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I just hate MS Word with a passion. What happened? It's a funking pain in the ass now. It used to be awesome. I'm certified as 93 WPM @ 90% accuracy, but whoever designed these old documents must have been high as fawk. They take forever to edit and everyone here hates change so I can't just make new ones.

Sure it's all the same pay, but I didn't take 10 years of college to play with MS Word all day.

 

No... I think we covered everything already.

I'll do an easy one for Monday.

QOTD: If your next brew were going to be a SMaSH, what would you make and why?

 

I'm leaning towards the 4 days myself. Will definitely look into a river tour.

Also looking to do some of the fun things apparently available, such as crazy ziplining courses.

 

I'm doing special pale/mosaic like Southern Tier's 2XSMaSH. Probably this weekend since the in-laws will have taken over my house. Trying to decide on yeast and hop schedule.

 

Morning. I was in Peru back in 2000. I want to say it was either 3 or 5 days trip to pick from. The 3 day is more than enough to get the whole experience. You camp out in the Andes. Get yo see machu pichu at dawn, then spend all day there in awe taking it all in. Plus it will free up more time to see cusco when you get back.

Coffee. Getting ready to drive back home. Had a great weekend in Dallas but I'm ready to get back to my dag.

 

I actually was planning a SMaSH APA for my next batch: MO and Falconer's Flight, because I've never used FF before (yes, I know it's really a blend) and I wanted an excuse to use the name "Yippie-Ki-Yay Mr. Falcon" for a beer.

Offshoot QOTD: I've been doing partial mash for a while now...for something like this, is it worth getting a couple lbs of MO to mash higher for some additional body? I'd be afraid that just using MO LME without any other grains would be too thin.

 

What's stopping you from going full AG? Equipment limitations?

 

good one....Id go for something a bit odd...maybe a sweet malt with a nice tropical hop. Vienna with Citra maybe? Maybe sorachi ace

 

Mroing.

 

I like being able to keep things on the stovetop. For the most part, PM lets me achieve the recipes I create without having to deviate much from my original setup. I could borrow my BIL's rig for a batch here and there if I really wanted to. That may be the route to take here...just take my stuff over there and piggyback on one of his brewdays.

 

Man.. that sounds kind of good for some reason. I wasn't a huge fan of the Brooklyn Sorachi Ace, but would like to give the hops another chance.

 

Pilsner & hellertau because I think it would be a great lawnmower beer.

 

I think a sweeter malt would give good balance against that lemony zest type hop. I could be wrong, I don't even brew

 

What size is your kettle?

Before I had a 20 gal kettle and bag, I had a 6.5 gal kettle and a 3 gal kettle.

I used paint strainer bags at the time. I would mash as thin as possible in my 6 gal kettle, then would dunk sparge in a 5 gal pail, and put 5 gal in the 6 gal kettle and 2 in the 3 gal kettle.

Then I would do a dual boil and split the hop additions accordingly.

It suuuuuuuucked but was able to do 5 gal AG on the stove top (though I still boiled the 5 gal outside). But I could have done it all inside.

Anyway, goofy work around, but it worked for me for awhile.

 

I really want to do a Golden Promise and Mosaic SMASH. Never used GP as a base malt and would like to try it by itself to see what it brings.

 

I've had an MO only IPA (Blackwater Draw) before and it was surprising how full the malt flavor was. No idea what they mashed at though.

 

5 gal, and I have another that is probably 2 gal. I could probably make something like that work (on a smaller batch size) if I wanted to take the time.

 

I've used MO several times in other batches (in conjunction with other grains) and I really like it as a base malt. I'll like my APAs to have some body, so I probably will stick with the PM to get a little something extra.

 

That is a good Monday question.

Can I pick 2 because I want an ale and a lager and can't decide?

