Don't Do That.

[bailey mountain brewer]

A pear tree??

 

[pvpeacock]

Yes, the paintball cannisters became obsolete and worthless once Dick's and other paint ball suppliers went Green and stopped refilling them with CO2. Now Soda Stream cannisters are the only refillable game in town for small, portable beer serving. Thankfully, my LHBS refills soda stream cannisters and exchanges 5 lb. tanks.

 

[mac_1103]

A pear tree??

No, just a tree. Because there should be more there, eh? Hoser.

 

[balrog]

Yu got it.

Take off!

 

[beren]

2x5#
1x20#
1 useless paintball (what, maybe 20oz?) tank w adapter that Dick's no longer refills so useless
1 micro regulator with small and large co2 cartridges
1 64oz UKeg

And a beer.

In a tree.

I love my 2.5 lb tank and mini regulator. A co2 transfer hose has been awesome. I just flip my 20lb upside down to fill it.

 

[bkboiler]

was making a starter and figured I'd sanitize the flask in the microwave by boiling some water in it. Noticed the stir bar was boiling extra vigorously since I realized under the plastic coating is a metallic magnet...

Don't do that!

 

[Broothru]

2x5#
1x20#
1 useless paintball (what, maybe 20oz?) tank w adapter that Dick's no longer refills so useless
1 micro regulator with small and large co2 cartridges
1 64oz UKeg

And a beer.

In a tree.

Oh, yeah. Forgot about the mini-regs and disposable CO2 canisters. Got a coupla’ regs and some boxes of 5 gram and 20 gram canisters. Never thought they worked very well, and usually ran out quickly at the least opportune time. Haven’t thought about them since getting the 5# bottle for ‘portable’ beer consumption.

 

[wepeeler]

DOH!

 

[day_trippr]

Termites?

 

[wepeeler]

Termites?

BIAB resting on the bottom of a Foundry...

 

[fluketamer]

my very first thought was maggots then i saw the scorch marks

 

[Scout]

After a couple of similar mishaps (ask me about the burn scars on my ****s) (or maybe not), I've learned to double check the connections on the plate chiller and kettle twice before turning on the pump. Because both times the connector popped off AFTER I had come back in the house from turning on the garden hose.

I bought my brewery as a kit that someone had started to put together. I never double checked the previous owners work, but before I used it for the first time, I did a wet run test with plain water. Good thing too, because all of his hoses leaked, but I still had hot water everywhere.

 

[Agent]

If you are embarking on a home malting experiment but for some reason can't finish that open bag of raw grain right away, you gotta seal it up somewhere. Otherwise you'll be squishing 5-10 of these little buggers a day for the foreseeable future and praying they dont find your brewing grain stash.

 

[Broothru]

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If you are embarking on a home malting experiment but for some reason can't finish that open bag of raw grain right away, you gotta seal it up somewhere. Otherwise you'll be squishing 5-10 of these little buggers a day for the foreseeable future and praying they dont find your brewing grain stash.

Eh, it’s just protein, amirite? Itzal good. /s

 

[balrog]

Seal it up and freeze it.

 

[Broken Crow]

The wiki doesn't say anything about content or flavour profile.... Maybe you can update us for future head-retetntion and protein haze adjustments.

 

[Broothru]

Seal it up and freeze it.

Tag it & bag it.

The salient question would be: it you discovered another of the little buggers, you’d be required to decide (based on their relative size) which was the lesser of two weevils…


“Try the veal. I’ll be here all week, folks. Don’t forget to tip your waitress…”

 

[IslandLizard]

which was the lesser of two weevils…

Those are grain moths, actually...
Freezing the invaded grain helps: it kills the moths and their larvae, but unsure about their eggs.

Use the tainted grain up as soon as you can, and keep an eye out for those moths in your house, they're also known as pantry moths.

If they got loose, at night look high up on walls, near the ceiling, that's where they hang out waiting to meet a mate. Kill 'em all!

 

[balrog]

Kill 'em all!

WITH FIRE
NUKE THEM FROM SPACE

Oh, wait, maybe not in the house.

 

[day_trippr]

I fear wildlife in my brew space.

Been really lucky for 20 years now, but I had a near tragedy with a bag of oat malt I picked up locally a couple of years ago that I then tossed in my "specialty grain bin" (basically a 50 gallon rolling trash can ) When I went to assemble the grist for a hazy a few days later and opened that bin I spotted weevils inside that bag - super fortunate it was still sitting on top of about 30 bags of specialty malts. Tossed that bag and reverted to some flaked oats I still had on hand...

Cheers!

 

[Deadalus]

2x5#
1x20#
1 useless paintball (what, maybe 20oz?) tank w adapter that Dick's no longer refills so useless
1 micro regulator with small and large co2 cartridges
1 64oz UKeg

And a beer.

In a tree.

