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Marshmallow Blue posted:UPDATE: They should be on your front porch Hooray! I am on my way home work now and this is most pleasant news.
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vulturesrow posted:So I just transferred my first batch ever from fermenter to bottling bucket. What's the best way to wash out the fermenter? I've already rinsed it out but haven't scrubbed the brown ring at all. If it's plastic, don't scrub it with anything abrasive -- scratches are great places for contaminating microbes to hide. An oxygen-based cleanser like PBW or Oxiclean Free does a good job. I try to rinse off what I can and then mix up some Oxiclean with hot water in the fermenter and leave it for a few hours. With a bucket, you can use a soft-ish cloth like a washcloth to get pretty much anything and probably not need the cleanser.
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Der Penguingott posted:Hooray! I am on my way home work now and this is most pleasant news. Sweet let me know that none are broke
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internet celebrity posted:Definitely had not even considered that, thanks for the heads up. You think 12 hours past pitching would be preferable to 24 hours? Yeah, I think so. I did mine at 12 hours on fill blast oxygen and poo poo went everywhere
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Dec 19, 2014 00:51
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Marshmallow Blue posted:Sweet let me know that none are broke My kitchen floor is completely covered plastic bags now.... Everything arrived safe and sound! These look fantastic, thank you! The labels look really good in person. I can wait to try the meads.
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ExtremistCow, everything arrived safe and sound. Excited to try them out! Paladine_PSoT, your package will arrive soon. I'm sending it out tomorrow/Monday. Yakadan fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Dec 19, 2014 |
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ExtremistCow posted:
Cool, I'm always revealed to hear that beer boxes arrived safely. Enjoy and please send me your criticisms.
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Dec 19, 2014 02:19
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Well here is vulturesrow homebrew #1. I am way more excited about this than I thought I would be. I couldn't stop smelling the bottling bucket while I was bottling. Can't wait to taste it.
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vulturesrow posted:So I just transferred my first batch ever from fermenter to bottling bucket. What's the best way to wash out the fermenter? I've already rinsed it out but haven't scrubbed the brown ring at all. Then rinse, sanitize, cover the mouth (I use sanitized foil) and store for next time.
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vulturesrow posted:So I just transferred my first batch ever from fermenter to bottling bucket. What's the best way to wash out the fermenter? I've already rinsed it out but haven't scrubbed the brown ring at all. Do you mean a bucket or a carboy? For a carboy, soak in oxiclean free. For a bucket, unscented dish soap works just fine for me.
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Dec 19, 2014 05:39
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Jermaine Dildoe posted:Do you mean a bucket or a carboy? For a carboy, soak in oxiclean free. For a bucket, unscented dish soap works just fine for me. Yeah I should've specified, I was using a bucket. I'm soaking it in warm water and some oxiclean. Used a washcloth to get the remaining crud off that didn't rinse off.
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Dec 19, 2014 06:26
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 My secret santa gift came! 2 funky ciders to cellar and 2 Dogfish Head 90 Minute clones. Everything arrived in great shape and I am looking forward to trying these.
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Looks like the day after xmas is gonna be a nice 32 degrees. A perfect time to fire up my xmas gift (dark star burner). Any tips for brewing in mild cold?
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Dec 19, 2014 19:23
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vulturesrow posted:Yeah I should've specified, I was using a bucket. I'm soaking it in warm water and some oxiclean. Used a washcloth to get the remaining crud off that didn't rinse off. Don't let it sit too long. Water is very hard where I'm from and if it cools off/sits too long some salts start to precipitate out.
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Left an American stout for a month and a half in primary because I got busy and equipment kept breaking, and I've ended up with my first pellicle: It smells fruity like citrus hops (I hopped at the end with Columbus and Centennial and it still smells like that... actually, kind of like Citra, even though I didn't use it) and doesn't taste noticeably infected (I've had lacto and maybe pedio infections previously, on no-boil Sahtis, and have also intentionally used lacto in Berliner weisse and it doesn't taste like that). It's fuzzy-looking and seems confined to the surface, so it could be mold, but I'm not sure since I've never had a pellicle before. Gravity has apparently been stable for the month that it's been sitting there. What should I do with this? Rack from under and bottle anyway?
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Marshmallow Blue posted:Looks like the day after xmas is gonna be a nice 32 degrees. A perfect time to fire up my xmas gift (dark star burner). Any tips for brewing in mild cold? Have a second propane tank ready, keep it warm, and swap the tanks when the flow rate drops on the one feeding the burner.
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Scythe posted:What should I do with this? Rack from under and bottle anyway? Yeah. Keep an eye on the bottles if they start getting overcarbed. But otherwise it should be fine. A little sour funk in a stout can be good.
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I have this ball lock attachment:  Which is obviously grey/gas into keg. Is there a way that I can buy a barb attachment to make it for liquid out for my picnic taps? Also, I want to add that I hate living in a town that is 100 miles away from a homebrew shop. There's always that $5 item you are missing, need and will cost you $15 to get every. drat. time. This and I need some WLP833 and yep. I'm out of that too. 
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You can just force it on. It'll be a bitch to get off but it works in a pinch.
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I mean, you can get 1/4MFL to barb fittings, but that doesn't address the point that the posts are slightly different and they are intended to be non-cross-compatible. I guess you could also swap the posts on the keg, but then you have the issue of getting gas into the keg. I guess you could swap an in post from a different keg on, but then you'd have wonky kegs. Which ain't the end of the world, if you remember what you did and to put it back when you have the chance.
