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[TheCADJockey]

You're welcome though.

I just hate MS Word with a passion. What happened? It's a funking pain in the ass now. It used to be awesome. I'm certified as 93 WPM @ 90% accuracy, but whoever designed these old documents must have been high as fawk. They take forever to edit and everyone here hates change so I can't just make new ones.

Sure it's all the same pay, but I didn't take 10 years of college to play with MS Word all day.

 

[Psylocide]

ugh, I have to come up with another one? Anybody got any ideas? lol

No... I think we covered everything already.

I'll do an easy one for Monday.

QOTD: If your next brew were going to be a SMaSH, what would you make and why?

 

[Rhetorik]

Any Rain Forest or river tours? Id go all in on Machu Pichu. That's supposed to be an epic journey

I'm leaning towards the 4 days myself. Will definitely look into a river tour.

Also looking to do some of the fun things apparently available, such as crazy ziplining courses.

 

[TheCADJockey]

QOTD: If your next brew were going to be a SMaSH, what would you make and why?

I'm doing special pale/mosaic like Southern Tier's 2XSMaSH. Probably this weekend since the in-laws will have taken over my house. Trying to decide on yeast and hop schedule.

 

[onetoeddogbrewery]

I went to Cuba in 2014 for a wedding... and a couple/few years before that I'd gone to Vietnam. And although I had to take anti-poo-everywhere medication the whole three weeks I was in Vietnam, it was still completely, 100% awesome.

On Saturday SWMBO and I bought our plane tickets to go to Peru for 2.5 weeks in May/June though! Should be fun. Anyone been to Peru and have any advice on things to do? We're currently debating between a 2day or 4day Machu Pichu tour.

Morning. I was in Peru back in 2000. I want to say it was either 3 or 5 days trip to pick from. The 3 day is more than enough to get the whole experience. You camp out in the Andes. Get yo see machu pichu at dawn, then spend all day there in awe taking it all in. Plus it will free up more time to see cusco when you get back.

Coffee. Getting ready to drive back home. Had a great weekend in Dallas but I'm ready to get back to my dag.

 

[drainbamage]

No... I think we covered everything already.

I'll do an easy one for Monday.

QOTD: If your next brew were going to be a SMaSH, what would you make and why?

I actually was planning a SMaSH APA for my next batch: MO and Falconer's Flight, because I've never used FF before (yes, I know it's really a blend) and I wanted an excuse to use the name "Yippie-Ki-Yay Mr. Falcon" for a beer.

Offshoot QOTD: I've been doing partial mash for a while now...for something like this, is it worth getting a couple lbs of MO to mash higher for some additional body? I'd be afraid that just using MO LME without any other grains would be too thin.

 

[Psylocide]

I actually was planning a SMaSH APA for my next batch: MO and Falconer's Flight, because I've never used FF before (yes, I know it's really a blend) and I wanted an excuse to use the name "Yippie-Ki-Yay Mr. Falcon" for a beer.

Offshoot QOTD: I've been doing partial mash for a while now...for something like this, is it worth getting a couple lbs of MO to mash higher for some additional body? I'd be afraid that just using MO LME without any other grains would be too thin.

What's stopping you from going full AG? Equipment limitations?

 

[BeerMeDuffMan]

No... I think we covered everything already.

I'll do an easy one for Monday.

QOTD: If your next brew were going to be a SMaSH, what would you make and why?

good one....Id go for something a bit odd...maybe a sweet malt with a nice tropical hop. Vienna with Citra maybe? Maybe sorachi ace

 

[iijakii]

Mroing.

 

[drainbamage]

What's stopping you from going full AG? Equipment limitations?

I like being able to keep things on the stovetop. For the most part, PM lets me achieve the recipes I create without having to deviate much from my original setup. I could borrow my BIL's rig for a batch here and there if I really wanted to. That may be the route to take here...just take my stuff over there and piggyback on one of his brewdays.

 

[TheCADJockey]

good one....Id go for something a bit odd...maybe a sweet malt with a nice tropical hop. Vienna with Citra maybe? Maybe sorachi ace

Man.. that sounds kind of good for some reason. I wasn't a huge fan of the Brooklyn Sorachi Ace, but would like to give the hops another chance.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

No... I think we covered everything already.

I'll do an easy one for Monday.

QOTD: If your next brew were going to be a SMaSH, what would you make and why?

Pilsner & hellertau because I think it would be a great lawnmower beer.

 

[BeerMeDuffMan]

Man.. that sounds kind of good for some reason. I wasn't a huge fan of the Brooklyn Sorachi Ace, but would like to give the hops another chance.

I think a sweeter malt would give good balance against that lemony zest type hop. I could be wrong, I don't even brew

 

[Psylocide]

I like being able to keep things on the stovetop. For the most part, PM lets me achieve the recipes I create without having to deviate much from my original setup. I could borrow my BIL's rig for a batch here and there if I really wanted to. That may be the route to take here...just take my stuff over there and piggyback on one of his brewdays.

What size is your kettle?

Before I had a 20 gal kettle and bag, I had a 6.5 gal kettle and a 3 gal kettle.

I used paint strainer bags at the time. I would mash as thin as possible in my 6 gal kettle, then would dunk sparge in a 5 gal pail, and put 5 gal in the 6 gal kettle and 2 in the 3 gal kettle.

