I like this time at night on HBT

[Dan]

Hy Pappy! How you been?

 

[passedpawn]

Hy Pappy! How you been?

Good. I'm calling it a night now. Can't hang with the late niters tonight.

Hope Hawaii is treating you well.

 

[Dan]

Well, haven't quite gotten there yet but I hope your right.

 

[opus345]

If you're referring to the move... not till early next year which is to much time to think about it.

No worries mate.

Doing great tonight. Bottling with the significant other and then after she had to go to bed, I had a little bit of the first single malt whiskey release in Nebraska since prohibition. Really young, but really good.

http://www.thedrinksreport.com/news/2013/15024-cut-spike-launches-first-single-malt-whiskey.html

 

[opus345]

Damn, I like the commerical almost as much as the video. Enjoy.

http://youtu.be/de-ITUkC4MY

 

[Leadgolem]

Hey Stauff, I was looking around for an avatar for you and I ran into this. Not a black and white, but...

 

[brewingmeister]

Aww...that eagle is watering that plant. How nice of it.

 

[Dan]

Damn, I like the commerical almost as much as the video. Enjoy.

http://youtu.be/de-ITUkC4MY

Beautiful sexy girls, the ocean, yaht, sports car, drinking..hmm. Not sure I get it.

Whoop whoop!

 

[TNGabe]

Beautiful sexy girls, the ocean, yaht, sports car, drinking..hmm. Not sure I get it.

Whoop whoop!

I guess everyone has different ideas of beautiful. I made it about 30 seconds. I have had too many beers tonight. Couple hours a day of cutting deadfall for kindling the last two days and five miles of trail yesterday and I am sore. That's my excuse for the last three beers anyway.

 

[Leadgolem]

I guess everyone has different ideas of beautiful. I made it about 30 seconds. I have had too many beers tonight. Couple hours a day of cutting deadfall for kindling the last two days and five miles of trail yesterday and I am sore. That's my excuse for the last three beers anyway.

Why would you need an excuse?

 

[opus345]

 

[opus345]

What I will feel like in the morning. Night all.

 

[emjay]

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc

Considering she writes her own songs too, she's pretty talented for a kid.

 

[Stauffbier]

Hey Stauff, I was looking around for an avatar for you and I ran into this. Not a black and white, but...

Thanks LG! That's actually very similar to a family crest that I used as my avatar on here for quite some time. Notice the same theme with the cup. Is it any surprise that I love to drink beer?!

 

[snaps10]

Looks like I had some serious fermentation happening last night.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

I think I just figured out why my Brett. beers are fermenting so slowly - they were extremely underpitched. Despite the instructions on the White Labs vial that says the contents are good for 5 gallons of beer, the rest of the world apparently thinks that is bunk and recommends large starters for WL yeasts I could either buy more yeast (not likely at $7 a pop) or try to culture up a starter from my Brett-only batch and add it back to both brews. Or I could just let them both ride as-is.

I hate following instructions to the letter, then finding out I have been led astray. Grr....

 

[Leadgolem]

I think I just figured out why my Brett. beers are fermenting so slowly - they were extremely underpitched. Despite the instructions on the White Labs vial that says the contents are good for 5 gallons of beer, the rest of the world apparently thinks that is bunk and recommends large starters for WL yeasts I could either buy more yeast (not likely at $7 a pop) or try to culture up a starter from my Brett-only batch and add it back to both brews. Or I could just let them both ride as-is.

I hate following instructions to the letter, then finding out I have been led astray. Grr....

That reminds me of the instructions that say a 5 gram packet of dry yeast is good for 5 gallons. Sure it is, if your OG is 1.020. Since most of mine are more like 1.100 I usually make a starter for a 5 gallon batch. Shenanigans...

 

[TNGabe]

That reminds me of the instructions that say a 5 gram packet of dry yeast is good for 5 gallons. Sure it is, if your OG is 1.020. Since most of mine are more like 1.100 I usually make a starter for a 5 gallon batch. Shenanigans...

Starter for dry yeast? Say what?

 

[TNGabe]

I think I just figured out why my Brett. beers are fermenting so slowly - they were extremely underpitched. Despite the instructions on the White Labs vial that says the contents are good for 5 gallons of beer, the rest of the world apparently thinks that is bunk and recommends large starters for WL yeasts I could either buy more yeast (not likely at $7 a pop) or try to culture up a starter from my Brett-only batch and add it back to both brews. Or I could just let them both ride as-is.

I hate following instructions to the letter, then finding out I have been led astray. Grr....

Looking at the vial didn't make your bs detector go off?

 

[Leadgolem]

Starter for dry yeast? Say what?

Sure, anything more then 1.080 gets a starter. Dry yeast or no.

 

[Stauffbier]

Sure, anything more then 1.080 gets a starter. Dry yeast or no.

How do you make your starters for wine? I hadn't thought of it, but I only have one 5g pack for the peach wine I plan to make. I'm sure it will be a high gravity. Do you just make a simple syrup for the starter? Do you hydrate first and then add the hydrated yeast to the starter?

