Roger has been doing all the preliminary work on this batch. It's his baby!
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11/26/2006
We brewed up Roger's recipe today. He was a bit concerned that the honey would screw things up, and it just might have. The fermentation doesn't look like it's vary vigorous. This might be a problem.
We also tried something new with the chilling coil. I have a small sump pump that does 600 gallons per hour. We put this in a 5 gallon bucket and used 5 bags of ice. This cooled the wort down in about the same amount of time as using water from the well, but we didn't use nearly as much water. About 1/2 way through Scott ran down to Lafayette Market and got 2 more bags of ice. This method may work out nicely in the Winter time.
11/28/2006
I'm hoping we got lucky! I came home this evening and there was some activity in the airlock. This is a very good sign! It took since Sunday (3 days) to see any action. I'm wondering if this will have to be in the primary an extra long time, say 2-3 weeks possibly. Roger was very happy on this turn of events!
11/30/2006
The fermentation has seemed to stop, so after a call to Roger we decided to put a heating pad on the frementer....Man did I catch crap for that! Let's hope it brings it back to life, and doesn't get it too hot! Anything over 75°F is too hot for what were doing! The bad thing is I really don't have a way to track the temperature!
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