Random Brewing Thoughts

[Five28 hz]

What would be the differences in what I'm looking for? I was going to add some lambic and saison bernice dregs, but I don't really have a game plan for anything else.

Best way to tell is to split the batch, pitch one with dregs and yeast in primary, pitch dregs in the second batch during secondary.

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

I was going to experiment with adding dregs to a saison. Would it make sense to add some wild dregs to my 3711 starter or should i just add them after primary fermentation is done?

Let 3711 go through primary. Then you can either make a small starter or just dump the dregs into the carboy. I make starters with dregs before adding just to make sure there is some active yeast from the bottle. With brett the starter will take a few days to kick off. You can also hop the piss out of the starter if you just want more yeast and less bacteria.

Brett makes 3711 beers drinkable IMHO. It knocks a lot of those "belgian" phenolics down.

 

[JCastle1]

What would be the differences in what I'm looking for? I was going to add some lambic and saison bernice dregs, but I don't really have a game plan for anything else.

I actually did the same thing with Bernice dregs and noticed a bit of a rubbery flavor in the one with dregs in primary. Since then I moved dregs to secondary and I like it.

 

[Saind]

I actually did the same thing with Bernice dregs and noticed a bit of a rubbery flavor in the one with dregs in primary. Since then I moved dregs to secondary and I like it.

Thanks all! I'll add the dregs in about a week

 

[Saind]

Oh and loeyjarko thanks for the beer! Last Sara remaining

 

[SirDickButts]

giving myself a pat on the back for this NEIPA..

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Next week Dan Pixley (main MTF wiki editor) and myself are giving a presentation at the Southern Brewers Conference. It's on techniques and considerations for faster turnaround sour beers. Then Dan, Jeff Mellow (bootleg biology), Brandon Jones (Embrace the Funk), and myself will be on a Q & A panel for general sour beer questions. Pretty sure this will all be live streamed somehow. I'll also throw the powerpoint presentation up online.

 

[SirDickButts]

imperial saison w/ chrysanthemum, earl grey tea, white sage and local honey on jester king and crooked stave dregs

**** is bold AF. mad floral, white sage shinning on the nose, earthy and spicy...
gonna dial this grain bill down for a more Texas heat friendly banger.

 

[Phischy1]

imperial saison w/ chrysanthemum, earl grey tea, white sage and local honey on jester king and crooked stave dregs

**** is bold AF. mad floral, white sage shinning on the nose, earthy and spicy...
gonna dial this grain bill down for a more Texas heat friendly banger.

You are a crazy ass Brewer. I want to try these concotions.

 

[SirDickButts]

You are a crazy ass Brewer. I want to try these concotions.

I'll hold a bottle!

 

[liquiddegenerate]

 

[coldcrash1]

Anybody in here banking yeast?

I just ordered a few supplies/ looking to get started this week with a few slants of Hansens.

Talked to the guy at the lhbs, watched some YouTube videos; turns out you don't need a microbiology degree to do this. Looks pretty easy with some basic sterilization practices.

Any input here would be appreciated.

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Anyone have any opinions on the Blichmann Beer gun vs. The Last Straw bottler?


Yes I have done the picnic tap filler....

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

Anybody in here banking yeast?

I just ordered a few supplies/ looking to get started this week with a few slants of Hansens.

Talked to the guy at the lhbs, watched some YouTube videos; turns out you don't need a microbiology degree to do this. Looks pretty easy with some basic sterilization practices.

Any input here would be appreciated.

I did for a little while my first few years. It's not hard at all. Like brewing, sanitation and temperature control are key.

I still have a box of yeast vials in my parents' chest freezer. I pulled a couple vials at one point and had no problem with sacc viability. Now it's probably six or seven years old and doubtful any of it is still viable. I had the idea to just bank every sacc strain I had because it's cheaper than buying $7 for every strain so why not. Most of my brewing is mixed cultures or I end up using a sacc strain for multiple clean beers in a row and never had a real need to go back and pull those old strains. In retrospect I should have used them but I started out as one of those wanting to brew everything brewers who used a yeast strain a couple times and then needed to buy something completely different.

Moral of that story is that if you're going to spend the time banking yeast make sure you are banking something you'll actually use in the future but need/want more time than just keeping a jar of slurry in the fridge.

 

[coldcrash1]

Anyone have any opinions on the Blichmann Beer gun vs. The Last Straw bottler?


Yes I have done the picnic tap filler....

Last straw over beer gun

I've used the beer gun for a few years; it gets the job done but is kind of awkward to use and has a handful of small parts to clean, lose, etc

Bought the last straw a few months ago. I've only used it twice but it's easier to use, easier to clean, with no small parts to lose

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Not sure if this goes here, but I'm starting to keg and carbonate cocktails.

Gin Fiz
1.5 gallons

• 750ml gin
• 250ml lime juice
• 250ml lemon juice
• 1 cup of sugar dissolved in water
• .5oz Simcoe hops
• top up with filtered water
• Carb at 20 psi

 

[coldcrash1]

Not sure if this goes here, but I'm starting to keg and carbonate cocktails.

Gin Fiz
1.5 gallons

• 750ml gin
• 250ml lime juice
• 250ml lemon juice
• 1 cup of sugar dissolved in water
• .5oz Simcoe hops
• top up with filtered water
• Carb at 20 psi

Sounds refreshing.