 

[TNGabe]

Sure, anything more then 1.080 gets a starter. Dry yeast or no.

Why not just use another pack of yeast? Dry yeast's main advantage is that you don't need to oxygenate and you lose that by making a starter.

How do you make your starters for wine? I hadn't thought of it, but I only have one 5g pack for the peach wine I plan to make. I'm sure it will be a high gravity. Do you just make a simple syrup for the starter? Do you hydrate first and then add the hydrated yeast to the starter?

At under $1 a pack, I'd just use another pack.

 

[snaps10]

I always pull a 1qt jar of hot wort before it boils. Put a lid on it and let it cool. Boom, canned wort ready for my next brew day. I use that qt to make my starter for the next beer, adding water to adjust the gravity.

 

[Stauffbier]

At under $1 a pack, I'd just use another pack.

Normally that's what I do with beer. I use US 05 quite often, and I'll double up packs on big beers all the time. The only problem is I'm making my wine in a week, but I don't plan on making any online supply orders for a while. I have a huge grocery list growing on Austin Homebrew, but I won't have the money to place the order for a few weeks. I don't have a lhbs..

 

[Stauffbier]

I always pull a 1qt jar of hot wort before it boils. Put a lid on it and let it cool. Boom, canned wort ready for my next brew day. I use that qt to make my starter for the next beer, adding water to adjust the gravity.

I basically do the same thing with beer. I always sparge out a little extra wort for starters. I've never made a starter for wine with wine yeast before though. I'm thinking for wine you would use plain table sugar and water as opposed to using maltose. I'm just guessing, though. It's my first batch of wine, so I'm a noob all over again.

 

[TNGabe]

I always pull a 1qt jar of hot wort before it boils. Put a lid on it and let it cool. Boom, canned wort ready for my next brew day. I use that qt to make my starter for the next beer, adding water to adjust the gravity.

I'll keep wort in the fridge, but I always re-boil before I use for starters. What you're doing fall somewhere between poor sanitation and asking for botulism.

Normally that's what I do with beer. I use US 05 quite often, and I'll double up packs on big beers all the time. The only problem is I'm making my wine in a week, but I don't plan on making any online supply orders for a while. I have a huge grocery list growing on Austin Homebrew, but I won't have the money to place the order for a few weeks. I don't have a lhbs..

I can mail you some Saturday if it will help or tomorrow if you want Redstar cuvee or some out of date ec-1118.

 

[Leadgolem]

How do you make your starters for wine? I hadn't thought of it, but I only have one 5g pack for the peach wine I plan to make. I'm sure it will be a high gravity. Do you just make a simple syrup for the starter? Do you hydrate first and then add the hydrated yeast to the starter?

It depends on what I'm making. I prefer to use the same combination of sugars as would be present in the wine. So, usually I use the juice that's going to go in the wine diluted to about 1.030. If I'm going to use nutrients in the batch, I usually do, then I dissolve those in the starter before adding the yeast.

Why not just use another pack of yeast? Dry yeast's main advantage is that you don't need to oxygenate and you lose that by making a starter.



At under $1 a pack, I'd just use another pack.

Interesting. The main reason I use dry yeast is that I can leave it in my fridge almost indefinitely without worrying about it being viable when I go to use it. The aeration thing is nice and all, but with dry yeast I can have a half dozen yeast strains on hand without taking up much space or needing to refresh them constantly.

It's also generally more like four packets.

Besides, why should I pay the extra money for more yeast packets when I can just make a starter? Granted, it's not a lot of money. A batch of cider only costs me about $30 to make though. So an extra 3 for more yeast packets is annoying. I also harvest yeast from the yeast cake in the fermentor. Why not? It's free, so even if I do end up throwing it out because it's old I haven't lost anything.

I can certainly understand wanting the convenience of just cutting a packet open and pitching it. I do that with small batches. I just prefer to make a starter if I'm going to do a batch that needs more yeast then one packet will provide.

I always pull a 1qt jar of hot wort before it boils. Put a lid on it and let it cool. Boom, canned wort ready for my next brew day. I use that qt to make my starter for the next beer, adding water to adjust the gravity.

I don't make beer, so that's not applicable. It's a great idea for those that do though.

 

[Leadgolem]

That reminded me, so I went and put together a starter myself. It's a good excuse to use my stir plate. I haven't decided if I want to do another batch of banana wine, or something awful. Something awful would be fermented sugar water solution with nutrients. The idea being to use it as neutral mixer and add flavored syrups to it. I could also use the syrup in just carbonated water to make custom soda.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

I'll keep wort in the fridge, but I always re-boil before I use for starters. What you're doing fall somewhere between poor sanitation and asking for botulism.



I can mail you some Saturday if it will help or tomorrow if you want Redstar cuvee or some out of date ec-1118.

Re-boiling isn't going to solve botulism. If you want to safely have canned wort you must use a pressure canner. IMHO. However if you brew very often, you'd probably be okay.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Woke up yo a completely dead cell phone. Wasted hours trying to find a away to get it to boot in any mode so I could revive it, all for nothing. Now I have reset up all the settings, apps etc on the new one. PITA.