Confession Time

[TexasDroughtBrewery]

This beer just finished fermenting, left it in primary about 3 weeks. The only thing I changed is I dind't use the min rice I used rice hulls I got from the LHBS. I have to agree that BMC fans will really like this beer, my friend said and I quote "Its like Miller but with a different taste" Yeah..as in better it has flavor!!

 

[normonster]

???

 

[cyanmonkey]

This beer just finished fermenting, left it in primary about 3 weeks. The only thing I changed is I dind't use the min rice I used rice hulls I got from the LHBS. I have to agree that BMC fans will really like this beer, my friend said and I quote "Its like Miller but with a different taste" Yeah..as in better it has flavor!!

Rice hulls are a completely separate concept from minute rice. One converts from starch to sugars and the other helps with lautering. You knew that, right?

...is that your confession?

 

[cholder777]

I swirled my thermometer in my boiling water to get an accurate temp... Don't do this. A little tap on the inside of the pot and the small black bb's in the thermometer went everywhere! Had to dump it out and start over. (lucky I didn't add my extract yet)

2nd. I fear tap water...for brewing or drinking... lucky for me. I have a well drilled out back that I use for brewing.

 

[normonster]

I swirled my thermometer in my boiling water to get an accurate temp... Don't do this. A little tap on the inside of the pot and the small black bb's in the thermometer went everywhere! Had to dump it out and start over. (lucky I didn't add my extract yet)



2nd. I fear tap water...for brewing or drinking... lucky for me. I have a well drilled out back that I use for brewing.

Are you in Flint MI?

 

[GHBWNY]

Missing Grommet Mystery: In my last post, I mentioned pushing the airlock grommet back through the lid and it ended up in my Black IPA. So black, in fact, I never did find it...

 

[DrunkleJon]

Is that like those cakes where if you get the toy baby you are going to have the next one or some such? If you get the bottle with the grommet you have to pay for the ingredients for the next batch?

 

[skitter]

Missing Grommet Mystery: In my last post, I mentioned pushing the airlock grommet back through the lid and it ended up in my Black IPA. So black, in fact, I never did find it...

Could it have dissolved?

 

[GHBWNY]

Could it have dissolved?

I wouldn't think so. I presume those little black grommets are made of neoprene, which even gasoline and most common chemicals/solvents can't dissolve. If it dissolved in my beer, my stomach doesn't have a chance!

 

[Opiate42]

I regularly leave my batches in the primary or secondary for wayyyyyyy longer than planned before transferring or bottling. Sometimes out of lack of time, sometimes just more preoccupied playing Fallout.

 

[biochemedic]

I regularly leave my batches in the primary or secondary for wayyyyyyy longer than planned before transferring or bottling. Sometimes out of lack of time, sometimes just more preoccupied playing Fallout.

Hmmm...I guess I'll also have to confess that one of my more recent meads spent....wait for it.......13 months in primary before I kegged it. It's one of the best meads I've ever made!

 

[Inconceivable_]

I confess i kind of find delabelling theraputic. Watching sodium percarbonate melt labels off makes me happy.
I also don't mind bottling much; once I've learned all the tricks to make it less painful

 

[Kampenken]

I wouldn't think so. I presume those little black grommets are made of neoprene, which even gasoline and most common chemicals/solvents can't dissolve. If it dissolved in my beer, my stomach doesn't have a chance!

If you didn't harvest yeast you must have tossed it. No way that sucker got through the bottling wand AND through the filler!!

 

[gometz]

I confess i kind of find delabelling theraputic. Watching sodium percarbonate melt labels off makes me happy.
I also don't mind bottling much; once I've learned all the tricks to make it less painful

Honestly, I have been bottling for years, hate delabeling, never realized sodium percarbonate would work...

 

[SeraW]

I broke my testing cylinder today, but was so intent on bottling anyway that I dropped the hydrometer in the carboy. Got my reading, but it shifted and I couldn't get it out with tongs. So I had to wait until I got the cake rinsed out and grabbed the hydrometer on the way out of the opening.

Didn't break though!

 

[gometz]

I will stick my fingers into the runoff towards the end and taste it to see how much sugar is left. Shouldn't be a problem really since I boil it afterwards.

 

[Patrick87]

I confess: I had my first sour beer and liked it. (Lindemans Framboise)

 

[zippyclown]

Where's that guy... The one who dips a pint glass in his actively fermenting wort and drinks most of it before the beer even stops fermenting. And spends most of his week on the toilet... And then wonders why the remaining wort is always infected... Where is that guy? He wins the gold medal for that confession I think.

zc

 

[poptarts]

This going to be awesome or a total failure nothing in between. Gogo prebiotic berliner

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[jonny24]

Only three brews in so not too much to confess yet however... I ALWAYS read words related to brewing as if they were normal English words.

Wort rhymes with short
Trub rhymes with flub
Krausen rhymes with plows-in

I don't know anyone else who brews so it isn't like I ever hear anyone else say them. I mostly talk to my brother about it, we both know the proper way but kind of ignore it and say it our way.

Then again I'm kind of a hick anyway so **** it.

Few more:
No Hydrometer for first beer
Never actually followed a recipe
Girlfriend already seems sick of hearing about brewing, but seems interested in wine so we'll give that a shot
Refrained from punching my dad for referring to any beer more flavourful than Molson Canadian as "horse piss"
Always read "BMC" as Bud MOLSON Coors

 

[slym2none]

"Trub" rhymes with "****".



I have heard the word "krausen" said only once in my life, and the person pronounced it "kroyzen". IDK if that's right or wrong.

 

[cyanmonkey]

Kroyzen, troob.

Wort rhymes with hurt.

 

[poptarts]

"Trub" rhymes with "****".



I have heard the word "krausen" said only once in my life, and the person pronounced it "kroyzen". IDK if that's right or wrong.

I say it like craw-zen

 

[Kharnynb]

i pronounce krausen with german pronounciation, no clue if it is right or wrong, but i speak german, so it's automatic with that kind of word

 

[petey_c]

Krausen = Frau sen? That's what I go with.

 

[robertus]

Kroyzen, troob.

Wort rhymes with hurt.

Despite my best efforts, I have learned a thing today.

 

[Venari]

I confess I'm getting a little fed up with how little faith my roommate has in me.

I have an gas and oil license (most commonly associated with HVAC, but I can work on BBQ's, Stoves, Fireplaces, etc etc), and she's worried I'll damage her stove while I'm trying to fix whatever she did to it. She's worried I'll break her dryer when I re-attach the moisture venting to the back of it.

Today she expressed concern that I might blow up the house when I came home with my replacement beer brewing supplies.

 

[trussell]

"Trub" rhymes with "****".



I have heard the word "krausen" said only once in my life, and the person pronounced it "kroyzen". IDK if that's right or wrong.

I've always heard:

Trub = Troob (although I like slym2none's way)
Krausen = kroyzen or Croyx-zen like St. Croyx (or St. Croix if you're in NS)
Wort = Wert rhymes with hurt.

Confession, weak but I forgot to CC 2l worth starter so dumped the whole thing in even thought I'm trying to hit over 10% for contest. Might still get there but I hurt my chances.

 

[slym2none]

OK, so "kroyzen" is correct, and I learned how wort is actually pronounced.

It's true, one learns something new every day...

 

[Onkel_Udo]

OK, so "kroyzen" is correct, and I learned how wort is actually pronounced.

Just like in America/England/Scotland/etc, depends on the regional dialect. Krausen could be Krissen (likely) in Swiss German or Krawsen in Sachsen-Anhalt (no, clue, just made it up but it is a real place).