Confession Time

[IloveWorts]

I brew in the nude

 

[Happydad1689]

I never take hydrometer readings till 2 weeks. I top up straight from the tap and sometimes dip a sanitized cup into the fermenter for a sneak taste. I've never had an infection (yet) I know I'm gambling though.

 

[DoctorMemory]

I never sanitize my bottle caps. I just rip a hole in the bag and pull them out. When I'm done bottling I stick the bag of caps in a ziplock so it won't spill all over and then later use the rest.

 

[biochemedic]

I brew in the nude

Sounds dangerous

 

[user 141939]

I've read a couple recent threads about using cups to take samples. Is that a bad thing? I mean, if the things is sanitized... it's not like I'm sticking my hand in there.

I do this all the time. Seemed perfectly safe to me. It's easier to sanitize a cup than a theif.

 

[Kee]

I've read a couple recent threads about using cups to take samples. Is that a bad thing? I mean, if the things is sanitized... it's not like I'm sticking my hand in there.

I do this all the time. Seemed perfectly safe to me. It's easier to sanitize a cup than a theif.

I would never use a wine thief to take a sample from a bucket. But I can't fit a cup into my carboy.

 

[petey_c]

I brew in the nude

Gives, "Hair of the dog" a whole new meaning....

 

[Onkel_Udo]

Gives, "Hair of the dog" a whole new meaning....

Who says he is not fully shaved? He is from California after all.

 

[Renegades_Brew]

Sounds dangerous

Not as dangerous as cooking bacon in the nude...

 

[Firewalker11]

Not as dangerous as cooking bacon in the nude...

Reminds me of that song, loving you is like frying bacon naked. I'll leave the punch line for someone else to cover.

 

[slym2none]

Your junk is covered in blisters afterward?

 

[IloveWorts]

I fear the foam. Star-San foam that is. Whenever I sanitize my carboys before I pour in my wort I always do a second small rinse to get some of that foam out. Harp all you want about star San breaking down into yeast nutrient or what not but it bothers me how that star San tastes, and I don't quite like the idea of THAT much foam going into my beer. Doubt I need that much "yeast nutrient" in there either, especially when I have actual yeast nutrient to use if I want to.

John Palmer is livid with your liberal talk

 

[nickjrusso]

This thread is awesome!

When cooling the wort on a pale ale recipe we improvised on, my friend's sunglasses fell off his head and into the kettle. We called it 'Shades Pale Ale.' Was one of my favorites we made that year!

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

One reason that I really like brewing in the winter, is that at flameout, I jus carry my boil pit or keggle outside and let it cool.. I jus dont bother with it until it comes down to pitching temp.. No immersion cooker, hoses, etc.. Lazy brewing at its finest

 

[bendog15]

Love this thread. I'm super anal about cleaning and sanitizing. But I'm also impatient as heck. Two weeks is all i can wait for a beer before it goes into packaging. And I don't take hydrometer readings.

 

[chisena]

I brew way more than I can drink or give away and a lot waters the garden so I have room to keg more.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

I brew way more than I can drink or give away and a lot waters the garden so I have room to keg more.

Mine does too occasionally...but only after passing through a 200# biofilter.

 

[wallybangbang]

When I read threads on HBT I start at the end and read the most recent posts first and work my way back. I have no idea why I do this. I've read 100 page threads backwards, and it totally made sense.

 

[CoreyD]

I don't clean my equipment. Just rinse with hot water, until there is no visible gunk on them. Then I sanitize on my next brew day.

Also use a whole package of us-05 in 1 gallon batches.

 

[ThatVideoKid]

This isn't exactly brewing related, but I had to confess my sins. I had almost a full glass of an excellent barrel aged quad, and my cousin that I was staying with wanted to go for a walk. I didn't want to waste the beer, so I just dumped it, along with what was left in the bottle, into one of those pop-top thermoses and drank it while walking around East Boston.

 

[drainbamage]

I don't clean my equipment. Just rinse with hot water, until there is no visible gunk on them. Then I sanitize on my next brew day.

This is my routine as well. Scrub and rinse off the visible sludge after use, Star San on everything before the next use. No infections yet. (Famous last words...)

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

This is my routine as well. Scrub and rinse off the visible sludge after use, Star San on everything before the next use. No infections yet. (Famous last words...)

I use onestep to clean and sanitize... Your method is likely less risky. I figure if hydrogen peroxide can rupture the cell membrane of bacteria and healthy tissue when cleaning a cut it should be good for brewing equiptment.

 

[kristiismean]

some of these are great!

Mine are very simple, I never check gravity. Ever. I have a hydrometer, first batch I ever did I used it for a starting gravity and have not touched it since. (for a total of 28 batches)

My wort chiller pump is a 1hp sump pump. (for inside the copper, not for wort)

I use tap water (but this Sat is the first time I used campden tablets for the first time for my Pliney)

(and response to the above, I always clean and sanitize when done. (buckets get their lids, hot water rinse and lids with airlocks, carboys with airlocks and a little sanitizer left it them. Rinse and sanitize again on brew day.)

 

[DrunkleJon]

This isn't exactly brewing related, but I had to confess my sins. I had almost a full glass of an excellent barrel aged quad, and my cousin that I was staying with wanted to go for a walk. I didn't want to waste the beer, so I just dumped it, along with what was left in the bottle, into one of those pop-top thermoses and drank it while walking around East Boston.

 

[thunderwagn]

When I read threads on HBT I start at the end and read the most recent posts first and work my way back. I have no idea why I do this. I've read 100 page threads backwards, and it totally made sense.

I confess...I do the same thing. I often read magazines from the back also. Go figure. Not sure why

 

[bendog15]

After brew day I just fill up my keggle w water and oxyclean. I dump everything in there (tools, hoses, etc) and let it sit overnight. Next day I just hose it all off and hang on a metal rack to dry. No scrubbing. Next brew day I sometimes rinse it again, but mostly just squirt everything with a star san spray bottle.

 

[kramer2500]

It took me two weeks, but I confess I read all 138 pgs of this thread while sitting on conference calls for work!

 

[Onkel_Udo]

Two for TODAY!

Not only did I pitch on my old S-04 cake but I did not even bother to pull the loose dry hops out.

As per usual, since my kegs were still pressurize and in the kegerator empty, I just rinsed them with hot water and put in the next beer.

 

[Homercidal]

This weekend I kegged my witbier that had been in the primary for over a week. Tasted it while transferring. Very sweet.

Kegged it up and kept it in the house to finish fermenting.

Went back to garage to check temp controller and found the differential setting to be 10 degrees. oops. Must have made a mistake when programming it last time! It was so cold out that the witbier didn't get a chance to ferment much!

 

[Zepth]

As per usual, since my kegs were still pressurize and in the kegerator empty, I just rinsed them with hot water and put in the next beer.

This is a confession now? In that case, oops. Sign me up.