I like this time at night on HBT

[Dan]

Double post

 

[Dan]

Double post

 

[Dan]

That's awesome Dan. How old was Kim when you met her mom/your wife?



My daughter Christina (not my daughter) was 18 months when I met her mom. Her dad would pick her up on his visitation weekend only to call back a few hours later with some lame excuse of way he couldn't keep her overnight. No problem I'd say, bring her back. Many a plan was ruined due to this, but I love that little girl as did the rest of my family. From day one she was always one of our family.



Her dad was absent during most of her life, but I always encouraged her to reach out and stay in touch with him. (He lived less that 5 miles away, go figure). She and him finally started to reconnect after her mom/my wife passed. So much so that she ask if he could join us as we walked down the isle of her wedding. I told her she had two arms and two dads, down the isle we went.



With the wedding vows over she had her first dance with her husband and the next dance with her dad both to some lovey dovey slow song. Next was our turn, we came close together ready for the next slow dance music to start.........and Jimmy Buffets Fins came blasting out of the speakers. We separated raised the roof and started dancing, dragging any and all onto the dance floor to join us. That's the little giri I know and love.

Inkleg she was 12, now 29


Man those are some very moving words you shared. beautiful love and Karma im not sure what to say next. I got great admiration and respect for you. Blessings to you and your daughter and to your family's happiness.

 

[Dan]

Absolutely stunning weather today! -3c, no wind to speak of, only a few shreds of cloud on the horizon. Had to stop by the bridge to take a picture on our way to take the boys to see their grandma for the day so the wifey could sleep for her night shift. Gonna take off in a minute, take the boys to bed and go bottle my next batch.

Sounds like a good great happy day!
Cheers!
Dan

 

[Dan]

Double post. I don't know why that happens when using my iPhone

 

[mbobhat]

Absolutely stunning weather today! -3c, no wind to speak of, only a few shreds of cloud on the horizon. Had to stop by the bridge to take a picture on our way to take the boys to see their grandma for the day so the wifey could sleep for her night shift. Gonna take off in a minute, take the boys to bed and go bottle my next batch.

I've got one of those Volvos...got it used and had to change spark plugs, battery and the crankcase breather hose, but all in all I think she'll be a good vehicle for the wife and kid...got the dogs in the back also.

Cheers!

 

[Dan]

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Volvos keep you safe!

Checking in. Work has been nuts lately. All of us at my work are getting pulled into emergency responses to the gigantic amount of rain. Of course on top a regular full schedule.

I'm to damn old to keep up working alongside guys half my age. But I do and that keeps me young.

I mostly like what I do, especially on work orders that involve carpentry and electrical. Plumbing is easy for the most part but can be a pain.

I'm still not great with Sheetrock repairs but there are guys superb at that - they're appreciated but not paid enough in my opinion

I have 30 years experience in Naval aviation and would probably still be working in some form of that if I stayed in the mainland but I moved to Hawaii. Life changer that was. I miss the life sometimes but I'm retired from that. Now, I'm just digging my new challenges and rewards. It's a pain in the ass sometimes but pretty cool mostly.

Cheers
Dan

 

[Dan]

Sorry but I'm a bit pissed, as in annoyed. Had a job today, clogged kitchen drain, 1950,s house. I tried a year ago to clear from the clean out under the sink. It worked but not for more than a year.

Tree roots keep growing back. I didn't have Root kill then.

There s a 2" clean out right outside the house, few feet away from the sink. I tried a RIGID k40 on it 5/16" cable 25' long didn't hit it. A little later I changed the 25 for a 50 foot cable. Handed it off to another guy because I got called on an emergency. He ended up breaking the drive belt on the k40!!!

I'm just a technician if that means somebody pretty good to fix what's wrong with your house.

Engineer, no. Pupil and confidant of many.? yes

I fix

Dan

But I'm pissed. The guy that broke my K40/AF. I checked the piece of gear out. The company will waste it away cause it's broken. Then take a year to buy a replacement part. I already did. Not going to let anybody know I have it

 

[Dan]

Their ignorance is my bliss. And I can do my job without stupidness on Their part

 

[Dan]

Their ignorance is my bliss. And I can do my job without stupidness on Their part

Wow... Rereading my last two posts; they don't even make sense to me [emoji5]️

A few posts ago I mentioned a solar water heater I was trying to fix. The solar controller and sensors had been changed out, because at night and morning when the electrical heating side is on (timer) the residents had hot water.

But a few days after that they had no hot water at all. took voltage readings at the element And they were good - 235. I also read the element resistance and it was good. But the water wasn't heating. I changed the heating element and thermostat as a cheap last ditch effort. I isolated the solar system, removed the stops off the electric heating timer so it was basically just an electric water heater. But next day Still, cold ground temp water.

