I like this time at night on HBT

[Varmintman]

I loved that show Bobbi. And I think I am going to brew tonight as well. I really do not need to brew but you know I got the nice new fermentation chamber set up so I might as well run with it.

I bottled a batch and brewed a batch in one day and that flat out wiped me out. Of course drinking the whole time did not help much either. I wish I could bottle the same time I brew but I do not have enough room nor am I fast enough bottling to work it into the mash time. Oh well it just means I get to do more stuff over the week

 

[ruralbrew]

Last time I brewed I bottled during the boil and dumped the new batch on the yeast cake from what I bottled. Worked pretty good. Have to have everything lined up and ready or else it wouldn't have worked. But I refrain from drinking until I have the yeast pitched otherwise who knows what I would end up with.

Here's a little something that makes me feel like dancing, if I could dance. Trouble is I'm just a clumsy ol' farm boy with two left feet....

 

[Varmintman]

Last time I brewed I bottled during the boil and dumped the new batch on the yeast cake from what I bottled. Worked pretty good. Have to have everything lined up and ready or else it wouldn't have worked. But I refrain from drinking until I have the yeast pitched otherwise who knows what I would end up with.

Here's a little something that makes me feel like dancing, if I could dance. Trouble is I'm just a clumsy ol' farm boy with two left feet....

Route 66

Hah we must have the same mom because I have two right feet

Any more I harvest the first batch of yeast right after I rack into a secondary. I do not wash the yeast just dump it into pint jars and store in the fridge. Come brew day I warm up a jar and dump it in. So far it has worked for me and I get 16 batches out of a packet of yeast.

 

[passedpawn]

We have a dollar store that I will go to and buy cheap reading glasses since I lose mine all the time as well.

I used to love to read. I loved the feel and smell of a book as I was reading it. Now though it is just a pain and I have not been reading as much

3-pack is $7 at walmart. I bought several packs and scattered them around my house, car, office, etc so I don't have to look for them.

Every night, I read till I wake up. What I mean is that I fall asleep reading every time and only put the kindle down once I wake up again.

 

[BobbiLynn]

Finally got to my boil. Trying to get orders shipped while brewing and realized shipping rates have changed. For some reason shipping to Canada went down, within the US went up a little and overseas went up a lot!! And a friend is in from out of town and keeps calling begging me to get together for golf, I feel bad about declining, been calling me since 8:30 this morning. Maybe I could just do the one batch, get orders shipped, then go for an afternoon game. Turning out to be a beautiful day.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

So can just tell you I've been reading through Palmer, and I am surprised by how much respect he has for kits and extracts. Total lack of snobbiness, going so far as to say he is constantly impressed by the passion and dedication the extract developers put into their product.

 

[BobbiLynn]

So can just tell you I've been reading through Palmer, and I am surprised by how much respect he has for kits and extracts. Total lack of snobbiness, going so far as to say he is constantly impressed by the passion and dedication the extract developers put into their product.

I've read a lot of his book, but just in bits and pieces as I'm looking things up. I have made some really good beer using extract kits. Some people move to all grain and don't look back, but I have found myself looking back and still buying my favorite extract kits. Just costs more for supplies, but here and there gotta have my favorites.

 

[passedpawn]

So can just tell you I've been reading through Palmer, and I am surprised by how much respect he has for kits and extracts. Total lack of snobbiness, going so far as to say he is constantly impressed by the passion and dedication the extract developers put into their product.

If you haven't seen this, you need to. Palmer was a noob once.

http://hbd.org/hbd/archive/1192.html#1192-6

 

[Varmintman]

I started all grain and did not know that you could brew extract beer other than what you got in a MR Beer kit. Matter of fact it was not until a couple of months ago I brewed using a extract and it scared me silly but I have to tell you it was exceedingly simple to do and the beer turned out very good.

Other than the cost I am a fan

 

[BobbiLynn]

If you haven't seen this, you need to. Palmer was a noob once.

http://hbd.org/hbd/archive/1192.html#1192-6

Robert Palmer:

Has anyone ever noticed the laxative qualities of homebrew in general or is this another symptom of my first batch?

