Brewing A Dubbel!

Well it has been a couple days since I got my Dubbel finished, and its currently fermenting, well trying to. We wanted to brew at the last minute and didn’t have time to do a starter, so I pitched two vials of WhiteLabs WLP530 Abbey Ale yeast. I had been told that it was doable… so I did it. It has been a couple days now and not seeing much activity. Was it the best thing to do? I am not so sure, but it will be a good experiment. But next time, and every time from here on out, I am going to be making a starter. I just want to make sure that I have enough of those little buggers, so that it gets things going quick enough.

This was only my second all grain batch and I have learned things both times and I am loving it. So it is a learning process, and something where each session is going to be better then the last, but it is a process. Notes, I need to be taking copious notes. I did, a little bit, in my Beer Alchemy, but it definitely can improve. I am working on a brewday checklist, since I tend to forget a step or two cough cough gravity reading cough cough. I am still getting used to the process though, since its not quite second nature yet.

So here are some pictures of my day and the (very) fledgling Strongrope Brewery. Not too many though, I unfortunately found out that the manufacturers memory card for the camera holds ten pictures (What the hell is that?!)