Setting Carboy directly on ground not safe?
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two_hearted
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If you replace the word "energy" with "heat" then it makes sense. This is the same reason campers use a sleeping pad to insulate their bodies from the ground.
However, I never have the issue of wanting my beer to be warmer while it ferments... At least where I live.
However, I never have the issue of wanting my beer to be warmer while it ferments... At least where I live.
davesrose
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This reminds me of some case I saw on TV where a disturbed individual didn't like his neighbors and set forth to use a self made microwave gun that he sat underneath their porch. Maybe the LHBS is suggesting people have their own particle accelerator to sabotage everyone's homebrew
Actually Bro, I was teaching this back in the day when I was leading Mythopoetic Men's Retreats with folks like Robert Bly.
I was taught it by John Denver's Akido instructor or some such before he died.
It's more about the power of your mind and where you focus your attention than with the "earth" or anything like that. When you ground you're really using you mind to center into your core....
So unless our carboy's have minds then I don't think it's a good analogy.
(Unless the krausen starts forming into a BRAAAAAIIIIINNNNNNNNN!!!)
Then it can bend the spoon and ****.
DOOD, then you better do this....
You wanna really protect your johnson controls...you don't want to come in contact with the vampiric ground or you might end up a eunuch
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And my clean sanitized carboys are wearing their foil hats so I'm double covered...lol
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I didn't know the hats had to go on the clean carboys too... ****.
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Maybe the energy sucking powers could leach into the glass in the carboy.. Better safe than sorry..lol
Revvy said:Well if you have hats, you really need suits....
Never thought of that cause didn't they say it could skunk your brew also......
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Well if you have hats, you really need suits....
I think I would be embarrased to admit I've dressed my carboys in suits. Do you always?
I think I would be embarrased to admit I've dressed my carboys in suits. Do you always?
I found it on the web...But you know those concrete geese people have on their porches that old ladies like to dress for every season????
I think I might start.......
Revvy said:I found it on the web...But you know those concrete geese people have on their porches that old ladies like to dress for every season????
I think I might start.......
Bahahaha.. Use it to keep the yeast killing powers at bay....
rustbucket
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revvy you make me laugh
Man thats some good info....
I think i will experiment as a good alternative to cold crashing. Just remove the plank and earth energy will do the job.
Perfect as my fridge have no place to cold crash because of a keg and all my yeast.
I think i will experiment as a good alternative to cold crashing. Just remove the plank and earth energy will do the job.
Perfect as my fridge have no place to cold crash because of a keg and all my yeast.
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Only old ladies have them... hang on I'll be back I gotta run out to the porch for a sec.
(Unless the krausen starts forming into a BRAAAAAIIIIINNNNNNNNN!!!)
Then it can bend the spoon and ****.
Heh, that's a pic from my gallery. That was a surprise.
Oh oh.....If that's the case we demand pictures.
But that means you already have the clothes for the carboy.
I'm partial to this one.
Ok, I hate hippies. Stupid grrrrrrr makes me so frustrated.
Enough! Deep breaths Cartman...
I throw this in the bin with magnetic bracelets, homeopathy, raw food diets and ether science as stuff that I wish I'd never heard of.
Enough! Deep breaths Cartman...
I throw this in the bin with magnetic bracelets, homeopathy, raw food diets and ether science as stuff that I wish I'd never heard of.
That must be it! Somebody told this guy not to put a "CaCar battery" on the ground and he heard "Carboy"
Elshupacabra
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This comes from leaving car batteries on the concrete. Supposedly if you leave a car battery on a concrete surface for an extended length of time, the concrete will act literally as a "ground", complete the batteries circuit and actually drain the battery.
It's a fairly well circulated rule of thumb in the mechanics' circle and is mostly believed to be true. Some research indicates that it was really only a problem when batteries' cases were made of rubber instead of plastic, since the electrolyte could actually penetrate the rubber and "seep"(for lack of a better term) into the ground.
Interesting that someone has adapted it (sort of) to the beer world though! :fro:
It's a fairly well circulated rule of thumb in the mechanics' circle and is mostly believed to be true. Some research indicates that it was really only a problem when batteries' cases were made of rubber instead of plastic, since the electrolyte could actually penetrate the rubber and "seep"(for lack of a better term) into the ground.
Interesting that someone has adapted it (sort of) to the beer world though! :fro:
r8rphan
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I always avoided looking down so I never knew about that....
r8rphan
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Just don't set the wood on end......
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Does help to support the container that being said the milk crate for me.....lol (milk)
r8rphan
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Al Gore told me that carboys cause global warming , scratch that, climate change, and that I now must buy carbon credits from his company to make up for my crimes against his mother.. cause my carboys are using earths energy and creating CO2 while they do it.. And Michell says my carboys have too many calories and my portions are too big!
Somebody should regulate this!
Good thing I'm already poor!
Somebody should regulate this!
Good thing I'm already poor!
r8rphan
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I'm gonna use this thread as my new ABV calculator.. Read it before and after partaking of my delicious home brew and record the difference...
r8rphan said:Al Gore told me that carboys cause global warming , scratch that, climate change, and that I now must buy carbon credits from his company to make up for my crimes against his mother.. cause my carboys are using earths energy and creating CO2 while they do it.. And Michell says my carboys have too many calories and my portions are too big!
Somebody should regulate this!
Good thing I'm already poor!
Don't even try to compare to the beef/meat industry but I think it's all good cause then I couldn't get my CO2 tank refilled....
r8rphan
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I need to jump on the bandwagon.. I think I'll start collecting CO2 by shoving tubes up cows asses, and selling it as earth friendly CO2 for beer.. Hey, beer makes you fart anyways, right..
Wait, that was methane I think... not CO2.. Oh well.. I'll refill cigarette lighters then.. That way, as smokers are polluting the earth, they can balance it out by saving the earth by using recycled cow farts to light their cigarettes... I bet the guy at the LHBS will buy some.. He can light his peace pipe with it...
I can set up a booth at burning man..
Maybe I'll get a nobel prize or something.. Can't wait till this stock goes public...... Easy street, here I come!
Woo who!
Wait, that was methane I think... not CO2.. Oh well.. I'll refill cigarette lighters then.. That way, as smokers are polluting the earth, they can balance it out by saving the earth by using recycled cow farts to light their cigarettes... I bet the guy at the LHBS will buy some.. He can light his peace pipe with it...
I can set up a booth at burning man..
Maybe I'll get a nobel prize or something.. Can't wait till this stock goes public...... Easy street, here I come!
Woo who!
Hermit
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The explanation is crazy but those suggesting that he is talking about heat are probably right on the money. Before I had a fermentation chamber I used the concrete floor in my basement to help control my fermentation temperature. You can use this too good effect under the correct circumstances. "He claims that the earth naturally draws energy into itself and it will draw energy from anything in contact with the ground." Actually, drop an ice cube on your basement floor and energy is more likely to go from the ground to the cube. I'm sure he just had trouble properly understanding Steven Hawkins speech synthesizer while he was attending Cambridge University. :rockin:
r8rphan
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The only thing even remotely similar to this that I know of is the fact that if you sit a car battery on concrete it will lose it's charge. I however am no hippie.
AHA!!!! i knew better!!! i always keep my boys... car, truck, or any other kind... above ground. that water gets cold and deep
That was common myth regarding car batterys as well...in fact a warm battery will have more bower than a cold battery and putting a battery on wood insulates it from the cold. Here is another battery tid bit, if it is reeeaaly cold out and your car turns over slow....bring it in the house and put it by the heater for an hour....it will bring new life to a cold battery, doesn`t work if it is dead though, hehe!
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