Double Brew Day! (Iron Brewer (national) and Naked Nilla)

Yesterday was the brew day for the Iron Brewer Quad Berry Wheat IPA and since I had all the equipment out I decided to make up a batch of our "Naked Nilla" vanilla porter at HD's request so that it will be aged and ready to drink when she is able to enjoy beer again.

All the pictures below come from the IPA brew session. Brew assistant today was Dax. As you can see he was ready to get to work and get the kettles out.

Next up was cereal mashing the wild rice with some of the 2-row. When this cereal mash is done it tastes fantastic! (I'm also a believer in trying your brew at every step, ever chew on a 14% hop pellet? I have)

On to the main mash. Not to much to report here except I have a new mash paddle and I think I'm in love. It's a 5 gallon paint mixer and can mix up your mash in 30 seconds with no dough balls.

Under Dax's careful watch the mash progressed perfectly and temps were maintained.

Mash complete it was time to get onto the boil process. 4 oz of hops in this boil today.

And we had to make sure to keep the homebrew gods happy. So no brewing without drinking.

OG comes out to be 1.061 It was about three points under the estimated but determining the sugar content of wild rice has proved to be inconsistent.


Here's the two batches bubbling away and the after picture of Dax and his long day.