Random Picture Thread

[grampamark]

Dan is my wife‘s cousin. The “captain’s log” entry at the top of this month’s statement pretty well sums up the general feeling about this winter.

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[day_trippr]

It means you took a wrong turn and ended up in Alaska with their "Giant Mosquito Warning" signs.

Cheers! (And Good luck! )

 

[BongoYodeler]

It means you took a wrong turn and ended up in Alaska with their "Giant Mosquito Warning" signs.

Cheers! (And Good luck! )

Reminds me of this...

 

[Langerz]

Radar snapshot of a storm heading towards my parents house last week.

 

[smurfjuicebrew]

In for a long night ...

 

[grampamark]

 

[day_trippr]

Crazy enough to work

 

[grampamark]

Shovel, shovel, sweep, sweep, sweep. And slowly the grain goes into the semi.

 

[grampamark]

A wide angle view gives a better idea of the size of this bin. 40 ft in diameter and 25 ft to the eaves. When full it holds about 40 semi loads of grain. We're down to the last 3 or so.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

That will be a lot of beer...

 

[Broken Crow]

Your Mash Tun is the envy of us all!! I like the stirring unit...where's the recirc port?....HERMS or RIMS? I hope you used @Bobby_M 's True Bulkhead line... I love those things!
https://www.brewhardware.com/category_s/1838.htm

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

The most important part of starting the workday, making sure there is coffee.
As a fun side-note, people up here still prefferably use perculators to make coffee...

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[day_trippr]

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[Sailingeric]

Went fishing yesterday morning and got this, not the best pic, but got Mt St Helens and Mt Rainier off to the left

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[pvpeacock]

I loved going to my kids science fair and seeing which projects were actually done by the kids and which ones were clearly done by the parents.

 

[corkybstewart]

I loved going to my kids science fair and seeing which projects were actually done by the kids and which ones were clearly done by the parents.

I was often asked to judge science fairs and I hated it for that reason. O
I didn't like awarding the projects clearly done by parents but some of the others were just awful.

 

[day_trippr]

It's GInormous!

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[wsmith1625]

From the May/June 2023 edition of Zymurgy

 

[day_trippr]

That 94.9% viability after 6 months can't be far off the pace for the dry yeast with its 24 month expiration...

Cheers!

 

[wsmith1625]

That 94.9% viability after 6 months can't be far off the pace for the dry yeast with its 24 month expiration...

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Cheers!

The vitality must start dropping off after 6 months and at a much greater rate than dry. Still quite impressive for liquid yeast. Now the price is getting out of control.

I've always used fresh yeast but now I'll have start overbuilding my starters and saving some for later.

 

[day_trippr]

You should consider it. I've been doing overbuilds for years as it can seriously cut your yeast costs.
The Homebrew Dad calculator makes it super easy...

Cheers!

 

[day_trippr]

 

[day_trippr]

 

[Bago-0]

I think I am going to try an overbuild this weekend. I have WLP-001. So using the calculator to make a overbuild of 100million it looks like I will have 500ml extra. Do I just pour off the extra 500ml into a sterilized jar and put in fridge for the next brew without doing anything else to it? How long are you getting out of the stored portion? When I go to use the overbuild can I reuse the calulator and over build it again?

 

[day_trippr]

Right, the "Amount to Pitch" and "Amount to Harvest" provide the proportional amounts. You can use & store in that form, or, as I do, you can crash, decant the spent wort, then proportionally split and use & store the thick slurry.

I have kept strains running for up to two years doing overbuilds. Since I started brewing again I've been farming 1056 and 1318 since December. I do label the mason jar lids with the date and presumed cell count, so I can plug that back into the calculator for the next cycle with the overbuild amount and have a decent idea of the resulting cell count...

Cheers!