Started brewing process early Sunday mooring (like, 12:30am) 1/13/13

Link to recipe:

http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/beerkits/PM-CarmeliteTripel.pdf

Heated excess water to ~170F

Added 1.5 gal to specialty grains for mash @ 1:30am

at 2:30 added grain bag to n gallons of water at around 170f

poked and prodded for a bit

then added original mash

added goldings

at 2:45 got wort to boil

added ~.25 oz saaz

@ 3:30 added syrup and remaining .75 saaz hops.

Removed at 3:45 — ran through terminator into carboy

Pitched yeast with coriander seed @ 4:08am

OG 1.060

Carboy was around 62F until late Tuesday, 1/15/2013, at which point, after periodic application of a heating wrap temperature got up close to 70F.  By Wednesday AM there was real fermentation finally going on.  In fact the blow-off tube got kinda clogged with coriander seed.  Cleaned it out with a coat hanger dipped in alcohol.  getting a bubble per second or so all day.

1/17/2013 07:00  Bubbling still going strong — thinking of racking to secondary Sunday afternoon?  THis is a little less than the normal week after fermentation that I would wait but there is a lot of gunk in the blow-off tube and a lot of sediment at the base of the carboy so thinking should move it off sooner rather than later.

1/17/2013 21:00  So, the thing was still bubbling, but not super-fast.  Looked as though it might be clogged from whole coriander seed

removed the blow-off tube to clean it and discovered that the carboy was under pressure.  cleaned it.  resealed it.

bubbling rate went up a lot

(could just be the de-pressurizing.

1/21/2013 13:00  Racked to secondary.  OG was around 1.027.  Still bubbling slowly.  Left carboy wrapped in therminator set at around 67-68F

1/22/2013  fermentation continues at a slower pace thru airlock.  Looks like Kraeusen has started forming again.

1/25/2013  still bubblin’