I suspected the cold water dip tube had cracked and was letting cool water into the top of the tank chilling the hot water. I would have just pulled the dip tube out and verified it was cracked but couldn't do that because of ceiling height restraints plus even if I found it cracked it would be weeks before a replacement was shipped in and that wouldn't fly for customer satisfaction. So I replace the water heater. A costly decision.

Next day no hot water. I was at wits end. Brand new 80 gallon solar/electric water heater. Solar system completely isolated in case the controller and temp sensors were faulty (even though recently replaced)

And then I listened. It's what I should have and will do in the future when it seems I have a perfectly good water heater by all electrical checks - but doesn't work.

I could hear water running even though no water was being used inside the house. Water makes a sound as it runs through valves and pipes you've all heard it. There was also a water meter atop the house feed pipe and it was spinning. I double checked inside the house and no washing machine or dishwasher or faucet, nothing running.

So I turned off the water supply valve to the heater and the moving water sound went away (when it was moving I could feel it flowing through the hot outside of the flex line and that stopped to. Then I could hear the water popping/boiling around the heating element.

I finally realized there was a leak in the house hot water plumbing. Nothing inside the house that could be seen, otherwise there would be visible flooding in walls or ceilings.

At that point I got the real plumbers involved. The guy has been around a while and is familiar with the house design. He briefly walked me through how he is going to fix this problem. He'll replumb the house. My job will be to open up the walls where he says. Doing it tomorrow. Should be fun!

 

[CGVT]

I was wondering what happened with that. Glad you found the problem.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Wow... Rereading my last two posts; they don't even make sense to me [emoji5]️

A few posts ago I mentioned a solar water heater I was trying to fix. The solar controller and sensors had been changed out, because at night and morning when the electrical heating side is on (timer) the residents had hot water.

But a few days after that they had no hot water at all. took voltage readings at the element And they were good - 235. I also read the element resistance and it was good. But the water wasn't heating. I changed the heating element and thermostat as a cheap last ditch effort. I isolated the solar system, removed the stops off the electric heating timer so it was basically just an electric water heater. But next day Still, cold ground temp water.

I suspected the cold water dip tube had cracked and was letting cool water into the top of the tank chilling the hot water. I would have just pulled the dip tube out and verified it was cracked but couldn't do that because of ceiling height restraints plus even if I found it cracked it would be weeks before a replacement was shipped in and that wouldn't fly for customer satisfaction. So I replace the water heater. A costly decision.

Next day no hot water. I was at wits end. Brand new 80 gallon solar/electric water heater. Solar system completely isolated in case the controller and temp sensors were faulty (even though recently replaced)

And then I listened. It's what I should have and will do in the future when it seems I have a perfectly good water heater by all electrical checks - but doesn't work.

I could hear water running even though no water was being used inside the house. Water makes a sound as it runs through valves and pipes you've all heard it. There was also a water meter atop the house feed pipe and it was spinning. I double checked inside the house and no washing machine or dishwasher or faucet, nothing running.

So I turned off the water supply valve to the heater and the moving water sound went away (when it was moving I could feel it flowing through the hot outside of the flex line and that stopped to. Then I could hear the water popping/boiling around the heating element.

I finally realized there was a leak in the house hot water plumbing. Nothing inside the house that could be seen, otherwise there would be visible flooding in walls or ceilings.

At that point I got the real plumbers involved. The guy has been around a while and is familiar with the house design. He briefly walked me through how he is going to fix this problem. He'll replumb the house. My job will be to open up the walls where he says. Doing it tomorrow. Should be fun!

This will be my next resort should I have to endure a 3rd underslab plumbing failure. Same scenario, hot water side, evidenced by having no hot water despite a apparently functional heater. Although, the second event did present itself by percolating up through the previous slab repair.

Do bear this in mind. If this was an underslab leak, and if it has been evolving itself over time. It could very well mean that the sand cushion under the floor is saturated and may result in one of two events, or both, after the repair.

1. Cracks may develope in tiled areas as the slab settles over the drying sand bed.
2. Plantings near the foundation may mysteriously die off after their constant water source dries out.

 

[Dan]

This will be my next resort should I have to endure a 3rd underslab plumbing failure. Same scenario, hot water side, evidenced by having no hot water despite a apparently functional heater. Although, the second event did present itself by percolating up through the previous slab repair.



Do bear this in mind. If this was an underslab leak, and if it has been evolving itself over time. It could very well mean that the sand cushion under the floor is saturated and may result in one of two events, or both, after the repair.



