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Imhoppy said:
The jalapenos were really mild, sort of "green" tasting on the first pours all the way to the end. This being my third hot pepper IPA attempt. Should have done a taste test of the jalepenos before making the tincture to gauge the flavor and spiciness. Not all peppers are created equal. However, the beer did place 2nd in the IPA category at the County Fair, so at least the judge thought it was pretty good. Scored a 39/50 for my first ever competition (and using an extract kit).

My first attempt with a hot pepper IPA used habeneros which I thought was way better for spicey hot, but not overwhelmingly hot at all. And slight notes of tequila were there also. For me, it was just right. That was with 4 oz. of tequila and using 16 grams diced up fine - habeneros, seeds and all. Overall, the Kama Citra recipe is really a good one for making a hot pepper beer. Northern Brewer had recommended this kit when I inquired with them about what would be a good kit for habeneros. The tequila was my twist, instead of using "neutral" vodka for the tincture. Perfect combo it was.

My second attempt used 13 grams ghost peppers - finely sliced seeds and all, and 4 oz. tequilla, but it was overwhelmingly hot. So I'll permanently pass on ghost peppers. I find them to be super hot, with no flavor whatsoever, unlike habeneros or jalepenos.

I'll be making more hot pepper Kama Citra IPA again, but with habeneros, and next time it will be all-grain. Recommend you give your peppers a try with the Kama Citra!!

BTW, I'm dreaming up a recipe now for an all-grain chocolate milk oatmeal stout using habeneros and cocoa nibs. Can't wait to brew it and give it a taste test.
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Awesome, so dumb question but would you Muslin bag the peppers and dump the 'juice' into fermenter or simply Dump it all in without muslin bag?
 
If making a tincture of the jalapeños in vodka, you simply add the tincture to the keg. tinctures, if you have made them in advance, allow you to really dial in the heat/flavor you want. prior to adding it to the keg, you can add a small amount in milliliters to a glass of the same beer. Once you get to a set flavor/heat, you can then just scale up the tincture from a glass to the 5gallon keg and then add that amount to the keg. Worked for me on a few occasions.
 
Shot over my offer for the latest FoTD and I sanitized the last empty line in my kegerator and tapped the newest beer, the All Together NEIPA I brewed via Zoom with a buddy of mine a couple of states over. It isn't amazing, and I definitely had better commercial versions of it but it is pretty damn good.

But since I brewed it..does that make it amazing? 🤔
 
Fixed this battery operated window candle that the tiny positive and negative wires came loose from. My 1st time EVER soldering anything...and what does this have to do with What I did for beer today ? you ask ?? Well the wife told me just toss it, we'll get a new one. Well these were $16 last year. I fixed it so now that's a $16 savings and $16 aught to be a very nice 6 pack of some very decent 🎄 beer!!! Yes, I'm quite proud and impressed with myself Thankee !!! $16 for a new candle ? Bah Humbug !! I'm thinking Bells Christmas Ale...maybe something European ??
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Brewed up a batch of the House Citra/Sabro IPA (named Sabrotooth) and scoured the interwebs for Omega Lutra Kveik within about 100 miles of me; NOBODY in our area carries it. So, since the husband is off to a bowling tournament today & tomorrow, planned a road trip down to Vancouver WA to pick up a couple of packs of it. The usual online suspects have it, but earliest delivery date is 11/30; and I want to brew with it next weekend. I'll justify the $$ spent on gas by picking up a few other things I need for the brewery while I'm there. They do offer shipping, but I need a road trip.
 
