Nooo My Carboy

[cheschire]

I have been shadowed by the brewday blues. As I was pouring my 2 gallons of boiled water for an extract batch into my carboy the heat made the glass expand and that caused the bottom to pop off. I realise what I did wrong. I didnt have my coffee before brewing!!! Whenever I dont have coffee before I do something I F*ck it up. But I have a plastic bucket stored away somewhere so I'm boiling more water now.

On a side note, any time that Ive used malto dextrin its been in high gravity spiced beers. I'm wondering how it 8 oz would effect an IPA. say 8 pounds LME, 8 oz. caramel 40L and 1 oz nugget 13%, 2 oz. cascade5% and 1 oz goldings4% and a pack of Notty OG is 1.065 without malto dextrin and 1.069 with it. How much sweeter do you think this will get? I havent really played around with the stuff.

EDIT: I guess theres not really a sweetness scale but what I want to know is how will this benefit me with an IPA? will it throw the sweetness balance out of whack enough to notice a difference?

 

[beerkrump]

Sometimes I bump the sweetness but also bump up the bittering hops. Keeping the balance, just uping the intensity.

 

[conpewter]

Yeah... I try to minimize heat expansion and contraction in the carboys. Be careful!

 

[Arkador]

carboys love prechilled wort. At least you manned up and took the blame for it.

 

[homebrewer_99]

Malto Dextrin is a non-fermentable sugar so it won't add anything except body (mouthfeel).

 

[passedpawn]

Malto Dextrin is a non-fermentable sugar so it won't add anything except body (mouthfeel).

+1. Mouthfeel.

I cracked a glass carboy in a pool. I will never use a glass carboy again. Bring on the Better Bottles!!

 

[Lou]

I cracked a glass carboy in a pool. I will never use a glass carboy again. Bring on the Better Bottles!!

a swimming pool? why did you have the carboy in the pool?

 

[Arkador]

You guys are just hard on your carboys. Mine is a workhorse after 7 years, and still brewing!

 

[cheschire]

You guys are just hard on your carboys. Mine is a workhorse after 7 years, and still brewing!

Yea this Carboy has been a family fermenter for 14 years now passed down from my dad... like I said; anything I do before I drink coffee I F*ck up... that teamed up with my inexperience. OH and the boiling water from the broken carboy de-laminated my floor

 

[homebrewer_99]

I have over 20 carboys and have yet to even chip one...any I carry will be in a milk crate...PERIOD!!

 

[passedpawn]

a swimming pool? why did you have the carboy in the pool?

Pool makes a greal chiller. OK. I know it was dumb. However, in the winter I could cool my wort down in 10 minutes.

I still do this, but I don't use glass.

 

[rico567]

Seem like there've been lots of threads on this theme lately, including a pretty badly cut arm. I have the two original 5 gal. carboys that came with my kit, plus two 5 gal. BBs, and only ferment in the plastic bucket. I've decided that the glass will only be used now for long-term secondaries (there's a Winter Ale down there now, taking a long nap), and it's Better Bottles all the way.

 

[steve57765]

I have over 20 carboys and have yet to even chip one...any I carry will be in a milk crate...PERIOD!!

20 carboys ??

you must have quite a big home brewery setup

 

[EdWort]

I have over 20 carboys and have yet to even chip one...any I carry will be in a milk crate...PERIOD!!

I bet you never poured boiling water in one either.