Do you write what they're really for? Or do you make things up just to keep your wife on her toes?
I would never do such a thing, myself.
Don't Do That.
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Now you tell me! It's even more fun with an elbow! Only about 2 psi. I put the chair out in the rain.
Sorry dude, but I almost spit my beer out when I read that.
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It's all good. I'm learning all the different ways this thing can shart on the brewer. Both my 7 gallons have done so, gives me an idea...
A non beer related one... don't promise your kid concert tickets without checking prices first... background.. my teenage daughter loves my chemical romance, I grew up listening to punk and emo in the late 90s, blink and greenday and such. I went to a lot of concerts with a lot of bands, and tickets were like 40 bucks at the most. So as a combo gift for Xmas and bday, and with the stipulation of bringing her grades up, we said, "we'll take you to see my chemical romance in philly" .. so she made honor roll, I went to ticket master thinking ok 3 tickets maybe 200 bucks, 300 at the most right... welllllll fml... I was way off. More like a little over a grand, and they aren't even great seats.. wtf.. ok well I made the promise and she made the grades, so next week is the concert, don't get me wrong I'm stoked, but damn, didn't expect that..
Don't promise event tickets before checking them out first.. don't do that!
LLMCR
Don't promise event tickets before checking them out first.. don't do that!
LLMCR
You need to count the years since the late 90s. You'll run out of fingers and toes.
I saw ELP at Boston Garden in 1977 for $8.50 a ticket. We just walked up. I could have spit on Greg Lake.
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Oh I get it, I've been to plenty of other concerts more recently as well and tickets were still less than 50 bucks. Venue matters... But my 20 dollar GA (floor) tickets are a thing of the past. In any case, lesson learned.
I saw Fugazi at the Hollywood Palladium in the 1980's and they charged $5 per ticket. I later read an interview in which they said that they only charged $5 so they felt they had the right to "suck" on any given night.
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I kegged my Belgian trippel in preparation to bottle it. Went to bottle it yesterday. Added some yeast, flushed the bottles with CO2, filled and then... added sugar. Not quite a mentos and diet coke reaction, but it started foaming quickly.
I realized last time I did this a couple years ago I used a bucket and a bottling wand and had mixed the priming sugar into the bucket, not into the bottles.
I realized last time I did this a couple years ago I used a bucket and a bottling wand and had mixed the priming sugar into the bucket, not into the bottles.
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That was you?!!
I said could have. But I did blow bubbles down onto Frank Zappa from the Orpheum balcony once.
Same with a professional sports events. The costs are ridiculous. Much like a $6 to $9 pint, or $16 4-pack.
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Starting another holy war eh?
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I saw Black Oak Arkansas, Styx and Ambrosia for 8 bucks. You will probably outlive me by at least 2 decades. Good luck with that.
Saw the Eagles “Long Run Tour” concert in Raleigh in ‘79; ticket price was $10.50, and I only had to walk 1,300 feet from my room to the venue!
Don’t bother checking one of their concert ticket prices today.
Don’t bother checking one of their concert ticket prices today.
In September 1976 I saw Blue Oyster Cult with opening acts Rush and Angel. Ticket price was $5.50
Those were the days.
Those were the days.
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I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down the mill, and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home... our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah." And you try to tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you
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Well, don't feel too bad... we've all overpaid for an ok band before, too...
You too? I thought it was just me!
At least you had a home. We lived for three months in a rolled up newspaper in a septic tank.
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We had no cup and had to suck our beer from a moistened rag.
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Wait. You had beer!?!
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Procrastinate.
Don’t do that.
You’ll end up with shriveled fingers if you “just put it there for when I clean them”.
2.5 hours.
Don’t do that.
Don’t do that.
You’ll end up with shriveled fingers if you “just put it there for when I clean them”.
2.5 hours.
Don’t do that.
