Casey's Beer

This morning I got up, put water on to boil for coffee, and water to heat for brewing.

Today’s beer was another variation of the intended pale beer. The grain bill and hopping are fairly well established, I’ve been brewing a similar beer for quite some time. I am still playing around with the yeast.

The yeast I used today is a new one for me. Excuse me for being coy about which strain.

After making the coffee and drinking it, the brewing water was hot enough to mash in. I had crushed the grain yesterday afternoon in the shop. During the mash I heated more water for mashing out and sparging, and got the kettle and burner ready along with several other things.

All the time I had just been wearing a yukata, a light cotton kimono. I had got as far as hoiking the sparge bucket onto two milk crates placed on a bench when my wife yelled out “You can’t brew in a yukata!” I though I had done fairly well. Apart from the clean up at the end, the only thing I thought I couldn’t really do wearing a yukata was to lift the kettle on to the bench at the end of the boil before running the wort through the heat exchanger.

Yukata and gum boots, now there’s an attractive look for an owner-brewer.

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