One of the goals in beer brewing is keep oxygen from contacting the finished beer. For fermentation oxygen is useful as yeast prefers it and converts the air to CO2. This closed system below uses a pressurized fermentation vessel (fermentasaurus) …
Plan Bee Farm Brewery
A farm based brewery that focuses on sour and wild beers and uses locally grown and sourced ingredients for its brewing. Dog friendly with plenty of parking. A worthwhile stop to pick up some cans, fill a growler and visit …
Two Vessel HRMS System
A traditional HERMS (Heat Exchange Recirculated Mash System) is typically done with three vessels; One for hot water (known as the HLT or Hot Liquor Tank) then the Mash Tun where the grains are soaked with the recirculated liquid that will …
Small Batch Brewing
When space is limited or there is no need for more then a couple of gallons of home brew, small batch brewing is an alternative to the typical 5 gallon brew sessions. This particular “all grain” set up is constructed …
Florida to Connecticut via Giulia Super 2019
The yearly trip to Connecticut – now that the cold weather and snows have finished. The method of transportation is a 1973 Giulia Super and the route this time is via the Eastern coast of the USA taking as many …
Europe 2015 – Part One: Netherlands
June 21st – July 9th 2015 Egmond aan Zee with Mum and Pop Fisher as our guests. We then moved to a rental apartment in Utrecht shared with Baktash and Jennifer.
Europe 2015 – Part Two: Netherlands to Belgium
July 12, 2015 – Drive from Utrecht NL, to Ypres, Belgium. Our first scenic stop is Kasteel Bouvigne for a quick photo then off to some Trappist beer at Westmalle Abbey where the beer is brewed and Café Trappisten where it is served. …
Florida to Connecticut via Giulia Super 2019 – Day Two
Drive 370 mi, 8 hours, 6 minutes After most of the day spent on the dreaded I95 yesterday I was looking forward to some back roads and “blue highways”. Starting out getting some non-ethanol gas then taking the ring road …
Florida to Connecticut via Giulia Super 2019 – Day Three
Setting off and heading north on I40, the first thing to do was to fill up on some non ethanol fuel so I exited the interstate for the more scenic route 11. Heading toward the Chesapeake bridges and tunnels along …