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  1. patthebrewer

    Open fermentation in a keg!

    Okay folks time for some hypothetical brewing:D. Before the days of vast uni-tanks, and close system brewing, all beer was brewed open. In fact there are a few craft breweries that include open fermenters in there list of equipment. Many, claim that this style of fermentation produces a richer...
  2. patthebrewer

    Looking for specific yeast strain

    Okay folks trying do something new with my Pre-Prohibition lager. Anyone know where I can find the Wallerstein strain that F&M Schaefer used to use. I think I've heard that Brooklyn Brewery uses it for their Brooklyn Lager. But someones gotta produce it right?? I meant I suppose I could try to...
  3. patthebrewer

    Arrgh!! Microsoft Demons got me.

    Ahh...yup! Finally got all my recipes transferred to Microsoft word files. Went to open one of them yesterday, in prep for a brewday.....and MS Office seems to have forgotten that it came preloaded on my pc.....and is now holding my recipes hostage, demanding that I buy MS Office...
  4. patthebrewer

    Anyone have any thoughts on this

    http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/02/26/more-water-less-buzz-in-bud-michelob-beer-lawsuit-claims/?intcmp=features I for one, have always been the skeptic when it comes to giant multinational corps......but......knowing something about the inner workings of legal commercial Breweries....have...
  5. patthebrewer

    When it Rains.....

    Sometimes life really has way of beating you down. This week My Father In law, with home I was very close, and whom I Personally took care of in his last weeks, Lost his year long battle with Esophageal Cancer. Our family is heart broken. Over the past few years I've had to have a few of "Those"...
  6. patthebrewer

    Who's injured themselves brewing

    Okay I just made a bone headed mistake, and I was rewarded for it. I'm brewing a FranzisKanner Inspired Hefe right now, and wasn't paying attention:drunk:.....I pulled the lid of my HLT which was boiling, and was Immediately rewarded with a painful steam Burn all over my left forearm. Could've...
  7. patthebrewer

    Anyone know where I can find Cluster

    I'm adding hops to the garden this year, already ordered my magnum, and cascade. Howver the one hop I can't find and have recently grown quite fond of is Cluster. I can't find a single one anywhere online. What gives? I can find all I want of it in pellet form , but not in rizhome:confused...
  8. patthebrewer

    Bought a new Micro matic Reg...got taken.

    Well maybe not taken but its wasn't the deal I thought it was either. Needed a new reg. so I stroll into the Resturant supply place we have here in northern Ocean County. Spot a Micromatic 642, usually this place is willing to deal alittle so I ask. Best they can do is 64.99 list price $80....in...
  9. patthebrewer

    Anyone Just "No Sparge"

    Anyone Just give up sparging, and Mash No Sparge exclusively? I've done it a few times, and although efficiency can send this Virgo into fits, sure is less time consuming, and Some of the best beers Ive EVER brewed have been No Sparge. What are your thoughs on this.
  10. patthebrewer

    Who else is brewing right now...

    Had my equipment sanitized and prepped up yesterday for my BIL to come over and brew up his beer, but he was sick(like so many others now) and couldn't make it. So I figured it'd be ashame to put it all away after getting ready. So I decided to do my house APA, with a twist...It's an everthing...
  11. patthebrewer

    Cheap source of kegs!! And polishing.

    Just got 4 more kegs from a seller on ebay. Selling them for $32. a piece. Initially I was put off because of the Shipping charge listed. If you email mail him with you zip though the rate is much better. Cost me MUCH less for all four, them came as described though pretty dirty, and stickered...
  12. patthebrewer

    Thinking of starting soda...tap question.

    I was thinking of putting a soda on tap in my kegerator, but I don't want to have to make it a perm soda line (I only have three taps). I read (through another post here) that root beer will permantly destroy my keg, line, and tap, or at least make it unsuitable for anything else with out a...
  13. patthebrewer

    Your kidding right???

    So the other night my mother took our kiddos out for some fun, and the wife and (Being Party animals of course) decided to get takeout and watch a movie on the couch. So we got Outback, and for old time sake I stopped to pick up some Foster's Oil Cans (nostalgic for the days I used to drink that...
  14. patthebrewer

    Wild yeast Experiment

    Okay I'm assuming that everyone has heard this story http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/30/brewmasters-beard-is-key-ingredient-for-what-ales/ Well in the spirit of being a mad scientist:D, I decided to try to see if I could do it, here's what followed: At the end of my last brew day...
  15. patthebrewer

    Any Ideas for WLP840

    My pre-pro American pilsner is due to come out of the primary( in my lager Fridge) in three weeks, I've decided to rack a new beer onto the yeast cake (wlp840). Does anyone have any ideas of style I could try with this yeast, or interesting recipes. Not really into a BMC, but I'm open to...
  16. patthebrewer

    Need recipe ideas for wlp840

    My pre-pro American pilsner is due to come out of the primary( in my lager Fridge) in three weeks, I've decided to rack a new beer onto the yeast cake (wlp840). Does anyone have any ideas of style I could try with this yeast, or interesting recipes. Not really into a BMC, but I'm open to...
  17. patthebrewer

    Really Dumb Herms Question..

    I'm planning on converting to Herms:ban:.....and planning to buy another kettle to convert into the herms HLT. I have a 10 gallon boil kettle, and a ten gallon MLT....do I get a ten gallon HLT or 15 Gallon ??? To My line of thinking (since I only do 5 to 7 gallon batchs) If I use ( In a ten...
  18. patthebrewer

    Hurricane Sandy...Is my yeast still Good??

    I live five miles from the coast in central NJ:(. Hurricane Sandy knocked out power for 8 days for us. I have a vial of whitelabs american lager yeast that I was going to brew the week of the hurricane. I was stored in my fridge which was gen. powered. I obviously couldn't leave the genny...
  19. patthebrewer

    New to Forum And need help with Pre Prohibition Pilsner.

    Hello All! I'm new to this forum but not new to Brewing. I am currently working on a recipe for a Pre-Prohibition American Pilsner. For historical accuracy I'm using six row, however I use a ten gallon Cooler MLT. As a result I'm a single infusion masher. What temp should I mash at and how am I...
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