seatazzz said:
Brewed up a batch of the House Citra/Sabro IPA (named Sabrotooth) and scoured the interwebs for Omega Lutra Kveik within about 100 miles of me; NOBODY in our area carries it. So, since the husband is off to a bowling tournament today & tomorrow, planned a road trip down to Vancouver WA to pick up a couple of packs of it. The usual online suspects have it, but earliest delivery date is 11/30; and I want to brew with it next weekend. I'll justify the $$ spent on gas by picking up a few other things I need for the brewery while I'm there. They do offer shipping, but I need a road trip.
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How close are you to Kent ? I got an old army partner in crime buddy there, he's now a Cpt on Seattle police..cough cough, hack....been trying to get him into homebrewing for years. I almost accepted a job at SEATAC years ago as a police officer. Just couldn't do it. Couldn't picture myself in my mid 30s chasing down street punks and stayed in the nursing field.
 
seanjwalker1 said:
How close are you to Kent ? I got an old army partner in crime buddy there, he's now a Cpt on Seattle police..cough cough, hack....been trying to get him into homebrewing for years. I almost accepted a job at SEATAC years ago as a police officer. Just couldn't do it. Couldn't picture myself in my mid 30s chasing down street punks and stayed in the nursing field.
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I'm actually just east of Kent up the hill, less than 8 miles away.
 
I steeled myself for another suicidal mission into Northern Virgina to acquire a 55lb sack of Montana Craft Malt 2-row. I haven't stocked a sack of domestic 2-row in a long time, so I'm eager to try it out. I doubt it'll be any different than Rahr or Briess, but I'm excited about it.

As usual, the window-licking, mouth-breathing, "can you help me to get this Crayon out of my nose" NoVa drivers did not disappoint. At the Sycamore Street exit I watched an Audi A7, an Audi S6 and a Lexus (who gives a $(%*@) and a whatever the Porsche-badged VW cute ute is, attempt to merge with their brake pedals for 2.3 miles. Speeds slowed to 40mph on an empty highway while these dead-fly-on-the-window -sill munchers sorted out how to perform one of the most basic of driving skills.

Together, they had well over 1,000hp and they couldn't figure out how to zipper up and merge over a period of two minutes.

If you're a Virginia driver and you're reading this, please, understand that it's you that is the problem. We're all doing our best to help you out, but it's your incompetence that is causing the problem. Also, get the $(%*% out of the left lane.
 
Bramling Cross said:
I steeled myself for another suicidal mission into Northern Virgina to acquire a 55lb sack of Montana Craft Malt 2-row. I haven't stocked a sack of domestic 2-row in a long time, so I'm eager to try it out. I doubt it'll be any different than Rahr or Briess, but I'm excited about it.

As usual, the window-licking, mouth-breathing, "can you help me to get this Crayon out of my nose" NoVa drivers did not disappoint. At the Sycamore Street exit I watched an Audi A7, an Audi S6 and a Lexus (who gives a $(%*@) and a whatever the Porsche-badged VW cute ute is, attempt to merge with their brake pedals for 2.3 miles. Speeds slowed to 40mph on an empty highway while these dead-fly-on-the-window -sill munchers sorted out how to perform one of the most basic of driving skills.

Together, they had well over 1,000hp and they couldn't figure out how to zipper up and merge over a period of two minutes.

If you're a Virginia driver and you're reading this, please, understand that it's you that is the problem. We're all doing our best to help you out, but it's your incompetence that is causing the problem. Also, get the $(%*% out of the left lane.
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You sound like me when I'm driving!!! 😂😂😂. My wife gets quite self embarrassed and I can hear her going over and over in her head what sin she committed in life to be married to a cave troll barbarian whose ready every day to destroy the horde of cursed cracker jack box licensed moronic non driving malignant idiots infesting our roadways 😂😂😂. She does at least 5 Hail Mary's to ask forgiveness for my flurry of dreadful curses hurled with utter contempt at the brain dead mechanized zombies doing their best to destroy themselves and anybody else behind a wheel...gotta love it !!!
 
seanjwalker1 said:
You sound like me when I'm driving!!! 😂😂😂. My wife gets quite self embarrassed and I can hear her going over and over in her head what sin she committed in life to be married to a cave troll barbarian whose ready every day to destroy the horde of cursed cracker jack box licensed moronic non driving malignant idiots infesting our roadways 😂😂😂. She does at least 5 Hail Mary's to ask forgiveness for my flurry of dreadful curses hurled with utter contempt at the brain dead mechanized zombies doing their best to destroy themselves and anybody else behind a wheel...gotta love it !!!
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It’s pretty much everyone who doesn’t drive like me is an A-hole. And I’ll curse you to hell. :rock:
What did I do for beer? Drank some at happy hour prices… thanks Brew Guru!
 