Hahaha! I bet he drank the yeast at the bottom.

 

[BobbiLynn]

Nephew called, brought hubby home early. Will have to wait for the treatment 'cause his cell counts aren't good. Glad I didn't start on the other batch or go golfing. He needs me when he's home.

Just cooked some bacon(when hubby says he isn't hungry, he will eat bacon) and my pint jars are perfect for saving the grease. My dog will green beans, or collard greens, or whatever, when cooked with it. Good to add a scoop to soups too. That one time my dog wouldn't eat my soup was because I was yelling at him, "Eat it!! Eat it!!". He thought there must be poison in it or something. Normally, he loves my soup. And speaking of my beloved dog, today, while I was brewing, he sat near the kettle sniffing the air with his eyes closed. He was loving it. Knows that if I'm brewing, I'm happy.

 

[ruralbrew]

Interesting post by John Palmer. I guess we all had to start somewhere. And he must have got a dose of live yeast.

Which reminds me of feeding a yeast supplement to my dairy cows. You had to kind of introduce it gradually, with that large of a digestive system and all the fermentables in there the results could be rather explosive otherwise. Walking down the center aisle of the barn was kind of like walking in front of a 140 foot long firing squad.

And now a little Steely Dan before I call it a day and get some sleep.

 

[BobbiLynn]

Some more early music. I once rode the greyhound bus from New York to Texas. But, somehow, I ended up in South Carolina.

 

[Varmintman]

Interesting post by John Palmer. I guess we all had to start somewhere. And he must have got a dose of live yeast.

Which reminds me of feeding a yeast supplement to my dairy cows. You had to kind of introduce it gradually, with that large of a digestive system and all the fermentables in there the results could be rather explosive otherwise. Walking down the center aisle of the barn was kind of like walking in front of a 140 foot long firing squad.

And now a little Steely Dan before I call it a day and get some sleep.

Home at Last

Must have been in a flat barn hehe. My first milking job was in a 6 stall flat barn. Second job was in a herring bone 20 stall elevated barn and then the last job was in a circular rotating elevated barn. I went from lugging the buckets of milk to a fancy milk barn.

Still will not drink milk though

 

[passedpawn]

Tuesday nite on the east coast, I'll be working late, but the Kingston Trio are keeping me company. I grew up with all my dad's albums and the KT was in there. Played in E minor. Love that bluesy key, love the deep base.

This song comes from the great depression era in the US.

 

[BobbiLynn]

Great, mellow song choice. Oh me, oh my.

I grew up with cows, but all beef cattle. I could drag, cut and dump a bale of hay, by myself, by age 5 or 6. I think I once mentioned my cow #32, she saved my life, and the lives of 2 of my sisters. Pulled us out of the creek. Used to come over to get her head petted when we called her, "Number Thirty-Two!!!" That was her name because it's what her ear said. We were drowning and screaming and she came to the edge of the creek and gave us her head, all that thick hair she had in a tuft atop her head, we grabbed it. Hung on. Slipped our grip when she turned to get away, and back up the bank, but we managed to grab her back leg and she pulled us out and all the way up the bank. Begged my dad to let us keep her, but one day she was gone. I wouldn't eat beef for a long, long, time after that.

I forgot 2 of the ingredients in my IPA. But, whatever. Was going to add extra fermentables to get the ABV a little higher than my usual. I was trying to mimic a beer I drank, which was 6.2%. But, I'll have at least a 4.7 and all the hoppy flavor, I hope. 6 different hops in it. Wish I wrote down my hop schedule, but was distracted and just dumped hops in as it seemed like a good time to do so. The hops I forget were aroma hops anyway, and my smeller isn't too good.

 

[Varmintman]

I usually brew around 9 PM but I am thinking I might start a little early tonight. Only because my wife is going to bed early and does not like the smell of the wort boiling. Seems wrong I know that anyone can not love the smell of boiling wort.