I've got four empty kegs in the garage waiting to be cleaned this 3 day weekend. Although I find when I clean multiple kegs, I tend to be more thorough including disassembling everything, soaking it all in PBW, replacing o-rings where needed and keg lubing everything. When I only clean one, I tend to just rinse it and put it away. So maybe procrastination is a good thing?!
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With the Mark2, which pumps through diptube as well as directly into keg, I've perhaps grown a little complacent about disassembly when cleaning. It has definitely been required in certain hoppy styles when poppets required debris-ectomies.
The main issue was a couple of kegs of apfelwein, the 2.5gal, where I'd waited *way* too long, and the settled yeast "cake" of Montrachet wine yeast was molecularly bonded to the keg bottom, requiring manual intervention. Translation, arm in keg with scotch brite.
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I don't disassemble each time. Maybe once a year to check rubber bits.
fwiw, I only take a post off a keg is there's a problem. Otherwise it's Mark II all the way.
Cheers!
Cheers!
This is more of a "Don't let that happen" rather than a "Don't do that."
I was brewing today (an electric system) and while chilling through a CFC, it seemed as if the temperature was dropping slower than I expected, even after I switched to recirculating ice water. After transferring the wort to my fermenter, I saw that a bag containing crushed coriander and bitter orange peel had wrapped itself around my thermowell containing the probe effectively insulating it. The temperature controller in my fermentation chamber indicated the beer was about 12 degrees colder than I thought. Now I'm waiting for it to warm up so I can pitch the yeast.
I was brewing today (an electric system) and while chilling through a CFC, it seemed as if the temperature was dropping slower than I expected, even after I switched to recirculating ice water. After transferring the wort to my fermenter, I saw that a bag containing crushed coriander and bitter orange peel had wrapped itself around my thermowell containing the probe effectively insulating it. The temperature controller in my fermentation chamber indicated the beer was about 12 degrees colder than I thought. Now I'm waiting for it to warm up so I can pitch the yeast.
This is going to be a rough one to write. Kicking myself still, a few hours later.
Been a weird weekend for work, mainly due to the fact that the system our omniscient leaders make us use crashed big time Friday night. Just came back up today, but not without several sessions with Tech Support who do not operate in this country. Also, since our company was 'acquired' by our corporate overlords, we have a separate IT section that works maybe a few days a week. And not everyone can access the system yet, myself being one of those lucky few; also I'm one of the lucky few who have to work on a holiday weekend. So one of my coworkers had to meet me at the office so I could finish my tasks.
Anyway. Decided to brew regardless, since I wasn't going to have to hit the office until this afternoon. Everything went great until time to chill, when one of the garden hose disconnects that was working JUST FINE on Friday decided to nope it out of there, spraying water all over the garage. Managed to get things situated, dug around for a replacement. THAT is when I discovered that I hadn't closed the valve on the BK. About 2g of tasty wort ran out into the 12g kettle I use to house the semi-leaky plate chiller, which already had about 3g of questionable water in it. Many loud swear words later, water on the floor, running back and forth, found a disconnect that didn't want to turn into a shower. At first was going to trash the batch, but decided nah; I've got the yeast ready, let's see what happens. Dumped the watery wort from the 12g into the BK, cranked the burner back on, and boiled it down to 5.25g from 8. Wound up with about 1.065 SG, doesn't smell bad. Didn't have the heart to taste it. The yeast was already rehydrated, so I ran the wort through the now working plate chiller into the fermzilla. Chucked it in the ferm fridge to cool down, and just pitched yeast about 20 minutes ago. It will beer, but might not be anything I'll want to drink. Magic Karma 8-Ball says it will either be swill, or something so fantastic that I'll want to try to replicate it.
TL;DR; DON'T FORGET TO CLOSE THE EFFING VALVE ON THE BK.
