Cuss me out for being a crappy homebrewer! lol

[bracconiere]

Damn you guys are great! never thought a bunch of other homebrewers pointing out to me how stupid i am would be so inspirational!

lol, just pulled some mash water out of the cooler to bring to a boil to ramp up temp to 162f, it's all cloudy. BUT it's just slightly amber! Yea! with the new oven mod, and low toasted malt, i can make different tasting beers again! it was always tough with using 20-30L munich malt as base malt to make anything that was different...

And if it wasn't for you guys making me feel stupid, i wouldn't have been able to do it! Thanks!

(that's straight from the heart)

 

[bracconiere]

had to update, thinking about this crap!

so i put my malt on to slow drain when i was making it, got a damn air bubble in the drain, and it sat in water over night...got a rot! and i was planning on making a light beer, and did! this **** smells and tastes like food waste definitely needed a bunch of dark grain to cover it up with! but hell i've drank it before when i didn't notice, and it didn't kill me?

like a mother with a kid with down syndrom, i love it. and i'm going to keep trying!

 

[bracconiere]

i've been drinking this rotten malt beer. thinking to myself, all the best food started out as rotten food, kim-chi, saur kraut, pepperoni, most cheeses....and i just got talked into smoking malt from a fellow forum member...i think this over soaked malt, would go good with some smoked malt, and thinking i might do it on purpose! and cardamom! yea me! see how it goes!

 

[lschiavo]

See kids. Don't smoke malt. He's dead now. It killed him. What an idiot.

 

[bracconiere]

Not quite dead, just disappointed... Realizing i don't like cardamom in place of hops in beer!

I actually smoked some more malt! (sometimes the stuff even gets into one of my rolled cigs and i actually do!) And i got a batch going without cardamom this time round!

 

[JimRausch]

Along the lines of walking a mile in another's shoes, I will not call you a crappy brewer until I've had a pint of your best.

 

[bracconiere]

Along the lines of walking a mile in another's shoes, I will not call you a crappy brewer until I've had a pint of your best.

and depending on where it's served, i hope you don't mind a picnic tap, or it being poured out of a cleaned old 1 liter soda bottle!

 

[TheMadKing]

Does anyone else wonder if OP just has a weird fetish and likes to be yelled at?

 

[bracconiere]

Does anyone else wonder if OP just has a weird fetish and likes to be yelled at?

not necessarily .. just i've tried posting on homebrewing forum before and always end up having it happen...thought i'd make a specific thread for it! because that way it can be accepted, and i can be around other people i relate too. that make their own drugs....

was just thinking that my form of sanitizing my fermenter, is using it for my sparge water? guess that's more like pasteurizing it though?

edit: i know i'm in the minority wanting a 1 dollar twelve pack and not a 20 dollar one!

 

[TheMadKing]

The fetish thing was 100% in jest

People are too up tight about what's right and wrong with brewing. Beer is forgiving and its genuinely easy to make and hard to screw up. If you've got a system that works for you, then don't fix what ain't broke.

99% of this forum is people asking the same 10 questions over and over - or thinking they've done something innovative that the Germans haven't been doing for 200 years ("vitality starters" are just krausening... case in point).

I see no issue with that... if you're over 140F then it's at least as effective as StarSan... I keep the same bucket of star san for months at a time so maybe I'm weird too

I didn't didn't get into this hobby to save money though... My wife can attest to that

 

[bracconiere]

i usually pour the water in my plastic bucket at about 175-180f and let it cool to 165-170f....

And saving money is the reason i love drinking beer so much! only 'drug' i can do that with, all the other ones i tried, i ended up having to pay whatever 'they' wanted, which was my whole paycheck usually!

And, i knew you were joking? lol drink on brother! without a lot of mirth, drinking usually lands people in jail!

 

[ba-brewer]

and depending on where it's served, i hope you don't mind a picnic tap, or it being poured out of a cleaned old 1 liter soda bottle!

Did you have to anything to get the soda smell out of the bottles or does that get taken care of after the first use for beer?

Also do you reuse the caps or buy new ones?

Been thinking about using 2litre soda bottles for mini casks, but the smell does not want to leave the bottles with simple soaking in oxiclean.

 

[bracconiere]

Did you have to anything to get the soda smell out of the bottles or does that get taken care of after the first use for beer?

Also do you reuse the caps or buy new ones?

Been thinking about using 2litre soda bottles for mini casks, but the smell does not want to leave the bottles with simple soaking in oxiclean.

I reuse the same caps, never noticed a soda taste? just rinse them out myself...but my taste buds aren't too sensitive, thus the topic of this thread! i could taste soda from a used keg without the gaskets replaced though...

and i don't distinctly remember i've reused the same 1 liter bottles for years so, maybe the first couple beers did in fact 'clean them out'....

you could always use some empty dasani water bottles instead of soda bottles?

 

[SanPancho]

Club soda bottles. Or seltzer.

 

[bracconiere]

Club soda bottles. Or seltzer.

