Random Brewing Thoughts

[rcubed1]

When I first started homebrewing I was exclusively WL since they were local and the instructor of my learn to homebrew class recommended them. Lately I’ve been getting away from them and feel like my beer was getting better.

Speaking of yeast. Looking for someone to tell me this is a horrible idea. I took some of the last drops of my 1056 starter to do a force ferment on my Session IPA yesterday. Looking at the flask there is a beautiful creamy white layer of yeast. Thinking I should harvest that for a batch next week. I didnt boil my flask but did a star-san soak baefore using it and generally I try to be sanitary whenever I am handling yeast. Am I crazy to not use it? Or am I right to be paranoid that if I use this yeast my next batch will be infected?

I'd probably worry more about stress on the yeast of the force ferment than sanitation. But who knows, might just work out fine.

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Picked up some Idaho 7 hop terpenes. Pretty excited.

 

[rcubed1]

Anyone have a good place to order cocoa nibs from?

 

[user 307594]

Anyone have a good place to order cocoa nibs from?

I've heard good things from some folks about cholaca.

 

[MikeJones]

I've heard good things from some folks about cholaca.

Cholaca is good. We have used it in a brew but on a larger scale it's sort of cost prohibitive.

 

[SirDickButts]

Would I be asking for a bottle bomb if I bottled a 1.012 FG beer into a 750ml, while adding a drop of bugs for refermentation? I want to try this out on 2 bottles.

 

[JCastle1]

Would I be asking for a bottle bomb if I bottled a 1.012 FG beer into a 750ml, while adding a drop of bugs for refermentation? I want to try this out on 2 bottles.

What kind of beer?

 

[SirDickButts]

What kind of beer?

Pale ale with about 30% wheat in the bill.

 

[JCastle1]

Pale ale with about 30% wheat in the bill.

Ah I misunderstood your original question. You're trying to add brett to it? It does sound like a recipe for bottle bombs if you ask me.

 

[SirDickButts]

Ah I misunderstood your original question. You're trying to add brett to it? It does sound like a recipe for bottle bombs if you ask me.

Yup, I figured.

 

[SirDickButts]

copped. sounds like it would bang in a farmhouse ale.

https://www.farmhousebrewingsupply.com/southern-passion-1lb-2018-new-crop/

 

[MikeJones]

copped. sounds like it would bang in a farmhouse ale.

https://www.farmhousebrewingsupply.com/southern-passion-1lb-2018-new-crop/

Worked well in a pils.

 

[JCastle1]

copped. sounds like it would bang in a farmhouse ale.

https://www.farmhousebrewingsupply.com/southern-passion-1lb-2018-new-crop/

It's ******* amazing in an IPA, I used it with a bit of Saaz and Mosaic. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[rcubed1]

Yeah I bought that plus African Queen and Zappa.

 

[SirDickButts]

this is the farmhouse joint i brewed with hornindal kveik/honey/rosebuds/lemon peel/elderflower + junga hops.
super crushable. head retention is muy bueno.
getting very subtle aromatics from the flower additions and light bitterness from the lemon peel.
prolly gonna add more flowers next time around and use fresh lemon zest vs packaged lemon peel

 

[anteater1]

this is the farmhouse joint i brewed with hornindal kveik/honey/rosebuds/lemon peel/elderflower + junga hops.
super crushable. head retention is muy bueno.
getting very subtle aromatics from the flower additions and light bitterness from the lemon peel.
prolly gonna add more flowers next time around and use fresh lemon zest vs packaged lemon peel

How much and when did you add the flowers?

 

[SirDickButts]

How much and when did you add the flowers?

10 gallon batch. i played it safe with adding 2oz of rosebuds,
1oz of elderflower and 2oz of lemon peel @ flame out.
out of the 3, the elderflower is in the forefront.
im gonna run with 4oz of rosebuds, 1.5oz of elderflower and 3oz of fresh lemon zest next go round.

edit: inspiration came from this

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Thanks, now we just have a zoning board hearing, a environmental board meeting, building, local, state, and federal permits. LOL.

zoning board hearing

Got grilled for 45 minutes, but the board seemed excited to work with us. We just have to add pull offs every 1/4 mile on our private drive because it drops down to 10 foot in areas.

We also sent in our application to zone 170 acres for industrial hemp. I'm pretty excited about this new farm bill. We just have to wait to see how the FDA and TTB will regulate hemp/CBD beverages.

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

I ordered an oz of Suver Haze 19.2% CBD hemp to work in a NEIPA type beer. It will be a mixed ferment of landrace yeast, super fruity brett, and Lacto Plantarum using Ale of Riverward's Hop Hands base. No hops in the boil, but I'll dry hop/hemp with an oz of citra, simcoe, columbus, and Suver Haze.

