I like this time at night on HBT

[DrunkleJon]

I keg too, but I did my share of bottling.

Answer:

• Bottle from your kegs. The easiest way is, when you're kegging, rack beer into 2L plastic soda bottles and cap with one of these. Then carbonate with your keging system. No yeast. I can have beer carbonated and ready to drink in 5 minutes by doing this and shaking the crap out of the 2L bottle. You need one(or more) of these! BTW, 2L is slightly more than a 6-pack. Woot.
• Pour carefully, and pour once. Tilt it once, pour the beer, watch for the yeast to come down, stop pouring. If you get foam in the glass, and you have to stop pouring until the foam recedes, then you pour again: you're screwed.
• Refrigerate the bottles for as long as possible. The yeast will pack down tight with extended refrigeration.
• Use yeast that flocculates well. S-04 and other english yeasts form a nice hard cake.

Good answers. You can also carb in the keg and then fill bottles from there. I use a section of tubing from my old racking cane shoved in my Perlik 525ss's or you could use one of the growler fillers. Heck look at the "we dont need no steenkin beer gun" thread for a less half-butted way of doing it.

Otherwise. Cold, pour once, transport upright, flocculant yeast, pour once (12 oz bottles or pour two glasses at once).

 

[Dan]

Aloha friends!

Ive been here a week as of tonight. Spending some relaxing time, a little coming back together stress with my wife. Mostly been good, i dont understand gals completely.

Not why i wrote. I included a pic of a standard 78 cent household electrical outlet.

How the heck do i remove the little tab that connects the outlet sides. I want one outlet isolated on the hot side from the other. The neutral side can share a lead but the hot side needs independent inputs.

This should be easy, probably is. But i have no clue. I could rip it apart a bit and achieve the result i am looking for, but figure this must be a fairly common modification and i dont get it

Thanks. Cheers Good people!


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[CGVT]

Clip it with some wire cutters

 

[passedpawn]

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Aloha friends!

Ive been here a week as of tonight. Spending some relaxing time, a little coming back together stress with my wife. Mostly been good, i dont understand gals completely.

Not why i wrote. I included a pic of a standard 78 cent household electrical outlet.

How the heck do i remove the little tab that connects the outlet sides. I want one outlet isolated on the hot side from the other. The neutral side can share a lead but the hot side needs independent inputs.

This should be easy, probably is. But i have no clue. I could rip it apart a bit and achieve the result i am looking for, but figure this must be a fairly common modification and i dont get it

Thanks. Cheers Good people!


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Use a needlenose pliers, bend back and forth a couple of times and it will snap off.

If you're doing a lot of wiring, there are needlenose that will make it all a lot easier. Strip, cut, push etc, the needlenose can do it all. I rewired my whole house with one good pair.

 

[Dan]

Use a needlenose pliers, bend back and forth a couple of times and it will snap off.

If you're doing a lot of wiring, there are needlenose that will make it all a lot easier. Strip, cut, push etc, the needlenose can do it all. I rewired my whole house with one good pair.

Pappy, are you talking about the little tab at the top of the junction between the two brass (or whatever they are) screws? I totally believe in good tools saving the day, as much as crappy tools make life tough. Haha.

So I should just grab a good pair of needle nose pliers and twist the tab in the center up and down till it breaks.?

God, I miss you guys!

 

[DrunkleJon]

Yes. What you want to do is break the connection between the two screws. This liberates the two plugs so you have separate circuits.

 

[passedpawn]

Pappy, are you talking about the little tab at the top of the junction between the two brass (or whatever they are) screws? I totally believe in good tools saving the day, as much as crappy tools make life tough. Haha.

So I should just grab a good pair of needle nose pliers and twist the tab in the center up and down till it breaks.?

God, I miss you guys!

Grab it with any needlenose, bend back and forth, it will snap.

 

[passedpawn]

Howdy late nite crew. Just laid back tonight. The old D-O double G is good with work, almost caught up, clients paying, and totally good with hitting the HB at night. Damn life is good right now. I know that will last for about 10 minutes, but for now, woot.

For your late night soundtrack, Mr. Dick Cheese.

 

[Dan]

Grab it with any needlenose, bend back and forth, it will snap.

Ok I know what you are saying but it isn't happening with theses soft needle nose pliers. They were straight when i started.

Got to put this down
in the books as junk in junk out. Fail!! .


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[Dan]

Btw my iphone is taking terrible pics me or the phone. Hmmm?


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[Dan]

Got it!!!

Not the prettiest cut, snap. But I checked it out with my Fluke Meter and no continiutity between sides. Not pretty though, pretty embarrassing to show.. so I won't; my camera at this time wouldn't even' put up a good pic anyway.


Don't ask me why because I don't have a freezer to turn into a ferm chest or keezer. I got some STC-1000 temperature controllers for cheap and want to make a full blown hot and cold controller out of them. I'm really not sure if I'm more hopped up (no pun intended) about making beer or just making things. I know I am about a 3-4 on the DIY scale. I just love making things. I usually screw up, figure it out then forget everything and do the same again.. I graduated from the school of "Hmh?".

 

[HefeHood]

Dan,
Glad ur enjoying the move. No one understands the gals. Been married 30+ years, still makin mistakes!
I believe that we all need a little DIY assistance once in a while. This is the right spot to get almost any type of DIY tutoring.
Make sure the is a nice gap where u made the cut\snap. Don't need any arcing across the gap!
Hows Dasher adapting to the new place?

