{"id":21,"date":"2009-03-21T12:23:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T04:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/?p=21"},"modified":"2009-08-10T10:14:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T02:14:42","slug":"the-rack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/the-rack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off a little house keeping.\u00a0 Anonymous reader <a href=\"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/\">R<\/a> is complaining that this web log thingy isn&#8217;t all that exciting without pictures.\u00a0 I blame the web 2.0 crowd.\u00a0 Web 2.0?\u00a0 Show me the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isi.edu\/in-notes\/rfc-index.txt\">RFC<\/a> for that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, just to prove that yes, there was abalone for dinner the other night, well, here you go:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24\" title=\"abalone.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-035-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"abalone.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-035-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-035-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all that&#8217;s left.\u00a0 It was&#8230;&#8230;okay.\u00a0 I think we&#8217;ll stick with their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2008\">oysters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now on to the rack.\u00a0 I&#8217;d mentioned previously a batch of beer.\u00a0 Here it is just hours ago:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25\" title=\"carboy.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-0301-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"carboy.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-0301-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-0301-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-0301.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now racked to a secondary fermenter.\u00a0 It will sit for maybe a month.\u00a0 It could stand to clarify out and I&#8217;m not convinced fermentation completed.\u00a0 The yeast were about 18 months old.\u00a0 The rest of the recipe was more or less:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 lbs American 2-row<\/li>\n<li>1 lb crystal malt<\/li>\n<li>American Ale liquid yeast<\/li>\n<li>1 oz Cascade Hops<\/li>\n<li>1 oz Fuggles Hops<\/li>\n<li>0.5 oz Wilamette<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I used a 2 step infusion mash this time.\u00a0 I normally do a decoction mash but I didn&#8217;t feel like I had the four or so hours.\u00a0 After a protein rest at 130F for 20 minutes I added 4 gallons of boiling water to get a nice 155F mash for 45 minutes, sparging with 4 gallons of 170F water.<\/p>\n<p>The boil was 75 minutes.\u00a0 the cascade half of the fuggles went in at the boil, the other half of the fuggles and the wilamette were used for flavor and aroma.\u00a0 The primary fermentation was six days which is abnormally long but the yeast were so old.\u00a0 The brew didn&#8217;t start bubbling until a couple days into the process.\u00a0 When this is all over the beer will be kegged and I&#8217;ll make the next batch with 6 row barley (to avoid a stuck runoff) and livelier yeast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off a little house keeping.\u00a0 Anonymous reader R is complaining that this web log thingy isn&#8217;t all that exciting without pictures.\u00a0 I blame the web 2.0 crowd.\u00a0 Web 2.0?\u00a0 Show me the RFC for that. Anyhow, just to prove that yes, there was abalone for dinner the other night, well, here you go: And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,8],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beer","tag-farmers-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}