Ask me anything!

[flars]

Thanks man! I never planned on moving or disturbing it, I was just going to siphon it. My main concern is it being pushed up into the tube. I wasn't sure if that is okay or not. I was hoping it is fine, I could take the tube out and clean & sanitize, but it was kind of a pain to get it in the stopper.

The krausen pushing into the tube is normal when the head space is to small for the krausen. Let it go until activity diminishes, and then install an air lock.

 

[Psylocide]

Well... no bombs, but just a ****load of suspended crapola. Haven't had this on my other two brews... anyone seen anything like it? Bottles were clean and sanitary and sucked up zero trub when racking to the bottling bucket.

(all of that white-ish stuff in the pic is just floating around in there)


View attachment 249142

Update on this... dropped out just as clear as you please. Taste is good for green beer, just couldn't help myself.

 

[eoinduff]

Has anyone ever tried to make a belgian style Wit beer by just adding some dried orange and corriander seeds to a cheap extract kit wheat beer or other style beer? I'm considering a bit of experimentation with adding fruit etc but haven't done it before so any advice is more than welcome.

I really love the Blue Moon seasonal beers so that inspired me to do some messing around with fruit and other flavour additions but at the same time don't want to ruin a batch!!

Eoin

 

[drainbamage]

Has anyone ever tried to make a belgian style Wit beer by just adding some dried orange and corriander seeds to a cheap extract kit wheat beer or other style beer? I'm considering a bit of experimentation with adding fruit etc but haven't done it before so any advice is more than welcome.

I really love the Blue Moon seasonal beers so that inspired me to do some messing around with fruit and other flavour additions but at the same time don't want to ruin a batch!!

Eoin

You will at least want to include a Belgian yeast strain in addition to the orange and coriander. Using an American strain probably won't give the right character. I've gotten good results from WLP400 and WLP 550.

 

[Brettomomyces]

There are even a few commercial wit biers that don't even use spice additions and rely completely on the yeast derived flavors. River North here in Denver makes a great wit with no added spices or herbs.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Why is it that whenever I add hops to a recipe on brewersfriend.com, the IBU's skyrocket to over 200 and makes it impossible to match any style?? I'm not adding a lot...

 

[flars]

Why is it that whenever I add hops to a recipe on brewersfriend.com, the IBU's skyrocket to over 200 and makes it impossible to match any style?? I'm not adding a lot...

Are you entering 28 grams, for one ounce of hops, with ounce selected in the drop down menu, making it 28 ounces?

 

[VApatriot]

Did I kill my beer?

Here's what happened. I brewed a Kolsch before x-mas, it looked nice and clear in the secondary, had an OG of 1.052 and an FG of 1.012, so far so good. So I go to do my bottling routine and got out of sequence.

I always wash all my gear out with hot water and dry it right before I bottle so everything is good and clean. You know, clean gear makes good beer, right? I use a spray bottle filled with a Starsan solution and spray down the inside of my bottling bucket, dump out the excess Starsan solution, pour in my bottling sugar, rinse out each bottle in a bucket of Starsan just before filling. Following this process I've never had an infection or any bottle bombs, just good clean beer.

Only not this time. For some reason I was trying to get the bottling process done as fast as I could. I washed all my gear, had my bottling sugar boiled for 5 minutes and cooled down to room temp., I dumped my sugar water in my bottling bucket and then I sprayed it down with the Starsan solution and then racked the beer into the bucket. The beer went from nice and clear in the secondary to cloudy in the bucket . It's only been a few days but the bottled beer is really cloudy. I don't usually make a light colored beer, I mostly make stuff like brown ales, belgian dubbles and stuff like that so if any of my pther beers were cloudy when I bottled them I never noticed.

So here's my question. Did I kill my beer by having too much Starsan solution in it when I bottled it? I'm going to wait a month to know for sure but right now I'm having a hard time trying to RDWHAHB.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Are you entering 28 grams, for one ounce of hops, with ounce selected in the drop down menu, making it 28 ounces?

Nah I do everything in ounces. Thanks for pointing that out, I missed it before.. but it still just skyrockets when I add a little hops.

 

[soccerdad]

a couple of spritzes would not kill your beer - in fact, Star San can act as a yeast nutrient which is one reason to not fear the foam. You likely kicked up the yeast with sugar and star san. Bottles will likely be fine when you cold crash them prior to drinking - but you may have more yeasties in the bottom of the bottle than usual.

 

[rmyurick]

Beer always clouds up when it is primed. It clears after two Weeks or so as the new yeast cells that are created settle out. As to the hazards of drinking microscopic amounts of star-San, best to look up the msds & read it. I've heard both sides of that argument.

 

[flars]

Nah I do everything in ounces. Thanks for pointing that out, I missed it before.. but it still just skyrockets when I add a little hops.

I have also found if "late addition" is checked, for extract, the IBUs jump, not as much as yours though.

 

[VApatriot]

Beer always clouds up when it is primed. It clears after two Weeks or so as the new yeast cells that are created settle out. As to the hazards of drinking microscopic amounts of star-San, best to look up the msds & read it. I've heard both sides of that argument.

Thanks. I'll just have to be patient and wait. I'm not worried about drinking a tiny bit of starsan, I've been following this same basic procedure since I got started. I was just wondering if a litte more than usual could negatively effect the yeast in solution. This batch was crystal clear in the secondary and my racking cane has a cap on the end to minimize uptake of any sediment. So I'm guessing that the cloudiness was due to either mixing with the sugar, or too much starsan, or a combination of the two.

 

[eoinduff]

Thanks lads, do you add fruit/corriander during primary fermentation or what? If you wanted to do a Wit without a kit what would you use with the belgian yeast strains you mentioned above?

