Racking My Brown Ale to the Clarifying Tank
My brown ale had been sitting in the primary fermenter for about nine days and I wanted to rack it to the clarifying tank before this weekend as I will not have time with my grandparents coming into town. The carboy had been cleaning overnight with a mixture of PBW and water and after I emptied it out I sanitized it along with my racking cane, flexible tubing, air lock and rubber stopper.
Tonight I used Star San for the first time to sanitize all of my equipment. I usually use iodine and the Star San produced a lot of foam. Even after I rinsed out my carboy there was still some suds left behind so I rinsed it out with some tap water. I think that it will be okay as I have rinsed items with our tap water with no ill effects.
Once everything was sanitized I pried open my brew bucket and noted there was a nice ring of krauzen around the top of the bucket. I then put the racking cane into the bucket, attached the flexible tubing and allowed the sanitizing solution to run into an empty pan. I then moved the tubing into the carboy and allowed gravity to move the beer from the brew bucket.
As things were winding down I filled my hydrometer tube with some brown ale in order to take a reading. The original gravity after temperature correction was 1.055 and tonight’s reading after temperature correction was 1.020. I was on the upper limits of the OG for the style and it looks like I am on the upper limits for the style with my FG.
Not wanting to let the young beer I used to measure the FG go to waste I sampled it. Even though it is very young, only 10 days old, it taste really good. I am really looking forward to bottling the brown ale in about two weeks.
Enjoy!
Maybe some day I’ll be able to comisserate on the beer making stuff with you.
Is it just me or is the wordpress UI really cluttered and unfriendly now?
They’ve decided to plop a Alltel tower down at the end of our street. Argh! Wishing I was up there to attend the meeting this thursday!
Just one more thing the seller failed to disclose.
I agree. The new WordPress UI is horrible. There are little boxes everywhere and it is very cluttered. So much for 2.7 being an “improvement”.
An Alltel tower at the end of your street? It could be worse, like a 450 unit subdivision.
I’ve seen you previously mention that you had some involvement in a development near downtown. Is that going to be a 450 unit development?
Are they crazy?
Every house we looked at a year and a half ago in and around town is still on the market.
The house we made an offer on July of last year is still on the market— now at a price lower than we offered — and which [our offer] was so rudely turned down!
They should offer a ‘classic’ option that restores the older UI. I take ten minutes figuring out where stuff is and see stuff that I don’t care about. I don’t care about stats!
There are plans to build a planned unit development at the old stock yards. You can check the land out by going to the end of Cherokee where it intersects with Water Street. The plan puts the majority of the homes behind the Winn-Dixie with access to U.S. 19 and Coopers Pond Road. It still is in the early stages and I am not sure how many units they are planning on, the 450 was just a figure I threw out there.
This might help.
I got rid of all the junk on the main page that I didn’t want to see.
http://support.wordpress.com/screen-configuration/
Thanks! I minimized the bar on the left and then turned the boxes off. Would be nice if I could move them below the box where you write in, but when I try to they jump back. Oh well, it’s a little better.