, I instantly rinse it, then put it in a jar with clean water and let it sit there until I’m cleaning up everything. Then, I rinse it again. As it doesn’t have to be sterile, I’m fine with this regime for the time being.










  • 71 °C is the temperature that will drop down to 67 when adding the room temperature grains, yes. The grains are also fresh, I bought them only a couple of months ago and stored them in air tight buckets with click- or screw on-lids ever since.

    I know about the purpose of a step mash and my last two brew days involved them, yet without benefit. What I picked though up is that given today’s grains, starting the mash as low as 50 might even be detrimental to the head retention as the proteases might eat away more protein than required. But on this, I’m only reciting theory learned elsewhere and can’t speak from experience.