{"id":164,"date":"2005-04-10T08:35:45","date_gmt":"2005-04-10T16:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=164"},"modified":"2005-04-10T08:35:45","modified_gmt":"2005-04-10T16:35:45","slug":"tea-towel-grain-sack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"tea towel grain sack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the defining characteristics of home brewers is that they&#8217;re usually quite innovative in a pinch. One such example &#8211; I left my grain sack at a friends last night and needed to steep my grain this morning. I spent a fair amount of time (like 5 minutes, tops) considering the options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wait, get the grain sack, then brew<\/li>\n<li>use an old sock, but don&#8217;t tell anyone<\/li>\n<li>perforate a plastic bag<\/li>\n<li>use a tea towel, don&#8217;t tell michelle<\/li>\n<li>drop it in<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I decided on the tea towel. I used the oldest, holiest one, but rinsed it under tap water for some time because no one wants fabric softener in their beer. Then I put the grain in, tied of the top with some copper wire, and dropped it in.<\/p>\n<p>Now as I write this I realize I could have steeped the grain in a second vessel with a colander, but that&#8217;s what happens when you make hasty improvisations.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it looks like it will be fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the defining characteristics of home brewers is that they&#8217;re usually quite innovative in a pinch. One such example &#8211; I left my grain sack at a friends last night and needed to steep my grain this morning. I spent a fair amount of time (like 5 minutes, tops) considering the options: Wait, get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">tea towel grain sack<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homebrew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}