January Marzen
Today was brew day! I finally, after nearly 8 years of absence from this hobby, brewed 5 gallons of Märzen/Oktoberfest.
Everything went well and all the equipment is working fine with no hitches. I don't like brewing on the stove top, but I don't have my outdoor cooking rig ready to go yet. I still have to build my immersion chiller and get a propane tank. Does anyone have a 20lb propane cylinder that you want to donate to a great cause?!
This is how you have to cool your wort when you are cooking partial batches on the stove top rather than cooking full batches outdoors and using an immersion chiller.
This is my hydrometer test jar and the yeast starter I used in this batch. The yeast was going nicely when I pitched it to the fermenter and my original gravity reading was 1.054, which was just a tad higher than my estimated 1.051.
CLICK HERE to view my brewing log. It contains the details of this brew...