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VAl. I am truly envious of your setup. Truly. Happy Sunday to you from central time zone/TX
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val214
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I like your fancy nothin. hats off mate
Your kegertor labels, pics, perlicks and clever setup, crafted mash paddle, fly-sparge etc speak volumes.
val214
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All that is just due to spending too much time on the forum and getting ideas. Along with being budget.
SupervisingChildren
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Just got off the phone with my brother after an almost 4hr call. Much needed. Rye cherry wheat and bed.
BeerMeDuffMan
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K.
Let's do this thang. Mroning all
Let's do this thang. Mroning all
pointcity-homebrew
Crafting openers 1 at a time
I am about to run over to the lab and grab our welder. I have a bolt that is sheared off on my exhaust manifold so I am going to do the old weld a nut to the broken bolt trick.
It would appear that after sometime Chevy would learn and use a better bolt for this application.
It would appear that after sometime Chevy would learn and use a better bolt for this application.
French press while getting ready to make breakfast. Yeast are busy at work doing their magic. Have to take the son out to shop for next weekends camping trip, then make a huge pot of chili for Saturday dinner.
Michigan winter brewing problems...beer is not in ferm chamber because I'm afraid it is too cool in the basement for the yeast to do their thing in 7 days.
Now remember. You want to weld the nut to the bolt, not the manifold.
About to see if we can still get snow tubing tickets for today. Might get rained upon, but shall persevere after all.
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1977Brewer
Free Dan Hess.
Yall killed it last night. French press. Church. Not brewing today dammit.
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1977Brewer
Free Dan Hess.
53° in the basement this morning. Very small amounts of airlock activity detected. No way this is ready for St. Paddy's Day. Funny thing is, I have no plans for St. Paddy's Day...just want to have a few HB on that day and maybe give some to the neighborhood buttholes.
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Currently enjoying a glass of 'Murican breakfast tea. Black tea, smoked black tea, maple syrup and hickory smoked bacon jerky. Dayum this is money.
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BeerMeDuffMan
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Intriguing. Iso. Commercial blend?
geoffey
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Coffee and recovering. Drank a whole bottle of So it Happens it's Tuesday on my own last night intermingled with a few pours of four roses. Impromptu dinner with the neighbors. Realized this morning I never got around to taking a gravity sample or oxygenating my batch from yesterday. Not to late for either I guess.
Looking at my notes from yesterday...my water volumes were all jacked up. Seems to happen to me a lot. I have too much going into the ferm and miss my OG. Not that big of a deal usually but this was only supposed to have an OG of 1.050. Miss that one and you end up with a 1.045 like I did yesterday.
pointcity-homebrew
Crafting openers 1 at a time
Now remember. You want to weld the nut to the bolt, not the manifold.
About to see if we can still get snow tubing tickets for today. Might get rained upon, but shall persevere after all.
I am glad I am dealing with aluminum.
Got the fist one out, now I am going to build the others up and weld a nut and get them out, I hope.
geoffey
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Guys, is it conceivable for a beer to drop from 1.060 to 1.050 in the first 8 hrs? If so, would me hitting it with 02 at this point be detrimental?
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It's a beautiful day, Sunday rocks!
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It's a beautiful day, Sunday rocks!
wyobrewer1
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Did temperature change drastically? The warmer the wort/beer, the lower the gravity reading with a floating hydrometer.
EDIT: just did the math and it would take a HUGE [in Donald Trump voice] temperature swing to make that much difference in a gravity reading (more than 50°F swing).
geoffey
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Probably not a significant temp change. Readings were both done on a refractometer so the small sample comes to room temp almost immediately.
geoffey
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I'm somewhat guessing the OG was at around 1.060. I measured with 15min left in the boil and it was just under that, although I didn't record the actual reading. But this morning it's at 1.050 which just seems odd.
I've never taken a reading the morning after a brew. But a beer that size, I believe, is pretty much done fermenting in 3 days or so, on average (I mean actual fermenting...converting sugar...not cleaning up, etc.). If that's the case, I guess this isn't too shocking. Anyone correct me on the 3 day thing?
What yeast did you pitch? If you pitch a lot of cells that were nice and awake maybe that could drop it. Science people might say different, I don't do much science. I would avoid 02 if the yeast are already awake and actively fermenting.
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