Confession Time

[kombat]

I think sour/infected beers look disgusting, not beautiful. I have no desire to ingest such a foul-looking concoction.

 

[beersk]

Only if you want to view it that way. I love the process, I love sharing what I make, and I love spending time with my friends around the pot. I'm making others happy with my beer.

I'll traditionally keep about a quarter of the beer I make, and then the rest is distributed around to friends and family.

I try not to mix pot and beer. Bad combination for me.

 

[Vamptrump]

I think sour/infected beers look disgusting, not beautiful. I have no desire to ingest such a foul-looking concoction.

It looks so bad, but it tastes so good!

 

[Psylocide]

It looks so bad, but it tastes so good!

That's highly debatable.

 

[hotwatermusic]

I completely oxygenated a red ale, racking during it's active phase so I could get the free carboy space for the next beer... Which sucked too. That's two confessions. I don't feel any better.

 

[cyanmonkey]

I completely oxygenated a red ale, racking during it's active phase so I could get the free carboy space for the next beer... Which sucked too. That's two confessions. I don't feel any better.

Racked to what? If it was active I'm not sure you'd have too many issues with oxygenation.

 

[Black Island Brewer]

I confess that I'm using plain white rice and simple corn meal in a version of Cream of Three Crops tomorrow. It's going into the crockpot tonite to gelatinize, so it will be ready for the main mash tomorrow. I just can't bring myself to do a traditional cereal mash.

 

[Riot]

That is genius Black Island Brewer. I hate the extra time a cereal mash adds to a brew day and the crockpot idea sounds like just the thing

 

[hotwatermusic]

Racked to what? If it was active I'm not sure you'd have too many issues with oxygenation.

Firstly, should have wrote oxidized. Secondly, you should have tasted it😝

 

[wtaylor3]

I confess that I'm using plain white rice and simple corn meal in a version of Cream of Three Crops tomorrow. It's going into the crockpot tonite to gelatinize, so it will be ready for the main mash tomorrow. I just can't bring myself to do a traditional cereal mash.

I brew this recipe for my dad and I use minute rice and instant grits, however I am using flaked corn on this next batch I'm hoping to brew tomorrow

 

[Black Island Brewer]

I brew this recipe for my dad and I use minute rice and instant grits, however I am using flaked corn on this next batch I'm hoping to brew tomorrow

I suppose I should also confess that I'm cheap and lazy, so being able to get the corn meal & rice in the bulk foods section when grocery shopping trumped going to the LHBS and getting flaked corn...

 

[Black Island Brewer]

I am also going to have to confess that the crock pot was a bust. You can't gelatinize 4.5 pounds of corn and rice in a 6 quart crockpot without serious problems. Next time I'll put it in a 4 gallon pot and put it in the oven with enough water...

 

[billybryson54]

I suppose I should also confess that I'm cheap and lazy, so being able to get the corn meal & rice in the bulk foods section when grocery shopping trumped going to the LHBS and getting flaked corn...

Interesting...I brew cream ales all the time. I think I'm gonna experiment with this...

 

[wtaylor3]

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How about cooling the wort in a flooded backyard?

 

[Michigan_Wolfman]

How about cooling the wort in a flooded backyard?

I think that's a first...but, I'd be worried about the wort turning skunky from being exposed to bright sunlight like that.

 

[Takuie]

My confession.... I drink to support my brewing habit.

 

[wtaylor3]

It's more shady then it looks in the pic lol

 

[Kirkwooder]

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How about cooling the wort in a flooded backyard?

I used to put my hot brew pot in the creek behind the house before I got an IC. It worked almost as good as the IC does. :rockin:

 

[wtaylor3]

Worst part is I have a CFC but there's no ball valve on my kettle and boiling wort ruins auto siphons....don't ask me how I know

 

[starsman20]

I confess that I'm using plain white rice and simple corn meal in a version of Cream of Three Crops tomorrow. It's going into the crockpot tonite to gelatinize, so it will be ready for the main mash tomorrow. I just can't bring myself to do a traditional cereal mash.

I use minute rice. No cereal mash for me. Although I do use flaked corn.

 

[cyanmonkey]

I pitch at 85 and then stick it in my fridge to take it down to ferment temp. By morning it's doing it's thing and I haven't tasted anything funky because of it.

 

[GHBWNY]

Confession: my wife and I share the basement laundry tray. I clean and sanitize my brewing equipment in it; she washes out the cat's litter box. Not sure if that's well-advised. Or even legal.

 

[doug293cz]

Confession: my wife and I share the basement laundry tray. I clean and sanitize my brewing equipment in it; she washes out the cat's litter box. Not sure if that's well-advised. Or even legal.

Yeeeew!