Yes, the paintball cannisters became obsolete and worthless once Dick's and other paint ball suppliers went Green and stopped refilling them with CO2. Now Soda Stream cannisters are the only refillable game in town for small, portable beer serving. Thankfully, my LHBS refills soda stream cannisters and exchanges 5 lb. tanks.

I love my 2.5 lb tank and mini regulator. A co2 transfer hose has been awesome. I just flip my 20lb upside down to fill it.

The paint ball tanks can be refilled off a 20# CO2 with the adapter for the paintball tank and a transfer hose. Then there is also a special fill system for paintball tanks as well.

This brings me to the don't do that part. My plan was to refill my own paintball tank from my #20, and the paintball tank was empty to begin with. I put the adapter on the paintball tank, connected the transfer hose, filled the paintball tank, and started to unscrew the paintball tank at the adapter to transfer hose connection. DON'T DO THAT. CO2 starts spraying out, clearly cold, hissing, I'm panicking, no clue what's the problem or how to fix it or even whether it's going to blow up. Seemed like forever, the only thought I settled on was I'm glad I'm in the garage if it does as no one was nearby. Anyway, the adapter has to stay connected to the opposite device and should not stay connected to the paintball tank. This would be immediately clear screwing it into a full paintball tank, but I didn't start that way. There were no instructions. The adapter stays on the regulator and then when screwing it on, it depresses the valve on the paintball tank but the regulator stops the flow.

They make transfer hoses for paintball tanks and soda streams but they put on extra valves and there's also a knob to depress the pin valve on the paintball tank. Sometimes they come with a hanging scale.

I just filled mine up finally this evening.

 

[balrog]

Don't let your brain go into beer brewing mode when measuring for the simple syrup for your Limoncello, accidentally putting in 1800 ml (a fairly normal yeast starter amount) instead of the desired 180 ml.

Yeah.
I just ruined 10 lemons and a bottle of vodka for nothing.
Except criminally weak Limoncello.

Blech.

 

[day_trippr]

 

[BongoYodeler]

Don't let your brain go into beer brewing mode when measuring for the simple syrup for your Limoncello, accidentally putting in 1800 ml (a fairly normal yeast starter amount) instead of the desired 180 ml.

Yeah.
I just ruined 10 lemons and a bottle of vodka for nothing.
Except criminally weak Limoncello.

Blech.

Hmm, any way to use it rather than drinking it? Would be a shame to dump it. Perhaps make a marinade out of some of it?

 

[Agent]

Nothing that 9 bottles of vodka and 90 more lemons can't fix!

 

[Brew_Dude41]

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Use it as simple syrup in other drinks.

We tried to make lime-chello that was not so great, but made a nice addition to out margaritas.

 

[Brew_Dude41]

Don't order an extract kit so you can knock out an "Oktoberfast" quickly and then have your wife tell you that  we are going to try following a Keto diet. (Really, now!?)

Don't do that...

 

[balrog]

Hmm, any way to use it rather than drinking it? Would be a shame to dump it. Perhaps make a marinade out of some of it?

yeah I'd need 90 lemons and 9x750ml vodka ... if I wanted to fix *all* of it.

With time comes a slightly clearer head. But now I have to math it a bit. There's this online calc I was using that said to use 180ml water (really 130 but I bumped it to 180 expecting that thicker simple syrup to cling to the saucepan), 220 grams sugar. This was to add to the ~700ml vodka soaked lemon zests, to give me about 30% ABV final product of about 1 liter, at 20 Brix. Don't start with me about the Brix, I've not really analyzed the calculator. There was lemon zesting and vodka drinking going on. I know I had the 220 grams sugar, but I ended up with 3 Liters final volume. So I may only be off by 20 more lemons and 2 more 750ml vodka and someone dissolve another 2X220gm sugar. Maybe. And that's only if I'm allowed to by someone else living in this house that is taking a dim view of failed Limoncello Attempt #2.

[Edit: for anyone interested, or bored with TikTok videos and Instagram reels, here's the calc]

 

[HM-2]

You could reduce your vodka requirements by using Everclear or another neutral grain spirit of your choice.

 

[Rish]

Might be heresy to limoncello purists but maybe consider something like this to avoid zesting all those lemons.

https://amoretti.com/products/lemon...j1m1GqzANH6iyheCSzr6-uOG7sb5fxXwPrZs7g4Jy0nRG

 

[Closet Fermenter]

Might be heresy to limoncello purists be maybe consider something like this to avoid zesting all those lemons.

https://amoretti.com/products/lemon...j1m1GqzANH6iyheCSzr6-uOG7sb5fxXwPrZs7g4Jy0nRG

I cheat; I just buy the lemon flavored vodka from the liquor store.

 

[bkboiler]

it's been a hectic week, and I am glad to get to brew today, but am pretty tired.
Recipe called for 2.75 lb of munich and 2.75 lb of pilsner.

I looked at the bag of pilsner and it said 3lb. So I just dumped in the bags of pilsner and munich and figured close enough.

