Random Brewing Thoughts

[MooseLang]

What gravity did the saison finish at? Just know you can gain 1 vol of CO2 per 2 points SG dropped. I would use that info to take the potential final volumes that just brett can make and minus it from your desired serving volumes. You can always add more gas if it doesn't go as high as you want.

It was around 1.008. Good point, as I totally forgot about that important little detail. Thinking I'll keep just enough pressure on it to keep it from leaking.

 

[YungCoolship]

Anyone have a good source for Nelson Sauvin hops by the pound? I'm always late to the party it seems with Yakima Valley Hops.

 

[SirDickButts]

Anyone scoop those terpenes from mainiacal yeast?

 

[Lutter]

Need to bottle and lack glass:

"Honey, I gotta finish all these beers so I can bottle tomorrow"

Wife:

 

[rcubed1]

I just need to bottle more sours but I might be out of corks. Plenty of glass...

I hate bottling!

 

[YungCoolship]

I just need to bottle more sours but I might be out of corks. Plenty of glass...

I hate bottling!

I started collecting dg empties and other various 29mm euro style bottles, bought a 29mm capper, a floor corker, and a blichmann gun... now I love bottling... it's therapeutic.

 

[coldcrash1]

Anyone scoop those terpenes from mainiacal yeast?

Those sold out in twenty minutes. The exact number of minutes I missed it by lol

 

[SirDickButts]

Those sold out in twenty minutes. The exact number of minutes I missed it by lol

damn. lol. i bought the maine meadows blend. will report back with results on the next batch.
brewing 10 gallons of farmhouse ale with hornindal kveik + rose buds/elderflower/lemon zest next week.
gonna split half on monster blend of cantillon dregs. will most likely can the clean batch and bottle the sour batch.

 

[rcubed1]

I started collecting dg empties and other various 29mm euro style bottles, bought a 29mm capper, a floor corker, and a blichmann gun... now I love bottling... it's therapeutic.

I do have a nice floor corker now but I really need to get a bench capper since the winged capper I have is not great with certain bottles (even when I flip around the inserts for different sized bottles and caps).

 

[smithj21541]

...winged capper I have is not great with certain bottles (even when I flip around the inserts for different sized bottles and caps).

I've noticed the same. I was thinking about taking off the hook on the side to see if that makes a difference

 

[rcubed1]

I've noticed the same. I was thinking about taking off the hook on the side to see if that makes a difference

It just really depends on the bottle type. The European bottles will usually give me trouble. I should have bought more of the Vinny pry 375ml bottles when there was a group buy.

Thankfully I have a lot of whatever style the Bruery uses and those I don't have issue corking and/or capping.

 

[coldcrash1]

Anyone have experience using buckwheat malt?

 

[Beerontwowheels]

Anyone have experience using buckwheat malt?

Yeah, I did a buckwheat Saison about 4 years ago. Dem groats soak up a ton of water. Did a cereal mash IIRC. Had a hard time finding much info online about using them. Beer turned out great. Pitched some Le Sarrasin dregs in with some yeast bay wallonian.

 

[SirDickButts]

Starting the farm brewery is one step closer. One the the local judges signed the order to add it to the ballot late last night.

y'all wet, mayne. congrats!

 

[coldcrash1]

Yeah, I did a buckwheat Saison about 4 years ago. Dem groats soak up a ton of water. Did a cereal mash IIRC. Had a hard time finding much info online about using them. Beer turned out great. Pitched some Le Sarrasin dregs in with some yeast bay wallonian.

Now I remember you gave me a bottle of that Matt. What percent of your grist was buckwheat?

Got my hands on some malted buckwheat from a local maltster so no cereal mash here.

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

y'all wet, mayne. congrats!

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

 

[Saind]

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

Wait what's happening

are you just now legalizing alcohol or am I reading this wrong

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Wait what's happening

are you just now legalizing alcohol or am I reading this wrong

KY has the largest number of dry counties in the US. The city has been wet for a LONG time and people didn't give a **** about the county because they could buy alcohol in city limits and no one would prosecute them for taking it back home. Even though that is technically illegal.

Well if you own a gas station, wedding venue, or say want to open a brewery on a farm you were **** out of luck. So we all had to band together and gather at least 11k signatures in 3 weeks to get an amendment added to the ballot of the general election. Which we did, and the vote was yesterday.

 

[Saind]

KY has the largest number of dry counties in the US. The city has been wet for a LONG time and people didn't give a **** about the county because they could buy alcohol in city limits and no one would prosecute them for taking it back home. Even though that is technically illegal.

Well if you own a gas station, wedding venue, or say want to open a brewery on a farm you were **** out of luck. So we all had to band together and gather at least 11k signatures in 3 weeks to get an amendment added to the ballot of the general election. Which we did, and the vote was yesterday.

