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Wow, that IS random
Dec 7, 2011
I was just looking through my site structure and found this little gem hidden in there! I used to do a lot more of these random Flash animations, and I have to say, this may have been one of my finest. It is certainly one of my most random!
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Parti-gyle Brewing
Jul 12, 2011
Well I finally went for something that I've been thinking about trying for a while now. I got the go-ahead from my girlfriend to take up the entire day with brewing and tried my hand a parti-gyle brewing session. It definitely took longer than a normal day, but it really ended up only taking 10 hours, a lot less time than I thought.
I decided to make an English barleywine and use the second runnings to make a little English pale ale. I only have one mash tun, one brew kettle and one burner, so after collecting my first runnings (which to my disappointment, took a little sparging, and only had an efficiency of about 62%) at a pre-boil gravity of 1.077 I collected the second runnings in my sparge water tank. The second runnings came out to be about 1.028 and a little tanniny. Since my sparge water tank is a converted cooler I figured it would keep the second runnings at a pretty consistent temperature until I was ready to boil it, and I think it worked.
Other than the second runnings tasting a little high of tannins, and having quite a bit of proteins and break material in its carboy, both taste and are fermenting great and the barleywine looks perfect. I ended up with about 5 gallons of the barleywine at 1.085 and a little less than 5 gallons of pale ale at 1.039. It was a great brew day and I can't wait to try that barleywine this winter!
