Recent content by seatazzz

I tried my best to formulate a cheeky response to this, but after trying to work "standing" and "falling" into where we eventually find ourselves, I got lost. Although 'falling' to reason kinda insinuates that one falls, hits one's head, and sees reason after being pummelled into submission by...

All of my kegs are cornies, so don't really have a setup to recirculate unless I want to buy more stuff. Shaking every few minutes worked just great. The leftover solution did a number on my plate chiller though, lots of brown flakes came out of it after only 30 minutes recirculation each way...

Here's one that might be good for the noobs. You've maybe read about this lovely stuff called PBW (powdered brewery wash); relatively cheap, and advertised as great for cleaning your equipment. You may have looked at the price and thought, oh heck no, I can do just as well with storebought...

So that was yesterday. Today I'm finally doing something I should have done a long time ago; giving the empty kegs a good soak with hot PBW, to get rid of the crud on the inside that no amount of scrubbing will remove. First time using PBW, hoping for good things. Will also use it on the carb...

Yesterday finally pulled up my big girl pants, and tested the WF lager I brewed on Monday; that was the poopiest poopshow of a brewday that I've had in a long time. (See Don't Do That for details). It's not my best, but nothing off and no infection. Set it to crash last night, and will get it...

Given that coriander is the seed of the cilantro plant, and cilantro tastes like soap, it falls to reason that there may very well be coriander on Uranus. If you're into cleanliness and such, that is. At least this made sense to me at the time.

Bittering hood? Is that yet another new gizmo that I will have to get??? Oh it got bittering hops, and late hops, which after boiling again probably turned into MORE bittering hops, so this got bittering hops to the nth degree. It's taking off this morning, under pressure so it should be...

This is going to be a rough one to write. Kicking myself still, a few hours later. Been a weird weekend for work, mainly due to the fact that the system our omniscient leaders make us use crashed big time Friday night. Just came back up today, but not without several sessions with Tech...

Not really FOR beer, but ABOUT beer. Taking our Rad bikes on a trip today, taking the Snoqualmie Valley Trail up to Carnation to visit two breweries we haven't been to yet (yes there ARE breweries we haven't been to yet, amazing). Will post pics and stuff later.