• Please visit and share your knowledge at our sister communities:
  • If you have not, please join our official Homebrewing Facebook Group!

    Homebrewing Facebook Group

A friendly place for friends who drink

Homebrew Talk

Help Support Homebrew Talk:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Coffee and appointment #1 on the day. Accidentally took swmbo's keys with me this morning after moving her car out of my way, so likely running home to drop them off at some point.
 
aa72fde231b900b50b4c23069ead318a.jpg
 
Coffee.

I've been watching HBOGo on my Amazon FireTV stick for the past 4-5 days. I noticed this weekend that after watching a good 5 episodes of something that I will get a lot of "buffering" attempts. It seems like it happens around 8 pm on Friday/Saturday/Sunday. Normally I'm not laying around on the couch for that amount of time, but I had to. That said, I've had to reset my modem and router each time to get out of it. Almost as though I need to empty the cache or something. Has anyone ever experienced this? I know my connection was "repaired" not too long ago. It was mangled outside and TimeWarner fixed it and gave me a new modem.

The modem is actually not a terrible model. It is the Arris Motorola SURFboard SB6121. I have "extreme" internet which I think is supposed to be 50 MBPS, maybe. It was doubled or some junk like that. I decided to buy a modem since TW is charging me $10 a month to lease their's. I got the Arris Motorola SURFboard SB6141, which handles higher speeds. I'm hoping that maybe that helps my issue. I don't think I'm being throttled. Internet usage for this month is about 40% lighter than the previous months, oddly.

I decided to try to get a slightly better modem. If that helps then I save that $10 a month. If it doesn't then I question whether I should go to the next level of internet for $10 more. I am paying TimeWarner $70 a month for internet today. A bundle may save me but I'm not leaving DirecTV.
 
If it doesn't then I question whether I should go to the next level of internet for $10 more. I am paying TimeWarner $70 a month for internet today. A bundle may save me but I'm not leaving DirecTV.

All I did when I had TW was upgrade and upgrade and upgrade... the internet always sucked, they drilled holes all over my house and the best internet I had was the original package. Sorry, know that doesn't help. I'd just say, don't upgrade. Especially if you're already getting 50. Maybe it's just a peak time. I had to do the same thing when I tried to play Call of Duty on their internet. Almost every hour on the hour, the game would get real chunky and I'd have to reset my router.
 
Coffee.

I've been watching HBOGo on my Amazon FireTV stick for the past 4-5 days. I noticed this weekend that after watching a good 5 episodes of something that I will get a lot of "buffering" attempts. It seems like it happens around 8 pm on Friday/Saturday/Sunday. Normally I'm not laying around on the couch for that amount of time, but I had to. That said, I've had to reset my modem and router each time to get out of it. Almost as though I need to empty the cache or something. Has anyone ever experienced this? I know my connection was "repaired" not too long ago. It was mangled outside and TimeWarner fixed it and gave me a new modem.

The modem is actually not a terrible model. It is the Arris Motorola SURFboard SB6121. I have "extreme" internet which I think is supposed to be 50 MBPS, maybe. It was doubled or some junk like that. I decided to buy a modem since TW is charging me $10 a month to lease their's. I got the Arris Motorola SURFboard SB6141, which handles higher speeds. I'm hoping that maybe that helps my issue. I don't think I'm being throttled. Internet usage for this month is about 40% lighter than the previous months, oddly.

I decided to try to get a slightly better modem. If that helps then I save that $10 a month. If it doesn't then I question whether I should go to the next level of internet for $10 more. I am paying TimeWarner $70 a month for internet today. A bundle may save me but I'm not leaving DirecTV.


We get that on Fios from time to time and I wonder if it isn't throttling on their part. When it's buffering on Apple TV, I can pull up HBO on my iPad and it plays fine. I am quite suspicious of carriers monkeying with connection speeds to try and save their cable business.
 
Ok, today's question/debate of the day; when using adjuncts in a high ABV stout such as coffee, vanilla, cinnamon, what have you...what would an appropriate hop schedule be and would it be more prudent in using 'cheesey' hops, similar to a quad style?


Just so this doesn't go without a reply I'll weigh in with my opinion. For stouts with or without adjuncts, I usually just do a bittering addition at 60 and call it good. I don't want any hop flavor clashing with the adjuncts.
 
Ok, today's question/debate of the day; when using adjuncts in a high ABV stout such as coffee, vanilla, cinnamon, what have you...what would an appropriate hop schedule be and would it be more prudent in using 'cheesey' hops, similar to a quad style?

I'd rather let the adjuncts take center stage, so just a 60-minute addition.

If it was just a plain imperial stout without adjuncts, a small late addition of some clean spicy hops wouldn't be out of place.
 
Just so this doesn't go without a reply I'll weigh in with my opinion. For stouts with or without adjuncts, I usually just do a bittering addition at 60 and call it good. I don't want any hop flavor clashing with the adjuncts.

But what if I want to brew my stout in under 30 minutes?
 
Ok, today's question/debate of the day; when using adjuncts in a high ABV stout such as coffee, vanilla, cinnamon, what have you...what would an appropriate hop schedule be and would it be more prudent in using 'cheesey' hops, similar to a quad style?

60 minute cheese addition, just like my quad
 
Just so this doesn't go without a reply I'll weigh in with my opinion. For stouts with or without adjuncts, I usually just do a bittering addition at 60 and call it good. I don't want any hop flavor clashing with the adjuncts.


I agree... If the adjuncts are to stand out, the hop presence needs to be muted.

I think there's a reason we don't see a lot of vanilla or coffee IPAs. But I don't know what anti sweetening properties coffee has... if only there were some kind of chart.





200w.gif
 
I agree... If the adjuncts are to stand out, the hop presence needs to be muted.

I think there's a reason we don't see a lot of vanilla or coffee IPAs. But I don't know what anti sweetening properties coffee has... if only there were some kind of chart.





200w.gif

I've had a coffee IPA before. It was certainly different. If I could remember what it was I would buy it again in limited amounts.
 
I think there's a reason we don't see a lot of vanilla or coffee IPAs.

There aren't vanilla IPA's because vanilla and hops are parallel on the fourth dimension, across from the equator where the other dimension has coffee IPA's on both sides. Don't garbelize the debate because you only prioritize your mornings with blue throttle full agave. If you can't be reasoned with, don't input nonsensical roflglorps.

giphy.gif
 
Back
Top