lets see your full Fermenters

hey cooldood. What is that?

 

Second batch, this one is a partial grain Scottish Ale

 

Here is my first ever brew. A dry Irish Stout all grain kit from NB. All went well and I've been enjoying it for about a week now.

 

My first run with the sanke fermenter. 11gallons of Saison fermenting away at 88*.

 

Hey, that look familiar!!! Rock on!

 

The big one is a club project that's gone buggy, and the little one's full of an oatmeal stout (3rd fill).

 

Another batch of pilsner lagering in a spare fridge.

 

Tallgrass Velvet Rooster Belgian Tripel Clone

 

Well two buddy's need to brew so they came over yesterday first Dough in was at 2:35 last boil finished at 11:55 and we knocked out 55gal not a bad day


Trash can fermenter, 3 DemiJohns, 2-6.5 carboys and 5gal bucket all HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY

 

Very sad. As of yesterday, this is what my Caboy looks like for the first time in quite a while:

Can anyone diagnose my problem? There is no bubbling it seems really thin...

 

Apfelwine wine waiting for the imperial stout to vacate the oak cask.

Brett, pedio, lacto cultures.

 

Hey man, how do you rack outta that small cask? I am ready to do the [email protected] thing!

 

11 gallons of a hoppy American Wheat. Gumballhead inspired...

 

New sour to ferment in the barrel and some wort in the coolship.

 

How do you sanitize a barrel for fermenting?

The "coolship" is obviously a keg cut in half. What is the purpose of that?

You have quite the interesting brews going. I assume that you are in Alaska with the name Chugaach. Good hobby for winter? Steve

 

1. Burn some sulfur strips in it, campden tablets, etc. I didn't do anything to mine, I like wild stuff.

2. It's for collecting wild yeast.

3. I'm from AK, but currently in Maine for another 2 years. Wife is in residency. Plan is to move back to AK June 2015 and go pro. (but we'll keep that between us...)

 

Interesting. The wild yeast thing is all a mystery to me. I know that brewing existed before the existence of yeast or even microscopes was even known. Lambics and other beers use wild yeasts. My only experience with a wild yeast was a batch of Pale Ale that got a nasty "phenolic" taste. I had two carboys from the same brew kettle and only dry hopped one, which got the phenolic taste. It must have gotten infected while dry hopping. Several experts and Papazian.s book diagnosed the problem. The beer was beautiful and perfectly clear but undrinkable.

 

9.75 Gallons of a Blonde Ale. Trying two different yeasts for comparison.

 

Bíere de garde brewed yesterday.

 

Brewer's Best American Amber w/ wyeast 1056
6.5 gallon glass carboy, second brew, first beer, and first time in glass

 

stout on the left (hit 1.070... should be a fun one)
IPA on the right (1.060ish)

 

Looks good! I just bottled a chocolate stout and started drinking my Founders' Rye clone. Do you get away with just an airlock for fermenters? I always seem to need to use a tube and bottle and not use an airlock until the secondary (if I need a secondary).
I just acquired a third, 15.5 gallon keg. I already use one for the mashtun and the other for a boil kettle. Does anyone ferment in a keg? I can see cleaning as a problem but there must be a way to clean without a steam jet.

 

40 Gal Berliner Weisse. Open fermentation in a stainless drum. Running out of room around here...

 

Nice! What's the tubing for? Sampling? I have yet to brave an open fermentation...I guess that would be a good beer to try it with.

 

guessing it was for o2?

 

for the most part airlocks are fine for me, if i run into an issue where it gets up too high and about to blow, i just put a few drops of fermcap-s in and all is well... the stout almost blew though, that one got super close!

And as for the fermenting in a keg, people do it quite often, just take the spear out and use an orange cap for the lid.

Cleaning, either use a pond pump and hot PBW or oxyclean or soak it in hot water with oxyclean are the 2 i can think of.

 

Heres a lil 1 gal I did last night.

 

The photo is filling... tube is beer in. Ball lock at base for sampling

 

That's badass! My goal is to get to this level.

 

Yesterday's brew was my first all grain and first recipe. It'll hopefully be a honey wheat.

 

Yesterdays brew =todays mess!!! First timer.... learning my lessons the hard way. Haha

 

6 12 gallon batches...

 

Tough act to follow, but....

~10 gallons of an all Belma IPA:

 

nestar:

 

Here are 2 I have going right now. On the left is a Brown Ale an on the right is an Oatmeal Stout.

 

American IPA. kegged right after pic was taken, now i have to brew this weekend. empty carboys are unacceptable.



CR-

 

I ask swmbo how the kids are doing and she replies with pictures like this.

3 of our current lineup.

The youngest. A cream ale birthed on Tuesday.



The mail mans kid oatmeal stout.




The oldest, almost 16 months, a sour saison.

 

Holy crap! Someone has a 69/70 fastback!!! More pictures of the car, please! LOL!

 

Yea that car is pretty sweet.