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I've got a keg, co2 tank, double regulator, and a beer gun (I figure I'll always have some use for it even once I have a proper draft system - if only to make a few bottles for trips).
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hello beer thread I decided to brew last night, and realized (as I unboxed my gear) that I had not brewed since I bought a house and moved ~3 years ago. so loving shameful. brewed a simple wheat beer, 6lbs 2 row, 2lbs wheat, 1lb 20l caramel, some hallertau and tett hops, salt, black pepper, coriander, and a last minute decision to add a nonsubstantial amount of honey and rice syrup. sorta ended up doing a semi-decoction mash due to some issues with not planning far enough in advance with my mash schedule. (read : ohgod, my mash is stuck at 135 and I don't have enough hot water to heat this poo poo, gently caress it, let's pull some runoff and boil it) 1.47 OG, probably a 18-20 SRM, darker than I wanted - and pitched some wyeast belgian wit. feels good to be back in the game - will clean out my mold-filled kegerator, and pressure wash my mold-covered kegs this week. hurray. one keg has a gose a friend of mine talked me in to kegging about 2 years ago, super excited to taste it. it was sour as gently caress 2 years ago, and we basically forgot about it, so gonna be a fun one. pretty likely all my poo poo is contaminated with brett or something, but I love sour beers so I guess gonna zen out and embrace it. mindphlux fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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Jun 5, 2017 10:13
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That's the right attitude My New England APA just went in to cold crash. 1.040 down to 1.007 in 3 days. All hail Vermont IPA yeast. Aka the king of eating sugars. Dry hopped with 1g/L each of Brooklyn, simcoe and cascade one day into fermentation to try get biotransformations, and then again with 0.5g/L cascade and 1.5g/L simcoe. I would've liked to go a gram per litre of each but my lhbs is a 20 minute drive from work and I didn't have the time to get there today, also the competition I brewed it for is on Friday so I figure I better get a move on. 8 days grain to glass, if I wasn't dry hopping it would be 3. Good healthy pitch and a monster fermentor
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Jun 5, 2017 11:26
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Anybody else keg Skeeter Pee? Just kegged 2.5 gallons of it and it is goddamn delicious when just a bit frothy on the rocks. No back-sweetening needed, just cool crisp lemon alcohol on a hot summer day.
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Jun 5, 2017 15:22
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Does anyone know of a source for heavy 500ml cappable champagne style bottles? I'm looking for something like the bottles Wicked Weed uses.
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Jun 6, 2017 03:29
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internet celebrity posted:Does anyone know of a source for heavy 500ml cappable champagne style bottles? I'm looking for something like the bottles Wicked Weed uses. https://www.txbrewing.com/equipment/bottling/bottles/morning-beer-bottle-500ml-1838.html They have a ton of bottles and those might even be the ones Wicked Weed uses. https://chicagobrewwerks.com/collections/racking-bottling/products/bottles-wine-500-ml-morning-dark-green-12-case Here too, but TX brewing as $7.95 shipping. Jhet fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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Jun 6, 2017 04:19
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internet celebrity posted:Does anyone know of a source for heavy 500ml cappable champagne style bottles? I'm looking for something like the bottles Wicked Weed uses. https://www.brewnorth.com/products/12-x-500ml-belgian-style-bottles
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Jun 6, 2017 11:25
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How many of you here have Cereal Killer mills and would like to have a larger hopper?
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Jun 6, 2017 18:20
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Jo3sh posted:How many of you here have Cereal Killer mills and would like to have a larger hopper? Yes please. Did you figure out how to fabricate one that won't come off the nut every third time I use it?
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Jun 6, 2017 18:24
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Jo3sh posted:How many of you here have Cereal Killer mills and would like to have a larger hopper? I have one and I am fine with the hopper. I am using a drill to turn mine though. If I had it hooked to a wired motor a large hopper would be nice, but still not even that necessary. It's not exactly hard pouring more grain in and the time savings are pretty minimal.
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Jun 6, 2017 18:25
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Jhet posted:Yes please. Did you figure out how to fabricate one that won't come off the nut every third time I use it? I think so. I'm prototyping something up in the next few days. The first piece is printing now. I will keep you posted. Is this what yours looks like also, with the mounting bolts at each end?