I had no idea dry counties were still a thing. Interesting.

 

[JCastle1]

I had no idea dry counties were still a thing. Interesting.

Heard about someone that got in trouble for drinking on their own porch in a dry county. Thought it was wild.

 

[Beerontwowheels]

Now I remember you gave me a bottle of that Matt. What percent of your grist was buckwheat?

Got my hands on some malted buckwheat from a local maltster so no cereal mash here.

I think it was in the range of 30%. Search function sucks, but I’ll look for my posts about it.

 

[Beerontwowheels]

coldcrash

Purchased 15 gallons of RO water from Whole Foods today. Cost: $6. Waaaaay cheaper than Deer Park. Will adjust with gypsum, calcium chloride and sodium chloride (using one of your water profiles Thorpe429).

Final recipe for tomorrow is:

14.5 lbs pils
7 lbs buckwheat
2 lbs Vienna
1 lb acidulated
1 oz Nelson @ 60
1 oz Nelson @ 15

Looking forward to getting my first batch of the year in. Been a while.

More info in the thread quoted...

 

[Gonzoillini1]

KY has the largest number of dry counties in the US. The city has been wet for a LONG time and people didn't give a **** about the county because they could buy alcohol in city limits and no one would prosecute them for taking it back home. Even though that is technically illegal.

Well if you own a gas station, wedding venue, or say want to open a brewery on a farm you were **** out of luck. So we all had to band together and gather at least 11k signatures in 3 weeks to get an amendment added to the ballot of the general election. Which we did, and the vote was yesterday.

Congrats buddy, very cool to see this went well!

 

[Lutter]

I had no idea dry counties were still a thing. Interesting.

We had a similar ballot measure because a portion of the district was still dry (like a block away from me too). No booze in a smallish part of town and restaurants had to add you to a private club before serving wine and beer. (Like prolly a square 2 miles where 2 counties and 3 cities met)

Passed with like 82% of the vote this week.

There’s a lot of “partially wet” (part or all of a city is dry in a county) and dry counties in Texas. Yellow is partial, red is dry, blue pretty much matches our voting on Tuesday for the Democrats lol:

 

[Lutter]

Gawd I just need lactose for a cider and need to drive 25 miles round trip to the LHBS today to get it....

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Finishing our application for zoning approval, the hearing will be Dec. 13th. We had to send a letter by mail to every person that touches the property. It ended up being over 20 people and most of them are separated by the river. Apparently, if they file a complaint, zoning will inform us before the hearing so we can have a defense.

About to head out to the farm to do some site scouting. Our previous spot isn't going to work so we'll have to find somewhere else. I think we are going to submit 4 "prospective" locations to the zoning board. So if they reject one site we don't have to wait another 2 months to reapply.

Hoping to knock out a Saisonish beer the day before Thanksgiving on the homebrew system.

 

[smithj21541]

Gawd I just need lactose for a cider and need to drive 25 miles round trip to the LHBS today to get it....

When I got into brewing the most convenient shop was about that same total. That shop closed a little before I moved, between that and now moving to the new place I do everything through morebeer.com definitely requires more planning but buying more bulk so hasn't been too hard to manage.

Hoping to knock out a Saisonish beer the day before Thanksgiving on the homebrew system.

Good luck with permitting.
The last four years I brew simple blonde wort the week of Thanksgiving to prop bugs for my annual gueuze brew day. Every intention to keep it going.

 

[Lutter]

When I got into brewing the most convenient shop was about that same total. That shop closed a little before I moved, between that and now moving to the new place I do everything through morebeer.com definitely requires more planning but buying more bulk so hasn't been too hard to manage.

I go to Austin Homebrew and they’re moving like 3 miles from my place next year to a brand new building. Thank goodness.

They seem to be doing much better with Adventures in Homebrewing at the helm.

 

[JCastle1]

Finishing our application for zoning approval, the hearing will be Dec. 13th. We had to send a letter by mail to every person that touches the property. It ended up being over 20 people and most of them are separated by the river. Apparently, if they file a complaint, zoning will inform us before the hearing so we can have a defense.

About to head out to the farm to do some site scouting. Our previous spot isn't going to work so we'll have to find somewhere else. I think we are going to submit 4 "prospective" locations to the zoning board. So if they reject one site we don't have to wait another 2 months to reapply.

Hoping to knock out a Saisonish beer the day before Thanksgiving on the homebrew system.

Our zoning and alcohol production laws are ridiculous, I feel your pain. Good luck in your endeavor.

 

[smithj21541]

First time using Imperial Flagship and it ripped right through my IPA which I kegged up on Friday. I mashed a bit higher than intended and it still dried it out nicely.

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?