Masstoberfest 09/20

[Hippie]

OK, I just sprayed coffee all over the computer screen, you barstard.

I think that you should send me a few bottles of that brew, Hippie, I earned it. No, not by digging thru a bunch of old boxes in the cellar to find my rusty old Corona mill. Not by giving you the old brewpot to use, or the wort chiller to use, or setting up the double boiler in the kitchen so you could melt the chocolate for your brew (?), not for finding a grain bag for you so you could soak your specialty grains, not for showing you how to hang the grainbag over a spoon to rinse it off, not for pouring the extra 2-3 quarts of runoff I had left over into your pot. All of that was just the way a brew day goes, adapt of perish.

Nope! I earned a few of your brews by taking a bullet for you. And it was a high powered, full metal jacketed, nearly lethal round. Fired by Alice, at me, when she found you chopping up that chocolate on the kitchen countertop, without a chopping board in sight. You have no idea how lucky you were to get out of that one with two gonads.

I expect the bleeding to stop by this weekend.


PTN

I swear I tried to use a cutting board, which was that item I broke (am I digging myself deeper?) while washing it. That was when I did the thing we won't mention again. FWIW, I was being as gentle as I could... then Alice came in and mentioned that she would appreciate my using a cutting board, which magically appeared in her hand. Thankfully it wasn't a tenderizing hammer!
Sorry for any marital strife this may have caused... Hopefully you can still have strangers over and I am not a persona non gratis. Please repeat my sincerest appologies to your lovely wife and her wonderful new countertops.

As for the beer, I plan on racking it to secondary, then conditioning until February, with kegging happening at some point in the process. I'll come up with something else in the meantime...

 

[paulthenurse]

I'm just pulling your leg, she really wasn't THAT mad. I certainly wouldn't go so far as to say it created marital strife. My seeming inability to find the hamper, well that's a horse of a different color.

PTN

 

[bigjohnmilford]

Alice is awesome

 

[Sumo]

Yes, she was very gracious to allow us all to romp around her yard and threw her house. Now that is a woman who loves her man.

 

[the_bird]

Freakin' Hippie. Can't take him anywhere!

 

[Calico Jack]

looks like it was a good time on a perfect evening--sorry i missed it

 

[Melana]

Alice is awesome

+1. Paul is very lucky.

So, when is the next one???

 

[paulthenurse]

+1. Paul is very lucky.

So, when is the next one???

Agreed!


The next one? Hmmmmmmm. 'Midwinter Classic' anyone? 'FeBREWary Get Together?'
Weather is pretty important to these. Just cause I'm willing to stand outside in 20 degree weather to brew doesn't mean it's fun. Ok, it's still fun but it's colder than a witches tit.

 

[Sumo]

Agreed!


The next one? Hmmmmmmm. 'Midwinter Classic' anyone? 'FeBREWary Get Together?'
Weather is pretty important to these. Just cause I'm willing to stand outside in 20 degree weather to brew doesn't mean it's fun. Ok, it's still fun but it's colder than a witches tit.

Hence the need for high abv beer! We can call it mid-winter antifreeze brew. Either that or find someone with a garage.

I must admit I could sit around that fire pit with the smell of cooking pork wafting through the air. Maybe heat the appfelwein with cinnamon sticks..

 

[bigjohnmilford]

I'm not a big fan of the cold. But, with the folks who tend to gather at your shindigs I could easily change my mind.

 

[Bulls Beers]

Agreed!


The next one? Hmmmmmmm. 'Midwinter Classic' anyone? 'FeBREWary Get Together?'
Weather is pretty important to these. Just cause I'm willing to stand outside in 20 degree weather to brew doesn't mean it's fun. Ok, it's still fun but it's colder than a witches tit.

I have to wait until then???Ugh!! We need do a first Saturday of November Brewday to tie us over till FeBREWary...Paul???????

 

[paulthenurse]

Well, I've got an idea. Al and I always go diving in Key Largo in Feb. I propose we all gather there this winter for the FeBREWary get together. If someone drives down we can ship our beer back

 

[beergears]

If someone drives down we can ship our beer back

Bring it back? Answer: The Gulf Stream

It will get the beer back up here, on little floating platforms fashioned by JustMrWill
(expert at swimming pool kettle cooling). We should pick the right yeast, to accommodate the ocean fermentation temp...

 

[paulthenurse]

You know, that short period of time when I was listening to Will describe his floating wort chiller was the only time all day long when I was even in the neighborhood of druck.

