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I admit I've been drinking this lately since my homebrew pipeline went dry... Even my bmc friends give me crap about it. But I say it's $21 spent wisely in a time of need
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I admit I've been drinking this lately since my homebrew pipeline went dry... Even my bmc friends give me crap about it. But I say it's $21 spent wisely in a time of need
I "once" used my brew pot to scald chicken's before plucking
Ha! I bought a sixer of that last weekend for sh!ts and giggles when I went camping.
**** tastes turrible as soon as it starts to warm up. Makes BMC taste good.
One time I dropped a non-sanitized pint glass into my primary bucket just before adding my yeast...and just reached into the bucket up to my elbow to retrieve it.
Two months later, it took 3rd place in the CASK Beer Blitz. Maybe I should sanitize less often.
I have spent WAY more on this hobby than my wife realizes.... (that felt good. Let's keep going....)
I have never used PBW on my brewing system (only on used kegs I just bought from questionable sources and wanted to remove stains). I gently 'wash' what I can reach with a plastic yellow and green scratch pad inside my boil kettle and trust the boiling process next time to sanitize anything else. During the boil, I circulate through a pump and my HERMS coil and back to the boil kettle to make sure those are also sanitized but I only use StarSan and IOstar on my fermenting containers.
I only use blow-off tubes. Airlocks are annoying.
I pretty much want beers to be as high-gravity as I can manage, and I don't care if they taste "hot" because I also love scotch neat.....scotch neat is also pretty 'hot' and yet it is delicious.
I hate all the sexism in homebrewing, implicit and explicit. I think the acronym "SWMBO" is demeaning to him, to her and to their partnership. I hate the gratuitous use of scantily clad women adorning various things homebrew related. I hate the needless mentions of woman as sex object or friction in our personal lives. I hate the fact that when I mention my wife I feel the need to point out that she's really cool with my brewing and I do it in a way that's also respectful of having time with her--as if that shouldnt' eb the default assumption. I hate the fact that Jamil begins podcasts with a joke about cajuns, (sort of) apologizes for being inconsiderate of his cajun audience (you know, less than 1% of the population), and then proceeds to make at least half a dozen extended jokes that should be offensive and alienating to women (you, half of it) without the slightest pause. In my opinion, this is to humor what Milwakee's Best is to beer: insipid lowest common demonmenator junk that everyone would be better off without.
Here's the confesion:
I'm too much of a coward to call people out for this ****.
(I'm not saying everyone does it, but those who do shouldn't get away with it so easily.)
I hate the fact that Jamil begins podcasts with a joke about cajuns, (sort of) apologizes for being inconsiderate of his cajun audience (you know, less than 1% of the population), and then proceeds to make at least half a dozen extended jokes that should be offensive and alienating to women (you, half of it) without the slightest pause. In my opinion, this is to humor what Milwakee's Best is to beer: insipid lowest common demonmenator junk that everyone would be better off without.
I "once" used my brew pot to scald chicken's before plucking
a few dozen turkeys, hundreds of chickens, several dozen pheasants and a couple dozen grouse have been scalded in my brew pot. (Actually, I brew in my scalding pot.) Maybe that is the "off"flavor I get every now and then. LoL. Nah, can't be....
"I'm getting a lot of gelatinized pheasant feather in this one."
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I admit I've been drinking this lately since my homebrew pipeline went dry... Even my bmc friends give me crap about it. But I say it's $21 spent wisely in a time of need
I "once" used my brew pot to scald chicken's before plucking
I think if more people used 8gal carboys for 5gal batches, there'd be less drama in the Beginner's forum.
I have just the opposite problem. I've brewed some much in the last 2 months that I haven't been able to brew because I have no place to put any more beer.
I need help with the consumption end. Anyone thirsty?
That's Homebrew Voodoo. "Beer comes out great" is the only correct answer to "Am I doing this right or not" and the justification for "You don't need to be doing what YOU do, because what I do is THIS, and..."Yup had that "problem" dang what am I going to do with all this beer.
Confession, I follow recipes closely but I have little understanding of why some stuff works well. Aside from using some campden to drive off chlorine I have little understanding of water chemistry. Friend said add a tsp. of gypsum to your mash water in this area. Beer comes out great so I keep doing it.
I hate all the sexism in homebrewing, implicit and explicit. I think the acronym "SWMBO" is demeaning to him, to her and to their partnership. I hate the gratuitous use of scantily clad women adorning various things homebrew related. I hate the needless mentions of woman as sex object or friction in our personal lives. I hate the fact that when I mention my wife I feel the need to point out that she's really cool with my brewing and I do it in a way that's also respectful of having time with her--as if that shouldnt' eb the default assumption. I hate the fact that Jamil begins podcasts with a joke about cajuns, (sort of) apologizes for being inconsiderate of his cajun audience (you know, less than 1% of the population), and then proceeds to make at least half a dozen extended jokes that should be offensive and alienating to women (you, half of it) without the slightest pause. In my opinion, this is to humor what Milwakee's Best is to beer: insipid lowest common demonmenator junk that everyone would be better off without.
Here's the confesion:
I'm too much of a coward to call people out for this ****.
(I'm not saying everyone does it, but those who do shouldn't get away with it so easily.)
After my boil and whirlpool, I just leave it sit as is. Once the temp gets down below 100F (which coincidentally occurs right before I go to bed), I move it to the brew bucket. Then, with lid on, it sits outside until whenever I pitch the yeast the next day (usually morning). I don't get any creamed corn, and I've never had an infection (knock on wood). I definitely don't get a cold-break, and I have no problems with haze.
I do have an immersion chiller, but it's not a very good one, and I can't use it in winter. In the summer, I use the same process, but let the chiller get it down to 80-90F. If I have space in my chest freezer, I'll pop the bucket in there. If I didn't have a chiller, I would worry in the summer. Before I got it, I did worry in the summer, and I would put sanitized foil on top to keep bugs from drifting in. It worked fine at the time, but I haven't tried it in quite a while, and I'm not going to recommend that for replication unless I try it again first.
A good boil and proper sanitation goes a long, long way. I do worry that I'll walk outside some morning to find a raccoon in the bucket, though.
I saved the yeast from a batch I did last month in a big mason jar. I didn't wash it or anything. Just poured it into the jar, sealed it up and stuck it in the fridge. Tonight when I got home from work I transferred the batch I did yesterday out of the kettle and into the bucket then measured out 1 cup from the jar and dumped it in. First time doing this so I have no idea what to expect.
Noticed a leak in compression union on my skanky homemade immersion chiller today when I was still at 120 F. This was recirc'ing mostly melted snow with an appropriate level of dog urine and hair. Wrapped it in a few layers of paper towel, electric tape and hope for the best.
I am sure it will be fine as I pitched on the old, unwashed, Nottingham cake...fermentation was active in 2 hours.
I use this pump in winter to run chilled water through the coils of my wort chiller. I fill up a big plastic tub with water/snow/ice while I am brewing. Attach one end to the chiller and second to the pump and I go from 212 F down to 70 F in about 10 minutes.
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Wow. I have no words. I think you win the prize for most awful confession.
Completely unrelated, I'm thinking of adopting Black Island Brewer's stance on trying other people's homebrew.
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