What I did for beer today

[Cheshire Cat]

OK, that made me laugh. Now go to your room.

Quoting (pinched from) Russell Crowe in Master and Commander.

 

[MaxStout]

If I found weevils in my grain I would dump it. I know that’s an expensive solution but it’s the lessers of two weevils.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Archibald Leach born in Bristol. He had a weird English accent which Tony Curtis copied in “Some Like it Hot”. John Cleese’s who went to school in Bristol was called Archibald Leach in “A Fish called Wanda”.

 

[Deadalus]

I set up this oxygen station last night. One line is for the unitanks and one line has an oxygen wand for starter yeasts. I'll connect the manifold and regulator once I locate the barb. Took it off to measure the threads and haven't located it yet. Threads didn't match anything in my thread identifier but it appears they may be called DISS threads which are used on medical gas.

 

[day_trippr]

My medical O2 regulator sports one of these:

https://liveactionsafety.com/oxygen-nipple-and-nut-christmas-tree-adapter/

[edit] I'm now unsure what the threads to the regulator are. Could be "DISS 1240" as I can find hardware claiming to have that thread type. Then I find this exact part with a description claiming it has 9/16"-18 UNF threads.

[edit2] Western Medica states the flow meter output on my regulator (and many others in their lineup) use DISS 1240 threads.

Anyway, here's mine in context:

Cheers!

 

[Deadalus]

My medical O2 regulator sports one of these:

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https://liveactionsafety.com/oxygen-nipple-and-nut-christmas-tree-adapter/

[edit] I'm now unsure what the threads to the regulator are. Could be "DISS 1240" as I can find hardware claiming to have that thread type. Then I find this exact part with a description claiming it has 9/16"-18 UNF threads.

[edit2] Western Medica states the flow meter output on my regulator (and many others in their lineup) use DISS 1240 threads.

Anyway, here's mine in context:

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Cheers!

The one I have is like the one pictured. I think the one pictured here has a collar after the barb and the threads are actually even small width. I saw fittings liek that too. I was having trouble finding the specs but I finally found this website late last night. So then if you look at the top left adapter, one side is male 1/4" NPT and the other is DISS 1240. Then the one next to it is a DISS 1240 coupler. What I had on it is described as a DISS hose barb. I had taken it off to measure the threads with my thread key. I had thought maybe it was 1/8" NPT. Then I said to myself, "I should put this in a safe spot since I don't know the threads." Still looking for it!

 

[Deadalus]

DISS is Diameter Index Safety System. More annoying is that I can find adapters to 1/8" or 1/4" NPT but then I would have to order an adapter to go to PTC which would be a separate order to Freshwater systems at which point I could order a new regulator! (Lowes might have one...) I went ahead though and swaged on the tubing to the oxygen wand since it was 6mm not 8mm. I figured I might as well skip the reducer coupling since I figured I would need to use the hose barb given I wasn't sure of the threads. Still a costly little bugger if I can't find the original barb. I do have a 1/4" NPT barb and could do the DISSx1/4" NPT adapter but you know how much it pains me to put the evabarrier on to barbs.

 

[ClaudiusB]

I was getting ready to brew a hazy tomorrow and while measuring out the malts I discovered my malted oat supply was riddled with friggin' weevils! Ugh!

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I keep all but my base malts in a rolling bin in their original plastic bags, which are then placed inside grocery bags by group (crystals and caramels in one, flaked grains in another, dextrin malts in yet another, etc). I had a 6 pound bag and a 4 pound bag of malted oats in their outer bag together, and they were both infested.

I took everything out of the bin and placed each bag on a table under strong lighting which tends to bring the weevils out where you can see them. I took the bin outside and washed it out and let it dry in the sun, and left the malt bags on that table all afternoon while I worked on other things. They're still sitting there with no more signs of wildlife but I'll keep checking until I go to bed tonight. If I only lose the oats I'll consider myself lucky.

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I had enough flaked oats to do tomorrow's brew so I just had to grind the base malts and some carapils...

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Got the brew rig filled with RO, salts measured out, and everything else positioned for the morning...

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On an unrelated note...this picture of a boisterous Ballantine IPA fermentation shows why I have an in-line "krausen catcher" on my keg purging line...

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Cheers!

Your weevils don't look well nourished, also ugly. My German weevils are better looking.

 

[day_trippr]

You win

 

[Deadalus]

Just some minor details to finish but this SS pipe stand is mostly done. It's going to run my 6 gallon Kegco BK once I get the ports silver soldered. It'll be used for three gallon batches, strike water, and portable cleaning recirculation. Just need some pipe straps and some screws to mount the pump fully and to trim off the teflon tape.