1. Cracks may develope in tiled areas as the slab settles over the drying sand bed.

2. Plantings near the foundation may mysteriously die off after their constant water source dries out.

I was wondering what the repercussions might be. Those both make sense. Here in HI - the four letter question,mold, will be asked

I work onHickam AFB AKA, Joint base Pearl Harbor these days maintaining the homes. We have congressional specified museum homes and an area named after space shuttle Challenger which turned out just about as disastrous.

We have some newer homes which use a water manifold to distribute hot cold water to every individual water output. It's pretty neat really. Instead of turning off one valve which shuts down all water supply to a house. Say a because say a shower cartridge fails open- you just shut of the hot/cold isolation valve that supplies only it. It's great! PEX is great also because you pretty much just lay it out. It's pex no soldering in, no real hassle. Except one here in HI

RATS!! The vermin rats. They are always looking for water and they find it in PEX water lines and also dishwasher rubber inlet sumps. A rat gets thirsty during the day and detects water sitting in the sump; he chews right through it, has a drink and scurries off.

The residents have dinner that night, load the dishwasher and bam! Water all over the floor.

Or worse: Rat finds PEX line, mmmm water the rat thinks, then he chews into it causing water leaks in your house.

I got an"Emergency" call awhile back. Two story house and water leak from the first floor ceiling. Long story short a rat chewed PEX made the leak. I cut out some ceiling and wall to find the leak repaired leak. Next day another leak, probably same rat. I fixed that leak too Two days later another leak, same thing different line.

So we called in the terminator AKA Arnold Swar he blasted the PEX eating rats http://goo.gl/images/oikeMN

 

[CGVT]

He'll be bock...

 

[LabRatBrewer]

I keep thinking i should read all i missed then check in. But i cant scroll that far back. I hope eveyone is great. I hope to be back soon.i miss the regulars

 

[BikerMatt]

Been brewing like crazy lately, just pitched a 25L batch of AG, gonna bottle the brewmaker IPA next weekend and probly the streetfighter ale the weekend after that. Then gonna have all my bottles filled and can pack the brewery away for a while. I'm getting too old staying up till 3-4am both nights at weekend... I really need a nap.

 

[mbobhat]

Been brewing like crazy lately, just pitched a 25L batch of AG, gonna bottle the brewmaker IPA next weekend and probly the streetfighter ale the weekend after that. Then gonna have all my bottles filled and can pack the brewery away for a while. I'm getting too old staying up till 3-4am both nights at weekend... I really need a nap.

Got recipes for the streetfighter ale?

 

[Dan]

I keep thinking i should read all i missed then check in. But i cant scroll that far back. I hope eveyone is great. I hope to be back soon.i miss the regulars

LRB! Great to hear from you brother. I hope all is well. Miss you

 

[Dan]

Duplicate

 

[BikerMatt]

Got recipes for the streetfighter ale?

Weeellll yes and no... meaning I can give you the ingredients but calling it a recipe at this point would be pushing it as it is still very much a work in progress this being just the first prototype of what hopefully will become my house ale. If you're familiar with the Swedish beer Pistonhead, that's pretty much what I'm trying to copy, if not it's kinda like an APA but with less bitter and more aroma.

Note that my pre-boil volume maxes out at 13L so if you want to and have equipment for a full 25L double everything. I did two of these boils into the same fermentor and then topped up with water, ending up overshooting my target OG of 1.050 a little bit which suggests te grain bill might need a little more tweaking (maybe more than just a little )

Mash volume 12L

3kg pale (I used simpsons for the first and Viking malt for the second as that was what I could get my hands on)
200g munich

60min BIAB mash, sparge until @12L again

6g Magnum @60min

10g Amarillo @ 15min

20g Amarillo @ 5min

That too is a bit of a guesswork as I used hops from different years on the first and second boil, as I was measuring the pellets onto the teaballs I realised the hops of the second boil has nearly double the AA of the first ones so I dropped the 15min amarillo to 10g from the 20 that went into the first pot.

I know I need to hone my method a lot, be gentle it's only my third AG batch

 

[Dan]

BikerMatt,

I remember the third batch of all grain I made. It was from a kit. Suppose to be a SNPA clone. I missed my mash temp so did some decoction to get the temp up. My newly made CFC clogged and I had a heck of a time draining the kettle. If I remember correctly I believe I just dumped the remains wort; 3 out of five gallons straight into the fermenter. I was short on finished product after fermenting by about a gallon so I added a gallon of RO water.

