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The Quest for Quad - A 5 year journey on making a Belgian Dark Strong Ale

https://fullstackbrewing.com/2023/03/28/The-Quest-For-Quad

Another brew day in the books. Looking to link this into a blog post about Building a Better Quad and the troubles with this brew.

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Fast Forward Half A Decade It’s Been a While… My Bad.Wow, well I have dropped the ball on this for a while. But to my defense, there have been a ton of changes that have taken place to keep me occupied. As the kids have gotte

The Tank 7 Clone from our annual New Years Brewday is kegged! Should be ready early next month!

Digging out some old hardware tonight.

Getting a late start to the brew day, but better late than never! Brewing up an American IPA to serve at a festival next month!

New kettles are in! Slowly getting everything pieced together with a goal of brewing Jan 1.

Decided to make the move and switch all ( well like 95% ) of all my connections to TC. No more thread tape! No more trying to tighten things into a certain position! Easier to breakdown and clean! Step one was to get the base inlet into the pump setup. Hoping to have everything in and installed by the end of the year.

Finally got around to kegging the cider tonight. Originally loaded with apple juice, 4lbs of light brown sugar and 4 cinnamon sticks. Then transferred to a keg with a half gallon of apple juice and more cinnamon sticks left to carbonate. Should be ready to go in a couple weeks!!

So I have used a chill plate for years. My biggest issue has been trying to get my wort down to temp in a single pass with ground water. Usually I have to supplement the wort flow through another coiled bucket with ice water. This weekend I made a solution to that problem! Put a rain barrel in the fridge so I can drop the temp down to the mid 30’s. Will need to play around with flow rates some to see how much I need to chill, but it’s a start!

Wow, it’s been a while! A lot has changed in the last year and have had little time to brew. Managed to get in a quick cider this afternoon. Hopefully I can get back into it with some projects clearing up.