 

[Dan]

Dan,
Glad ur enjoying the move. No one understands the gals. Been married 30+ years, still makin mistakes!
I believe that we all need a little DIY assistance once in a while. This is the right spot to get almost any type of DIY tutoring.
Make sure the is a nice gap where u made the cut\snap. Don't need any arcing across the gap!
Hows Dasher adapting to the new place?

Hey Doug!

Thanks for the advice! I did definitely put some separation between the hot points.. just not pretty. No pending fire hazards to deal with.

Dash has been here a few months before me. He misses running. We used to have a big back yard.. not so much now. I'm not complaining, Dash isn't either.

Life's good, Doug.. It's okay. Truly appreciate your support. Pretty sure that need won't end soon. Cheers my brother!

 

[CGVT]

Thanks for the advice! I did definitely put some separation between the hot points.. just not pretty. No pending fire hazards to deal with.

Don't worry about it, Dan. Nobody will see that part of it anyway If you put it in a box. I used Misplaced-canuck's thread when I built my HTC-1000. He has labeled pictures. Perfect for those of us that aren't the most talented DIYers... If I had known how easy it was going to be I would have never spent the $ on a Johnson controller when I built my first fermentation chamber.

 

[Dan]

There is a YouTube video that I saw a few years back called

Brewing Beer at Home with Ed

This guy uses boiling water to mash in, flowing out of a shower head and some how he achieves his ultimate mash temp of 158 for his amber ale. He talks about water and temperature volume/heat, respectively but not in detail. I know he has been bashed for his brew method but what he does apparently works well for him.

I listen to this guy talk and can't help but get a feeling he is more than likely retired from a job where mechanics and precision were important as was a solid foundation in fundamentals. He truly reminds me of the Navy Chief mechanic in the WWII movie with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis; Operation Petticoat.

Ed would be the Chief of the Boat.

The enthusiasm in his voice and joy he gets from explaining his set up..it's pretty terrific. Love this guy.
Brewing Beer with Ed.

 

[lschiavo]

I got some cardio today. I thought I would die for about an hour but then I felt great. I'm gonna do more of that fer sure.

 

[Dan]

Go for it!

 

[passedpawn]

I had a friend, Ed Herbstreet, that used to play this song. He was such a stoner, but he could play the guitar just like ringing a bell. We shared a house, then a trailer, and we both joined the USMC together. He was from St. Mary PA, home of Straub beer. His old man kept a kegger down in the basement, and when I went to his house we drank that stuff. It's a good beer.

Over the hump day, for your late night soundtrack, the Osborne Brothers.

 

[bberg]

How do we do? First summer brewing, what do you all recommend?

 

[passedpawn]

How do we do? First summer brewing, what do you all recommend?

Saison. Just make sure to use Wyeast 3711. Everything else is optional.

 

[lschiavo]

How do we do? First summer brewing, what do you all recommend?

Corn from a jar.

 

[Dan]

Pappy, cool story, great song! Do you ever see that roommate these days? That was a good tune you put up. Fun days of past!!

 

[Dan]

I dedicate this song to Pappy, passedpawn

PP is a pretty dang good guy.

You made me think of this song Pappy

Cheers!

(I'm not from Alabama, but this song reminds me of home)

 

[Dan]

I'll never get tired of the song Amanda, by Waylon Jennings. It's about a man and wife who are married till the end. Love overcomes the tough times.

I'm posting it here https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f45/my-favorite-country-songs-317888/index69.html#post6084044

 

[bberg]

Saison. Just make sure to use Wyeast 3711. Everything else is optional.

Hmm... Rookie drinker, never had a saisson. Tomorrow I shall purchase.

 

[ChefRex]

Hmm... Rookie drinker, never had a saisson. Tomorrow I shall purchase.

Very solid, readily available saison, http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/saison-dupont-vieille-provision/5386/
Great style to brew in the warm weather.

 

[Dan]

So do I have to much time on my hands at the moment...

Answer: Yes

A few years ago I started a thread called "My Favorite Country Songs". It been doing well for a couple years now. Bunch of great music on it now. I looked back on it tonight, the first three videos have been scrubbed, they don't exist anymore. But the fourth of fifth on start playing again

I'm going to post the link. Because, because, I'm not sure. Maybe Im just stubborn, maybe I want more exposure on my country music thread... I just want to share.

I suppose force sharing is totally against what I say I believe in.. I'm not a communist or liberalist. Least I don't hope I am

Here's a link to a favorite of mines.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f45/my-favorite-country-songs-317888/

 

[gillsrob]

I'll never get tired of the song Amanda, by Waylon Jennings. It's about a man and wife who are married till the end. Love overcomes the tough times.

I'm posting it here https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f45/my-favorite-country-songs-317888/index69.html#post6084044

This is probably one of my favorite songs to listen while having a brew. I've had 2 batches turn out better then I could have expected in the last few bottles trying them

 

[passedpawn]

Hmm... Rookie drinker, never had a saisson. Tomorrow I shall purchase.

I've made two of them, very drinkable. MHurst111 sent me a rye saisson that was superb. I'd say the best I've ever had. I'll ask him to send you his recipe.

 

[gillsrob]

I'd like to try some saisons myself, my liqour store wouldn't even know what they are though.. and my LHBS that would have saison yeast is about 4 hours away from me