Put that here too

 

[JCastle1]

Not sure if this goes here, but I'm starting to keg and carbonate cocktails.

Gin Fiz
1.5 gallons

• 750ml gin
• 250ml lime juice
• 250ml lemon juice
• 1 cup of sugar dissolved in water
• .5oz Simcoe hops
• top up with filtered water
• Carb at 20 psi

I've done the same thing a few times. Lots of different versions but a similar one was gin, lime juice, Amarillo-hopped simple syrup, and water. Served with fresh mint leaves in the glass.

I also serve my homemade tonic water there, people love it. Current experiment is a tepachelada, blend of saison with tepache, we'll see how it comes out.

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Last straw over beer gun

Got the Last Straw showing up tomorrow. Can I run it off 1 CO2 line if I don't care about purging bottles?

Also I want a Picobrew pretty badly. I should just sell most of my homebrew **** and get one. I mean with it being automated, I'd probably brew 2 times a week. They got a new one for $500 that does 1 gallon batches.

https://www.picobrew.com/store/products/PicoC

 

[JCastle1]

Got the Last Straw showing up tomorrow. Can I run it off 1 CO2 line if I don't care about purging bottles?

Pretty sure you can, mine is also showing up tomorrow.

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Also I want a Picobrew pretty badly. I should just sell most of my homebrew **** and get one. I mean with it being automated, I'd probably brew 2 times a week. They got a new one for $500 that does 1 gallon batches.

https://www.picobrew.com/store/products/PicoC

NVM. Only the $2k model will do custom grain. The cheap ones you have to order packs that are basically like K cups. F that.

 

[coldcrash1]

Got the Last Straw showing up tomorrow. Can I run it off 1 CO2 line if I don't care about purging bottles?

Yeah if you're not purging bottles you just need the one gas line running into your keg. Why wouldn't you purge though?

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Yeah if you're not purging bottles you just need the one gas line running into your keg. Why wouldn't you purge though?

I just don't have a T yet. Might get one today.

Anyone have any Lager brewing groups or resources?

 

[JCastle1]

I just don't have a T yet. Might get one today.

Anyone have any Lager brewing groups or resources?

I've got a bunch of lager pdfs I can share depending on what you're looking for.

 

[Espeer]

I just don't have a T yet. Might get one today.

Anyone have any Lager brewing groups or resources?

You have Noonan? Pils I made after reading that book was top 2 of the beers I've made. Old, but still good.

 

[JulianB1]

Somehow it just dawned on me today that I should have put a blowoff tube on the IPA that I brewed on Sunday rather than just an airlock - damn.

Walked into my buddy's garage/rec room where we homebrew and the place smells kinda ripe - ****.

Walk into the bathroom where the fermenters are stored and there's an airlock on the ground next to the door - oh ****.

Look over at the carboys and the IPA one is missing its orange carboy cover, which is one the ground next to it, and is covered in gunk - ****.

Look up at the ceiling, which is covered in trub - GOD ******* DAMN IT.

Took a solid hour to clean the mess up and I still have a secondary cleanup to do tomorrow. I'm just hoping that the beer itself is okay, which turned out to the be case the last time this happened. If nothing else, the fermentation was definitely really vigorous, and within a minute of me putting a carboy cap back on, it was bubbling in the airlock.

Oh and for the cherry on top of the **** sundae, I realized that I didn't CO2 purge the berliner weisse I brewed either. As a small consolation, there was basically no headspace left after I filled the carboy with wort, so I'm hoping things aren't too bad on that front.

 

[More Betterness]

Somehow it just dawned on me today that I should have put a blowoff tube on the IPA that I brewed on Sunday rather than just an airlock - damn.

Walked into my buddy's garage/rec room where we homebrew and the place smells kinda ripe - ****.

Walk into the bathroom where the fermenters are stored and there's an airlock on the ground next to the door - oh ****.

Look over at the carboys and the IPA one is missing its orange carboy cover, which is one the ground next to it, and is covered in gunk - ****.

Look up at the ceiling, which is covered in trub - GOD ******* DAMN IT.

Took a solid hour to clean the mess up and I still have a secondary cleanup to do tomorrow. I'm just hoping that the beer itself is okay, which turned out to the be case the last time this happened. If nothing else, the fermentation was definitely really vigorous, and within a minute of me putting a carboy cap back on, it was bubbling in the airlock.

Oh and for the cherry on top of the **** sundae, I realized that I didn't CO2 purge the berliner weisse I brewed either. As a small consolation, there was basically no headspace left after I filled the carboy with wort, so I'm hoping things aren't too bad on that front.

Wouldn't be home brewing without a **** up here and there! If it makes you feel any better we forgot to put the probe for the temp control unit back into the chest freezer after brewing 20 gallons last week. Result was a blown off fermenter lid and a frozen sheet of half fermented saison you could ice skate on coating everything.

 

[liquiddegenerate]

Broke the sight glass on my 20g pot... fuuuuuuuuuck!

 

[Beerontwowheels]

Broke the sight glass on my 20g pot... fuuuuuuuuuck!

How?!

 

[liquiddegenerate]

How?!

Knocked it over when it was empty.