Been a weird weekend for work, mainly due to the fact that the system our omniscient leaders make us use crashed big time Friday night. Just came back up today, but not without several sessions with Tech Support who do not operate in this country. Also, since our company was 'acquired' by our corporate overlords, we have a separate IT section that works maybe a few days a week. And not everyone can access the system yet, myself being one of those lucky few; also I'm one of the lucky few who have to work on a holiday weekend. So one of my coworkers had to meet me at the office so I could finish my tasks.
Anyway. Decided to brew regardless, since I wasn't going to have to hit the office until this afternoon. Everything went great until time to chill, when one of the garden hose disconnects that was working JUST FINE on Friday decided to nope it out of there, spraying water all over the garage. Managed to get things situated, dug around for a replacement. THAT is when I discovered that I hadn't closed the valve on the BK. About 2g of tasty wort ran out into the 12g kettle I use to house the semi-leaky plate chiller, which already had about 3g of questionable water in it. Many loud swear words later, water on the floor, running back and forth, found a disconnect that didn't want to turn into a shower. At first was going to trash the batch, but decided nah; I've got the yeast ready, let's see what happens. Dumped the watery wort from the 12g into the BK, cranked the burner back on, and boiled it down to 5.25g from 8. Wound up with about 1.065 SG, doesn't smell bad. Didn't have the heart to taste it. The yeast was already rehydrated, so I ran the wort through the now working plate chiller into the fermzilla. Chucked it in the ferm fridge to cool down, and just pitched yeast about 20 minutes ago. It will beer, but might not be anything I'll want to drink. Magic Karma 8-Ball says it will either be swill, or something so fantastic that I'll want to try to replicate it.
TL;DR; DON'T FORGET TO CLOSE THE EFFING VALVE ON THE BK.
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Yes yes, very bad. But what about the bittering hops?
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Bittering hood? Is that yet another new gizmo that I will have to get???
Oh it got bittering hops, and late hops, which after boiling again probably turned into MORE bittering hops, so this got bittering hops to the nth degree. It's taking off this morning, under pressure so it should be ready to test in a few days. Since the fermzilla will partially carbonate it, when it's done I'll know if it's a keeper or a tosser.
Don't...
...leave a keg in your garage, subject to pretty much any level of crazy temperature swings, about 1/4 full of beer, for 5 1/2 years.
I brewed yesterday and was getting ready to keg the previous batch so I could free up the fermenter. And holy hell what I smelled (and saw) in that keg was the stuff of nightmares...
Disassembly, cleaning, sanitizing, reassembly, etc was a bigger job than I'd planned for...
...leave a keg in your garage, subject to pretty much any level of crazy temperature swings, about 1/4 full of beer, for 5 1/2 years.
I brewed yesterday and was getting ready to keg the previous batch so I could free up the fermenter. And holy hell what I smelled (and saw) in that keg was the stuff of nightmares...
Disassembly, cleaning, sanitizing, reassembly, etc was a bigger job than I'd planned for...
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“…..and then, at 5:28 pm eastern time, the ‘beer’ became self aware, and started learning at a geometric rate…”
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A guy gave me an old keg once to use as a gas tank for a dune buggy. One of those old rounded aluminum ones with a bung hammered in the side. It still had at least a gallon of beer in it you could hear sloshing around. I have no idea how long it had been in there or what beer it was. It laid around the shop for most of the summer and I eventually had a buddy called Rooster drop by and offer to trade me a set of carburetors for a CB750 for it. While we were discussing it, he pried the bung out and rolled it down a hill into the next yard to drain the old beer out. It was so putrid that it had an effect similar to tear gas. The neighbor kids started running and gagging and we had some 'splaining to do when their dad got home. I had to hose down the entire area to kill the smell. My eyes are watering just thinking about it.
Here's one that might be good for the noobs.
You've maybe read about this lovely stuff called PBW (powdered brewery wash); relatively cheap, and advertised as great for cleaning your equipment. You may have looked at the price and thought, oh heck no, I can do just as well with storebought oxyclean (scent free please) and other household cleaners. (Never bleach, please and thank you.). I'll be fine!!!
