The Belgianish Ale Project - Feeding a fermentation

Well after listening to an interview with Sean Paxton the homebrew chef talking about how Rochefort brews their beers I decided to try an experiment. Rochefort brews 4 days and pitches the entire yeast on day 1 and adds the wort, then adds more wort the following days. They are doing this on a 1078OG beer. So I wanted to try something like this and partial because I have a 1500ml Wyeast Belgian Ale 1214 starter that was ready but did not have the time to brew with yet. So I brewed up a 1 gallon belgian style 1050 OG wort to feed to the starter. In a day or two I'm going to feed it (add to it) another wort in the 1095 OG+ range. I'd like to feed it one more time to build it up to a little over 3 gallons of around a 1080 beer. I might also feed it belgian candi syrup (dark) after that but prob only if I have time and only if its active fermentation.

Feeding 1 recipe (brewed 7/21)

Feeding 2 recipe (brewed 7/24)

Feeding 3 - life got in the way and did not do this.

Feeding 4 - ???

3 gallon batches of beer

Most homebrew batches are 5 gallons of beer. However for a long time now I have been doing smaller batches like one, two and three gallon batches. I've really come to like the three gallon batches. They fit in a 5 gallon carboy with no blow off of overflow. They are about 30 bottles so just right for having some to share/trade but enough to have some of your own. As you might guess, I still bottle. So bottling 30 bottles saves some time. Also I just did two 3 gallon batches at once. I find that I can brew more often yet get a good amount of beer still. It also saves a bit.

To accomplish this I use hopville.com for formulating and scaling recipes. I keep the percentages and OG, IBU and stats as close as I can. Sometimes its hard to keep SRM the same as some quantities do not split nicely. Hopeville.com does not do grams either so sometimes the spec'd recipe is a bit off from brewday. Overall I have had great success in small batches. You do have to watch the pitching rate but 3 gallons for a smack pack or vial is a good amount.

I'm also looking a making a 2 liter bottle keg.

ColdFusion 9 & Bolt Public Beta. Special CF Meetup today.

ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder (formerly Bolt) are now on Adobe Labs.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusion9/
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusionbuilder/

Also there is a CF meetup special session today with Terry Ryan presenting on Centaur and Bold. This is basically an online CFUG meeting done via Adobe Connect. Just bring your browser. http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/10841349/?a=nr1p_grp

CF 8.01 - vulnerability

UPDATE: Adobe hotfix for below issue. http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-09.html

Please read.
http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2009/07/
http://www.codfusion.com/blog/post.cfm/cf8-and-fckeditor-security-threat

FCKEditor vulnerability http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-007.html
FCKEditor patch 2.6.4.1 http://www.fckeditor.net/whatsnew