hobby #234

All-Grain Beer Brewing

Brewing beer from scratch — milling and mashing malted barley to convert starch to fermentable sugar, sparging and boiling the wort with hops, then pitching yeast and controlling fermentation. A deeply measurable craft: mash temperature and pH, original and final gravity by hydrometer, water ion profiles (sulphate-to-chloride ratio), bitterness, and fermentation-temperature control all shape the final glass.

Two Ions and a Bag of Malt Later

I fell into a forum argument about water ions meant for my dying flytrap, and somehow there's now a wort-swaddled pot cooling on the stove at 3am.

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