Well, the 3 lb bag is just a 5 lb bag partly filled. So the 3 lb of pilsner got added to 5lb of munich. I now have wort that's roughly double what it needs to be...not sure how it all happened.
But don't do that.

 

[HM-2]

Come, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, to listen to the truly stupefying cornucopia of dreadful ideas that just manifested themselves in my brewery.

• When transferring 23L sanitiser out of a fermenter and into a spare 19L keg under CO2 pressure, don't walk off
• If you are going to walk off, don't go have a 20 minute chat with the contractor redoing your driveway.

If you are going to have a chat with your contractor for 20 minutes, then expect to see quite a lot of that sanitiser being expelled from the top of your keg.

• If you're going to dump sanitiser all over your brewery, don't place your keg on top of the drawer containing most of your brewing tools.
• Also, don't leave those drawers open.
• Especially not if all your electronics are what's above the keg.

Net cost: 30 minutes of clean-up time, the rest of my shop towel, an entire Sodastream CO2 canister and indeterminate brewing gadgets once I've had chance to test them all. Thankfully not my rather expensive pH meter at least.

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

When mixing up a pumpkin spice & bourbon potion, for dosing after-the-pour...

BE SURE TO READ the spice-jar's label carefully! Allspice is NOT good in an imperial stout.

 

[Skeeter686]

When mixing up a pumpkin spice & bourbon potion, for dosing after-the-pour...

BE SURE TO READ the spice-jar's label carefully! Allspice is NOT good in an imperial stout.

And cumin isn't great on French toast.

Hey... it was early in the morning, I was only a few sips into my coffee, cumin is a similar color to cinnamon, it was where the cinnnamon had formerly been sitting, and it starts with a 'c'.

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

When mixing up a pumpkin spice & bourbon potion, for dosing after-the-pour...

BE SURE TO READ the spice-jar's label carefully! Allspice is NOT good in an imperial stout.

It wasn't completely AWFUL, but it was PRETTY DAMNED WEIRD!

 

[Broothru]

And cumin isn't great on French toast.

Hey... it was early in the morning, I was only a few sips into my coffee, cumin is a similar color to cinnamon, it was where the cinnnamon had formerly been sitting, and it starts with a 'c'.

Serious question: ever used or heard of adding a teaspoon of turmeric in a cup of coffee? SWMBO’d keeps pushing OTC vitamins and ‘supplements’ in my direction, like zinc or CoQ10 or memory enhancers (but I have a hard time remembering to take them). Now a pill with turmeric is being proffered (I.e., ‘gently suggested’) to forestall inflammatory issues.

I understand the antioxidant properties attributed to turmeric as well as the likelihood of efficacy as an anti-inflammatory. I’m just not an habitual pill popper if there are dietary sources available. I recently read about adding turmeric to a morning cup of coffee as a way of spicing things up and getting a daily dose in one easy way.

But. I enjoy my Java steaming hot, black, and unadulterated. Yet the thought of a teaspoon of turmeric in my coffee strikes me about as desirable as pumpkin spice in beer.

My reluctance and underlying fear is that the potential for life-altering trauma may drive me away from my beloved caffeine delivery device. I dunno. It just sounds too gross to try it.

Anyone, Bueller…anyone?

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

My reluctance and underlying fear is that the potential for life-altering trauma may drive me away from my beloved caffeine delivery device. I dunno. It just sounds too gross to try it.

Turmeric is great in a nice Indian curry recipe, but yeah, in coffee? Hard "nah"...

As for asian cuisines, my thoughts are:

• If my nose isn't running, it wasn't spicy enough
• Thai >>>>>> Indian >> Chinese > Japanese
• (Thai is fu-kin amazing, Indian is pretty good, Chinese is good, Japanese is just salty and meh)

 

[Broothru]

Turmeric is great in a nice Indian curry recipe, but yeah, in coffee? Hard "nah"...

As for asian cuisines, my thoughts are:

• If my nose isn't running, it wasn't spicy enough
• Thai >>>>>> Indian >> Chinese > Japanese
• (Thai is fu-kin amazing, Indian is pretty good, Chinese is good, Japanese is just salty and meh)

You validated my fears. And also my likes.

I developed a deep affection for English cuisine (I.e., Indian food) on my many trips to London. Finding a good English restaurant in London always meant having a reliable recommendation for Indian food.

Sadly, SWMBO’d was never a fan. As I write these words, my mouth is literally watering at the thought of Tandori chicken and a dish of yellow curry, washed down with a Fuller's London Pride.

 

[ncbrewer]

And cumin isn't great on French toast.

Hey... it was early in the morning, I was only a few sips into my coffee, cumin is a similar color to cinnamon, it was where the cinnnamon had formerly been sitting, and it starts with a 'c'.

I had a similar experience when I decided to surprise my wife by baking some bread (with no prior baking experience). Black pepper isn't the same as baking powder.