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My local home depot is having a bulk sale on drywall right now. Whats the shelf life like on this stuff? I only do 5 gallon True Beer TM batches at a time so I want to make sure my drywall doesnt go bad. I want to get the optimum truth out of this stuff
 
My local home depot is having a bulk sale on drywall right now. Whats the shelf life like on this stuff? I only do 5 gallon True Beer TM batches at a time so I want to make sure my drywall doesnt go bad. I want to get the optimum truth out of this stuff

The drywall only gets better with age. Your good
Just mill it super fine. You get better extraction that way.
 
I feel the urge to PM the OP and hopefully be worthy enough to join his or her (we don't know for sure if FredtheCat is male or female so I don't want to assume anything)

I choose to believe FredtheCat is non-binary. You can't fit genius like that in a box.
 
True Beer is 100% barley malt's. whatever you say, i know what True Beer is.

90% malt'd barleys (6LVB)
30% coarse barley
my yeast.
10grammes bines

no boil, wait 4 weeks then sieve
bottle

thnk me l8r. ;)
This can't be True Beer. It's 120% barley. True Beer is only 100%.

"My yeast"... can I get that from White Labs? Or do you harvest that from... uh... on second thought, don't answer that.
 
Over 300 posts in and we finally get a half-@$$ed recipe! Do we addd water or yeast, or just chew the malt? Fermtation temps?

And does the drywall go in after fermentation? Would that be dry drywalling?

300 posts more and maybe ill answer
 
Maybe Fred meant Bones not Bines in his recipe. Fred can you clarify, curious minds want to know all there is about True Beer?
 
You know this isn't the real recipe. He's not giving it up until the launch is complete.

....Anyways I have a lot of drywall to use up :rockin:
 
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Just stopped by for my daily dose of -- HOLY CRAP THERE'S A RECIPE?!!? Ok this just got too real, too serious......too True!
 
when this thread was about 5 pages in, I wanted to make a thread for goofy( making the beer in a pot made from the skulls of your enemies), arcane, joking brewing practices. But thats kinda what this became so no point now.
 
The prophet has demanded a sacrifice in order to reveal the glorious secret of True Beer TM and the mysteries of drywall! More post shall be given to the Cat!

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I must know the secrets of true beer TM. We must post, all hail @fredthecat and his wonderfulness
 
Could I get a few opinions here? Fixin' on unleashing some Truth.

80% 2 Row
15% Peat Moss
5% Raw Dry Wall (fine crush)

1 oz Red Hemlock Bark (60 min)
.5 oz Copenhagen snuff (5 min)

Ferment with Baking Yeast is open Home Depot Bucket at Room Temps.


US or Chinese drywall?
The latter has been found to be tainted.
( Yes, I used taint in a sentence.......Extra points garnered....)
 
It is super easy to get to 120% of your grain bill. Use 100% of the original grain bill, then take 20% of what you would have used for the original grain bill and make sure you squeeze the $h1t out of it to up your ABV. Oh, BTW pond water is a must. Puddle water is too gritty and not true to True Beer (tm).

Edit: Will drywall that has been wet and then dried add extra flavor or should I just use drywall that has never been wet. Keep in mind I don't know my water chemistry from my tap...other than it smells like chlorine.

Edit edit: My wife correctly noted that if geese are not partaking in the pond, then the pond water that you are using is not True Beer (tm). Geese are a must to get the water to True Beer (tm) levels of acid.
 
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Edit: Will drywall that has been wet and then dried add extra flavor or should I just use drywall that has never been wet. Keep in mind I don't know my water chemistry from my tap...other than it smells like chlorine.
Since I am a stickler for accuracy, let me point out that all drywall starts out wet, and is then dried as part of the manufacturing process. So, you are really asking about drywall that has been rehydrated (or is that re-rehydrated, since in the mfg process they rehydrate plaster of paris?) Sorry, but I don't know if the extra hydration cycle will affect the flavor profile when used to brew "True Beer." Perhaps you could run a True ExBeeriment and post your results. The curious want to know.

Brew on :mug:
 
Edit: Will drywall that has been wet and then dried add extra flavor or should I just use drywall that has never been wet. Keep in mind I don't know my water chemistry from my tap...other than it smells like chlorine.

I don't know about the taste, but I've found that the paper comes off better on the wet-then-dried stuff. Just make sure you get the good old fashioned drywall. Greenboard just doesn't absorb right and Moldboard will keep the Mother from forming.
 
Since I am a stickler for accuracy, let me point out that all drywall starts out wet, and is then dried as part of the manufacturing process. So, you are really asking about drywall that has been rehydrated (or is that re-rehydrated, since in the mfg process they rehydrate plaster of paris?) Sorry, but I don't know if the extra hydration cycle will affect the flavor profile when used to brew "True Beer." Perhaps you could run a True ExBeeriment and post your results. The curious want to know.

Brew on :mug:

This is pretty common knowledge in True Beer (tm) circles.

Drywall is essentially Dry Wall Extract (DWE). So, if you're too lazy to properly mash an actual wall, you can just substitute in the DWE. Just like DME there are some residual caramel flavors that you can't avoid, and a distinctive twangy flavor, but some claim that it enhances certain styles.

Personally I switched to all-wall using mash-in-a-house technique for my True Beer (tm) and I couldn't be happier. It's simple to spray the strike water wherever I happen to be brewing, and then I can collect the wort as it lauters into the basement.
 
If using DWE should it go in at the start of the boil or towards the end?

Use half of the DWE as soon as you remove the steeping grains, roots, and shrubs. Then add the second half directly to the bottling bucket. This helps enhance the aroma in the finished product.
 
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