smurfjuice
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Don't do that !!!
Don't Do That.
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Been there done that. Tie an magnet to a piece of fishing line. Sanitize it and go fishing! It worked for me
beergolf
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I have done that a couple of times. Just let it sit until the beer is done. Just make a note on the fermenter to remember to get the stir bar out of the trub when you are done.
kev211
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Never been "lucky" enough to drop mine in yet. So this might be a stupid question, but couldnt you just use the keeper magnet and drag it up the side? Or are standard glass carboys/plastic buckets too thick?
Firewalker11
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Hint: By two stir bars... I have poured mine right into the keg countless times.
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I tried, but wouldn't work through the keg that I ferment with. The footing the edge is where you lose it. Plus it was a pain with 10 gallons inside
kev211
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Ya that would make sense. I put notes in sharpie on all my stuff so I don't forget it to do it
Using a heavy shot glass in the dry hop sack to keep it below the surface of the beer. then forget about it when dumping the contents of the hop sack in the garbage. Don't do that...
I think that twice in a row is my record.
andrewmaixner
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On that note, also make sure that the shot glass doesn't get stuffed with pellets, slight reduction the yummy hops extraction.
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Buy pin lock kegs on CL for $ 30 each. Do that. Decide to open up the kegs to see how they look. Still ok. Vent pressure but don't pay attention to which post you vent. Get sprayed with old Coke. Don't do that.
Well, I thought I'd try them out. The price seemed right. I'm already wishing they have PRV's.
Been using up some built up vacation time and have all the kegs full so I've been brewing and partaking a bit the last couple weeks. Ate a big bag of granola today on the way back from grocery shopping. Don't do that. That beer yeast flora going on has me bloated and registering on the Richter scale.
Sounds like one of the bottles of whiskely stout I opened slightly cool right outta the box the other day..DEFINITELY don't do that! I & my newly painted wall & new desk were anointed!
Brewed a batch for my son in law. Trusted him to rinse out the bottles and didn't check them as close as I should have before bottling my next batch with those bottles. Starsan can only do so much...
Having to dump most as I go.
Please don't do that.
Having to dump most as I go.
Please don't do that.
I brewed a pale ale on Sunday. I've become sloppy with my brewing lately, so it was only after I had finished and cleaned up, when I looked again at my recipe and noticed that my IBU was way too low. What to do? I figured it should work, so I took some bittering hops and boiled them gently for 60 minutes in a small amount of water, and added this to the fermeting wort after cooling down. Will this be a "Don't do that" exprerience, or will it work?
I am interested in this answer since the hop boil volume was different than the wort boil volume. Which hop variety did you use?
I used Magnum, 11%.
The problem as I see it is that the boiling hop water might be saturated long before all the IBUs have been extracted. That small amount of water would have over 1000 IBUs if the extraction and isomerization worked as normal.
Firewalker11
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Make a batch of Yoopers oatmeal stout and decide to use the runnings as a partigayle. Scavenge hops from the freezer and notice 3 ounces of Galaxy, Australian that Midwest threw in to my order last month. Add a pound of brown sugar and end with a gravity of 1.020... pitch a pack of S - 04 on top of the word and expect results. Really, seriously, don't do that.
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Hang on, I had something for this
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ImpendingDisaster
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Drop your big ole' thermometer into the BIAB mash. 
Don't do that.
Then dig for it with a long BBQ tong thing that has little serrations on the end for some BBQ reason or another and your grain bag is...well... fragile. :smack:
Don't do that, either.
PSI got my thermometer back, no telling yet if the bag has a wee hole or not.
Don't do that.
Then dig for it with a long BBQ tong thing that has little serrations on the end for some BBQ reason or another and your grain bag is...well... fragile. :smack:
Don't do that, either.
PSI got my thermometer back, no telling yet if the bag has a wee hole or not.
mcspanner
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Drop your big ole' thermometer into the BIAB mash.
Don't do that.
Then dig for it with a long BBQ tong thing that has little serrations on the end for some BBQ reason or another and your grain bag is...well... fragile. :smack:
Don't do that, either.
PSI got my thermometer back, no telling yet if the bag has a wee hole or not.
I think it's due to your username.
Drop your big ole' thermometer into the BIAB mash.
Don't do that.
Then dig for it with a long BBQ tong thing that has little serrations on the end for some BBQ reason or another and your grain bag is...well... fragile. :smack:
Don't do that, either.
PSI got my thermometer back, no telling yet if the bag has a wee hole or not.
If it were his name it would have been a cell phone and not a thermometer.
Dropping your phone into your boil kettle. Don't do that.
Lose count of how many 1.5 pound trays of grain you weighed out. Couldn't figure out why we got crazy high efficiency (93%ish) when we always hit the same efficiency give or take a 1% (79%). Get on the computer and add a pound and a half of Pilsner malt and we hit 80%. Yep, must have had 10 pounds, not 8.5 pounds of Pilsner malt.
So our Czech Pilsner became a "Premium Czech Lager" according to style guidelines. A 6% beer instead of the 5% we were shooting for.
So our Czech Pilsner became a "Premium Czech Lager" according to style guidelines. A 6% beer instead of the 5% we were shooting for.
kev211
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I did the same thing but in reverse. Couldnt figure out why I only got like 50% efficiency on my house stout when I traditionally hit ~75%.
My recipe calls for 15lbs of 2-row and I refilled my bucket to about where it was when I brewed and re-weighed it and I was roughly 4lbs short (or something like that, cant remember off the top of my head). Either way, it actually ended up being a very drinkable stout, so no complaints at the end of the day, but it was still a dumb move haha
Be cheap and buy a scale that measures only 1.5 lbs
Don't do that
Hey! Ohhh, never mind, you're right.
We're buying a new scale. Today! Seeing that the other scale is 15 years old, we've gotten our money's worth out of it. It'll still work for measuring specialty grains.
I did the same thing but in reverse. Couldnt figure out why I only got like 50% efficiency on my house stout when I traditionally hit ~75%.
My recipe calls for 15lbs of 2-row and I refilled my bucket to about where it was when I brewed and re-weighed it and I was roughly 4lbs short (or something like that, cant remember off the top of my head). Either way, it actually ended up being a very drinkable stout, so no complaints at the end of the day, but it was still a dumb move haha
I did similar on my last batch. It was 30# total grain, 24# pale and 6# rye. Somehow when I was measuring the grain (from memory on the recipe instead of looking at it) two-row I subtracted 6 from 24 and only used 18#. This was a mistake made before imbibing a single ounce of alcohol, too.
Noticed when I went to check pre-boil gravity. Ended up augmenting with 2.5# cane sugar instead. It IS a strong IPA (supposed to be DIPA), so drying it out a bit won't hurt.
Still, don't do that.
Brew an IIPA that cost a fortune in grains, hops & peppers, then go cheap on the yeast. I used two rather than three packets rehydrated. Definitely don't do that!
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