The beer ended up nothing like SNPA but it was surprisingly good and unique. Low ABV, maybe 4% tops. No real hoppyness, And the color SRM around 4. Freak accident that turned out pretty good. Never been able to duplicate

 

[BikerMatt]

Aren't those the best ones! I've decided to take a no-stress approach to this whole brewing thing as it is my almost only me-time these days and I actually find it pretty therapeutic. For example when I was making the second batch last weekend I accidentally dropped the hook that goes to the 15min boil hop ball into the pot, tried fishing it out for ten minutes until I accidentally made the whole hop ball jump onto the garage floor! Well obviously thay wasn't going back to the pot so I just dropped the 5min ball in @7mins and was done with it Whatever comes out of the fermentor CANNOT be any worse than the dreadful almost no-carb watery piss-like sorry excuse for a beer I've forced myself to drink three cases just to get the bottles and the cases! I actually gave into temptation a little bit yesterday and lifted the lid a little, mainly to see if the krausen is in any danger getting up the airlock but also to take a whiff, and I assure you the smell that came out of the bucket was no short of AWESOME! Cannot wait to get to tasting this!

Another source for wonder is the Brewmaker extract IPA that's getting done in the second fermentor. It's been pretty slow to ferment and I actually thougt for a while it was finished as the airlock activity ground to a near halt so I got ready to bottle it last weekend, washed the bottles and all, and dry hopped it at the start of last week. Well guess what, the dry hopping somehow reactivated it and it's STILL bubbling away. Hopefully getting to bottle it next weekend, just a bit worried what two weeks of dry hopping will do to it as I've never done it before.

I really should make a diary thread, there just isn't a proper section for it here (anymore I'm told)

Also really hoping being able to afford a bigger cooking pot soon. Even an inferior one. Really don't want to do a single one of those two-nighters anymore...

 

[Dan]

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[Dan]

Aren't those the best ones! I've decided to take a no-stress approach to this whole brewing thing as it is my almost only me-time these days and I actually find it pretty therapeutic. For example when I was making the second batch last weekend I accidentally dropped the hook that goes to the 15min boil hop ball into the pot, tried fishing it out for ten minutes until I accidentally made the whole hop ball jump onto the garage floor! Well obviously thay wasn't going back to the pot so I just dropped the 5min ball in @7mins and was done with it Whatever comes out of the fermentor CANNOT be any worse than the dreadful almost no-carb watery piss-like sorry excuse for a beer I've forced myself to drink three cases just to get the bottles and the cases! I actually gave into temptation a little bit yesterday and lifted the lid a little, mainly to see if the krausen is in any danger getting up the airlock but also to take a whiff, and I assure you the smell that came out of the bucket was no short of AWESOME! Cannot wait to get to tasting this!

Another source for wonder is the Brewmaker extract IPA that's getting done in the second fermentor. It's been pretty slow to ferment and I actually thougt for a while it was finished as the airlock activity ground to a near halt so I got ready to bottle it last weekend, washed the bottles and all, and dry hopped it at the start of last week. Well guess what, the dry hopping somehow reactivated it and it's STILL bubbling away. Hopefully getting to bottle it next weekend, just a bit worried what two weeks of dry hopping will do to it as I've never done it before.

I really should make a diary thread, there just isn't a proper section for it here (anymore I'm told)

Also really hoping being able to afford a bigger cooking pot soon. Even an inferior one. Really don't want to do a single one of those two-nighters anymore...

Long post to quote![emoji106][emoji3]

Brewing, I've found great pleasure in
I'm ok good at it now and again
But I'm surely not a pro. No no
Still do indeed love watch the yeasties grow

It's nature at play in Gods way
As brewers we do a relay
Grind the grain, heat the mash
Let wort flow the grains unmasked

Then we heat it with wonderlove
Boil and fret, there might be a dove

Cool the wort down aerate it right
Ferment it at a good good temp that's alright

From water, grain, hops and the yeast
Our beer will grow It's a brewers peace


Cheers

Dan

Ps... feel free to add on[emoji3]d

 

[Dan]

Aloha

My youngest daughter flew to Oahu this past weekend for her birthday-23. We had the weekend together; man it was like being in paradise squared to be with her

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[GilaMinumBeer]

Wow. She's attractive. Must get it from her mother.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Those are great pictures Dan. I am glad you got to spend some family time. Someday I have to get to Hawaii. Those pictures are like a travel agent. Looks much warmer than BikerMatt's photo of Finland.

 

[Dan]

Wow. She's attractive. Must get it from her mother.

I've heard that before. Picture of her mom and me (my ex) her mom at my daughter,'s age now. Her mom is Australian. This pic is from 1988 in Perth. Man I had hair back then!
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[Dan]

Those are great pictures Dan. I am glad you got to spend some family time. Someday I have to get to Hawaii. Those pictures are like a travel agent. Looks much warmer than BikerMatt's photo of Finland.

Thanks Albert! When you get here first rounds are on me. And I'm going to take you to the Polynesian Culture Center. It's amazing.

 

[Dan]

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