 

[Kirkwooder]

Confession: my wife and I share the basement laundry tray. I clean and sanitize my brewing equipment in it; she washes out the cat's litter box. Not sure if that's well-advised. Or even legal.

MmmmmMmmmm........ Cat crap wheat.

 

[Inkleg]

Confession: my wife and I share the basement laundry tray. I clean and sanitize my brewing equipment in it; she washes out the cat's litter box. Not sure if that's well-advised. Or even legal.

When your beer tastes like my avatar, you'll know its time to change the way you do that. That probably should have been during your last brew session.

 

[GHBWNY]

When your beer tastes like my avatar, you'll know its time to change the way you do that. That probably should have been during your last brew session.

Or maybe I should just name my next brew, "Hair of the Cat".

 

[FirstAidBrewing]

Confession: When I first started brewing, I thought that OneStep was a cleaner and sanitizer in one. I probably brewed 4 or 5 batches without ever sanitizing a single thing.

 

[Psylocide]

Confession: When I first started brewing, I thought that OneStep was a cleaner and sanitizer in one. I probably brewed 4 or 5 batches without ever sanitizing a single thing.

My dad brewed for 10 years using Straight A exclusively. Never had a bad beer from him, but I was a lot younger.

 

[zippybasher]

Confession: When I first started brewing, I thought that OneStep was a cleaner and sanitizer in one. I probably brewed 4 or 5 batches without ever sanitizing a single thing.

Well, I must be the luckiest guy ever. I used OneStep for over 100 batches and no infection. Switched to StarSan around batch 105.... and only did so to see if it made a difference in final taste.

 

[slym2none]

Confession: my wife and I share the basement laundry tray. I clean and sanitize my brewing equipment in it; she washes out the cat's litter box. Not sure if that's well-advised. Or even legal.

Just tell people you use Citra in all your beers.

:fro:

 

[DrunkleJon]

Confession: When I first started brewing, I thought that OneStep was a cleaner and sanitizer in one. I probably brewed 4 or 5 batches without ever sanitizing a single thing.

One step is technically a sanitizer even though it hasn't gone through the process to be able to call itself one. I still prefer Starsan though

 

[wtaylor3]

I used to clean and sanitize with EasyClean

 

[fimpster]

I never take FG readings before kegging or bottling. I do fill a hydrometer jar as I'm racking, but it never gets measured until the rest of the beer is already in the bottle/keg. I've never had a bottle bomb or gusher.

 

[TinyHands]

I got into homebrewing as a way to tap my German heritage. I have done zero lagers and have followed Reinheitsgebot on only a single recipe (and that was even an all-Citra APA).

I also don't use a bottling bucket... because I'm apparently too cheap to throw down the amount I would spend on a four-pack of Dragon's Milk for a stupid plastic bucket with a valve.

 

[Vamptrump]

[...]have followed Reinheitsgebot on only a single recipe (and that was even an all-Citra APA).

Gary_Oak is spasming out in the world somewhere.

 

[TinyHands]

Gary_Oak is spasming out in the world somewhere.

lol... who's that? Wouldn't want someone to be upset to the point of psychosomatic symptoms that I'm ignoring a defunct beer purity law from another country.

RHGB is like a form poem, right? Restrictions make me work harder, and I can potentially turn out a better overall product with a structure to stand on than if I had no self-imposed limits. But then you have folks like Allen Ginsberg, whose sheer awesomeness made form unnecessary. Ipso facto, Dragon's Milk w/ Raspberries is magic and should be worshiped.

 

[Vamptrump]

lol... who's that?

Oh man do you have a good day of reading behind you https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=527150

 

[Psylocide]

Oh man do you have a good day of reading behind you https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=527150

Na, you can stop around page 3.

 

[TinyHands]

Na, you can stop around page 3.

Oh mylanta. I need a jalapeno rye, stat. I stopped at page 5, or about the time his comment about the audience for fruit beers surfaced.

Reminds me of a few conversations with physics majors in undergrad, describing how "biology is really just physics in a complex system" and "physics is really the only true science."

And then there were the religion majors. Did I mention that this was an evangelical school, and I didn't have my first beer until 22? In hindsight, that would have made those conversations a little bit less stressful.

The best scientists admit that they're wrong way more often than they're right, even with all the studying and testing-- the nice thing about beer is that it is such a time-tested process. Hell, we didn't even figure out yeast until we were 6,500 years deep in experimentation. Even if it doesn't turn out the way I wanted, it's still beer. Dude sounds like me as a college freshman (and even some days presently). Maybe that thread was exactly what he needed: as soon as someone helped me realize how ridiculous I sounded, I changed my attitude. It's like saying only poetry that rhymes is real poetry, and free verse is a total waste of effort. Tell that to James gorram Dickey, who probably put whiskey in his beer all the time. /rant

 

[hunter_le five]

Why don't you tell us how you really feel?