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seanjwalker1
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Im a non recovering Sniffer for 16 years now !I’ve been a member since I started brewing last year
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WARNING!! Wow, that first picture on Post #17,869, with the carboy handle on that full glass carboy. Hope you don't lift it when full. It could potentially break at the neck under all that stress. Possible injury and a loss of inventory may result. I lifted my carboy once when full, but fortunately it did not break. I was so very lucky and would never try that ever again.
Hmmm. 2 days later and it is getting tight. I didn't siphon off the trub because I realized the yeast was there too. Every time I look at it it's gotten a little higher. I'll put a blow off tube on it before I go to sleep just in case. It's been a very steady fermentation so far, at 64℉.
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No, I slid it on the floor on a piece of cork that you see in the picture, and in the post just above this.
But just to be clear, I've been doing this for a very long time without any problems like that. Maybe that's just luck. I joined this forum in 2008 but I've been home brewing since 1995, after my son was born. I needed a hobby to keep me from going crazy. That carboy was one of the original purchases I made.
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Kegged 5 gallons of Oatmeal Stout (Brew No. 70), which was my first partial-mash full-volume boil. The uncarbonated room temperature sample, from the last few ounces at the very bottom of the fermenter looked super clear after 19 days. Gravity readings OG 1.053, FG 1.020, so ABV ~4.3%. The taste was exceptionally good. Should be even better chilled and carbonated (set-and-forget 12 psi @ 42F) after 2 weeks in the kegerator.
If you can do full boil and partial mash you should give BIAB a try. It is only a small step up from what you are already doing. My beer was significantly better once I went all-grain, and I never went back after I did BIAB the first time. My entire setup for it is in the post 17869 just a few posts above.
Gave my latest WF lager a test and taste after I got home from my 14th consecutive 11+ hour workday (reason why I haven't posted much lately). Pleasantly surprised to see after the rather cooler than usual fermentation this one got, it came down to 1.006 (lowest gravity in 5+ years) and tastes fantastic. Now I have to see if I can duplicate it this weekend after I keg it, going to brew the same recipe and just rack on to the yeast cake.
Went to my LHBS and got some crisp medium crystal, wlp edinburgh ale and dry london ale, the edinburgh is for an 80 shilling and the dry London ale for a brittish strong/old ale I plan on doing, using some homemade invert #2, made on light muscovado sugar, a little carabohemian and brown malt and a dash of mandarina bavaria in the flavor addition(couldn't find any first gold)
Took the second sample on my Munich In Tents, and it's steady at 1.015, ready to bottle. Of course, I drank most of the sample tube and it's pretty spot on for a marzen-style ale... malty, just a hint of sweetness and a clean finish. I'll bottle it this weekend and let it carb for a couple of weeks.
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Soaked and scraped 24 more 12oz bottles, in prep for bottling the Munich In Tents marzen-like ale I've got in the fermenter. Saturday or Sunday is the day.
Found out today I'm expected to work on Saturday, so brewday gets postponed to Sunday. Nothing beer-related today except drinking a few pints; had to go pack up my dad's clothes and things this afternoon with my mother in preparation for his move tomorrow to a new memory-care facility (he has Alzheimer's). Current location is run by some flakey individuals, seemed a great place when we first moved him there but he needs more than they can provide. New place is specifically geared towards residents with stage 2 & above dementia/alzheimers so we're hoping for something better.
Cooking up some light muscovado invert #2.
Remember that drinking a few pints is just the same as emptying a container for future use.
Further note: if you try doing invert using light muscovado or demerara varieties of cane sugar, the finished syrup will be notably darker than with the refined almost white kind. My #2 is almost as dark as the #3 you can see in the homemade invert thread.
Small tweak to the kegerator today.
I added a lagering rack above my serving kegs a few days ago to make better use of the space above my kegs. It's great, but when I close the door the lagering kegs interfere with the beer lines near the shanks. Didn't want side pressure on the duotights which can make them leak.
before
So I used 30 seconds of boiling water to soften the tubing so I could put a 90 degree bend at the shanks. Much better now!
