Too Many Fermenters? - Page 7

frolickingmonkey · 02-21-2009, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by HSM

Brewing more to impress teh internet... pointless.

Sure, but I'm still impressed...

I've got three of my six carboys full of delicious liquids right now. Currently, I only ever drink off one keg at a time, so I've got my pipeline timed to tap a new keg every couple of weeks when the previous one blows... But I've got big dreams (and a few empty carboys to help facilitate those dreams)!

dagamore · 02-21-2009, 06:19 AM

Dont know where i found this pic, but damn thats alot for a home brew to be ferming at once.

and this sadly is my little neck of the woods.

But i will have another 6 gallon in primary tomorrow(possibly monday)

SkewedBrewing · 02-21-2009, 06:32 AM

Sadly?

I have a primary bucket, a glass carboy, a better bottle and a bottling bucket. (And the latter 2 are stuck at my parent's house back in Cleveland until I can rescue them in a few weeks)

Everything is relative...

nathan · 02-23-2009, 05:37 PM

Ohiobrewtus,
are you having leaking in the foundation? Is it bad enough you'll have to pull away the fill around the foundation, put in a epdm liner and backfill with gravel? That helped water inflow in an earthburmed garage my family put together using a wooden-frame foundation setup. But it was only burmed on 3 sides, so the gravel and rubber encouraged the flow out and around and it could escape on the 4th side...

btw, what is up with your avatar? Is that what I think it is? Please explain.

kharmajavah · 02-25-2009, 03:50 AM

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Originally Posted by SkewedAle

Everything is relative...

You're not kidding...I've been brewing for a couple of years, but have only one primary, two secondaries, and no kegs (I bottle, but some mini-kegging, but that doesn't really count).

It's great beer, but man...I couldn't drink it fast enough if I had six or seven primaries going. I need to build up my stock, though...only a few bottles left and an American Amber Ale in the primary right now. That's DEFIITELY not enough.

Luckily, SWMBO likes to help me brew and makes wine herself...so I got that going for me

nathan · 02-25-2009, 02:00 PM

once you start making lagers, it gets complicated. You have to start storing and aging things, then you realize that you can improve all your beers by aging at 32F in the keg for a while. Suddenly the beers you brew this weekend are drinkable mid-april or later. Now you have to ramp up and make sure that dedicated freezer you have for lager primary fermentations at 50F stays full, right? Otherwise you are wasting space!
ummm yeah....

BrownsBrewing · 02-25-2009, 02:41 PM

I have 4 buckets and 2 15.5 sankes for fermenters. All of the buckets are full. I will starrt a couple of ten gallon batches this weekend or during next week

TxSpyderBrew · 02-26-2009, 03:11 AM

I have 7 buckets, 5 6g BB and one 6g Glass carboy. lets see I have 3 batches of EdWorts Aplewein going in BB about 1 week apart(all a slightly different recipe) , An American-IPA that i just racked and dry hopping in the glass carboy(about 20 min ago). A Pale ale that just got put into a bucket yesterday. A dry stout that is about a week from bottling and a meed that has been in a BB(secondary) for about 4 weeks.

That comes out to 7 brews....

I live in a small apt, they all sit in my closet, which take up half of my walk in closet..... i am planing in closing in some of it in foam board with a small fridge. its hard keeping all those carboys cool in this texas heat... yes its already like 75-80 in the Fort worth area....

BrianTheBrewer · 02-26-2009, 03:26 AM

I have 4 buckets and 4 carboys going in my basement right now. Thats 8 brews in all.
My fiance wants to kill me but its all good. Hey I am not making crack...thats what I tell her.