Well....tried .you Irish red for the first time today. It tastes good, but not much head. It's not flat, but what can make it have a small head? It's been bottled for three weeks.
Also, got the banana vanilla stout brewed late Friday evening. Saw some activity in it late this morning. I added dehydrated bananas and a vanilla bean to the primary fermenter just to see what it does.
What successes and failures have you all had with adding things to the fermenter?
get it built and get the bugs out...then we will build me one.
Doesn't Cathy's beer (above) look nice...
When you've been working 14 hour nights in the oilfields for over 7 days in a row and STILL have 7 more to go, a LOT of beers look nice, but yes that one looks really tasty in particular. The Diamond Bear would be ok now too though. Fossil Cove is my favorite local brew, that or Stone's Throw.
I will get everything worked out eventually, if you ever decide you want one don't worry about parts, since everything I ordered came in lots of 10-100 I have a few extra needless to say.
Sigh.......guess I'll sip my coffee out here in the COLD.
Working on programming the electric brewery now. Notice the PID number goes up to the "max" of 255, this is because there are no sesnors connected (still waiting on them to arrive) and the PID thinks the temp is -196, and the setpoint is 165F. Anyway it proves that the program does work though, or should. I wanted to add more hop timers but there isn't enough room on my display for many more functions. I may move some things around. Think I'll take a break from staring at code tonight and have a brew.
https://youtu.be/RjiZxESuDL8
Best IPA....Go!
Mine is a tie between Green's Flash Road Warrior and Tommyknocker IPA and a half.
what IPA are you talking about?
Whatever you think the best is.
Anything Lagunitas is good for me. Looking forward to being able to buy some 2 hearted though.
I'll take you up on that.
Getting some code wrote today! The boil timer works, the hop timer works, the alarm works, the pump status is displayed and I went ahead and programmed manual PID mode for the Boil function. I started to solder everything together on a proto board this morning.
Best IPA....Go!
Mine is a tie between Green's Flash Road Warrior and Tommyknocker IPA and a half.
Thanks Bob for helping me get started on the hardware and drilling the hole in my kettle. I worked some yesterday evening and today and got a pretty good start on assembling everything.
being able to pour a cold beer any time you want could get you in trouble...
I think the better half has finally accepted that after seeing an entire "man room" full of.. beer stuff, in her words. I'm pretty lucky. I've only slept on the couch a few nights after buying a regulator and tank In all seriousness she's 100% supportive of my beer and musician habits. Now just to fill a co2 tank and purchase ball locks and hoses..
Nice! I too have a "large" mini fridge as a kegerator. I may have made some posts about the mods I done to it in this thread, I made some video, I should upload it to youtube. A circulation fan will help a lot, mine wouldn't get very cold without it. I also had to move the tank outside, too much of a pain being on the inside. Me and Bob figured it up, it's WAY cheaper if you get the bigger c02 bottle when you buy c02. They charge like 13 to fill up a 5 lb, and around 18-20 to fill a 20 lb! Doesn't make since huh? I'm still using the 5, I get 6 kegs or so out of one bottle so not too big of a deal I guess, but do plan to trade mine in when it gets empty this time.
Your going to love kegging, it's way too easy!
Can't wait to keg! I wanted a bigger bottle originally but I couldn't pass up on this offer. I'm heating up my water to brew a 2 gallon batch of my own sierra nevada pale ale clone as we speak
What's that Honey Brown like?
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