{"id":368,"date":"2007-10-08T06:08:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=368"},"modified":"2007-10-08T06:08:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:08:30","slug":"long-brew-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Long brew day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mashing the pumpkin<\/a><\/p>\n

I headed up to Snohomish this weekend to visit one of my brew buddies Scott. We were going to attempt a 10 gallon batch of pumpkin ale together first, then we’d each brew our own beers: He a Belgian-style brown, and I went for a big IPA. We started at noon – much later than we ought to have, and brewed straight to 10:30pm. Friends from Bellingham came down to hang out, assuming like we did, that we’d be done by 6pm. However, our timing was a little off.<\/p>\n

The pumpkin ale (recipe forthcoming) took much longer to mash & lauter than we expected, and we didn’t finish the boil until after 6 p.m. I suppose this is ok since it was a double batch, though we only pulled off like 8 gallons instead of the expected 10. Both the hot break and the krausen have a sickly<\/s> lovely orange cruft on top showing that it was indeed a pumpkin ale. I baked the pumpkin down here in Portland and froze it in bricks, so they looked somewhat like illicit materials, along with the hops. We couldn’t resist doing a “drug bust” picture, but without guns, the only thing we could find was an axe. Not quite the effect we were going for, but funny in its own right.<\/p>\n

Pumpkin Bust<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott’s bruin went well and finished a while before mine and looks and smells exactly like you’d hope. The Imperial had some issues because the grain was so plentiful, and I formulated the recipe for 8 gallons, forgetting that I only had a 7 gallon carboy. “Idiot” I was, and though the car had been full of brewing gear, I had not brought a third carboy. Needless to say, the mash wasn’t that efficient since I cut it short, and the gravity was a little lower than expected, finishing at 1.074. Still, it smells delightful, and the car ride home was hoppy.<\/p>\n

I had to roll down the windows several times on the drive home for fear that I would put myself to sleep with all the carbon dioxide that the two fermenting beers were exhaling. I did make it, and every time I pass the IPA, I catch a ripe, grassy smell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I headed up to Snohomish this weekend to visit one of my brew buddies Scott. We were going to attempt a 10 gallon batch of pumpkin ale together first, then we’d each brew our own beers: He a Belgian-style brown, and I went for a big IPA. We started at noon – much later than … Continue reading Long brew day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homebrew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","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=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}