Lessee, I did an order 2 days ago with Hopsdirect.com. Shameless plug as I have been using them for about a decade. After placing the order, I noticed they had a black friday deal that I didn't put the code in for. Emailed and said no big deal but would appreciate if they could apply to my order. They did. AND today I got my order and thought it was the wrong shipment since the comped a pound of Bulma, Mt Hood and a hot shot of centennial extract on top of my order!

Hung out at the local HBS in Redmond WA with the Saturday afternoon brew buddy crew. Sampled a buncha stuff.

Made 6 gallons of the Czech hack (munich, vienna, carabohemia and melanoidum + nobel hops) tonight. It's cooling overnight and will pitch 34/70 in the morning.

Stir plate has Manchester yeast and 34/70 tag teaming (I've only one stir plate, so rotate between the two). The Manchester yeast was gifted by a homebrewtalkee, and it's a wierd one. In the previous ferment, and in the 2L erlenmeyer, this yeast looks like sunbursts on the surface of the sun or a snow globe that is constantly in a brownian motion. I've never seen this in a yeast before.

Tomorrow it's Tony's Pre-1970 Boddington on deck and will receive said Manchester yeast when ready to pitch.
 
Beerstein said:
Im going to keg an ESB. Used LalBrew London. Ive never had a diacetyl issue like this batch with this yeast. :mad:
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How long conditioning ? Usually just extra time in the fermenter, primary or secondary if you do secondary, at 70° or higher will take care of Diacetyl. Maybe let it go an extra 7-10 days before you keg ?
 
seanjwalker1 said:
How long conditioning ? Usually just extra time in the fermenter, primary or secondary if you do secondary, at 70° or higher will take care of Diacetyl. Maybe let it go an extra 7-10 days before you keg ?
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Thats exactly what i did. took an extra 5 days. Im just used to not having to deal with it all.
 
JAReeves said:
, a mini-walk-in that holds three kegs,

I know there is an exit to this freakin' rabbit hole somewhere...:eek:!
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I seen this a while back and was very curious to what a mini-walk-in might be but was afraid to ask as I might want one but I have my own rabbit hole and it seems to be quite full of refrigeration devices(3 for fermenting, 2 for kegs and 1 for yeast and hops).

Curiosity has got the best of me, what is your mini-walk-in?
 
ba-brewer said:
I seen this a while back and was very curious to what a mini-walk-in might be but was afraid to ask as I might want one but I have my own rabbit hole and it seems to be quite full of refrigeration devices(3 for fermenting, 2 for kegs and 1 for yeast and hops).

Curiosity has got the best of me, what is your mini-walk-in?
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Lol, it's just a bar fridge and an insulated box. It holds small kegs/hops/yeast/whatnot in the back and 3 kegs in the front. I am not temp controlling it, so it is holding at about 35F for lagering/conditioning. I have almost all of the parts for the final bit-a CO2 system inside that will also carbonate the 3 kegs while they condition. Then they can just jump into the keezer when space opens up, no waiting!

Having been in the restaurant business, I see a lot of things in reference to that experience, and this reminds me of a walk-in, just Hobbit-sized.

As for the rabbit-hole, it's crazy building (or buying) small-scale professional-level equipment. I love the beer it makes, but sometimes it's hard to wrap the brain around.
 
JAReeves said:
Lol, it's just a bar fridge and an insulated box. It holds small kegs/hops/yeast/whatnot in the back and 3 kegs in the front. I am not temp controlling it, so it is holding at about 35F for lagering/conditioning. I have almost all of the parts for the final bit-a CO2 system inside that will also carbonate the 3 kegs while they condition. Then they can just jump into the keezer when space opens up, no waiting!