I don't know if you guys noticed, but I was drinking iced tea most of the day. Aside from it being an overall bad idea to be 'faced when you are dealing with 12-13 gallons of boiling liquids, aside from figuring I needed to stay mostly sober so that I could be a reasonable host, aside from not wanting to get Al all mad at me by inviting a bunch of guys over the house and then getting blotto, aside from waking up at 3 am and knowing that if I started drinking I'd never see the sunset, I just didn't feel like drinking beer that day. (Who'd a thunk it?) I was actually yearning for a gin and tonic all day but didn't have any in the house. The horror! The horror!! But I digress.

So Will, tell me that story again. You strap a water-noodle around it and then float your brew kettle in the kids wading pool? And it works better than my ghetto imersion chiller? Get out!!! This thread is useless without more pictures!


PTN

 

[paulthenurse]

BTW, anyone want to give their thoughts on my straight up lambic? I love it but I recognize that my view is clouded by my parental blinders.

Paul

 

[Melana]

Please for the love of all that is good and holy, if you have a FeBrewary gathering, make it on a weekend that i will not be skiing. i will be gone for a week to Aspen and I would be totally crushed to have missed another PTN event!

 

[Melana]

BTW, anyone want to give their thoughts on my straight up lambic? I love it but I recognize that my view is clouded by my parental blinders.

Paul

I didn't get a sample of it. Hope i get to try it sometime in the future...

 

[JustMrWill]

Here is my thread on the noodle chiller...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/eco-friendly-homemade-wort-chiller-66260/

It works ok with a 5 gal batch. I am making an IC....maybe I will still put the kettle in the pool...to make it cool faster. I could just put a stool in the pool...set the kettle on that...then pump pool water through the IC....hmmm.

-Will

 

[JustMrWill]

Here are the pictures from that link that show it (for you lazy bastards out there)

-Will

 

[JustMrWill]

BTW, anyone want to give their thoughts on my straight up lambic? I love it but I recognize that my view is clouded by my parental blinders.

Paul

It was the first lambic I have ever tried...it was...interesting. I probably wouldn't drink it often...but it was a nice change.

-Will

 

[Bulls Beers]

It was the first lambic I have ever tried...it was...interesting. I probably wouldn't drink it often...but it was a nice change.

-Will

Ditto...It could grow on me though....

 

[Sumo]

BTW, anyone want to give their thoughts on my straight up lambic? I love it but I recognize that my view is clouded by my parental blinders.

Paul

I'll trust Sloan's opinion when it said it was very tasty. I tried it and it didn't sit well with me. In time I might grow to like that style, yours was my first one. I do like sour patch kid candies and it reminded me of them, but I gotta be in the mood to eat them.

I did enjoy your other beers! Love that dirty water for sure!

 

[paulthenurse]

Will, you are an evil genius!

As I said when I was passing out samples of the lambic, "You are either going to love it or hate it. And yes, it is supposed to taste like that!"

 

[Boston]

Hippie,
Your INBOX folder is full and won't accept any more messages. Maybe you can borrow a broom from Paul and sweep it out?

 

[Hippie]

Hey kids,
Paul, I really dug your lambic, it was the first that I have had without a fruit added, and found it very enjoyable. I was disappointed to not get a chance to sample the aplewine though, it was off tap too quickly, and then later I almost had some when we were around the fire, but I was getting close to leaving and was warned off, something about it being a wee bit strong or something The nice thing about Febrewary is standing around the torches, but if the last one is any indication, we will have a bunch of drucks crowding us while we brew

Boston, I borrowed a broom from someone else, you can only go to the well so often you know. My mailbox is open again.

You brewing jonesers all should head up to VT in 3 weeks for a Yankee Ingebrewity get together, it's almost foliage time:fro:

Hippie

 

[JustMrWill]

You brewing jonesers all should head up to VT in 3 weeks for a Yankee Ingebrewity get together, it's almost foliage time:fro:

Hippie

Melana is trying ot get me to carpool with her. How would it rate compared to PTN's bashes?

I probably wont be brewing at there if I go.

-Will (the evil genius)

 

[Melana]

Melana is trying ot get me to carpool with her. How would it rate compared to PTN's bashes?

I probably wont be brewing at there if I go.

-Will (the evil genius)

So does that mean that we're going?

 

[Sumo]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hippie View Post
You brewing jonesers all should head up to VT in 3 weeks for a Yankee Ingebrewity get together, it's almost foliage time

Hippie

Hippe is there a link to this? Is it a get together like Like Paul's or an "Event" The only way I could get away with going to VT Is if I took the wife and kid with me. =)

 

[Melana]

Here's the link:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f20/yankee-ingenuity-viii-oct-12th-13th-78584/

 

[hoss75]

I loved the lambic. I would have liked some more fruit essences maybe, but all in all the beer was really delicious. I had 2 or 3 that night