lzrdkng14
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Anyone going to the Lagunitas party Friday night?
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I have only been to the Fermentaria once, on a weeknight. It's a big space. It is quite loud, but good fun with great beer and food. I think I should mention the beer again, I really enjoy the style of this brewery. Have a blast!
lzrdkng14
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Anyone going to the Lagunitas party Friday night?
In case anybody is interested, I have VIP tickets for this event. I am "Doug M" as referenced in the banner. Anybody can go to this for free, but the VIP tickets get you in early and guarantee a spot. Otherwise, once the venue fills up, they close the doors. Also, I think there are some give aways for VIPs.
If you are interested in going, PM me. I have a few tickets left.
lzrdkng14
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did I mention, the beer is free!
FreddyMar3
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I registered for one of the tickets but won't make it
I want to go so bad! Dan Deacon is a nut job and fun to see live. Not to mention Lagunitas has one of the coolest corporate cultures of any brewery I've ever visited.
Getting very frustrated with my water supply. It's super chlorinated and I run it trough a filter, but I cant stop getting that medicinal taste. Just brewed an IPA with almost a # of hops and tasted the hydro sample and it was awful. Don't want to keep wasting all these hops on off-flavored beers. Where's the best spot to get larger quantities of RO water?
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FreddyMar3
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Just use campden! You don't even need to filter if you use campden (aka potassium metabisulfite). A water filter isn't going to work anyway, the contact time you need to get rid of chloramine is prohibitive to making it practical. a campden tab will knock it all out in a minute.
Ya I had looked into that a while back, but just ended up picking up a filter instead. Don't remember why. So from what i've read, about a half tablet while heating strike water?
wobrien
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That didn't make much of a difference for me, so there was probably something else going on as well. I get RO water from whole foods for cheap and it's by the gallon (fill your own jugs) and it made a world of difference for my brewing
FreddyMar3
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Half tab is good. Will treat ten gallons. Just crush it up and stir it in or dissolve it in a glass of water first. Brun water site has a great write up on this.
So I started kegging the batch and ended up just dumping it. Such a harsh medicine/pool water taste. But I just tried a blue moon clone I brewed a week later and it tastes fine. I think theres something else going on. What else can give those off flavors? The fermenting bucket is getting tossed. It's my original, can't recall if that's the same fermenter used with the last bad batch. That's where im starting.
It's definitely the water, I tasted it coming out the filter and it's exactly water the beer tasted like. Not messing around with filters/campden anymore. Went to wally world and got RO water and saw they have a fill station for .37/ gallon so thats my new water source
dfess1
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lol, i just popped by here for the first time in, well, a long time. I haven't brewed a beer from start to finish in probably 3 yrs now (have 10 gal of some red ale sitting in primary since this time last year).
Trying to scrape together a recipe and get one knocked out in the grainfather next week.
Trying to scrape together a recipe and get one knocked out in the grainfather next week.
milldoggy
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Just built a 25 gallon electric pot. Time to finally retire my keggles. Got 8 years out of them. Silver soldered in the fittings, and etched volume markers.