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I added a lagering rack above my serving kegs a few days ago to make better use of the space above my kegs. It's great, but when I close the door the lagering kegs interfere with the beer lines near the shanks. Didn't want side pressure on the duotights which can make them leak.
before
So I used 30 seconds of boiling water to soften the tubing so I could put a 90 degree bend at the shanks. Much better now!
after
Soaking an assortment of 12 and 22oz bottles in prep for bottling the Munich In Tents marzen-like ale now clearing in the fermenter. I'll let them sit overnite in bleach/cold water mixture to get good and sanitized.
Kegged my Idaho pilsner golden ale thing, a few sips from the hydro sample tasted good. A few extra days over my normal procedure, looked pretty clear, now some waiting for a few more week to see if stays that way.
My cali cream ale still slowly bubbling so a few more day before I keg that too.
My cali cream ale still slowly bubbling so a few more day before I keg that too.
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I put my boil kettle togeather the other day but it was leaking, so today I tightened the nut on the thermomater. I'm pretty sure it's good to go! I've got it in the bathtub right now full of water, 20+ mins in and still no leaks.
Just kegged the breakfast stout I brewed two weeks ago; expected FG was 1.018, came down to 1.010 for reasons I don't know but it tasted great going into the keg. Yeast slurry jarred up, fermonster clean, now nothing more to do tonight but kill a keg so I have room to keg the WF lager tomorrow. And brewing another one, that will rack directly onto the previous one's yeast cake. Oh, and weighing out and milling grain, here come the sneezes.
Cleaned the brew space. Hoping to brew tomorrow but ran into some issues that may not get resolved, so maybe not brewing tomorrow. We shall see. Moved the first lager to a keg, hope this works out.
Kegged the Weissbier I brewed a couple of weeks ago. Put together a “kit” for a 2.5 gal batch of my Bullwinkle Brown to take to the city house tomorrow. We have to be in Billings for a few days for medical appointments so I decided to take the ingredients for a brew day on one of the days that nothing is scheduled.
Successfully bottled 49x12oz bottles of Marzen In Tents with no breaks, burbles or mis-caps.
Reconfigured my keezer with the new 4 way manifold, looped in the old two as well so I can have individual shutoffs for each of my four taps plus a fifth available for any other carbing needs I may have. Also started cold crashing the imperial stout and pale ale I brewed last weekend. Will give them a few days to drop and then keg them up.
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brewing a Boddingtons 1939 XX Mild even as I type this. Will use Nottingham since it attenuates approximately the same as whatever yeast Boddy uses (and we know it ain't London III). Chose this to test out the Becker's Brewing Invert #3 I actually purchased instead of making my own approximation.
Ron Pattinson has often said that Milds in the US look right, but don't taste right because they use adjust grains instead of invert #3. So, I saved a tiny bit of the invert #3 as a taste and color master.
Some jerk on this board posited that one can use all sorts of Mexican, S. American, Palm, Chinese and other sugars instead of the basic white cane sugar to make invert. Bastard. I don't know how many experiments and tests this will compel me to do. Oh well, another brick in the obsession.
Ron Pattinson has often said that Milds in the US look right, but don't taste right because they use adjust grains instead of invert #3. So, I saved a tiny bit of the invert #3 as a taste and color master.
Some jerk on this board posited that one can use all sorts of Mexican, S. American, Palm, Chinese and other sugars instead of the basic white cane sugar to make invert. Bastard. I don't know how many experiments and tests this will compel me to do.
Oh well, another brick in the obsession.
Just mashed in on today's batch of WF lager, and sent the husband off to work. He bought himself a new bowling ball, so mamma might need to get herself something for the brewery....just gotta think of something.
Dropped the hammer on a new magnetic high-temp pump from Amazon; not a Chugger or a March, but had decent reviews and should do what I need it to do. Arriving tomorrow, so tomorrow night get to build a new base for it and configure it to the brewstand....and of course test it. Have to go buy a new ball valve for the outlet too. Never happier than when I am either brewing or tinkering with things in the brewery.
