Last night I was coolshipping some lambic outside and it was 26F out with some fierce wind. The wort was freezing in about 30 minutes even though it had just been nearly 200F.
I would think cool shipping at 26 kind of defeats the purpose no? I mean in terms of introducing organisms. I suppose it’s an economical way to chill if you’ve got the weather on your side.
As long as I don’t have to shovel again, I’m OK with it. By now, the plows have probably buried my nice clean spot.
If my plate sticker ever shows up I’m going to have to take the plate off my car and bring it in the house to get the new sticker on it.
I was thinking earlier that today could be a fun day to take the kids out and spray some water in the air to watch it crystallize. But it’s too damn cold to bother them with that.
we’ve done that with the kids but with hot water, once it flies you can hear it pop and crack as it crystallizes, it’s pretty cool(no pun intended)
As for beer, I’ve got a lot so I’m in no hurry to brew again with this weather right now. I will be making my WY1007 starter tomorrow though to get ready for my Altbier coming up:)