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After #brewing #yerba for a while mostly in french press, and previously in a mug, I figured I'll try to replicate the "authentic" experience, put a lot of it in a small cup (around/under 200ml, filled about half), and as per "some video" poured some hot water to be absorbed, then pouring hot water from a thermos and drinking soon after that.
News at 11, if you make it different it comes out different 🤣
Better? No idea, but at least for now the novelty amuses me :)
#tea #YerbaMate @tea

I do living history Viking re-enactment weekends and I've gotten into making some authentic Viking meals and stuff. I've made braggot, which is kinda between mead and beer, and I've also made fennel wine.

I made some for the weekend and I decided to write a post about it.

tessiaeksspace.wordpress.com/2

TessiaEks Space · How to make fennel wineI took up Viking re-enactment around a year and a half ago and it’s pretty cool. We do it over a weekend once a month and we stay in this authentic looking Viking village somewhere in York in the U…

Sitting in the kitchen drinking coffee, scrolling through Mastodon, working up the energy to do garage stuff… wait, what's that noise? Sounds like a sudden water leak, but muffled… 😱

Oh. Seems like the Pinter brew I started yesterday might be a bit lively, and it's pushed liquid out of the pressure control valve. It's all wrapped in a bin bag, so no external mess, just hope I haven't lost too much.

The perils of using non-Pinter brewing kits. 🤷‍♂️

@beersofmastodon #brewing #beer #pinter

Wild yeasties are all happy this morning and ready for the brew day! Hive came from my bee hive (comb, honey and bees). GrandDad came from juniper berries my wife snagged at Granddad's Bluff in LaCrosse, WI. The unlabeled is my 'abbey' culture that originally I caught from my neighbor's raw honey back in 2013.

I'll be brewing a Honey Tripel (thanks to all who voted in the poll!) for the abbey, and Saison for the two new recruits.

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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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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.