Cheers,

Eoin

 

[Psylocide]

Did I kill my beer?

Here's what happened. I brewed a Kolsch before x-mas, it looked nice and clear in the secondary, had an OG of 1.052 and an FG of 1.012, so far so good. So I go to do my bottling routine and got out of sequence.

I always wash all my gear out with hot water and dry it right before I bottle so everything is good and clean. You know, clean gear makes good beer, right? I use a spray bottle filled with a Starsan solution and spray down the inside of my bottling bucket, dump out the excess Starsan solution, pour in my bottling sugar, rinse out each bottle in a bucket of Starsan just before filling. Following this process I've never had an infection or any bottle bombs, just good clean beer.

Only not this time. For some reason I was trying to get the bottling process done as fast as I could. I washed all my gear, had my bottling sugar boiled for 5 minutes and cooled down to room temp., I dumped my sugar water in my bottling bucket and then I sprayed it down with the Starsan solution and then racked the beer into the bucket. The beer went from nice and clear in the secondary to cloudy in the bucket . It's only been a few days but the bottled beer is really cloudy. I don't usually make a light colored beer, I mostly make stuff like brown ales, belgian dubbles and stuff like that so if any of my pther beers were cloudy when I bottled them I never noticed.

So here's my question. Did I kill my beer by having too much Starsan solution in it when I bottled it? I'm going to wait a month to know for sure but right now I'm having a hard time trying to RDWHAHB.

Oh... you're worried about cloudy beer? I was too once... only I had sea monkeys swimming in mine.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/ask-me-anything-508120/index29.html#post6632649

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/ask-me-anything-508120/index31.html#post6638153

I bet you'll be just fine.

 

[Psylocide]

Does this look infected?

 

[hunter_le five]

Does this look infected?

Without trying to sound alarmist... I would start getting my affairs in order. Update your will. Make arrangements with the funeral home. No need to make this any harder than it has to be on the wife and kids. Sorry, brother.

 

[Psylocide]

Without trying to sound alarmist... I would start getting my affairs in order. Update your will. Make arrangements with the funeral home. No need to make this any harder than it has to be on the wife and kids. Sorry, brother.

Man... I knew it.

Was ripping up laminate flooring (riddled with asbestos, no doubt), and sliced the **** out of my hand.

Gloves are for eskimos.

 

[drainbamage]

Does this look infected?

View attachment 250195

Just soak in Oxyclean overnight, it'll be a'ight

 

[Newsman]

What is the square root of -1?

 

[flars]

What is the square root of -1?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_unit

 

[Gavin C]

CADjockey. Perhaps your batch size is set too small. Post a screenshot of your Brewers fried design page. I think all the variables may be visible on it

On any related topic. Has anyone used Wyeast 1028 for an ESB. Does it suit the style ?

 

[BGBC]

My hefe has been in the swamp cooler for four days now, so I was going to take it out this morning to let it warm up (*65) for a few days... but I came down to this. It is my first time using a blowoff tube, as well as a new yeast.

Is this bad? It is about 2 inches into the tube now. Not sure if I should do something or if it is okay.

That's the point of a blow off tube. Without it, that beer would be in your airlock, or on your floor, or ceiling...

Why is it that whenever I add hops to a recipe on brewersfriend.com, the IBU's skyrocket to over 200 and makes it impossible to match any style?? I'm not adding a lot...

Screenshot? I use the brewersfriend calculators and don't have issues.

 

[Psylocide]

Anyone do split BIAB mash?

I've got a 3.5 g and 7 g stock pot... I want to do a 5.5 g batch, but I think that would really be pushing it in the 7 gallon.

So, could I do most of it in the 7 and the rest in the 3.5, then combine for the boil?

Hopefully I would hit temps spot on in both, just curious if this would work out for me? Really not sure why it wouldn't, probably didn't have to ask.

 

[kombat]

Do you guys that brew all-grain do the iodine test to see if conversion has been made? I'm about a week or so out from making the jump and am just curious if this is something that should be habit, or if you only do it until you get a feel for it or what.

I do rarely. If I'm doing a shorter mash, I'll do it, or if I missed my temperature a bit. I brewed a lager last weekend and was aiming for a 148° F mash temp, but when I probed the grain bed, I was getting values everywhere from 138° to 145° F. So after an hour, I did the iodine test, just to make sure.

 

[CBXBob]

Fun thread till it got serious. Have to admit the title "Ask me anything!" just couldn't be passed over.
If I learned anything, it's that Newsman likes damn near every post! Pushing 7000 in just over 3 years! Damn, I'll bet that's some sort of a record.
On a serious note, nah, never mind.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Fun thread till it got serious. Have to admit the title "Ask me anything!" just couldn't be passed over.
If I learned anything, it's that Newsman likes damn near every post! Pushing 7000 in just over 3 years! Damn, I'll bet that's some sort of a record.
On a serious note, nah, never mind.

Wait, what was the question?

 

[Psylocide]

Wait, what was the question?

That's it.

Let's start a new question.

Do all CAD engineers go through Goth phases in college?

 

[hunter_le five]

That's it.

Let's start a new question.

Do all CAD engineers go through Goth phases in college?

Follow up question:

Does becoming a goth happen gradually, or do you just wake up one day decide to go on a shopping spree at Hot Topic?

 

[TheCADJockey]

Follow up question:

Does becoming a goth happen gradually, or do you just wake up one day decide to go on a shopping spree at Hot Topic?

I see what's happening here... making me all explain and what not.

It was a phase for me because I met a goth girl. The phase ended when the girl was no more. Err.. when I found a normal girl, I mean.

Don't tell me how to live my life!