 

[Bramling Cross]

If I found weevils in my grain I would dump it. I know that’s an expensive solution but it’s the lessers of two weevils.

I used to keep my specialty malts in quart paint buckets, but wound up with a weevil infestation. That's how I dealt with it, I trashed everything, doused every surface with a very strong bleach solution, and then bought vessels with gasketed lids. If they can get in once, they'll get in again. An expensive solution and lesson learned, yes, but no troubles since.

Nuke it from orbit, no half measures.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Forty hours ago, I racked the IPA that I showed on the previous page onto 6oz of dry hops in a 6gal keg. Today I racked the ale off the hops and into its serving keg.

Here's what 6oz of hops looks like.

Here's the aftermath in the dry hop keg.

And here's the sink, very much clogged, after I rinsed out the keg with my old jet washer. The garbage disposal had to work a bit.

I frequently wonder why I don't brew more American IPAs, then I brew one and remember why.

What a stupid and garishly wasteful beer. If I were a smarter man, I should've held onto that gunk and dumped it into the stout I'll be brewing tomorrow. I sure wasted a lotta IBUs.

 

[ClaudiusB]

The one I have is like the one pictured. I think the one pictured here has a collar after the barb and the threads are actually even small width. I saw fittings liek that too. I was having trouble finding the specs but I finally found this website late last night. So then if you look at the top left adapter, one side is male 1/4" NPT and the other is DISS 1240. Then the one next to it is a DISS 1240 coupler. What I had on it is described as a DISS hose barb. I had taken it off to measure the threads with my thread key. I had thought maybe it was 1/8" NPT. Then I said to myself, "I should put this in a safe spot since I don't know the threads." Still looking for it!

Source: Medical Testing Solutions

Oxygen (DISS 1240) has been assigned the long established 9/16"-18 thread connections as its safety standards.

 

[day_trippr]

That would explain the site that stated they were 9/16"-18 UNF threads...

Cheers!

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Archibald Leach born in Bristol. He had a weird English accent which Tony Curtis copied in “Some Like it Hot”. John Cleese’s who went to school in Bristol was called Archibald Leach in “A Fish called Wanda”.

I think most people in the US wouldn't know what "a weird English accent" sounds like.

 

[mac_1103]

Aren't there a couple hundred different weird English accents?

 

[Deadalus]

Source: Medical Testing Solutions

Oxygen (DISS 1240) has been assigned the long established 9/16"-18 thread connections as its safety standards.

Thanjs I will look into that. I'm not sure what part of an oxygen system that might be however that's a larger diameter than the barbed fitting was. That barbed winged adapter @day_trippr linked might have those threads but the fitting I had was much smaller diameter. I have diameter sizes on my thread identifier it might have been but the thread cuts were different. I do think I have the correct adapter identified at a couple sites, but the shipping has been ridiculously high for such a tiny part.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Aren't there a couple hundred different weird English accents?

Yup and probably a lot more in the UK.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

We’ve probably got 50-100 regional accents, the US must have the same then there’s Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India, Pakistan and any country which has English as a second language.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I think most people in the US wouldn't know what "a weird English accent" sounds like.

Alaskan Bush People- the spawn had weird accents.
Oh, and what I’m doing for beer today is getting ready to package an English barley wine.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

What I did I do for beer today? I got my newly acquired jukebox cleaned, replaced a couple bulbs and wired in a new plug, then poured myself a pint of Amber.

 

[day_trippr]

What - no pictures? What a rip-off!

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

What - no pictures? What a rip-off!

Sorry, wrong device. No pint picture but I'm sure you know what that looks like.

 

[day_trippr]

I meant of the juke box
Is that yours then? Sweet!

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

I meant of the juke box
Is that yours then? Sweet!

Yes, it's all mine! Just got it Thursday but it took a while to buy it then get it delivered. It's an 85 year old piece that plays 78's.

 

[day_trippr]

It's gorgeous, really. Congrats!
Can you source media these days without it costing a leg?

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

It's gorgeous, really. Congrats!
Can you source media these days without it costing a leg?

Thanks! I really love it.

It came with a box of records plus I have some along with our regular album collection. eBay seems to have all sorts. Trouble is most titles are old music. When I say old, I mean really old, they stopped making 78 RPM records around 1959.

