Funny things you've overheard about beer

[Wolfdust]

So my brother and I started a home brew club and our first meeting was yesterday. one guy who came brought this awsome imperial ipa he bought. After a little while he started to drink Busch light, his sample glass in one hand and a Busch light in the other.

 

[GrogNerd]

So my brother and I started a home brew club and our first meeting was yesterday. one guy who came brought this awsome imperial ipa he bought. After a little while he started to drink Busch light, his sample glass in one hand and a Busch light in the other.

I kinda did the same thing at our brew club competition last week, except it wasn't a Busch light, it was a Bourbon County stout

 

[Kiichi]

Was at a local brewers collective today to brew a collaboration with one of the guys there and at one point there was this great noise coming out of one of the fridges like it was trying to pump out all the air or something. Roaring really. At first I even thought the ventilation for the room was going ham. Seeing my look the guy said: "Yeah, it´s a hair drier. One of the guys here wants his beer to ferment warmer. So he put that in there and hooked it up to the temperature control."

My face spoke more than a thousand words.

 

[GrogNerd]

Was at a local brewers collective today to brew a collaboration with one of the guys there and at one point there was this great noise coming out of one of the fridges like it was trying to pump out all the air or something. Roaring really. At first I even thought the ventilation for the room was going ham. Seeing my look the guy said: "Yeah, it´s a hair drier. One of the guys here wants his beer to ferment warmer. So he put that in there and hooked it up to the temperature control."

My face spoke more than a thousand words.

I have a ceramic heater and a fan in my fridge, hooked to my brewpi, dude just combined the 2 into one unit

His only problem is not running the fan continually

But I'm sure his beer has very stylish hair

 

[slym2none]

So my brother and I started a home brew club and our first meeting was yesterday. one guy who came brought this awsome imperial ipa he bought. After a little while he started to drink Busch light, his sample glass in one hand and a Busch light in the other.

Well, water is a palate-cleanser...

 

[jimdkc]

Well, water is a palate-cleanser...

Dang! Beat me to it!!!

 

[jimdkc]

Was at a local brewers collective today to brew a collaboration with one of the guys there and at one point there was this great noise coming out of one of the fridges like it was trying to pump out all the air or something. Roaring really. At first I even thought the ventilation for the room was going ham. Seeing my look the guy said: "Yeah, it´s a hair drier. One of the guys here wants his beer to ferment warmer. So he put that in there and hooked it up to the temperature control."

My face spoke more than a thousand words.

That's not funny... that's actually clever!

 

[Wolfdust]

Was at a local brewers collective today to brew a collaboration with one of the guys there and at one point there was this great noise coming out of one of the fridges like it was trying to pump out all the air or something. Roaring really. At first I even thought the ventilation for the room was going ham. Seeing my look the guy said: "Yeah, it´s a hair drier. One of the guys here wants his beer to ferment warmer. So he put that in there and hooked it up to the temperature control."

My face spoke more than a thousand words.

I have same setup. The fridge and a small hair dryer on a stc 1000. It was in the shed all winter even at negative 20. It works great.

 

[m00ps]

Gave a friend a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, and after trying it said "that's lager not ale", I said "no it's ale mate", he said "no ales aren't fizzy". He meant carbonated, just in case 'fizzy' isn't used outside of the uk.

still not as bad as this. 3rd time ive posted it to this thread, but I feel it warrants repeating

One of SWMBOs friends was over and tries a sip of a hefe I offered her. She goes "its good, but very hoppy" I ask to smell the glass to make sure I didnt pour her a pint of my 26oz imperial IPA. Nope, its the hefe. I asked her what kind of hop flavors she was picking up. She responds "flavors? I dunno, its all hopping around in my mouth, I mean I like it, but its just very hoppy" SWBMO was embarrassed for her

I dont know how on Earth you can go through life thinking carbonation=hops, I shouldve asked her what pepsi tastes like...

 

[phug]

I have same setup. The fridge and a small hair dryer on a stc 1000. It was in the shed all winter even at negative 20. It works great.

right now mine is a cardboard box with a hairdryer on an stc-1000 while letting my lager go through d-rest in an otherwise 53F basement

 

[Firewalker11]

So my brother and I started a home brew club and our first meeting was yesterday. one guy who came brought this awsome imperial ipa he bought. After a little while he started to drink Busch light, his sample glass in one hand and a Busch light in the other.

Not uncommon at all! Our Homebrew club has been meeting for 30 years and one of the founders gets a large can of BUD for every meeting. I cant drink it, it gives me an instant headache but he cleanses hi pallet with it. I get an IPA (Furious) for my pallet cleanser.

 

[Kiichi]

Well, I guess I stand corrected on the hair drier. Good to learn stuff.