 

[SirDickButts]

I'm stoked to try this dried Framgarden kveik.
Gonna do another farmhouse joint with that + tangerines and white peony tea...and maybe some Brett blend.

Edit:

TripleSixHoppia bruh, where did you acquire the landrace yeast? I need to get in the know lol

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Edit:

TripleSixHoppia bruh, where did you acquire the landrace yeast? I need to get in the know lol

Landrace is just an "easier/more correct" way to describe yeast Northern European farms. Kveik is really only yeast from Norway. All my landrace yeast came from DeWayne @ kveik world order and Justin Amaral (who also got them from DeWayne).

Edit: I use to say Kveik blend but that blend has yeast from Latvia, and well you know how beer nerds are.

 

[rcubed1]

Landrace is just an "easier/more correct" way to describe yeast Northern European farms. Kveik is really only yeast from Norway. All my landrace yeast came from DeWayne @ kveik world order and Justin Amaral (who also got them from DeWayne).

Edit: I use to say Kveik blend but that blend has yeast from Latvia, and well you know how beer nerds are.

Baltic/Scandinavian blend, I like it. Time to make a sahti porter.

 

[Lutter]

We just have to wait to see how the FDA and TTB will regulate hemp/CBD beverages.

I heard there's a big crackdown coming in Texas since they actually legalized CBD for medical use from dispensaries last legislative session (whereas it's been a gray area)

Argument: if you need CBD, just get a prescription! Visit one of our many (THREE in the state) dispensaries to get it and give us money.

Right now we've got New Belgium sending hemp beer, a local coffee producer selling cbd-infused coffee in cans, and at just about any vape shop you can pick up oil. At the local petstore they sell CBD dog treats even.

 

[coldcrash1]

Shipping off a sample of my backyard culture to Bootleg Biology today for the local yeast project

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

I heard there's a big crackdown coming in Texas since they actually legalized CBD for medical use from dispensaries last legislative session (whereas it's been a gray area)

Argument: if you need CBD, just get a prescription! Visit one of our many (THREE in the state) dispensaries to get it and give us money.

Right now we've got New Belgium sending hemp beer, a local coffee producer selling cbd-infused coffee in cans, and at just about any vape shop you can pick up oil. At the local petstore they sell CBD dog treats even.

Some of the district attorneys in Texas are aggressively pursuing charges for possession of THC when a CBD product has a small stated THC content. So that 0.03% THC content vape oil is landing possession charges for the total weight of the oil. The prosecutors are so overwhelmed with these cases and the labs so behind on testing that prosecutors are just trying to jam people into pretrial diversion programs.

Not sure if this is a political move by GOP prosecutors or an easy cash grab for the state.

 

[Lutter]

Some of the district attorneys in Texas are aggressively pursuing charges for possession of THC when a CBD product has a small stated THC content. So that 0.03% THC content vape oil is landing possession charges for the total weight of the oil. The prosecutors are so overwhelmed with these cases and the labs so behind on testing that prosecutors are just trying to jam people into pretrial diversion programs.

Not sure if this is a political move by GOP prosecutors or an easy cash grab for the state.

So what you're saying is that it might be a bad idea for me to be drinking this in the car whilest not in the Austin metro?

Heh.

SIR YOU'RE DRINKING ALMOST A POUND OF WEED.

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

So what you're saying is that it might be a bad idea for me to be drinking this in the car whilest not in the Austin metro?

Heh.

SIR YOU'RE DRINKING ALMOST A POUND OF WEED.

It's an extra bad idea if that can describes any amount of THC in the coffee.

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

They are breaking federal law because 0.03% THC and under is completely legal. And it's all based only on Delta 9 THC before decarbing.

 

[Lutter]

It's an extra bad idea if that can describes any amount of THC in the coffee.

If you go into Cuvee to get a coffee on tap, they do call it a "CBD oil" shot but it's nowhere on the can.

 

[YungCoolship]

I have a few carboys from early this summer with split batches of mixed-ferm sours, some turbid mash, some single-infusion mash. The one pictured below has a lower fill level than I had anticipated, coupled with temp change between 63-68, the airlock goes near dry every few days. I've had enough, so I plugged it with a silicon stopper. Every few days I lift the stopper just enough to relieve the minimal pressure. Is this a viable long term option, or am I just increasing my chances at oxidizing and/or creating excessive acetic acid? I don't really have any options to top off the carboy, other than to blindly blend some of them, which I don't want to do.