Then, after nine years of homebrewing, you finally decide to buy a 1lb tub of the stuff, just to see what it can do. Leave it on the shelf for a few weeks, because busy. Then one Saturday, that you finally have free, decide to use it to clean some somewhat nasty kegs that you've had for several years. Always rinsed out, scrubbed a bit at the crud inside, but thought oh heck this is fine. That Saturday, you fill a keg with hot water and the prescribed amount of PBW, thinking well, it might do some good. Leave it in for 30 minutes, shaking several times. Then....
You dump it out (or push to the next keg needing cleaning). Pop that keg lid and...you are temporarily blinded by the shininess inside. Without any scrubbing, that stuff did away with several years of scale/beerstone/nastiness. Leaving a keg that looks brand new on the inside. And you put on your old softball cleats, and proceed to kick yourself into next week for not doing this sooner.
I made up ONE 5g batch in hot water, and it proceeded to clean three kegs to a fare-thee-well with minimal scrubbing. Right now it's recirculating through my plate chiller to give that a good cleanout. All for less than $3 per treatment.
Why didn't I do this sooner? Good question. Thought I could do things cheaper, or my cleaning was sufficient.
TL;DR; PBW is your friend. You know, that friend that comes over on a weekend and helps you clean when your in-laws are coming over, and doesn't expect anything in return. DO DO THAT.
You've maybe read about this lovely stuff called PBW (powdered brewery wash); relatively cheap, and advertised as great for cleaning your equipment. You may have looked at the price and thought, oh heck no, I can do just as well with storebought oxyclean (scent free please) and other household cleaners. (Never bleach, please and thank you.). I'll be fine!!!
Then, after nine years of homebrewing, you finally decide to buy a 1lb tub of the stuff, just to see what it can do. Leave it on the shelf for a few weeks, because busy. Then one Saturday, that you finally have free, decide to use it to clean some somewhat nasty kegs that you've had for several years. Always rinsed out, scrubbed a bit at the crud inside, but thought oh heck this is fine. That Saturday, you fill a keg with hot water and the prescribed amount of PBW, thinking well, it might do some good. Leave it in for 30 minutes, shaking several times. Then....
You dump it out (or push to the next keg needing cleaning). Pop that keg lid and...you are temporarily blinded by the shininess inside. Without any scrubbing, that stuff did away with several years of scale/beerstone/nastiness. Leaving a keg that looks brand new on the inside. And you put on your old softball cleats, and proceed to kick yourself into next week for not doing this sooner.
I made up ONE 5g batch in hot water, and it proceeded to clean three kegs to a fare-thee-well with minimal scrubbing. Right now it's recirculating through my plate chiller to give that a good cleanout. All for less than $3 per treatment.
Why didn't I do this sooner? Good question. Thought I could do things cheaper, or my cleaning was sufficient.
TL;DR; PBW is your friend. You know, that friend that comes over on a weekend and helps you clean when your in-laws are coming over, and doesn't expect anything in return. DO DO THAT.
I did that, but it was with a Flanders red sour. Brewed in 2015, and finally kicked a few months ago. Was good drinkin' until the end.
Brew on
If you rinse a bottle as soon as you are done, it'll be fine they says...
Yeah, PBW took care of that EZPZ.
Yeah, PBW took care of that EZPZ.
jrgtr42
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Iodine?What the heck was in that bottle?
Brew on
jrgtr42
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Been there, sort of. A ways back I bought a few kegs and a couple carboys off a guy through Craigslist or something. The carboys were fine, one of the kegs empty, (I did clean it before use, of course...) but the other was mostly full, Of what, he couldn't remember, He'd last brewed at least that long ago (5 years, maybe more) and that may not have been the last thing he kegged. We opened it up before loading it in my car (good thing, too; I may have been tempted to try it...) and it was pretty ripe. I can't even describe it - a sour, mixed with mold, and who knows what else. That one took a good long soak and rebuild kit before I used it.
