Sorry everyone! Evidently I have a problem reading the calendar. SoupNight will not be tonight on the 1st of this month, but it will be next weekend on the 8th. Hopefully nobody shows up at our place tonight looking for soup. Sorry again for the misdirection. Hope everyone can make it next Saturday.
Cheers,
Jonny

Hey folks! So the time of year has come for Annie and me to start our Fall and Winter monthly soup nights!

The 1st thing to do upstairs was to pitched the yeast and set the lid and airlock. I kid you not... after I finished washing the last of the gear and walked out of the kitchen I saw the airlock bob. It was just a little one, but it was a bob! I swear, I've never seen one start that quickly before. It's been moving steadily since. Today it finally seemed to be slowing down.

Can someone tell me where the Nov meeting will be held? And what time. Thanks
Jim Townsend
jft1941@bellsouth.net

The boil went on for ever, but other than that was uneventful. Maybe it wasn't really that long, but I was really exhausted. I was seriously thinking that this was the last batch of beer I'd ever make... My feet, ankles and legs throbbed from being on my feet all day. But I couldn't very well stop!

So, I have the grains in the mash tun, the hops on deck (and laid out with a timer ready to count the minutes backwards to each addition).

1. Columbus at 0 minutes
2. Cascade +30
3. Cascade +15
4. Mt Hood +15
5. Cascade +15
6. Cascade & immersion chiller +15
7. Irish moss +5

During the painful wait for the mash timer to run out, I went to get my mash schedule so I could gather the hops I needed. When I looked at I had, I was hit on the head with one of those "What the #&%^?" moments, that we all have every now and again. What was I thinking!?

* .75oz Columbus 75m
* 1 oz nugget 60m
* three .5 oz drops of Cascade 45m, 30m, 15m
* (Total IBU's 98.7)

The following day, Sunday (October 19th), I was lazy and didn't start moving on the batch until almost noon. I really wasn't sure I could do it. But the reason I prepped the yeast was because I knew it would make me brew. (Yes, I'm that 'frugal'). So once I felt I had a good yeast culture, I know I had to make myself get to it.

I gathered , sorted and cleaned up my hardware (including my still virgin mash tun). I also rounded up my "software"; grain, DME, moss, sanitizers, etc. The hops were still in the freezer, more on that later.

I brewed today, the 1st batch since my surgery. Here's how it went. (I'm going to do this in installments so you dont have to suffer through one long BOORING read...)

The base recipe is Doug's "New Water IPA" modified to be a partial mash. With 7.44 lbs of grains and 4lbs of light DME it promised to be a pretty good IPA, then I got started on it.

So let me start with saying that there is nothing wrong with my wheelbarrow!