Vienna and Mosaic because Vienna, and Mosaic seems to be a cheat workaround to a single hop. Ale Wyeast 1272 (Murican IPA style)

Munich 10L and Tettnanger because I want a Dunkel and have Tettnanger.
Decoct the chit out of it and lager WLP833. (Munich Dunkel style)

 

Well, I just did that Columbus/2row SMaSH blonde on Saturday... so if I were to do another, I'd probably opt for GP and Mosaic APA, keep it around 6.5%, 30-40 IBU and just murder it with late additions and a 3-4 oz dry hop.

 

Interesting. I was thinking of doing a smash with sorachi next. Great question psylo.

Any other suggestions with sorachi?

 

I know you all like to shirtbag Nugget, but I loved the smash's @psylocide and I did with MO. That beer did not last long at all. My friends said it was so drinkable...

 

I really wanted to go AG but only had a 19L pot (after measuring it out, it was actually 18L at the top, dumb). So I just used a crazy high amount of grains, mashing in a bucket. Then topped off with water. Then I got the brilliant idea to do a batch sparge and use that as the top up. The next biggest pot I had was 5L so I did 4L X 3, topping off with 12L of unhopped wort. It worked pretty well, surprisingly, but it was a lot of work. Didn't have any down time while the main wort was boiling.

 

I hope they leave that keg giveaway thread open so I can watch the rage rain down on the 1 post grand prize winner.

 

I already decided that I need to win, because all my kegs are full ATM.

Good problem to have, if 2 weren't full of RoflDIPA and Smoked Lollerporter.

 

Im too lazy to look up the post#s... any of you floccers win?

 

Winners already posted.

I'm going to need to pick up another keg or two at least probably. LHBS seems to sell pin locks for ~$50. Guess not bad right? Would be nice to have two on tap then at least one waiting.

 

If I won I was just going to flip them for ingredients/ferm chamber build money anyway. Don't really want to keg, and there's no way I'd ever have a 4 keg pipeline anyway, so it would have been wasted on me.

 

Ah, bullshirt. Didn't even check.

 

GP is an awesome solo grain. Expensive as flock though.

 

Paging @slym2none ...

 

They closed the thread so no enjoyment to be had there. At least the person has been a member since 2011 - it really would have stunk if they joined in March 2016 and that was the only post.

 

Speaking of jelly beans...

 

Good morning, time to start this rip and tear project. See ya in a month. 😉 Coffee seemed wise..

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Yeah, it's so crazy .. how are you a member since '11 and your first post is '16? Luck son of a birch beer.

Hey cool video you had, posted, somewhere... I might have to get some info from you about that beer gun if it works as well as you said it did. Looked like it filled super slow, but that's okay.

 

Yes, just a few more days! 43 entries now and the current leader is within one, so only one way to win now!

Fee free - it did fill slowly, but I had the pressure at 8 (to ensure it wouldn't foam.) I'm betting I can kick it up a bit and still be okay so I'll dial it in on the next couple of batches (next one this weekend.)

Finished with coffee. Have to carry the 23 boxes of laminate flooring down to the basement so it can begin acclimating. Doubt I will install this weekend since it's Easter and all, but maybe. I can at least get it halfway done until the cabinets for the bar arrive.

 

It held carbonation fine after bottling it like that? I only ever filled little half growlers off my picnic tap when I was using it. They were fine, but I was drinking them within the hour after filling.

 

I haven't opened one since bottling - want to do a side-by-side test later this week, but it is supposed to remain carbonated. Plus the gun has a trigger to purge the bottle with CO2 prior to filling, so if anything it should be better off than using a bottling wand.

 

Oh. Well, alright then. Look forward to the results of side by side, if I don't comment, and you think of it.. shoot me a PM. Was the gun pricey?

 

I've always used the BMBF method to bottle off the keg... they hold carb great now that I have my method down. Before, I was leaving zero headspace and was losing carb/introducing some oxygen.

Now I've got the fill level down and haven't had any issues since.

Took me quite a few times to really get it though. Thanks to @Gavin_Canttag helping me get that sorted out.