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[deflagratio]

"Get yourself the plastic container used for glue when hanging wallpaper. It's long enough to place items like thieves, spoons, and hydrometers in. It provides a controlled surface for maintaining sanitation"

This is from terpsichoreankid over on youtube. It is honestly the best 2 bucks I ever spent. I got to take samples looking like a doctor with my thief, hydrometer, and sample vial all in one handy sanitized easy to carry package.

 

[brewew]

Jon V
Vestfold, Norway

Share ! Enjoy your best brews with family and good friends. You'll learn and improve on their feedback.

 

[amrmedic]

Bryan H
St Petersburg, Fl

When chilling wort with an immersion chiller, use a recirulating ice bath. Go to the local hardware store and purchase a cheap immersible pond pump (about 20 dollars). You can place the pump into a bucket of ice water, then pump the ice water through the wort chiller and return it back to the ice water. This significantly reduces the amount of water used to chill the wort (saving you money and protecting the environment) and will greatly reduce the time it take to chill the wort to pitching temps.

Don't forget when chilling the wort, to use a steriled spoon/paddle to sowly stir the wort around the chiller.

 

[Golddiggie]

Adam G.
Natick, MA

Remember the efficiency of ANY wort chiller is related to the temperature of the water being used to chill the wort. If your tap water is ~50F, it will chill the wort faster/better than if your tap water is 75-80F (southern states)...

Do yourself a favor, get a quality thermometer for use in brewing. You'll need one accurate at higher temps (200F and above) to know when you're about to hit boil, as well as for lower temps (60-80F) to know when it's safe to pitch your yeast. You might need to get two thermometers. If you can, get one with a long probe so that you can easily send it into a carboy/bucket/etc. to check the wort temp before pitching yeast. It also helps to have the electronic part of the thermometer away from the vapor column coming from the pot (during boil time).

Don't be afraid to adjust your brewing procedure/process from batch to batch while still fairly new to brewing (for the first few years).

Take good notes on what you're brewing, as well as any/all hydrometer readings (date, time, reading). Keeping decent records will help you to either replicate the batch later, or figure out what you want to change for the next time you brew it.

Brew the styles YOU want to drink. Don't let others tell you what to brew.

 

[Vance71975]

Great tips guys and gals! Keep um coming, i dont go to publisher till between the 4th and 10th of February, there is still time to get your name and tip in the book!

 

[Vance71975]

Bump time

 

[statseeker]

Eddie K.
Sacramento, CA

Always have a pipeline in your mind of your goals in your brewing. Having a planned brew list aids in the antsy feeling we all get staring at that fermenting bottle/bucket/whatever of brew. Having that plan in mind helps the restless feeling to stay in check. You already have spent money on equipment and ingredients, just have the patience to wait out the time the beer really needs to get where it's going. For example, I want to do a lambic or some sort of year-long-aging blend, I know I'm gonna have 5 or 6 brews in the pipeline to help keep my mind off the aging blend. Keep that pipeline and your goals posted in the front of your head.

 

[Boy]

JD E.
Mt. Hood, OR

Don't be afraid to DIY. There are many brewing items that can be built from stuff laying around the house or the loading dock at work.(ask before taking) Finding new DIY projects for me is almost more fun the brewing, and is great if you're on a budget.

 

[Vance71975]

Great tips guys and gals, i am accepting tips up till the 1st of Feb then i have to finish up the book and do all the finishing touches before it goes to publisher!

 

[Homercidal]

Should i just list you as Anon since you didn't include a first name and last initial?

-Homer
Reed City, Michigan

 

[Vance71975]

-Homer
Reed City, Michigan

Thanks Man, i changed it. I have no prob listing people as Anon if that is what they want, but i do like to be sure before i add it lol!

 

[Vance71975]

I'm closing out accepting tips thank you so much to all those who contributed!

 

[terpsichoreankid]

"Get yourself the plastic container used for glue when hanging wallpaper. It's long enough to place items like thieves, spoons, and hydrometers in. It provides a controlled surface for maintaining sanitation"

This is from terpsichoreankid over on youtube. It is honestly the best 2 bucks I ever spent. I got to take samples looking like a doctor with my thief, hydrometer, and sample vial all in one handy sanitized easy to carry package.

Thanks for the shout out, deflagratio! Yeah--this has been such a handy thing for me ever since the start of my brewing days. I'm happy to see it posted here in this thread!

Just in case the tip is used, I'm Joseph W. from Naperville IL. YouTube name is TerpsichoreanKid. Thanks again deflagratio! Cheers N Beers!

 

[Vance71975]

Thanks for the shout out, deflagratio! Yeah--this has been such a handy thing for me ever since the start of my brewing days. I'm happy to see it posted here in this thread!

Just in case the tip is used, I'm Joseph W. from Naperville IL. YouTube name is TerpsichoreanKid. Thanks again deflagratio! Cheers N Beers!

Yup added!

 

[djonas]

This may be obvious to many of you. But we all know what assumptions make of you and me.

D. Jonas
Chicago, Illinois

Technically, when brewing, no beer is actually present because the fermentation of grain starches has not yet occurred. Since the absence of beer on a brew day often strikes the brewer as odd, be sure to have a pint within reach at all times throughout the event.

 

[Vance71975]

Just an Update for all those that shared tips, i have done my first round of corrections, i should get the corrected proof back in about a week or so, once i look it over, it goes to the live first print, which is where they print 2 copies of the book and mail them to me so that i can actually go over the book itself, once i approve that, it goes live where it will be posted on Amazon, Barnes and noble and a whole bunch of other websites. The price estimate i have right now is 38.95 which is based on the printing cost for a 440+ page book. I am estimating that it should be up for sale in two months max maybe less.