Freakin' nervous. First brew is tomorrow!

[Chenslee]

 

[Chenslee]

Hefedunkel lap dance from last night:

 

[DarkUncle]

Wow, I thought my brewing quarters were a bit cramped. I don't know how you...wait. Is that a sock hanging out of your carboy?

 

[Chenslee]

Wow, I thought my brewing quarters were a bit cramped. I don't know how you...wait. Is that a sock hanging out of your carboy?

Yea, it's a sock. How else am I supposed to keep the tube of yeast in the carboy? Oh wait. you are suppose to DUMP the yeast in, not put the whole tube in!! Just kidding, I think it's an extension cord in the background.

Yeah, the back side of the garage is a wreck. Well, actually the front side is too but it's not as bad as the closet where the fermenter is going.

 

[TANSTAAFB]

But did you fix your blowoff?

Or did the cap blow off? Whole point of airlock is to release CO2 whilst blocking your precious beer from nasty beasties that CAN (not will) contaminate your brew. Even an airlock should be filled with cheap vodka or star san (or whatever sanitary liquid you prefer) I like star san b/c I don't worry about the drips from the airlock as the pressure evens out.

I use a blowoff into a growler of star san for every brew, just in case it decides to take off like crazy (pitch on a yeast cake w/o one... I dare ya ). Sometimes I needed it with krausen pumping out of my fermenter. Sometimes it justs thumps like a Poe tale. Sometimes I put my head in my broke fridge ferment chamber and listen VERY carefully for not much at all. Every scenario results in beer :rockin:

 

[Steelers77]

Just have fun and welcome to the club! Your first beer will probably be "the best beer you ever tasted" so no worries.

 

[starrfish]

Just have fun and welcome to the club! Your first beer will probably be "the best beer you ever tasted" so no worries.

+1 on this!!!


if you run 2 hoses out just put both in jars of water to "seal the system" I cap one and keep one submerged.

at this point you should have a layer of CO2 from the yeasties... Belgian monks ferment open and this layer plus the Krausen keeps all the bad things out. After a certain point alcohol in "beer" will help to. your carboys alcohol level will be higher near the top... That's why it smells more alcoholy when you first pop the top when it's done.

 

[Chenslee]

Don't worry guys, tube was always in starsan and it has a proper airlock that is bubbling like mad now.

 

[starrfish]

SWEEEEET! You Will Have a good brew! CONGRATS!

 

[Ohio-Ed]

Don't worry guys, tube was always in starsan and it has a proper airlock that is bubbling like mad now.

Ahhh.. I get it. The joke was on everyone that was trying to help you.
Yep, that's some funny stuff?

 

[iron_city_ap]

I jammed a solid stopper in the carboy and shook the crap out of it. Then used a hex wrench and a tank of oxygen to purge the head space and shook it some more.

Ruh roh. That could be an issue. Hopefully not though. Next time, put some dry ice in water and pour the steam onto the beer. CO2 good O2 bad. Plus, playing with dry ice is fun.

 

[Suthrncomfrt1884]

Ruh roh. That could be an issue. Hopefully not though. Next time, put some dry ice in water and pour the steam onto the beer. CO2 good O2 bad. Plus, playing with dry ice is fun.

Not really. When you first start fermentation, you want a lot of oxygen in the beer. Thats the whole point of shaking it or stirring like crazy or using an oxygenation stone.

 

[iron_city_ap]

lol. Yeah, I wasn't thinking clearly there. I was reading 'purging head space' and 'oxygen' and 'shaking' together and my ability to read and comprehend went out the window.

 

[TANSTAAFB]

Ahhh.. I get it. The joke was on everyone that was trying to help you.
Yep, that's some funny stuff?

We have NOOB EAC's now? Awesome...

 

[Chenslee]

Well, 8 days and still bubbling and churning away. It's starting to slow down, but I still have yeast doing loop the loops in the fermenter.

I was aware that there would be motion during fermentation, but I was unprepared for just how vigorous it is.

 

[SamuraiSquirrel]

It'll turn out awesome ........

at least good enough that you will obsess over brewing for the next year lol.

 

[Chenslee]

Well, I pulled a sample and it's 1.015. Tastes like a grand cru, with a little bit of a pissy aftertaste (probably the globs of krausen that were in the test jar).
I put the lock back on and it's still bubbling.

Swmbo likes it too, which might be a problem.