The brew went really smoothly last night. Gilly came over to help and later Murph and Jen came too, so it was a lot of fun. My new intercooler that I made from copper tubing and some clear hose works great. I hooked it up to the faucet in the laundry room downstairs and it cooled my wort from 170° to 70° in about 15 minutes! I was able to dump my yeast starter right in (the yeast starter worked beautifully by the way).
Also bought a new brew kettle - a cheap aluminum one from Menards that is made for Turkey frying. I made a mashtun from a rectangular cooler as well. The strainer for the mashtun is a water supply hose with the inside rubber hose removed, and I put a ball valve on the outside to control the flow. It worked great, but I might build a manifold for it in the future.
The Erlenmeyer flask came in handy again tonight because the fermentation is getting pretty violent. I used my racking cane and some tubing and attached it to the airlock hole, then put the other end in the Erlenmeyer flask with some sanitizer water. It is bubbling like crazy so that is always a good thing. Go yeasties GO!
More updates will follow.
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I forgot to take the original gravity again!
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