Then I would do a dual boil and split the hop additions accordingly.

It suuuuuuuucked but was able to do 5 gal AG on the stove top (though I still boiled the 5 gal outside). But I could have done it all inside.

Anyway, goofy work around, but it worked for me for awhile.

 

[BreezyBrew]

No... I think we covered everything already.

I'll do an easy one for Monday.

QOTD: If your next brew were going to be a SMaSH, what would you make and why?

I really want to do a Golden Promise and Mosaic SMASH. Never used GP as a base malt and would like to try it by itself to see what it brings.

 

[BreezyBrew]

I Offshoot QOTD: I've been doing partial mash for a while now...for something like this, is it worth getting a couple lbs of MO to mash higher for some additional body? I'd be afraid that just using MO LME without any other grains would be too thin.

I've had an MO only IPA (Blackwater Draw) before and it was surprising how full the malt flavor was. No idea what they mashed at though.

 

[drainbamage]

What size is your kettle?

Before I had a 20 gal kettle and bag, I had a 6.5 gal kettle and a 3 gal kettle.

I used paint strainer bags at the time. I would mash as thin as possible in my 6 gal kettle, then would dunk sparge in a 5 gal pail, and put 5 gal in the 6 gal kettle and 2 in the 3 gal kettle.

Then I would do a dual boil and split the hop additions accordingly.

It suuuuuuuucked but was able to do 5 gal AG on the stove top (though I still boiled the 5 gal outside). But I could have done it all inside.

Anyway, goofy work around, but it worked for me for awhile.

5 gal, and I have another that is probably 2 gal. I could probably make something like that work (on a smaller batch size) if I wanted to take the time.

 

[drainbamage]

I've had an MO only IPA (Blackwater Draw) before and it was surprising how full the malt flavor was. No idea what they mashed at though.

I've used MO several times in other batches (in conjunction with other grains) and I really like it as a base malt. I'll like my APAs to have some body, so I probably will stick with the PM to get a little something extra.

 

[Gavin C]

No... I think we covered everything already.

I'll do an easy one for Monday.

QOTD: If your next brew were going to be a SMaSH, what would you make and why?

That is a good Monday question.

Can I pick 2 because I want an ale and a lager and can't decide?

Vienna and Mosaic because Vienna, and Mosaic seems to be a cheat workaround to a single hop. Ale Wyeast 1272 (Murican IPA style)

Munich 10L and Tettnanger because I want a Dunkel and have Tettnanger.
Decoct the chit out of it and lager WLP833. (Munich Dunkel style)

 

[Psylocide]

Well, I just did that Columbus/2row SMaSH blonde on Saturday... so if I were to do another, I'd probably opt for GP and Mosaic APA, keep it around 6.5%, 30-40 IBU and just murder it with late additions and a 3-4 oz dry hop.

 

[joshesmusica]

good one....Id go for something a bit odd...maybe a sweet malt with a nice tropical hop. Vienna with Citra maybe? Maybe sorachi ace

Interesting. I was thinking of doing a smash with sorachi next. Great question psylo.

Any other suggestions with sorachi?

 

[TheCADJockey]

I know you all like to shirtbag Nugget, but I loved the smash's @psylocide and I did with MO. That beer did not last long at all. My friends said it was so drinkable...

 

[joshesmusica]

5 gal, and I have another that is probably 2 gal. I could probably make something like that work (on a smaller batch size) if I wanted to take the time.

I really wanted to go AG but only had a 19L pot (after measuring it out, it was actually 18L at the top, dumb). So I just used a crazy high amount of grains, mashing in a bucket. Then topped off with water. Then I got the brilliant idea to do a batch sparge and use that as the top up. The next biggest pot I had was 5L so I did 4L X 3, topping off with 12L of unhopped wort. It worked pretty well, surprisingly, but it was a lot of work. Didn't have any down time while the main wort was boiling.

 

[TheCADJockey]

I hope they leave that keg giveaway thread open so I can watch the rage rain down on the 1 post grand prize winner.

 

[Psylocide]

I hope they leave that keg giveaway thread open so I can watch the rage rain down on the 1 post grand prize winner.

I already decided that I need to win, because all my kegs are full ATM.

Good problem to have, if 2 weren't full of RoflDIPA and Smoked Lollerporter.

 

[iijakii]

Im too lazy to look up the post#s... any of you floccers win?

 

[TheCADJockey]

I already decided that I need to win, because all my kegs are full ATM.

Winners already posted.

I'm going to need to pick up another keg or two at least probably. LHBS seems to sell pin locks for ~$50. Guess not bad right? Would be nice to have two on tap then at least one waiting.

 

[1977Brewer]

If I won I was just going to flip them for ingredients/ferm chamber build money anyway. Don't really want to keg, and there's no way I'd ever have a 4 keg pipeline anyway, so it would have been wasted on me.

 

[Psylocide]

Winners already posted.

I'm going to need to pick up another keg or two at least probably. LHBS seems to sell pin locks for ~$50. Guess not bad right? Would be nice to have two on tap then at least one waiting.

Ah, bullshirt. Didn't even check.

 

[banesong]

I really want to do a Golden Promise and Mosaic SMASH. Never used GP as a base malt and would like to try it by itself to see what it brings.

GP is an awesome solo grain. Expensive as flock though.