DeRoux's Broux

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i got a cool stainless racking cane yesterday. neat little gadget. don't know why i have never had one in my 6 years of brewing???

doesn't have the little cap on the bottom to keep sediment out, but has a spring coiled around the bottom (i guess to keep from hitting bottom and cracking the carboys?). i suppose i can use the cap off the plastic cane i shattered brewing last week?

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Kephren

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I think the spring is there to hold the cane off the bottom of the carboy and out of the trub.

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The best way to store malt is to combine it with water, hops and yeast... -Charlie Papazian

wild

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I shattered 3 plastic canes before going stainless. Now if they'd just create a stainless hydrometer.

Wild

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On Tap -

1. 3 year old Oak Aged Bourbon Porter
2. Irish Red Rye
3. Robust Porter
4. Russian Imperial Stout
5. Mirror Pond Clone dry hopped with Citra
6. Mirror Pond Clone dry hopped with Centennial

Primary - Nada
Secondary -

From man's sweat and God's love, beer came into the world. -- Saint Arnoldus

DeRoux's Broux

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kinda figured, just didn't think it would keep enough sediment out. i just put the black cap on it like my plastic one. worked great.

wild, that's one reason i don't use my hydrometer much. tired of breaking and buying them!

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uglygoat

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i broke my racking cane yesterday, luckily i was done with it for the day... plastic only takes soo much abuse, and i applied way too much drunken force on it....

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A barrel of malt, a bushel of hops, you stir it around with a stick
The kind of lubrication to make your engine tick

never argue with an idiot, they'll just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

DeRoux's Broux

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hhmmmmm.....sounds WAY too familiar! that's one reason (and the only one!) that i don't like people coming by when i brew. they all want to drink my brew while i brew, and i end up ****-faced by the end of brew day.........glad they like it though!!!!!

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DeRoux's Broux

uglygoat

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i try to keep the imbibement to a minumum when i'm playing with the propain, but once the boil is over, it's on

my syphon hose took a crap on me, got all gunked up for some reason, so i was using a lenght of hose i use to sparge hot liquor with, it didn't form a good seal on the cane, cause of the diameter, so some duct tape applied fixed it up right. however, i wasn't as careful when i went to pull the hose off, and ripped the cane right in two... Grrrr....

my twenty bucks a week brew budget is already falling behind.....

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A barrel of malt, a bushel of hops, you stir it around with a stick
The kind of lubrication to make your engine tick

never argue with an idiot, they'll just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

homebrewer_99

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I've only ever broke 1 thermometer. What are you guys doing?

Now, I must admit, I've broken at least 4 Hefe Weizen glasses this past year (one this weekend).

I'm going back to Germany in a couple of week so I can get some more HW glasses.

I only have about 100 of them left!

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HB Bill

DeRoux's Broux

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i'm not known for being easy on things!!!!

my sister-in-law bought me 4 nice hefe glasses w/ my initials engraved on them. thought that was cool, 'cause i didn't have any hefe style glasses.

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DeRoux's Broux