BREAKTHROUGH! How to brew beer in 5 days!

[Bernie Brewer]

Makes 1-2 pints??? That's almost worth my time. To hell with my ten-gallon recipes,
I'm gonna do it this way!

 

[Rezilynt]

Afraid not. I was supposed to buy myself a Barley Crusher for Christmas but life got in the way. As a result I don't have any grain on hand. I live about 60 miles from my HBS so it's not going to happen any time soon. I'll live vicariously through you guys.

Sorry to hear that. Any suggestions would be welcome

 

[sirsloop]

Well I left the pot on for like the last 90 minutes and it seems to come out at 170ish which is perfect for strike water temps, then raise up to 174ish after a while. The grain *should cool that down in the 150's. I'll keep my thermostat on an alarm at like 155° and keep the temp around that area for 30 minutes or so. I'll brew up some sparge water batch sparge the entire thing through this strainer I have. I figure like 4 sparges and I should have exhausted the grain pretty good. I'll boil the **** out of it, dump in some hops, sink cool it, and add some saison yeast slurry I have kickin around. Should make a belgian IPA! HAHA!

 

[Rezilynt]

Makes 1-2 pints??? That's almost worth my time. To hell with my ten-gallon recipes,
I'm gonna do it this way!

LOL It's about the challenge. Where's your sense of adventure?

 

[sirsloop]

lol... this isn't going to be any spectacular brew or anything. Gonna be a fun project to say that I brewed a beer outta a coffee pot! HAHA! I'll probably add some dextrose to juice it up a little... and some special B to give it some color.

 

[sirsloop]

LOL It's about the challenge. Where's your sense of adventure?

x2.........

 

[Parker36]

I think keeping the mash temp will be super hard depending on what type of coffee pot you have (ie if it is glass)

 

[sirsloop]

Yeah, its only gotta be 30 minutes so I figure I can get it close enough. We're not talkin about gold medal beer, we're talking about drinkable outta a coffe pot mash tun. HAHA! It'll be ok as long as we keep it under like 165F

 

[Rezilynt]

Well I left the pot on for like the last 90 minutes and it seems to come out at 170ish which is perfect for strike water temps, then raise up to 174ish after a while. The grain *should cool that down in the 150's. I'll keep my thermostat on an alarm at like 155° and keep the temp around that area for 30 minutes or so. I'll brew up some sparge water batch sparge the entire thing through this strainer I have. I figure like 4 sparges and I should have exhausted the grain pretty good. I'll boil the **** out of it, dump in some hops, sink cool it, and add some saison yeast slurry I have kickin around. Should make a belgian IPA! HAHA!

I actually filled my basket with cheerios (just for absorbtion and to see how much it would cool) and I got down to 159 - grain should actually reduce it more than the cheerios.

I'm going to do the same as you - I'm going to use some british pale and a little roasted barley. Goldings and some dry windsor.

 

[sirsloop]

I have a 1.080 or bigger big beer night in three weeks for our homebrew club. Maybe i'll try to have it brewed, bottled, and carbed by then! HAHAH

 

[Rezilynt]

I have a 1.080 or bigger big beer night in three weeks for our homebrew club. Maybe i'll try to have it brewed, bottled, and carbed by then! HAHAH

LOL - that would be too good. Imagine the looks you'd get after explaining it all.

 

[sirsloop]

Ok, here's the game plan. Some of the numbers look a little screwy, but i'm gonna sparge until I get roughly 1.85g of wort, then boil for an hour. That should leave me around .5gal of wort.

http://www.jdhaesloop.com/coffee_pot_beer.pdf

 

[Rezilynt]

Looks good to me. I don't think we are going to have a problem extracting all the sugars. I'll put mine up tomorrow. I gotta hit the sack - talk to you tomorrow.

 

[MikeRLynch]

i wonder if this can be done more efficiently with an old commercial coffee maker, you know, the big ones in diners that have the two heating pads on top. I also wonder if our more technically inclined members would be able to adjust the wiring on those pads to be adjustable for mash temps. While a few things would need to be modified, you could essentially take the mechanics of a coffeemaker and make it into a rather efficient brewery.