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Jun 6, 2017 18:34
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Jo3sh posted:I think so. I'm prototyping something up in the next few days. The first piece is printing now. I will keep you posted. That's the one. I still have it mounted to the board it came on and those are just shaking loose and the hopper is coming off.
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Jun 6, 2017 18:42
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I have one and haven't had any trouble with it. 
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Jun 6, 2017 19:35
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I too have a Cereal Killer. No problems with it at all.... love it... but the hopper is way too small. I don't like having to do 5 pounds of malt at a time [/firstworldproblems]
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Jun 6, 2017 20:38
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If this works out, I should be able to get 20-25 pounds in my hopper. Which still isn't quite enough for some of my batches, but means one refill instead of six or seven.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:14
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Tell me about bottle conditioning. I've done an invert with brown sugar a few times, but haven't been 100% happy with my results. I feel like I've had inconsistent carbonation levels. Should I make an invert? What sugar should I use? How much do I need to make? Other options? I've seen bottle conditioning tablets...
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Jun 6, 2017 23:07
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Just use corn sugar in boiling water. There's no need to do anything fancy. There are priming sugar calculators out there that will tell you exactly how much to use to hit specific volumes of CO2. Also, make sure you stir your priming sugar solution in very well. I've made that mistake before and had similar inconsistency issues.
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Jun 6, 2017 23:15
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I just use sugar cubes because they're cheap and one per bottle is perfect for a generic level of carbonation. Probably not ideal if you're trying to recreate certain styles that are flatter or fizzier than normal ( British-type ales, etc. ), but it's good enough for my purposes.
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Jun 6, 2017 23:28
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Here's a pic of the Cereal Killer setup in progress - note the 3D printed Lovejoy coupler and the riser that aligns the mill with the motor. The black disk on top is the beginnings of the hopper I was talking about earlier. I'm thinking I will finish the hopper and build a rolling table for the whole setup this weekend. 
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Jun 7, 2017 02:47
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^ That's starting to look pretty cool. One of the next projects on my list is to hook it up to a motor instead of using my drill. Also building it a table with a shoot that I can clean all the dust out of without hating. I also kegged my first beer last night and was it ever easy. It easily saved a few hours of work in packaging because of how easy and little cleaning it was compared to washing 50-60 bottles every time I package.
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Jun 7, 2017 18:56
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I just talked to my dad - I'm going over to my parents' place on Saturday to build the rolling table. The printing of hopper parts is going well, I should finish the last of them tomorrow. With any luck, I'll have something real to show off by Saturday night or Sunday.
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Jun 7, 2017 19:06
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mah ghetto-fab fermentation fridge. just slapped a $20 network enabled temp/humidity sensor in it, it's working actually really well. started off a lil cool, adjusting up my temps 
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Jun 8, 2017 08:40
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I love this cold winter weather. Currently using my non working ale fridge (that maintains as low as 16C) to do a foreign extra stout on Franconian dark lager yeast
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Jun 8, 2017 10:46
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McSpergin posted:I love this cold winter weather. Currently using my non working ale fridge (that maintains as low as 16C) to do a foreign extra stout on Franconian dark lager yeast ... meanwhile the reptile heating cord I ordered to heat my fermentation chamber arrived, and is a European plug for some reason 
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Jun 8, 2017 11:03
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mindphlux posted:just slapped a $20 network enabled temp/humidity sensor in it, it's working actually really well. started off a lil cool, adjusting up my temps Give a goon a link?
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Jun 8, 2017 14:05
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McSpergin posted:I love this cold winter weather. Currently using my non working ale fridge (that maintains as low as 16C) to do a foreign extra stout on Franconian dark lager yeast Man I love that yeast.
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Jun 8, 2017 15:29
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Has anyone here used the White Labs Sacch Trois 644? I'm planning on brewing with it this week before leaving on vacation and was wondering if leaving at room temp around 75-80 degrees would work while I'm gone. Grain bill is 12 lbs of pale malt, 1 lb crytal 30, 1 lb flaked wheat, 12 oz flaked oats, 8oz of rice hulls for a better sparge. Using Amarillo at first wort for and Galaxy, Citra, and Amarillo for late hop/whirlpool and dry hopping.
