ohiobrewtus

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I can't get Fat tire where I am, so I'm just going to have to brew it.


The mash in my 10 Gallon cooler:



Final runnings to recirculate, looks pretty good to me (although it's not really as dark as it appears in the pic):



Draining to my much to small boil kettle:



The 210k btu beast in action, bringing the wort to a boil:

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Beerrific

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I have one of these sitting in secondary right now, waiting for me to collect enough bottles. I can't get it here either, bought a 6 pack when I was on the west coast last week. Looking forward to comparing.

ohiobrewtus

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The boil has started and 1 oz of 6.7% Willamette pellets have been added:



Boiling 5 gallons in a 5.5 gallon stockpot (I do not recommend this, BTW...)



My commercial brew selection for this session (along with a few of my own brews that are not pictured:



The Brewputer:

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c.n.budz

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I think you're going to melt your pot with that burner

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Knucklehead Brewery, Est. 2007

Always do sober what you do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. -Ernest Hemingway

ohiobrewtus

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It's much more impressive in person. It was only opened up about halfway in that pic. EdWort has a video on YouTube showing the same burner in all it's glory:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IjoFXonPWfQ

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seawort

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I used mine for the first time two weekends ago and had to really keep it low or was wasting heat pushing it around the edges of the keggle. I realized that it had heated the skirt up to glowing red at one point and had to step it back a touch more. Too many BTUs is unlikely to be a problem however, just saving propane, and it is refreshingly quiet. I bet your fat tire clone is better than fat tire by the way. I find fat tire to be rather uninteresting these days compared to anything homebrew and I hope you have some better micro brews around there you just have not found yet. Otherwise... MORE brewing for you!

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"I drank what?"
denny's rye IPA on tap
Nothing In the primary

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while I'm posting pics I thought I'd share these as well...

Me and Brewgirl #4 who's 5 months old now... yes, I have 4 daughters. Good thing I know how to brew and have a lot of guns...


Brewgirl #4 again (she's drooling because she wants a beer, not because she's teething):


SWMBO training Brewgirl #4 (ya, it's bmc swill, but at least it's a start lol... and yes of course the can was empty):

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ohiobrewtus

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This burner takes some getting used to that's for sure. This is my 14th brew with it, and I'm just now getting a feel for how much I need to open it to get what I want.

I hadn't brewed an amber in a while, I've heard a lot of good things about Fat Tire, and I can't get it locally so I figured what the heck.

Here's the recipe I used. If it's any good I'll move it to the recipe section.

Dough-in to 2.75 gallons of 174' water the following grainbill:

5 lbs Munich
4.5 lbs American 2 row
1/2 lb. Crystal 90L
1/4 lb Victory
3 oz. Biscuit

Mash for 60 min holding at 152-155
1st batch sparge with 2 gal 170' water
2nd batch sparge with 1.5 gal 170' water

I'm dealing with a 5.5 gallon kettle, so I brought 5 gallons to a boil and added 1 oz of Willamette 6.7% aa

At 30 min I added the remaining 1/2 gallon from my second sparge

at 15 min 1/2 oz of Hersbrucker 3.8% aa
at 5 min 1/2 oz of Norther Brewer 6.6% aa

We'll see how it turns out in about 6 weeks.


-OB

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Ryanh1801

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nice, I need to get a burner like that. It took me 30 min to get a boil going today. Man a 5.5 gallon pot, whooo.

ohiobrewtus

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Yuri will soon be curing the 5.5 gallon kettle problem for me

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