What came in the mail for you today?

[z-bob]

Should be able to freeze the peppers, no?

Yes, but I don't know how to cook with these. Might be better to cut them up and dry them; my brother says he has about a gallon (!!) of ground (in a blender) dried peppers. That's kinda what I'm planning to with them after another day or two of eating them fresh.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Just use them as though they're fresh - I do it all the time

 

[Sammy86]

Got myself a nice little surprise when we got home from a walk!

 

[z-bob]

Just use them as though they're fresh - I do it all the time

You eat them raw and pretend they are fresh?? (cuz that's what I'm doing with the fresh ones)

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I'd wait til they warm up first...

 

[OldDogBrewing]

Yes, but I don't know how to cook with these. Might be better to cut them up and dry them; my brother says he has about a gallon (!!) of ground (in a blender) dried peppers. That's kinda what I'm planning to with them after another day or two of eating them fresh.

You can freeze them and thaw them before you use them and just do whatever you want as if they were fresh, dry them, pickle them, ferment them, etc

 

[Elric]

My taps were supposed to arrive this coming wednesday. Instead I got them today. Not going to complain!

 

[AkTom]

Got this 2” triclamp adapter from Brew Hardware. Thanks Bobby.
Perfect fit an my Anvil 10.5 lid.

 

[TBC]

12 beers of Xmas first delivery from @j1laskey

 

[TBC]

Another 12 Beers of Xmas from @jack13

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

 

[fourfarthing]

Another 12 Beers of Xmas from @jack13

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Me too (no pic!)

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

The haul from yesterday and today 2020 12 BOC

 

[GBRbrew]

Grain scale, ball locks,spunding valves and regulator.

 

[fourfarthing]

More XMas beers!!

 

[day_trippr]

Zach at stainlessbrewing.com helped me out with a replacement 6" spider basket to fit my 20 gallon kettle as many years ago I had trimmed the original basket by a few inches to fit my original 10 gallon kettles, and I felt I was missing an advantage with the extra depth. They haven't been making spiders for many years but he happened to remember there was one of their early baskets stashed somewhere and he managed to dig it out and ship it for a very fair price.

After a hot PBW soak I fried it in an 5% citric acid bath to solidly passivate the mesh. While I was at it I stuck in my e-flask brush which had developed some significant rusting that ran into the bristles. Bath definitely gained some color in the offing, and I wish I'd taken a "before" pic because that's an impressive "after"...

Ironically, I'm actually hoping to come up with a "free swimming pellet" solution based on The Electric Brewery's HopStopper V2 which would obviate the need for any basket, but the price for the fall-back/alternative insurance was cheap and I like the folks at stainlessbrewing...

Cheers!

 

[WNKbrew]

more goodies and parts (no pics) from Brewhardware (thanks Bobby) to improve my 'fermentation station'.

 

[Frogster762]

7.1 fermzilla

 

[Elric]

Shank, duotight fittings and handle for the fourth and final tap on my keezer. The faucet and a few other bits and bobs are en route from another supplier. Only problem is these are technically a Christmas present from my Mom so I guess I should wait until after Christmas to install it!

 

[z-bob]

My first TILT hydrometer. (a red one) And a few packets of assorted wine yeast; I have plenty of beer yeast already.

 

[z-bob]

My first TILT hydrometer. (a red one) And a few packets of assorted wine yeast; I have plenty of beer yeast already.

First impression of the TILT: what a piece of crap. It doesn't work. At all. I tried to take the end off to check the battery and I can't get it loose. Will probably have to use pliers which will chew up the plastic because there are no flats on the endcap, so I don't want to try that until I hear from customer service.

I've emailed baronbrew and Great Fermentations, but nobody responds to emails this late on a Friday, so I guess I won't be brewing this weekend after all.

I think I just threw $140 away.

 

[doug293cz]

First impression of the TILT: what a piece of crap. It doesn't work. At all. I tried to take the end off to check the battery and I can't get it loose. Will probably have to use pliers which will chew up the plastic because there are no flats on the endcap, so I don't want to try that until I hear from customer service.

I've emailed baronbrew and Great Fermentations, but nobody responds to emails this late on a Friday, so I guess I won't be brewing this weekend after all.

I think I just threw $140 away.

Rubber gloves, or rubber "jar opening grips" can get you more torque on the end caps to get them open. I saw a video a while back where Tilt actually recommends this.

Did you have the Tilt in a liquid when you tried it out, or was it just standing up on a counter/table? The Tilt turns off when straight up (IIRC, I have an old version that didn't have the shut off feature.)

Brew on

 

[z-bob]

I did have it in a jar of water. I telephoned Great Fermentations (because nobody reads their emails late on the Friday afternoon) and Wes was quite helpful. While I was on the phone I had the Tilt in my hand, just happened to be at an angle, and I saw a green flash from nowhere in particular. So the indicator light wherever it does not stay on, probably to conserve battery. I put the Tilt back in the jar of water. I downloaded the Android app (Wes recommended that) and it was able to scan the tilt just fine.

The pi was setup and running except I had not told it my gmail address. When I gave it that, it started working too.

I am still concerned about how tight the endcap is, but I don't have to worry too much about that for another year or so.

 

[day_trippr]

Shout out to @Bobby_M. Don't want to set expectations going into the holiday/gifting season (as well as the coming "Peak Homebrewing" period), but I ordered these from brewhardware.com on Wednesday evening and they arrived today - even with Turkey Day in the middle. That's crazy!

All thumbs up!

Cheers!

 

[Bobby_M]

Shout out to @Bobby_M. Don't want to set expectations going into the holiday/gifting season (as well as the coming "Peak Homebrewing" period), but I ordered these from brewhardware.com on Wednesday evening and they arrived today - even with Turkey Day in the middle. That's crazy!

All thumbs up!

Cheers!

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Nice! Even I'm impressed.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Well, not in the mail, more like a special delivery...

Beer calendar. Thanks HBC.

 

[pshankstar]

They didn’t arrive in the mail but my friend dropped them off earlier today. I was excited to get in on these bottles.

 

[Elric]

Final parts for my fourth tap came. Now just have to wait for Christmas to “unwrap” them and get it installed.

 

[oakbarn]

Rims Tube from brewhardware.com . First Stainless in my Rebuild.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Glasses from keeverglass.com 30% off the last couple of days. Ends tonight. This dude does the artwork for Treehouse