Brewing Clamper
Well-Known Member
Warning: I'm having a bad ADD day.
So I went to the LHBS to pick up provisions for an oatmeal stout. "sorry, I'm out of pale LME... Oh, sorry, no more roasted barley, out of carapils, ..." you get the point. Now granted this is a small shop and all but this has happened way to often. So as I'm headed home I thought about just ordering specialty malts in bulk and getting a grain mill. But if I buy a mill, why not just jump to AG?! I have a 48qt cooler, a keggle, all I would need is a wort chiller. I called the SWMBO to vent and she said the magic words: "A chiller could easily be a gift." So there, I think I'm going to just do it, build a manifold for the cooler, order a barley crusher, have a chiller "gifted" to me and do my next brew AG. The only problem is I don't know exactly what she meant by "gift" since my bday isn't until June. So I have a crazy @ss idea which I'm sure someone else has already thought of and proven stupid: Dry Ice. How sanitary would cooling with dry ice be? I know that it would be way more costly and all that, but it would just be for one brew.
BTW, the reason this is in this forum is because the last thread I read was here... plus I mentioned a mill somewhere.... I think..
So I went to the LHBS to pick up provisions for an oatmeal stout. "sorry, I'm out of pale LME... Oh, sorry, no more roasted barley, out of carapils, ..." you get the point. Now granted this is a small shop and all but this has happened way to often. So as I'm headed home I thought about just ordering specialty malts in bulk and getting a grain mill. But if I buy a mill, why not just jump to AG?! I have a 48qt cooler, a keggle, all I would need is a wort chiller. I called the SWMBO to vent and she said the magic words: "A chiller could easily be a gift." So there, I think I'm going to just do it, build a manifold for the cooler, order a barley crusher, have a chiller "gifted" to me and do my next brew AG. The only problem is I don't know exactly what she meant by "gift" since my bday isn't until June. So I have a crazy @ss idea which I'm sure someone else has already thought of and proven stupid: Dry Ice. How sanitary would cooling with dry ice be? I know that it would be way more costly and all that, but it would just be for one brew.
BTW, the reason this is in this forum is because the last thread I read was here... plus I mentioned a mill somewhere.... I think..