1.128 OG garbage beer

[ao125]

Yeah having 14% abv beer on tap seems like a path to avoid.

Man... If only I could have Avery's "The Beast" or "Mephistopheles" on tap in my living room, my life would be complete... short... but complete.

 

[bchurch]

I wouldn't call this a genuine help me post. This is a "hey look at me I'm drenched in gasoline and I'm playing with matches" post.

That's awesome, cheers to that

 

[pinback]

awesome thread. love the ups and downs. and really like the happy ending.

 

[Lost_Sailor15]

awesome thread. love the ups and downs. and really like the happy ending.

You make it sound like a movie. That being said.....I own the rights to the movie.

Also, everyone, I have refined my brewing techniques and knowledge a hundred fold since I originally posted this. If I were to do anything like this again, I would certainly change my order of operations. I did document my ingredient list and series of events well, so......

 

[Lost_Sailor15]

Also, I am going to carbonate with 2 volumes of CO2.

 

[kingwood-kid]

Could someone explain the logic behind "I am transitioning to all-grain, so I got rid of all my grain?"

 

[pinback]

I'd say not much logic. Just good ole fashion fun. It is a hobby after all. For him it wasn't all about the style, the numbers, or what the books say. Just a man with some grain, water, and yeast.

 

[Nyxator]

I enjoyed this thread immensely, with occasional irritation at all the naysayers. Nice work with this one! I'm convinced now that 1.052 really WAS your terminal gravity until that Beano broke down the dextrins. Also, claims that champagne yeast can't handle maltose are false. Wine yeasts typically can't handle maltotriose, but have no problem with maltose.

Also nice work on ignoring the flame comments. Those people clearly need to remove their mash paddles from their asses and relax a bit.

 

[user 103393]

+1 on having racked too early. The yeast are on their own timetable. You can't decide it's done because your schedule says it's done. The yeast don't care about your plans. They laugh at your plans. They spit upon your schedule and fart in your general direction. The yeast answer to no one, least of all us puny homebrewers. Yeast are our masters and we are nothing but their lowly servants kneeling before them asking them to grace us with their gifts of alcohol and esters. All hail the yeast.

You win a +1 internets for this. This has got to me favorite quote in a long time.

 

[scrambledegg81]

In the spirit of awesomeness:

 

[bigbeergeek]

How much Beano did you add to achieve great success?

 

[sweetcell]

How much Beano did you add to achieve great success?

this thread is indeed awesome, thanks everyone for the entertainment. i subscribe to the "use what ya gots" ethos as well. most batches i've made have started off with a well-documented recipe... then on brew day i look in freezer to see what needs to be used up.

 

[ao125]

What is Beano, and what does it do exactly?

 

[rjwhite41]

Beano is an over the counter pill for gasiness. It breaks down complex sugars into simple sugars. By doing so the yeast can then consume it. It's not something you generally want to play with in beer although I do use it in an American Light Lager that I do every year. I start out at 1.040 and it helps take it below 1.000, usually 0.998, by the way I use two pills lightly crushed. There's some threads around about it and I know BYO did an article mentioning it several years back.

 

[Lost_Sailor15]

Could someone explain the logic behind "I am transitioning to all-grain, so I got rid of all my grain?"

It wasn't so much about getting rid of all my grain as it was getting rid of all my extract. The grain was just added so that it wasn't 100% extract. I have a tendency to like brewing beers that everyone else would say WTF would you do that for. For example, this beer and an IPA that I made that on the books has 315 IBU and 9.5% abv. The human tounge can not taste that much bitterness, but all the other floral contributions make the beer amazing!

Bigbeergeek,
I added 4 crushed tablets of beano to the secondary. I was really surprised and fortunate that the gravity didn't go too low.

 

[kingwood-kid]

Okay, what I read was:

I am transitioning to all grain and wanted to purge every last grain/extract/sugar that I had in the house.

You'll see where I got all confused.

Lest anyone misunderstand me, I'm not critical of your process or disregard for style guidelines. The last thing I want to become is someone who tells people I'll never meet that they need to brew exactly like I do or have their homebrewing license revoked.

 

[urbanmyth]

Pics or it didn't happen.