It's Brew Night! I have a liter starter of Wyeast American Ale ready to rock and roll. It's been sitting in some 1.045 wort for about 36 hours now. I purchased the NB RyePA kit that features their new Rye Malt Extract. I still enjoy doing some extract brewing here and again. It's very simple, and typically takes me a couple of hours from start to finish.
The recipe for the RyePA is available to the right. I will pop the info into beer tools later this week, and post the pretty recipe breakdown to my blog tomorrow.
On the stir plate front, I've collected the following parts.
1.) Wooden Box - Pipe Puffers in Greenwood sells used cigar shipping boxes for $1.
2.) CPU Fan - Harvested from a 1999 Gateway 2000 computer
3.) Rare Earth Magnet - Harvested from 1999 WD Caviar 2GB hard drive
4.) Potentiomter (25 Ohm) - RadioShack - $2
5.) Toggle Switch - Radio Shack - $2
6.) Power Supply - I have a 5v Blackberry charger I was thinking about using. More to come on this item.
7.) Quick Disconnects - For the inside wiring - RadioShack - $1.50
Not too shabby for $6.50 in total spend. I also had to get a new $10 soldering iron. Mine bit the farm.
