{"id":762,"date":"2019-02-12T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/?p=762"},"modified":"2019-02-12T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:17:11","slug":"homebrewing-first-batch-at-the-new-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"Homebrewing: First batch at the new address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas my friend Kevin gave me an ingredient kit for a Belgian Saison. Those are always make for a pleasant beer, particularly during the spring and summer. I decided to set it going over the weekend and hit only a few snags along the way. I did discover, fortuitously, that the garden hose in our new place is very near the kitchen window, and ideally placed for running water through the copper wort chiller I picked up last year. The fermentation and settling still have a few more days to go before bottling \/ kegging can happen, but I\u2019m already thinking about future batches and ways to better control the process. A thermal control loop with data logging seems to be the next step!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_763\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-763\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexander-miles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1CAC068C-0684-4513-A881-AAFBDFA3E673.jpeg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"763\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/?attachment_id=763\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexander-miles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1CAC068C-0684-4513-A881-AAFBDFA3E673.jpeg?fit=3024%2C4032&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3024,4032\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone XR&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1549443903&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.020833333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Belgian Saison\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Belgian Saison fermenting in the shower.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Belgian Saison&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexander-miles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1CAC068C-0684-4513-A881-AAFBDFA3E673.jpeg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexander-miles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1CAC068C-0684-4513-A881-AAFBDFA3E673.jpeg?fit=660%2C880&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-763\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexander-miles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1CAC068C-0684-4513-A881-AAFBDFA3E673.jpeg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"Belgian Saison\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexander-miles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1CAC068C-0684-4513-A881-AAFBDFA3E673.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexander-miles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1CAC068C-0684-4513-A881-AAFBDFA3E673.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexander-miles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1CAC068C-0684-4513-A881-AAFBDFA3E673.jpeg?w=1320 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexander-miles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1CAC068C-0684-4513-A881-AAFBDFA3E673.jpeg?w=1980 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belgian Saison fermenting in the shower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas my friend Kevin gave me an ingredient kit for a Belgian Saison. Those are always make for a pleasant beer, particularly during the spring and summer. I decided to set it going over the weekend and hit only a few snags along the way. I did discover, fortuitously, that the garden hose in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/?p=762\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homebrewing: First batch at the new address<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106,116],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3y4AW-ci","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexander-miles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}