Wort on the stoveHad a couple friends over for Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day on Saturday. We brewed up a baltic porter using some yeast from a previous baltic porter. Yeah, I forgot to check that I wasn't brewing two of the same thing back-to-back.

Things went well, which means only one thing went haywire. I racked my first porter into secondary just fine -- then I noticed the spigot was leaking a bit. Man. So I sanitized my arm and reached in there and sure enough, the lock nut had loosened on it.

My mini-mash method has me thinking of moving to an all-grain setup, although I doubt my electric stove can handle boiling that much water. Curse you, electricity! It already takes a while to boil 2.5 gallons...I think 6 or more would kill it.

At the end of the day, my friends agreed with each other that this was too much work. Better to have a friend who makes beer than make it yourself, they figured. Philistines.

Points if you know where the name comes from.

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