The wheels turn

 

[Revvy]

i wonder if this can be done more efficiently with an old commercial coffee maker, you know, the big ones in diners that have the two heating pads on top. I also wonder if our more technically inclined members would be able to adjust the wiring on those pads to be adjustable for mash temps. While a few things would need to be modified, you could essentially take the mechanics of a coffeemaker and make it into a rather efficient brewery.

The wheels turn

There's actually a few threads on here discussiong using large coffee urns to brew beers...Evidently some people do use 5 and 10 gallon urns with the heating elements in theirs systems. There was a woman on here about 3 months ago from Scotland talking about building a pico system she could take to senior and community centers to demo brewing for them...And at least one member of the Michigan Masher's scored a large coffee urn a couple weeks ago at a goodwill who is playing around with it...

Here's the one about the Burco Coffee Urns in Scotland
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f36/smallest-fastest-all-grain-rig-world-91914/


https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/coffee-urn-hlt-89901/

 

[sirsloop]

coffee pot brew is under way. Mash is at 156...not gonna muck with it. As long as I get decent efficiency I can fudge the rest with the refractometer. Im shooting for a Belgian IPA.

 

[sirsloop]

keeping the temps is proving to be pretty troublesome. The burner heats real unevenly, and the edges are losing heat really fast.

 

[ChshreCat]

Pics?

and a two and a three...

 

[JoeMama]

I dont want it to take me 5 days to brew a beer.

My wife gets pissed at the fact that it takes several hours to do a batch.
-Me

 

[sirsloop]

1.027 at 2 gallons going into the pot. The malt should hit me around ~1.080 at 1/2 gallon!! WOot! I'll add corn sugar in a few days.

 

[Parker36]

1.027 at 2 gallons going into the pot. The malt should hit me around ~1.080 at 1/2 gallon!! WOot! I'll add corn sugar in a few days.

So just to clear up, you are using real brewing methods (none of this cheesecloth over mason jar ****) except you mashed in a coffee pot? How was the temp stability?

 

[sirsloop]

temp stability was a ****ing mess, but the rest of the stuff is generally the same. I used a strainer and a couple pots to do the sparge, but I mashed in the coffee pot in my coffee maker. The rest is pretty much the same as any other brew. Its still boiling... its at about 1.045 now so I have a bit longer to go.

 

[KayaBrew]

What's a "20oz Pint Glass"? A f*cking pint is a pint-16oz!! What a joke...

 

[Saccharomyces]

There's actually a few threads on here discussiong using large coffee urns to brew beers...Evidently some people do use 5 and 10 gallon urns with the heating elements in theirs systems. There was a woman on here about 3 months ago from Scotland talking about building a pico system she could take to senior and community centers to demo brewing for them...And at least one member of the Michigan Masher's scored a large coffee urn a couple weeks ago at a goodwill who is playing around with it...

I think we all suffer from the "can I use that in my brewhouse" syndrome after awhile... but that one never crossed my mind.

*&@# Revvy, now I'm going to be going around to Goodwill stores looking for a used coffee urn.

 

[Rezilynt]

I think we all suffer from the "can I use that in my brewhouse" syndrome after awhile...

An all night fever of 102.7 probably helped me in thinking about it.

 

[Rezilynt]

I'm back from the eagle hunting trip. Saw 9 today. Also ran across a herd of 19 elk. Pretty good day.

I had the same issue with keeping the temps. I could hold the mash right around 152-153 pretty easily. It was the sparging that was a pain. My maker pretty much does a really nice fly sparge (for something not intended for that use) The problem was the temp - I kept having to drizzle colder water in with it. I ended up doing a 20 minute rest (I was curious) and two 10's. I came 20 oz short of a gallon. Also - I could only get 1/3 of a pound in at a time - so I had to do it 3 times. 40 minutes left in boil.

Pics in a sec

 

[Rezilynt]

Here's some pics Grain and mash temp:

 

[Rezilynt]

Preboil, hop addition and boil with Orfyy's Mild

 

[sirsloop]

1.5# of grain

barley crusher action, and gizmo the 19yr old cat.

Grain is larger in volume when its crushed, until its gets wet. I have like 1/2 of the grain in here gettin wet. I added the other half when it fill up more.

All the grain is in there, but the temp coming out of the coffee maker was like 165ish, so I put it in an ice batch to crash it down like 10 degrees.

 

[NewBrew75]

I'll remember that if I ever go to jail for the rest of my life