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2 cups of coffee & 2 more days to go till I finally get paid. I can pay for the Driver tools program that'll put back 32 drivers that are missing or out of date. Damn hackers & windows update. It dosen't automatically look for drivers...just security stuff. No smokes,no beer ready...I'm about to slip past downright bitchy!:mad:
 
CliffMongoloid said:
morning coffee... woke up to my stirplate not spinning... looked at it a bit then gave up and needed to head to work... this gives me something to work on tonight- i wonder if my starter will be ok today just in the flask not spinning... oh well
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just manually swirl it every now and again. Will not be as effective as fully stirplated, but you still are started.
 
BGBC said:
What numbers (temp/volume/desired vol CO2) did you input on that site to get 2 oz? The default values (2.5 vols/70 deg/5 gal) spits out 4.47 oz, which jives with NB's.
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I think I did 1.7 vols because of the suggested range for english browns of 1.5-2.3. Obviously I wont be going that low anymore but it also helps when there isnt a range for a particular beer but instead just one number

wobrien said:
Take it to work with you :D
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That would have been fun trying to explain why you are stirring this thing all day long. they probably would have asked why you didnt make a stirplate :D
 
Fuzzymittenbrewing said:
Hey Allen did you get a lot of citrus from your Nelson saison? It hit me big when I had that sample but maybe its the 3726 or the temp of the beer. (Never used NS before)
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I get strong white wine flavors from mine, it's probably helped by being so dry (1.002). I have used Nelson before, but this was the first time using it by itself.
 
CliffMongoloid said:
morning coffee... woke up to my stirplate not spinning... looked at it a bit then gave up and needed to head to work... this gives me something to work on tonight- i wonder if my starter will be ok today just in the flask not spinning... oh well
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Wow i woke up to the same issue... Kindof. Woke up to find my stir bar had been thrown from the magnet an had gone about 7 hours without spinning.

"No big deal" i say to myself so i just recenter the stir bar and turn her on right? Wrong! Like a moron i didnt take into consideration the amount of off gassing that would take place if i were to shake the starter so after just one second on the plate an eruption occurred.

Boy was i pissed. After cleanup and figuring out i lost between 300-400 ml of starter. I need about 367 billion cells. With my 2L starter i wouldve gotten 360. Now with my 1.7 L starter im not sure how many cells ill have. Anyone know how to troubleshoot or get a guesstimate? Is it the same as if i started with my 100 bil pkg and just added it to a 1.7 liter starter? Or would it be less because of it being a top feementing ale yeast and the top 300~ ml is what ended up on my floor. Good thing i have a pkg of us05 in my fridge. Was making a starter if 1056 btw.

Anyone know of a formula or way to figure this or am i just guessing at this point.
 
songe said:
American brown ale. After carbonating in bottle in cold condition. wow clear nad tasty beer
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I prefer not to have a nad taste in my beer. But, that's just me. :D
 
A couple beers that I brewed a while back are really starting to come into their own. I brewed a NW pale ale kit from Brewcraft in the first week of June that I thought was too sweet, but over time has really improved. The hop flavor is much more pronounced and the maltiness seems to have subsided, which is odd because I always thought the opposite would happen. Not too many of these left since I've been drinking quite a few of them over the past 3 weeks (after hardly drinking any the first 3 months).

Same can be said for a belgian witbier kit from Midwest I made back in April. Initially, it tasted really bad, IMO. Almost sour, and didn't really have any belgian flavor. After about 5 months it's become one of my favorites. You can really taste the orange peel now and it doesn't have a hint of sourness to it.

I dunno if I'm doing something wrong or if homebrew really does improve over time but pretty much all the beers I've made (especially the two listed above) have improved after a couple of months. FWIW, these are all extract brews, and I used the late addition (roughly 5 minutes left in boil) method.
 
Dave37 said:
Wow i woke up to the same issue... Kindof. Woke up to find my stir bar had been thrown from the magnet an had gone about 7 hours without spinning.

"No big deal" i say to myself so i just recenter the stir bar and turn her on right? Wrong! Like a moron i didnt take into consideration the amount of off gassing that would take place if i were to shake the starter so after just one second on the plate an eruption occurred.

Boy was i pissed. After cleanup and figuring out i lost between 300-400 ml of starter. I need about 367 billion cells. With my 2L starter i wouldve gotten 360. Now with my 1.7 L starter im not sure how many cells ill have. Anyone know how to troubleshoot or get a guesstimate? Is it the same as if i started with my 100 bil pkg and just added it to a 1.7 liter starter? Or would it be less because of it being a top feementing ale yeast and the top 300~ ml is what ended up on my floor. Good thing i have a pkg of us05 in my fridge. Was making a starter if 1056 btw.

Anyone know of a formula or way to figure this or am i just guessing at this point.
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Well at least yours still works- mine is prolly shot.... i did make it outta all free parts tho so i cant complain
 
Bwahahahaha

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CliffMongoloid said:
Well at least yours still works- mine is prolly shot.... i did make it outta all free parts tho so i cant complain
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Minewas originally a free part set up minus the project box i used but my fan was such a p.o.s i had to buy a new one. Drinkin water at work ready to go home and check on my starter. Hope the stir bar didnt get thrown again.

Lookin forward to another Jai Alai or 4
 
Went to a great BBQ spot for lunch with some coworkers. There was a decent line and they had a couple kegs of Lone Star sitting there for anyone to help themselves to while they wait. I guess they do this every day.

If it wasn't for one or two of the people in the group, the rest of us would have definitely taken a couple pulls from those kegs...Would have gone great with the BBQ too...Damn. Back at work and drinking water now...
 

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