Even better! good idea, i was just thinking dasani cause they sell em in thicker bottles with beter lids, but club soda would be the best!

 

[Zuljin]

Secondary or die!

 

[bracconiere]

Secondary or die!

!! I've filled pitchers straight out of the primary fermenter! warm and flat

 

[TheMadKing]

!! I've filled pitchers straight out of the primary fermenter! warm and flat

You're a monster...

And you gave your friends the squirts haha

 

[bracconiere]

You're a monster...

And you gave your friends the squirts haha

you saying 'friends' plural gives me more credit than i deserve! i only have one! and they drink hard alcohol!

 

[ba-brewer]

Thanks bracconiere, I will give the couple I plan to use a few more soaking and see how they smell.

@SanPancho I had thought about that too just did not want to buy selzer to just dump out. Might be the safest bet though to not get soda tasting beer.

 

[bracconiere]

Thanks bracconiere, I will give the couple I plan to use a few more soaking and see how they smell.

@SanPancho I had thought about that too just did not want to buy selzer to just dump out. Might be the safest bet though to not get soda tasting beer.

Should post this in the 'how to avoid BMC-lite' thread fill up about 4 1 liter soda bottles and bring em with you, that's what i always did, i can be cool; and ghetto at the same time!

 

[bracconiere]

so...i got a batch going, it's at 1.008 with gluco, but it's only bubbling about a bubble every 3 seconds...thought about posting somewhere else about stuck fermentation...but figure this is the place to do it...(yes i like periods)...but damn it! now that's it's winter room temp is what you quality boys call good ferm temps!, now it's 65f inside and i can't ferment a batch in 4 days! i'm down to my last keg of cloudy beer that's over carb'd , and have to decide do i drink inbev IPA, or home made rum from the feed store? i got a dark and light...i watered down the dark to about 8% alcohol in a gallon jug, not sure what to do if the keg runs dry?

WWYD, i either have to break the law or succumb to big business....

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

I would cuss you out for letting your pipeline run dry!

Just kidding, if you have to buy a couple to get you through its not so bad, you fight the fight against the ABInBev boys 99% of the time.

 

[bracconiere]

I would cuss you out for letting your pipeline run dry!

Just kidding, if you have to buy a couple to get you through its not so bad, you fight the fight against the ABInBev boys 99% of the time.

Yeah, i got distracted with fights on other fronts...let my malt sit, while my stir bar was running.....but honestly pipes ain't dry...got gallons of homemade booze to drink, just not sure if the dehydrated feeling it gives me is worse than inebv beer, and the Bud IPA, has hops flavor just not any malt which i find funny!

(but yes, i've been running paycheck to paycheck so to say, keg to keg) got room for 6 but only been keeping 2 full, malting my own is fun though! just takes a week to do it!

 

[bracconiere]

damn, so, i'm drinking this what i would coin 'Fecal Phenom' beer right now. but it's all i have to drink. It's got a nice lactic sourness but the taste of poopy on the finish...

I soaked my fermenter with PBW, then a quarter cup of bleach. hoping i don't get something this bad again! my beer is always dirty, but normally doesn't taste pre digested....

and as a threat, here you go!

 

[ba-brewer]

great name, but I would pick something else if I seen it on a menu. I know smell and taste are interlinked so hoping that is how you know the taste. I see barnyard as a description for some saison beers, I now wonder if that is what they are talking about.

When I brew with 3711 French saison yeast I make sure I don't keg until the beer in the fermentor stops tasting like vomit. Not sure if it is a byproduct of fermentation or just the flavor of the yeast itself.

 

[ba-brewer]

Hey @bracconiere, I think I recall you mentioning that you had a hard time making very pale malt, I was wonder if the darker base malt you made at home is close to the historical brown malt used in porters or is it more like a munich malt.

 

[bracconiere]

great name, but I would pick something else if I seen it on a menu. I know smell and taste are interlinked so hoping that is how you know the taste. I see barnyard as a description for some saison beers, I now wonder if that is what they are talking about.

When I brew with 3711 French saison yeast I make sure I don't keg until the beer in the fermentor stops tasting like vomit. Not sure if it is a byproduct of fermentation or just the flavor of the yeast itself.

mostly smell~taste, but there was that once with my girlfriend.....lol

i'm repitching US-05, not sure if maybe it doesn't have as good of antimicrobial properties as nottingham, i've repitched notty for 1-2 years before...

 

[bracconiere]

Hey @bracconiere, I think I recall you mentioning that you had a hard time making very pale malt, I was wonder if the darker base malt you made at home is close to the historical brown malt used in porters or is it more like a munich malt.

i solved that problem with a 200ohm resistor on my oven temp probe recently. but it was a dark munich malt, being that it was kilned at ~200f for 12 hours.

 

[ba-brewer]

I have had good luck with US05 being repitched close to 10 times I think. I have had issues with WLP029 a couple time after 5 repitches, so I don't push anything over 4 or 5 repitches now.

Thanks for the info on your dark base malt.