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Wait a minute. Ball lock posts aren't universal?
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So I made some mead, 2 gallons. Primary fermentation was together in a 2gal plastic bucket, second fermentation was separated in 1gal glass jugs. I just bottled it now, and the taste/smell was way off from what it should be. It sat around for longer than I would have liked after racking it the second time - maybe 4 months - without being bottled. Any thoughts on what might have happened? It may be just been a bad batch, but it seems that it may have gone vinegar. If its gone vinegar, are there any uses I can have for it? If I do end up drinking it, any risk of getting seriously sick?
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Massasoit posted:If its gone vinegar, are there any uses I can have for it? Massasoit posted:If I do end up drinking it, any risk of getting seriously sick?
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Dec 19, 2014 23:07
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Daedalus Esquire posted:Wait a minute. Ball lock posts aren't universal? Nope. I can't find the picture right now, but if you see them side by side, they are noticeably different.
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 Not a great photo but they are different. I learned this when I had to break a beverage out adapter off of a gas in post. If you note the little grooves in the hex part of the right post- that indicates that it is the gas in post.
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Economic Sinkhole posted:If you note the little grooves in the hex part of the right post- that indicates that it is the gas in post. On most of mine, the liquid post is a hex, but the gas post is a 12-point star. They take the same socket, though.
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Massasoit posted:If its gone vinegar, are there any uses I can have for it? Make salad dressing, or pickles.
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Whelp. It's time to reexamine all my kegs. I now know why it's such a bitch to get some of them on and off. When my roommate and I first got our legs, they were in a large lot so we disassembled and bulk washed and reassembled everything. We definitely didn't know this and reattached them all willy-nilly. :Edit: two/three years of this poo poo and I never realized. 
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Daedalus Esquire posted:Whelp. It's time to reexamine all my kegs. I now know why it's such a bitch to get some of them on and off. First kegging mistake I made. It took me 3 hours to figure out everything was leaky and not fitting properly. That and I put the wrong O-Rings at the wrong point on the posts/diptubes. I have a detailed list of what goes with what now. At least with the F'ed up Racetrack keg I bought at KegConnection a couple of weeks ago, I know that if the part looks F'ed up, it goes with the Racetrack keg. :-D $30 Ball Locks FTW! LaserWash fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Dec 20, 2014 |
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My kegerator came fully assembled from someone else. First brew I put in it proved there's a leaky something at the tap end. I now have to disassemble it and find the cause of the uckupfay.
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My Santee just got their package sent out. When someone on here gets a parcel from Matt in Toowoomba, that's me, I forgot to throw in the letter explaining what everything is. So Santee, you get: 1/2kg each of Flaked Rye, Weyermann Chocolate Wheat, and Bairds Pale Chocolate malts. 1 pound each of Golden and D-45 Candi Syrup I had an aeration stone as well but forgot to put it in the satchel, sent it express post so you might see it monday or Tuesday. I would have milled it but I have no idea what you have in terms of equipment etc. But I look forward to hearing about your stout and dark beer adventures. Also Sixpoint Righteous uses flaked rye, there's enough there for about a 12 litre batch 
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"Grooves equals Gas" is the "righty tighty, lefty loosy" of the homebrewing world. IIRC a liquid post can work better with gas lines than vice versa but some elbow grease and positive pressure do wonderful things for sealing kegs regardless of what posts you're using.
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I'm also new to the world of kegging, and it is fantastic. Except, last night I filled my second ever keg, and I forgot to purge it. I was trying to rapid-carb the keg, so the pressure is turned up. When I remembered this morning, I turned the pressure down and tried to clear out whatever was left in the head space. This batch was a full 5 gallons so the keg was pretty full. How much damage did I likely do?
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Likely little to none.
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Agreed; you'll never notice.
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Excellent, thanks!
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Love watching the little thing spin around. :3
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Hey Blarghle I finally got to drinking that cider you gave me last year. It was ridiculous. Possibly the most intense and flavorful cider I've ever had, and definitely high on the booze content. It tasted almost more like a mead than a cider. Can I get the recipe?
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How do I get the numbers behind this fermentation profile that Beersmith gave me? What's the temperature after the initial 54 F? When do I raise it, and for how long? What's the final temperature?
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Hey Blarghle I finally got to drinking that cider you gave me last year. It was ridiculous. Possibly the most intense and flavorful cider I've ever had, and definitely high on the booze content. It tasted almost more like a mead than a cider. 5 gallons motts apple juice 10 pounds granulated cane sugar 7.5 pounds light brown sugar 1/2 container of apple pie spice(one of those little McCormick ones) 4 packets of dried champagne yeast 4 teaspoons of yeast nutrient 1 drop of olive oil I was trying to get the absolute most attenuation I could out of the champagne yeast, although I don't know how much the extra packets and nutrient actually helped. It wasn't supposed to be as sweet as it ended up, but I guess some would consider that a happy accident. I plan to make it again soon, but with the staggered sugar additions that other people have used to replicate the Dogfish Head 120 minute. nmfree posted:BLARGHLE: I got your package a few days ago, and I'm drinking your appfelwine #3 right now. Tasty! Hopefully I'll get around to putting up pics of my various homebrew christmas loots soon, as well as finally sending my package out.
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