Wables
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I had a couple of really good finds tonight!
While building my new wort chiller, I was soaking new bottles to get the labels and glue off. Up until now, my procedure has been to put 12 bottles into a 5 gallon bucket, and fill up to just above the necks with 1/4 cup of bleach and hot water. After an hour, I peel off the labels and scrub the glue off with a plastic scrubbie. Tonight, I used 1/4 cup of Oxy-clean instead of bleach, but the rest of the procedure remained the same.. I pulled the first bottle out of the bucket, and there was no label and no glue. I pulled the second bottle out, and had to look into my half empty case to make sure I wasn't cleaning pre-processed bottles! Oxy-clean and hot water stripped off everything in under an hour! Just rinse and dry!
Second find of the evening - I am building an immersion chiller for my 32 quart "Turkey Fryer" pot. I wanted the top of the coils at the 4 gallon mark in case I overboil the wart. I put 4 gallons of water into the pot, but it didn't fill half full! I continued to add water, and it topped out at 40 quarts even. Here I have been wondering why people are having trouble doing 5 gallon batches in a 30 quart pot when I have no problems with my 32. I have been sweating my pot size as I am moving into AG brewing. Shouldn't be a problem for a while.
While building my new wort chiller, I was soaking new bottles to get the labels and glue off. Up until now, my procedure has been to put 12 bottles into a 5 gallon bucket, and fill up to just above the necks with 1/4 cup of bleach and hot water. After an hour, I peel off the labels and scrub the glue off with a plastic scrubbie. Tonight, I used 1/4 cup of Oxy-clean instead of bleach, but the rest of the procedure remained the same.. I pulled the first bottle out of the bucket, and there was no label and no glue. I pulled the second bottle out, and had to look into my half empty case to make sure I wasn't cleaning pre-processed bottles! Oxy-clean and hot water stripped off everything in under an hour! Just rinse and dry!
Second find of the evening - I am building an immersion chiller for my 32 quart "Turkey Fryer" pot. I wanted the top of the coils at the 4 gallon mark in case I overboil the wart. I put 4 gallons of water into the pot, but it didn't fill half full! I continued to add water, and it topped out at 40 quarts even. Here I have been wondering why people are having trouble doing 5 gallon batches in a 30 quart pot when I have no problems with my 32. I have been sweating my pot size as I am moving into AG brewing. Shouldn't be a problem for a while.