Could someone please explain this?

[Channel66]

Senior Member, 255 posts...hmmm...show us your indoor setup Big Cat...

1. Post count is not a scale of how much one knows,

2. You are one to talk.

3. With an attitude like that you aren't going to make friends very fast.

 

[Medicbrewer]

Fire inside....bad. Fire outside....good. Gronk like outside fire! Outside fire cook while brew beer! Many sausages cook while brewing...good!

 

[phenry]

During the winter I do all of my brewing outside, including cooling and pitching the yeast. Why? Because yes, while there are microbes floating around everywhere, indoors and out, which one is going to be more active? One that's been floating around on a speck of dust in the 25*F morning, or one that's been hanging out on your ceiling at a nice cozy 70*F?

edit: and of course, everything is easier to clean up outside. Boilover? It gets the hose. Forgot to close the spigot before dumping in sparge water? It gets the hose. Too lazy to walk spent grains to the woods and just dumped them on the driveway? It gets the hose.

 

[ktblunden]

Most kitchen stoves do not output enough heat to bring 7+ gallons to a rolling boil like a propane burner does.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Lastly, it's beer. Control what you can, don't worry about what you can't.

this right here is sound.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

During the winter I do all of my brewing outside, including cooling and pitching the yeast. Why? Because yes, while there are microbes floating around everywhere, indoors and out, which one is going to be more active? One that's been floating around on a speck of dust in the 25*F morning, or one that's been hanging out on your ceiling at a nice cozy 70*F?

edit: and of course, everything is easier to clean up outside. Boilover? It gets the hose. Forgot to close the spigot before dumping in sparge water? It gets the hose. Too lazy to walk spent grains to the woods and just dumped them on the driveway? It gets the hose.

forgets to rub the lotion on its' skin? it gets the hose again. :rockin:

I'm gonna have to start a new compost pile. but our gardens should be nice this year!

 

[Big_Cat]

Fire inside....bad. Fire outside....good. Gronk like outside fire! Outside fire cook while brew beer! Many sausages cook while brewing...good!

Hahahahahhahaha i loved reading this so much that had to acted it out for wife lol thanks for the laugh lol

 

[Big_Cat]

During the winter I do all of my brewing outside, including cooling and pitching the yeast. Why? Because yes, while there are microbes floating around everywhere, indoors and out, which one is going to be more active? One that's been floating around on a speck of dust in the 25*F morning, or one that's been hanging out on your ceiling at a nice cozy 70*F?

edit: and of course, everything is easier to clean up outside. Boilover? It gets the hose. Forgot to close the spigot before dumping in sparge water? It gets the hose. Too lazy to walk spent grains to the woods and just dumped them on the driveway? It gets the hose.

Makes sense but i live in south Florida and we never get 25f ..its cooler inside my home than its outside and that includes winter where our coldest day was 62 lol

 

[aeviaanah]

^this^

The inside of your house likely has as many or more bacteria and wild yeast as your back yard does!

Yep!

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Makes sense but i live in south Florida and we never get 25f ..its cooler inside my home than its outside and that includes winter where our coldest day was 62 lol

I kinda wanna punch you in a bad place. been freezing my arloff off.

 

[Big_Cat]

I kinda wanna punch you in a bad place. been freezing my arloff off.

Hahahahhahahahahahhahaa sorry ...i guess lol

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Hahahahhahahahahahhahaa sorry ...i guess lol

hell, you didn't make me move to MN. we knew what the winters were like & moved here anyway. someday though, we'll be south/southwest in that warm weather. if we never get our store up & running here.:rockin:

 

[Big_Cat]

hell, you didn't make me move to MN. we knew what the winters were like & moved here anyway. someday though, we'll be south/southwest in that warm weather. if we never get our store up & running here.:rockin:

I will tell you this..its awful to get sunburned while in the pool in what's suppose to be winter lol...btw Cheers

 

[passedpawn]

I will tell you this..its awful to get sunburned while in the pool in what's suppose to be winter lol...btw Cheers

Hah. Just got back from a nice day of golf with my boys. Digging the nice weather right now.

 

[whitehause]

I'll brew inside if it's REALLY cold(got a big gas stove) but I like brewing outside on the covered porch. I made up a lid for my keggle that has two notches for my chiller hose, and have a lid for my fermenter that has a hole for the keggle spigot. I've never had an infection, and the bug factor is nill in the winter. I fire up the redneck chimenea (55 gal burn barrel) and I'm good to go.

 

[ronsky]

No January. February's too warm

... And in shorts and tshirts...

 

[b-boy]

... And in shorts and tshirts...

... And flip-flops.

 

[Lushife]

... And flip-flops.

Screw that, I do barefoot and naked.

 

[ronsky]

Screw that, I do barefoot and naked.

Ooh... Watch for shrinkage! ::
(and... GO SEAHAWKS!)

 

[brick_haus]

Because my burners have a sticker on them that say "outdoor use only".

 

[UncleLankyFrank]

For about $350 (US), we built a fire pit in our back yard. I can get 7 gallons to a full rolling boil in less than an hour over a set and ready fire. Wort returns to a full boil within 7 minutes of adding extract and DME (in solution) and hot break within 15.

Found the 8 gallon enameled steel canning pot on the curb one garbage day. They cost about $45 new.

The wood was leftover untreated cedar fence lumber. (wish I could afford to use that all the time) This was either the first test boil or the test batch of porter.

 

[b-boy]

For about $350 (US), we built a fire pit in our back yard. I can get 7 gallons to a full rolling boil in less than an hour over a set and ready fire. Wort returns to a full boil within 7 minutes of adding extract and DME (in solution) and hot break within 15.

Now that is real bewing! I have a firepit in my yard. Never thought about using it though.

How much wood do you go through?

Do you get any smoky flavors in the beer?

 

[jerrodm]

forgets to rub the lotion on its' skin? it gets the hose again. :rockin:

Aw man, didja hafta go there? Billy-Klubb isn't short for Buffalo Bill by any chance, is it?

 

[UncleLankyFrank]

Now that is real bewing! I have a firepit in my yard. Never thought about using it though.

How much wood do you go through?

Do you get any smoky flavors in the beer?

I usually start with small sticks of red oak and birch (the mix we get from our firewood guy), then rebuild the fire with birch logs, and again with thicker oak logs. So about 16-18 logs to get the bed laid and then another 8-10 over the course f the brew t keep the fire right up under the kettle and the temperature steady.

I don't know how much smoky flavor this might add, as all I have tasted from this brewing process is Porter. I kept making Northern Brewer's St. Paul Porter until I had the kinks worked out of the process (about 3 batches).

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Aw man, didja hafta go there? Billy-Klubb isn't short for Buffalo Bill by any chance, is it?

Put the f@#&ing Saison in the basket!