Nerds (Nerd's?) Wine
brewing- OG
- 1.044
I haven’t brewed in quite a bit but with the impending move, I have been sorting brewing equipment to decide what moves and what doesn’t.
My 5 gallon stainless steel conical fermenter is a no-brainer; it’s one of the best fermentation vessels I have. Otherwise, I have some round-bottom Fermzillas, a couple conical Fermzillas, and a couple Speidels. If anything, I might move the Speidels but I think it’s time to move on from these Fermzillas. (They can’t be trusted to hold pressure forever, but it has been great while it lasted.)
While cleaning the stainless fermenter, I realized I still had ~20lbs of Nerds candy. Why? Here’s why. Well, if the fermenter is clean and freshly sterilized, might as well brew one last time…especially since it was a hit at a former Pennsic…
So we’ll see how this goes, again.
9lbs of Nerds candy 1lb reserved to back-sweeten Voss yeast
The Tilt hydrometer is reading an OG of 1.044 and I hope to get to 1.012 for an expected ABV of 4.2%