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Jun 8, 2017 15:48
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Goons, how badly have I hosed up: I just bottled a beer the other day and it went fine, but today I was flipping back through the instructions to idly double check my work and remembered I'm supposed to make a solution of the priming sugar, I just dumped it in the beer and stirred for a few minutes before bottling. Is this going to stop my beer from carbonating? If so is there a way to fix it or did I just ruin my whole batch?
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Jun 8, 2017 15:57
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It will be fine. There's no need to freak out.
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Jun 8, 2017 16:03
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Yeah, if you gave it a thorough mix you'll probably be fine. At worst your carbonation might be a little inconsistent.
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Jun 8, 2017 16:19
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Awesome. Thanks, guys!
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Jun 8, 2017 17:29
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BrianBoitano posted:Give a goon a link?
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Jun 8, 2017 19:30
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BrianBoitano posted:Give a goon a link? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0081UR76...la-313100824740 this. I debated buying it for a while because ALL GOONS DEBATE BUYING poo poo ON THE INTERNET AND READ A MILLION REVIEWS but I'm pretty convinced anyone who gave it a bad review either had a defective unit, or were not technically savvy. The setup honestly was a little weird, you have to connect the sensor unit via hardwire ethernet, read a little quickstart thing to understand why your dumb chinabox is just sitting there flashing red lights, wire and pair up your sensors to the main "basestation" or whatever you wanna call it, download an app, create an account, register/license(??) your sensors with the company, press buttons with correct timing, etc. Not really plug and play, but it was 20 bux and once set up seems to be rock solid.
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Jun 9, 2017 08:25
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If that thing could control my STC controller on my fermentation chamber, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I travel a lot for work and being able to tweak temps remotely would be awesome.
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Hobby electronics are kinda of a pain in the rear end that way. I was really into the concept of the BrewPi when the dev was initially working on it, but when it came time to look into buying it / putting it together, it was just a mashup of dozens of individual parts. The long part being like "go to 18 different websites and order the following 2-3 parts from each one" which is tons of fun! None of it was particularly HARD to do, but losing track of any piece causes the whole thing to fail. No one seems to want to take any of these cool electronics integration ideas and put them through any sort of "finishing phase".
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Jun 9, 2017 14:29
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rockcity posted:If that thing could control my STC controller on my fermentation chamber, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I travel a lot for work and being able to tweak temps remotely would be awesome. This may be doable with one of the modified STC firmwares.
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Jun 9, 2017 14:53
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 Has anyone seen this stuff before? It's Sour Cherry juice at 25% and sugar at 86g per Liter (it's 1L of liquid). Regardless of sugar content which will ferment, it's only pasteurized and contains some citric acid and no sorbates or strange ingredients. My grocery had a few other flavors of the juice at $1.50 each, so I may stock up for fruity beer supplements. Sour Cherry saison maybe soon?
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robotsinmyhead posted:Hobby electronics are kinda of a pain in the rear end that way. I was really into the concept of the BrewPi when the dev was initially working on it, but when it came time to look into buying it / putting it together, it was just a mashup of dozens of individual parts. The long part being like "go to 18 different websites and order the following 2-3 parts from each one" which is tons of fun! None of it was particularly HARD to do, but losing track of any piece causes the whole thing to fail. BrewPi guy has more or less done that now, but has been OoS for a while and I didn't get a response from him when I asked him if/when he expected more on Twitter a few weeks ago. I've been meaning to get into hobby electronics anyways, it was impetus to finally pick up an eBay soldering station so I can do a few small repairs on stuff I have laying around + hopefully tackle stuff like a BrewPi build.
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Jun 10, 2017 01:15
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Jhet posted:
Buy tart montmorency cherry concentrate. That's what I did for my sour cherry dark saison and it came out pretty drat good. I used 16oz in a 5 gallon batch and it was pretty spot on. It is readily available on Amazon.
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Mill update: Got the cart built today with my dad. Still working on the hopper, though.
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