{"id":569,"date":"2009-03-23T17:05:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=569"},"modified":"2009-03-23T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:05:16","slug":"marchs-fermentation-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"March&#039;s Fermentation Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;How will you grow or change as a homebrewer this Spring? How will you embrace your Spring fever and channel it toward your homebrewing endeavors?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Byron at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.homebrewbeer.net\/2009\/03\/fermentation-friday-embrace-your-spring.html\">homebrewbeer.net<\/a> poses this month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/beerbits2.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/homebrew-blogging-day.html\">Fermentation Friday topic<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been a little busy the last w months with a new baby, but that dovetails nicely with my change. I&#8217;m working on setting up a tiered brewing system that utilizes gravity&#8217;s sweet love to move water from the hot liquor tank in to the mash tun, and that same gravity to lauter the sweet wort in to the brew kettle.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, there&#8217;s the initial investment of time to build the setup, but then I&#8217;ll be able to step away from the lauter with a little more confidence to interact with the kinders during the lengthy brewing process. And the research and design process is fun.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I&#8217;m going to start brewing 10 gallon batches. I&#8217;m now set up to do so and look forward to having doubly productive brew days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How will you grow or change as a homebrewer this Spring? How will you embrace your Spring fever and channel it toward your homebrewing endeavors?&#8221; Byron at homebrewbeer.net poses this month&#8217;s Fermentation Friday topic. I&#8217;ve been a little busy the last w months with a new baby, but that dovetails nicely with my change. I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March&#039;s Fermentation Friday<\/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":[3,5],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-culture","category-homebrew","tag-fermentation-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}