Crazy Question: Marbles

[jjones17]

You could filter with a sack of horse's pubic hair too - but that does not mean you should.

Just because the idea if different, does not make it great. Use a SS braid, it works fine.

 

[B0rnFrustr8ed]

You could filter with a sack of horse's pubic hair too - but that does not mean you should.

Just because the idea if different, does not make it great. Use a SS braid, it works fine.

Your idea is different, therefore it is irrefutably great, as has been vigorously argued and proven in this thread.

Enjoy your horse's pubic hair beer.

 

[rewster452]

Your idea is different, therefore it is irrefutably great, as has been vigorously argued and proven in this thread.

Enjoy your horse's pubic hair beer.

Wow. Okay, Jesus. It's a wonder anybody ever talks about trying new things in this forum. "Without deviation, progress is not possible," Frank Zappa

It's not a game changing technique that everyone is going to be racing to copy, but if the man wants to use marbles I say go for it.

The rest of you would do well to remember that not everyone is terrified of small failures.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Whoa. Everybody chill (including me, really...stupid marble math). I think those horse hair posts were meant in good fun. Let's just assume that and move on.

 

[clayroc]

Whoa. Everybody chill (including me, really...stupid marble math).

That's why I was wondering, but it's all good. Honestly I had figured you had tried it

All I can say in the subject is don't do what I did. I tried to use my bottling bucket (made like revvy's) with a perfect sized Colander in it. Fail. I got a lot of grain in my wort. Probably a flow control issue is my guess. I bought a braid and a ball valve.

That and try it. If it works well then let us know, if not let the tread die a quite death. however in the interest of science may want to try it with a braid to for a base line to see if it does indeed work better.

 

[clayroc]

The rest of you would do well to remember that not everyone is terrified of small failures.

+1

I have had to many to count already and I have only been brewing for 6 months

 

[jiggs_casey]

I would think that the space between typical marbles would be too big. Ultimately, if you're going to do this, you would need to use 'spheres' that would mimic the 'space / holes' you would find in either a braid or false bottom setup.

Cleanup would be a pain as well.

 

[djsethall]

I say go for it, whats the worst that happens?

 

[SankePankey]

Marbles have been used for filtering alcohol in the history of fermentation, but in a different way. Cleaned marbles were used to filter out air so to speak in a container containing wine, preventing oxidation by just displacing the liquid bringing the level into the neck of the bottle and close to the top. Sort of like an ancient version of the vacuvin pumps. Useless info, but oddly pertinent to the discussion.

 

[BOBTHEukBREWER]

by very fine grit I meant around 1/10 inch diameter, think of the grit as very small marbles, easy to wash and sterilise......

 

[clayroc]

Marbles have been used for filtering alcohol in the history of fermentation, but in a different way. Cleaned marbles were used to filter out air so to speak in a container containing wine, preventing oxidation by just displacing the liquid bringing the level into the neck of the bottle and close to the top. Sort of like an ancient version of the vacuvin pumps. Useless info, but oddly pertinent to the discussion.

You know, that's some good info. I don't have a vacuum pump, now I just need to find some lead free marbles

 

[jjones17]

Wow. Okay, Jesus. It's a wonder anybody ever talks about trying new things in this forum. "Without deviation, progress is not possible," Frank Zappa

It's not a game changing technique that everyone is going to be racing to copy, but if the man wants to use marbles I say go for it.

The rest of you would do well to remember that not everyone is terrified of small failures.

I agree with Yuri - all in good fun my man.

A good quote for you which you would 'do well to remember', that I believe applies well to you and your particular type of reasoning:

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." - Frank Zappa

I agree - let the man 'go for it'. But if the man asks for an opinion I shall give it. And that opinion of mine says "why bother?" If he did not want to hear it, he would not have asked!

 

[MyNameIsPaul]

Maybe using a mix of different sized marbles would help close the gaps between the bigger marbles. Go nuts man, let us know how it works. But please, no horse pubes.

 

[Dinklefwat]

At the risk of stirring up a hornet's nest...

What about using marbles as a way to reduce headspace in my mash tun?

Does anyone see any problems with doing this?

(I have a 2 gallon cooler that I want to use for 5G PM recipes and small AG recipes. In theory, for the PM recipes I could just mash more grain and use less DME, but I'm thinking of PM kits that come with a fixed amount of grain, DME, etc., so that adjusting the amount of grain to be mashed wouldn't be easy to do.)

 

[Jadub]

I have a problem where about 1L of wort gets left behind because i can't get it to flow into the drain on my cooler MLT. it sits just beneath the drain - so i need something to fill the space
think a few dozen marbles arranged beneath the cooler drain would raise the level of the wort and allow me to raise my efficiency by getting more wort out?
I can't seem to get above 68% efficiency (perfect temps, double fly sparging..)

 

[kanzimonson]

Just sparge with 1L extra water and don't worry about it - most of us deal with a little extra water here and there. In fact, I always prep about 1gal of extra sparge water over what my software tells me. I just don't want to run out, and if I have any extra that has a reasonable amount of sugar in it, then I just save it in mason jars and pressure cook for starter wort.