Yesterday I got in two new fermenters for my pilot system and now its time to fill them up. The fermenters are stainless steel cylindro-conicals, complete with tri-clamp fittings or in other words, badass. They are basically little versions of the 15 and 30 barrel fermenters that will be coming in a few months. As happy as I am for getting these, it is going to do two things for you, first I can make more beer, so actually having a tasting is more likely to happen (I currently go through the beer I make entirely too fast to get any event set up). Second, it means that I can make better beer. Although there are a few items I still need to get to fully outfit the pilot system, there is great benefit to these. I am going to be able to dump trub and yeast, so the beer wont have to sit on that stuff for longer than it should. I am going to be able to harvest a cleaner yeast and subsequent batches will benefit from that.
Payette Pale Ale
Style: American Pale Ale
Malt: American 2-Row, CaraPils, Crystal
Hops: Bravo, Cascade
IBU: 35
ABV: 5%
The fermenters are larger than my current stuff, so I am double batching into these. Looking back, I have never actually made a double batch on this scale, although it will probably be much easier than triple batching at Schooner Exact.
I spent the early part of this week in San Diego meeting with equipment suppliers and taking a side trip to the Stone World Bistro and Gardens. I will post something about that soon and anticipate placing an equipment order the first part of next week, stay tuned.
Gotta Hop
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