Having never heard of it it just seemed like a crazy idea and potentially a hazard. And a lot of things in that place were not up to scratch in terms of practice. Perhaps I would have taken it more serious in another environment.

Also still not trusting the judgement of the guy who ran it. By the end of the day he messaged us to please lower the temperature by one degree celsius. Wonder what that was about...

 

[slym2none]

Apparently, there's a brewer with more than a decade's experience who said it is OK to bottle any beer once it hits 1.010, and bedamned if the beer is actually not finished fermenting.

 

[BigMack]

Apparently, there's a brewer with more than a decade's experience who said it is OK to bottle any beer once it hits 1.010, and bedamned if the beer is actually not finished fermenting.

My LHBS, which is run by an insanely knowledgeable and helpful guy, has listed on their recipes that if you check FG and it is below 1.020 then it is ok to package. Literally all of their recipes say that. Even beers that should finish below 1.010. It confuses me greatly.

 

[slym2none]

It must be true, then!!!

 

[1977Brewer]

What the actual flocc.

Although if you keg....

 

[BigMack]

I'm really at a loss on it. Because I've heard him walk a beginner through the process before and he tells them what to check for and all that. But if someone wasn't paying attention and just looked at the recipe a week or two later they would almost definitely get bottle bombs if they bottled at 1.02 and then primed.

 

[1977Brewer]

I'm really at a loss on it. Because I've heard him walk a beginner through the process before and he tells them what to check for and all that. But if someone wasn't paying attention and just looked at the recipe a week or two later they would almost definitely get bottle bombs if they bottled at 1.02 and then primed.

Absolutely. Or, they'd think they're RIS or quad or fill in the blank is broken. Or they'd have literal exploding saisons.

 

[BigMack]

Well, he does great business and is a great brewer himself, so either he has just been lucky over the past few years or he does a damn good job of explaining what to do to the beginners that go in there. Either way I'm not sure why they would leave that in the recipe instructions.

 

[1977Brewer]

I have no clue. I picked up on the "sample until it's stable" method within my first week here. It's the only way for me. If I kegged I'd go three weeks straight to the keg.

 

[Black Island Brewer]

You're a brave man putting your address out there for the rest of us to send you God-knows-what.

I was thinking a good game of Ding-Dong-Dash might be in order...

 

[GrogNerd]

Apparently, there's a brewer with more than a decade's experience who said it is OK to bottle any beer once it hits 1.010, and bedamned if the beer is actually not finished fermenting.

I seem to remember this from when I first started brewing, back in the 90s

the 1890s

 

[drainbamage]

I was thinking a good game of Ding-Dong-Dash might be in order...

If Paducah wasn't 300+ miles from me...

 

[ThatVideoKid]

My soon-to-be father in law talkin about the sweet stout he was drinking: "well it's only fermented with an ale yeast, that's why it's a little low on the alcohol"

 

[andrewmaixner]

My soon-to-be father in law talkin about the sweet stout he was drinking: "well it's only fermented with an ale yeast, that's why it's a little low on the alcohol"

As compared to a brett / wine yeast / saison yeast.... I mean, he had no idea what he was talking about, but at least he wasn't totally wrong

 

[charliethebum]

OT, but this got me wondering if anyone has ever carbed with dry ice. You could chill and carb at the same time!

actually it works great. Start with cold (colder the better) beer in 2l soda bottles, add dry ice (9g works out to about 2.5 volumes) screw the cap on real quick and shake the hell out of it until its dissolved. I don't have the actual numbers for the dry weight/volume but I've done it plenty and if you don't have a co2 setup is an effective way to force carb

 

[Jwin]

actually it works great. Start with cold (colder the better) beer in 2l soda bottles, add dry ice (9g works out to about 2.5 volumes) screw the cap on real quick and shake the hell out of it until its dissolved. I don't have the actual numbers for the dry weight/volume but I've done it plenty and if you don't have a co2 setup is an effective way to force carb

Pics or it didnt happen

 

[mcspanner]

Here's a bloke on YouTube doing this with glass bottles as part of a demonstration for restauranteurs. I think it's a how to guide for experiments with making their own gourmet tonic waters.

Even though I was watching it on a laptop I wanted to hide behind a blast screen. I shudder to think how many people have tried this.

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hJrME-VFMJo[/ame]

 

[m00ps]

My LHBS, which is run by an insanely knowledgeable and helpful guy, has listed on their recipes that if you check FG and it is below 1.020 then it is ok to package. Literally all of their recipes say that. Even beers that should finish below 1.010. It confuses me greatly.

Wonder how hard it would be to get a lawsuit against them for glass>>>myface

 

[m00ps]

As compared to a brett / wine yeast / saison yeast.... I mean, he had no idea what he was talking about, but at least he wasn't totally wrong

....and neither do you apparently