Staying on track, huge weekend!

[jivex5k]

Going to have an incredible weekend. Pretty excited and just want to share.
First of all, tonight I'm heading over my buddy's place to celebrate his birthday. I've got a 2012 bottle of Black Tuesday we are going to open, going to be great! It's easily my all time favorite beer, with the 2012 clocking in at 19.2% it's going to be one hell of a night.

Then I kick off Saturday cutting off my long ass mane of hair that I've had for the past 2 years. I've enjoyed it, but it's time for it to go. Going from this: to this:

But that's just the start. Afterwards I'm heading to the homebrew store to get the ingredients for my third Berliner, and then stopping at a farmers market to get my hands on 5lbs of raspberries. When I get home I'll be collecting the wort from my second batch and bringing it to a boil, when finished I'll be racking my first batch onto the raspberries, and my second batch onto the yeast cake from the first. Then I might head to a local bar to meet this girl I played dungeons and dragons with last night, it was a blast.

After that I can wind down on Sunday and brew up my third batch, it's easy since I'll just be mashing, cooling it to 120, and then forgetting about it for 6 days while it sours. But damned if Saturday isn't going to be busy as hell.

[Beer-lord]

Life is good heh?
Enjoy it all while you can and party responsibly (regarding that 19.2% beer---what a way to kick it all off).

[joechianti]

Wow. You clean up really good. Very nice.

[Inkleg]

How ya feeling today? How was the beer?

[jivex5k]

How ya feeling today? How was the beer?

One that was souring got infected...I know why too lol, cuz I forgot about the little airhole in my pot lid and ran out of foil. Genius idea to cover it with a towel, I mean it was a clean towel but...duhhhh
Not a big loss, I pitched it onto the yeast cake yesterday anyways since I was transferring my first batch to the secondary. Which...is coming along nicely:


It's got a great taste to it as well so it's going to be a winner. Right now i'm mashing my third batch, got foil this time lol. So it should be solid after a week of souring under the heat lamp, then i'll get to bottle this beautiful raspberry beer.
As for the infected one, well, it has a week to get it's act together or it's getting dump. The fact that it has 0 activity today after pitching directly on a fresh yeast cake makes me think it's so acidic it killed them. I mean, it's to the point of where the swallow actually hurts it's so acidic... Not a big loss, about 15 dollars in hops and grains and 5 hours of work.

I realized I need a second airlock too late last night after trasnferring my good beer to the raspberries though. I did a search online and just covered it with sanitized foil, it should be fine it seems. It had a smell fermentation from the fruit so I figured that pushed out the oxygen, though if this primary isn't bubbling soon I might just take that airlock and cover the infected beer with foil since it's already infected anyways.

[jivex5k]

Wow. You clean up really good. Very nice.

Haha thanks joe, picture is 7 years old though. I am loving my new haircut though even if I do look a bit older than in that pic.

[jivex5k]

How ya feeling today? How was the beer?

Oh if you meant the black tuesday, my god it's always awesome... Favorite all time beer hands down, I'll trade whatever I can to get it.
My buddy also gave me a growler of Gose from a brewery up north called Rapp, it's awesome, gonna crack it tonight probably.

[DaYooper]

Ha, I remember the last time I cut off my hippie hair. Every time I would walk by a mirror or a window I would wonder who that goober was who was following me.