{"id":426,"date":"2008-06-27T06:30:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T14:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=426"},"modified":"2008-06-27T06:30:30","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T14:30:30","slug":"fermentation-friday-cnybrew-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"Fermentation Friday, CNYBrew style"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of Fermentation Friday<\/a>, I’ll be answering the following question: “”What is the craziest concoction you ever came up with, on the fly or prepped, to brew with?<\/em><\/p>\n

I have to say I don’t have much that really qualifies as crazy. I once used a tea towel as a grain sack<\/a>, a chip clip for a racking cane holder<\/a>, and the usual assortment of Pyrex and other kitchen gear or garden hoses in a pinch. Nothing too elaborate though.<\/p>\n

I think one of the worst mid-process “hacks” I made was during one of my first bottlings. I misread the instructions on adding priming sugar, so instead of adding sterilized water with sugar in solution to the bottling bucket, I added sugar in individual measurements to each bottle. As if this wasn’t inexact enough, I didn’t have a funnel at the time (college) so I used a sheet of paper from the middle of the ream (seemed the cleanest). The beer turned out awful and in some cases insanely carbonated. I didn’t have a single explosion though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of Fermentation Friday, I’ll be answering the following question: “”What is the craziest concoction you ever came up with, on the fly or prepped, to brew with? I have to say I don’t have much that really qualifies as crazy. I once used a tea towel as a grain sack, a chip clip … Continue reading Fermentation Friday, CNYBrew style<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-beers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}