 

[BobbiLynn]

That is really odd, v-man, but don't hold it against her. We all have our oddities.

 

[Varmintman]

Weird thing is she loves my beer and remembers as a child helping her granddad brew beer. Oh well no accounting for taste hehe especially since she married me :rockin:

 

[mcbaumannerb]

We all have our oddities.

For some of us that is also where our charm lies!

One plus to my long travel day on Tuesday is I usually hear one or two songson my iPhone that I haven't listened to Ina while

 

[mcbaumannerb]

I usually brew around 9 PM but I am thinking I might start a little early tonight. Only because my wife is going to bed early and does not like the smell of the wort boiling. Seems wrong I know that anyone can not love the smell of boiling wort.

Wow ... If I tried that I'd fall asleep on my mash tun!

 

[BobbiLynn]

I feel like rambling, forgive me. Hubby and my's lives' have started intermingling more and more. I don't think that is proper grammar, but I'll go on anyway. It used to always be his thing and my thing. "That's your department", he would say. Now it seems like we are stuck in the same cubicle. I'm not sure now if he has changed or if I never really knew him. But I want to know my "new" hubby, understand him. This will take the rest of our lives together. He seems to know everything except the things he doesn't know about and they are "my departments". If he doesn't know about something, he'll just say I don't know, wrong person to ask. He only talks when he knows what he is saying. Except when he gets mad, which is only been in the last year that he got sick, when he is mad, who knows what he'll say, and I have to keep reminding myself to ignore it.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

And on my way to bed, some old school blues...

 

[Varmintman]

Wow ... If I tried that I'd fall asleep on my mash tun!

Nice song man. I pretty much have rules when I brew such as no beer till I mash in and have the hops weighed ready to go. Found bad things happen to the brew when I start to early. And I put on my headphones with some rocking music going on helps as well.

Still looking forward to summer when I can brew outside

 

[Stauffbier]

I only drink one beer when I brew. I usually have it with lunch while the boil is going. Then after I get the yeast pitched it's open season.

I just finished weighing grains for this Friday's brew. I haven't brewed in over 6 weeks, since I was putting all of my time in to building my keezer. I'm excited to brew! I think I was starting to have withdrawls!

I can't wait to keg my first batch!

 

[passedpawn]

I only drink one beer when I brew. I usually have it with lunch while the boil is going. Then after I get the yeast pitched it's open season.

I just finished weighing grains for this Friday's brew. I haven't brewed in over 6 weeks, since I was putting all of my time in to building my keezer. I'm excited to brew! I think I was starting to have withdrawls!

I can't wait to keg my first batch!

Kegging took me to another level. It's great.

 

[opus345]

And on my way to bed, some old school blues...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A&sns=em

Love Robert Johnson!

 

[BobbiLynn]

I only drink one beer when I brew.

Depends for me, a lot of time I am trying to improve a recipe so will drink that one while I work on the next one. Sometimes I'll have to try more than one... just to be sure. Then I'll know, needs more this, less of that... etc. I really need to start taking more beer notes, always think I'll remember but weeks later, I tend to forget.

 

[Leadgolem]

Not pathetic! Why waste money replacing something when it can be fixed?!

That's what happened to mine, the little screw got lost, just shoved the toothpick in there and broke off the extra, day 4 now and still holding up. I will get new glasses when this pair no longer helps me see! Or, like my last pair, they get completely crushed in a tragic accident.

Lots of pharmacies sell eye glass repair kits with replacement screws. They are usually only a couple bucks.

 

[Stauffbier]

Kegging took me to another level. It's great.

I've atually been throwing away bottles for the last two weeks. I haven't thrown out a single bottle for a couple years.

With the first few I felt like I was breaking some unwritten law. Now it feels rather liberating!

I'm only tossing new bottles, but I still wash and keep anything that was already de-labeled. I'll still bottle some stuff. I'll donate a bunch of bottles to local homebrewers, too.