The cabinet wood is almost mint, some of the lighted panels have been replaced. There's a couple pieces I will try to track down.

 

[mac_1103]

Now you've got me wondering what ever happened to all of my parents' old 78s.

 

[day_trippr]

I'm old and in my very early yute actually had a small collection of 78s - all gifts from the Ps, of course, as I had no income at that age Most were orchestral works, and I can remember at least a few of them, including "Scheherazade", "Peter and The Wolf", and "Arabian Nights"...

Anyway, good luck and happy hunting

Cheers!

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

78 records faded away much like "albums" have and most recently for us older folks, CD's. There was a lot of other media types that came and went; reel to reel, 8-tracks and cassettes.

I'm not going to be hunting for 78's. I can't see myself enjoying a pint while listening to Glen Miller. I do like classic music and some jazz but not enough to haul out a collection of old 78's when I can cue it up on Amazon Music or Pandora.

As it sits the jukebox to me is like a painting I have above the fireplace, very nice to look at.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I transferred 19 litres of New Zealand IPA to the bottling bucket. I’ll leave it for 2 days then bottle. Was expecting an ABV of 6.2% it turned out at 6.8%. I’ll force it down some how.

 

[MaxStout]

78 records faded away much like "albums" have and most recently for us older folks, CD's. There was a lot of other media types that came and went; reel to reel, 8-tracks and cassettes.

I'm not going to be hunting for 78's. I can't see myself enjoying a pint while listening to Glen Miller. I do like classic music and some jazz but not enough to haul out a collection of old 78's when I can cue it up on Amazon Music or Pandora.

As it sits the jukebox to me is like a painting I have above the fireplace, very nice to look at.

Are you a blues fan? Track down some old Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon, Leadbelly, etc.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

I transferred 19 litres of New Zealand IPA to the bottling bucket. I’ll leave it for 2 days then bottle. Was expecting an ABV of 6.2% it turned out at 6.8%. I’ll force it down some how.

6.8%, oh my. If it's too much I can swing by and help you!

Sounds fantastic to me.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Are you a blues fan? Track down some old Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon, Leadbelly, etc.

Great suggestion, I do like some blues, thanks!

I'm sure there's others I'd like but I haven't given it much thought yet. I have tracked down a missing part for the jukebox that I'm ordering today. It's a name plate on the front. I found a new one, imagine that.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Just some minor details to finish but this SS pipe stand is mostly done. It's going to run my 6 gallon Kegco BK once I get the ports silver soldered. It'll be used for three gallon batches, strike water, and portable cleaning recirculation. Just need some pipe straps and some screws to mount the pump fully and to trim off the teflon tape.
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You have a nice investment in stainless steel with that beauty! Very inspiring.

I'm trying to come up with a mount for my new Spike Flow and plate chiller. I'm having a designer block, keep fumbling with an idea. Maybe I'm not drinking enough beer.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

6.8%, oh my. If it's too much I can swing by and help you!

Sounds fantastic to me.

More than welcome.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Are you a blues fan? Track down some old Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon, Leadbelly, etc.

Not sure about him but I’m a great Blues fan all those plus Muddy, but because these guys couldn’t get play time in the US they came to Britain and we loved them, and then you had white men playing the blues in Britain.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

So yesterday after dinner I started packaging a small batch of barley wine. The plan was to bottle condition some and keg some for comps at a distance. Well the syphon action died with the racking arm still under the beer. . I’m getting tired and it’s getting late, so I just closed the fermentor back up.

Today, I possibly could have squeezed one more bottle out, but then I may have not gotten this nice sized sample to enjoy.

So now I’m cleaning the fermentor.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Not sure about him but I’m a great Blues fan all those plus Muddy, but because these guys couldn’t get play time in the US they came to Britain and we loved them, and then you had white men playing the blues in Britain.

As a surly old punk, I highly, indubitably, and with the greatest confidence recommend Hound Dog Taylor's Alligator Records session. Hard to say whether it's tighter or filthier. It's an amazingly nasty performance.

 

[RumOnTheDocks]

Yesterday I managed to bottle 6 gallons of beer.
3.5 gallons of a Chocolate Stout and 2.5 gallons of a Dark Mild. Since the process went relatively smoothly (only broke one bottle) I was feeling rather productive and motivated, so I also ended up brewing 4 gallons of Brown Ale that I racked onto the yeast cake that was left behind by the stout.
As a side note I've also managed to convince SWMBO to assist me with the brewing, she enjoyed the process and is eager about making her own batch in short order.
All in all a very productive day for beer.