Having been in the restaurant business, I see a lot of things in reference to that experience, and this reminds me of a walk-in, just Hobbit-sized.

As for the rabbit-hole, it's crazy building (or buying) small-scale professional-level equipment. I love the beer it makes, but sometimes it's hard to wrap the brain around.
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So a horizontal collar type thing? I have seen people do similar thing for fermentation chambers.
Been thinking about a similar thing, but I only want to bring the temp down to the mid 50s to create a cellar for conditioning english beers.
 
ba-brewer said:
So a horizontal collar type thing? I have seen people do similar thing for fermentation chambers.
Been thinking about a similar thing, but I only want to bring the temp down to the mid 50s to create a cellar for conditioning english beers.
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Exactly right. It's drilled in the back for a temp probe, if I want to be more exact, but I think I am going to run the CO2 through there first and see how that works out. I'll post a pic when I finish the build.
 
Skipped the yeast-buying road trip because bad toothache and decided to make a batch of cider instead; which turned into a minor fiasco. Both fermonsters in use, and my 6g PET carboy is pretty much toast, so needed to use an old bucket; but the only spigot I could find was missing the nut to secure it. Bought the juice I needed and went to TWO hardware stores looking for something that would work; finally found a compression fitting that worked. Then got the bucket put together once back home, to find the spigot leaks. After much digging through random drawers and boxes, found a replacement that STILL leaks but just a drip once in a while; macgyvered it by sticking a length of tubing with some starsan in it into the spigot and tucking it up under the bucket handle. And ordered some new spigots.
 
I finished assembling a spunding valve. Not that it takes very long or is hard to do or anything but I got the gauge separate from the rest of the parts. Kind of makes me sound like a slackard...

Ok well the other day I finished attaching my RO system to my brew rig. By finish I mean I added a feed line to the already mounted RO system. So I put a garden hose fitting on 3/8 tubing and a barbed x 1/4"NPT on the other end...I did have to go to Lowes to get a push to connect fitting. Kind of funny in itself as I don't think I have ever gotten out of Lowes with such as a small cheap item before. I was kind of embarrassed actually...I tried really hard to think of something else to buy too but drew a blank...I'm going to brew this weekend I swear I won't be a Slackard!
 
Deadalus said:
I finished assembling a spunding valve. Not that it takes very long or is hard to do or anything but I got the gauge separate from the rest of the parts. Kind of makes me sound like a slackard...

Ok well the other day I finished attaching my RO system to my brew rig. By finish I mean I added a feed line to the already mounted RO system. So I put a garden hose fitting on 3/8 tubing and a barbed x 1/4"NPT on the other end...I did have to go to Lowes to get a push to connect fitting. Kind of funny in itself as I don't think I have ever gotten out of Lowes with such as a small cheap item before. I was kind of embarrassed actually...I tried really hard to think of something else to buy too but drew a blank...I'm going to brew this weekend I swear I won't be a Slackard!
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I need to install mine as well. If you learned something cool in the process, put up another thread. Inquiring minds want to know!
 
Knocked off work early and cancelled my calls with Asia this evening, therefore took the opportunity and brewed up 5 gallons or so of Tony's Pre-1980's Boddington. I have a big honking pitch of Manchester yeast on the stir plate that is just raring to pitch in the morning. London III my ass. Two previous test drives with Manchester have gotten me in the ballpark, so fingers crossed this time I get on plate.

My 1040 Czech hack (munich, vienna, carabohemia, melanoidum, tettnang with 34/70) is bubbling away nicely out in the garage at a decent lager temp of maybe 56F. Did a big 2L pitch on the stir plate. I don't have temp controlled fermentation, so I look forward to brewing with the seasons. I do a lager or three every year starting around this time. Usually it's a Thanksgiving lager brew day but premature wort this year.
 

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