Beer on the grill
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007Posted: by redneckchugger (19 hours ago)
Archive for October, 2007
little rusty
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007good evening fellow homebrewers. its been almost 2 years since i have brewed a batch of beer .(i know) but since the birth of my son free time is not what it used to be. any how i am getting ready to brew my first batch in my new purchased home and have a couple of simple questions. i have been doing extract for some years now, but my wife got me a mashing kits for christmas some time ago. i have only done to mashes what some success. i want to do a partial mash but forget the ratio of how much water to grains i need.. and how much sparge water will be needed depending upon grain amounts . i brew 5 gallon batches.. hopefully i am not asking stupid questions like i said its been a while …
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thanks
paintballgun
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I have heard of people shooting co2 into their secondary or bottling bucket (to purge o2.) Well, I don’t want to spend the money on a co2 setup at the moment. So can I shoot co2 from my paintball gun into my secondary prior to racking? Thanks guys.
Beer Advocate Presents ?Night of the Funk?
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007That’s right folks, if you’re in or around the Boston area this weekend, expect to get funky.
Beer Advocate is throwing its “Night of the Funk” Belgian Beer fest on Friday October 26th, with even more beers expected on Saturday.
Over 40 beers on Friday and more than 100 on Saturday, expect this event to be […]
Spending $Money$ on Hype. Top Over-Rated homebrew items
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007My experience so far
1. O2 Setup - Just bought an O2 system for my setup and used for the first time on Sat. Kept checking the airlock with baited breath on the hour. First noticible activity at about 3.5 hrs using S-04 on a 1.050/75df wort. This is the same amount of time it takes with a degasser attached to a drill, but, a much bigger pain taking care of the diffusion stone.
2. Liquid Yeast - Incoming!!!!!!!!!!! So far, I have not made a single bad beer 6-7 batches with S-04 & S-05. Now to address the variety argument. I never had a problem with WL American Ale blend or German Lager, however, I made beers with Hefe Yeast, Kolsch Yeast, and Oktoberfest Yeast that all turned out poor. (I have controlled temperatures and made 2L starters for all).
Post your thoughts so I quit wasting more of my hard earned $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Cooking mood
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007Posted: by Taelec (3 hours ago)
Electric help needed
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I have a motor See specs below:
That I want to use do drive my Crankenstein but what to I need to go from ac to the 115VDC?
115 Volts DC
155.5 RPM
1.5 Amps
Edit: Replaced Link with pic and specs
Can you tell if your beer is contaminated and what do you look for
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I transferred my brew last night to the secondary. this morning I check in on it, and it had maybe 5 small areas on the surface that look like foam about the size of a pencil eraser. Is this a sign that I may be drinking skunk brew?
Black Kenmore 8.8 cu. ft. Chest Freezer
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007how do you like it? how many kegs can you get into it? do you need a coller for it?
thanks everyone.
Urgent Beer Physics Question
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I have 11.25 olbs of grain and 3 galons of water at 123 degrees.
I need to step it up to 148 degrees.
If I remove 1 gallon of the wert and heat it. How hot does it need to be to bring the entire mash up to 148.
I think 165 based on pro mash.
Beer and Ice Cream - other than stouts and porters?
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007Posted: by k3n (13 hours ago)
Bud/Miller/Coors - Which one would you pick?
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007If you were stuck somewhere with no home brew, no micro brews, and you HAD to pick one of the “big 3″ which one would it be and why?
I’ll go first.
I’d actually have to go with Budweiser. Miller is too watered down and Coors is just a very average beer. Budweiser isn’t much better, but I have an easier time drinking it.
Safale yeast
Monday, October 22nd, 2007After reading the instructions for rehydrating Safale S-04 on their website, I am left with several questions I was hoping somebody could answer. And what others experiences with Safale yeast have been. Instructions for rehydrating can be found here: www.fermentis.com My first question is this:
#1 How much water should you use to rehydrate the yeast?
#2 Do they really expect you to sit thier and stir your yeast for a half hour while all sorts of vile organisms drift into your slurry via the air?
#3 If you rehydrate your yeast using the water method do you still have to aerate your wort? Contrary to popular belief oxygen is only needed to begin building cell walls, and excess oxygen just leads to excess reproduction which may give beer a yeasty bite. Also dry yeast doesnt need as much o2 as liquid yeast as stated on beertools.com in the roving brewer episodes.
I am all prepared to brew my next beer but just waiting to see what the best method is for rehydrating dry yeast before I begin. Any of your comments on this would be greatly appreciated.
Father Jack Please Pass the Chocolate
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Show 132 was a wonderful night. We recorded a show with Goose Island Brewery then headed upstairs for a Goose Island beer tasting and food pairing. Our musical guests were the members of “A Caesar Holiday” from Indianapolis. Mikey Mason read a Cosmopolitan magazine in the waiting room earlier in the day […]
Thought I would share
Monday, October 22nd, 2007So, my daughter is learning science in the 4th grade and we were working on homework. Her lesson was on density and she was having some trouble understanding it. So, I pulled out my hydrometer and showed her that tap water reads a gravity of 1. I then added sugar to it and it read 1.050. Its amazing that my hobby helped explain gravity to a 4th grader. Brewing does have its perks!
Jerred
Name change
Monday, October 22nd, 2007All,
I have changed my name to BrewBasser from MolBasser.
My old name reflected the fact that I was a molecular biologist that fished for bass. That has not really changed, yet it has.
I am still a molecular biologist, yet now I am a proffessional brewer, thus the new moniker BrewBasser. The brewer that fishes for bass.
Just to let you know.
BrewBasser
?Hollywood? Warner Featured on Fox News
Monday, October 22nd, 2007The Good News: Flying Dog Brewery was featured on Fox News.
The Bad News: The story is about the rising cost of beer.
Click here to see the story and then click on Drink Up: Beer prices are on the rise.
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GREAT AMERICAN BEER FESTIVAL PICTURES AVAILABLE
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Our photo collection from the 2007 Great American Beer Festival is now available. Check out all the festivities by clicking on the image below and due yourself a favor next year and come join the celebration. The only regret you’ll have is how you treated your liver.
Technorati Tags: Flying Dog, beer, GABF, […]
Cultivating New Yeast Strains
Monday, October 22nd, 2007I’ve searched high and low: This board, google, amazon, etc.. and I have yet to find a relatively concise answer to my question.
Let’s start with what I know…
I’m an engineer with a college degree and I’ve taken a couple different biology classes back in college. That is, I can understand multiple syllable words and complex ideas. I know a brewer can draw yeast from previous brews and cultivate that yeast. I understand Mendel’s law from biology, gardening, etc.. That is, I understand how genes from parents propagate to form genomes that are expressed as phenomes, etc.. I know how using careful selection and hybridization I can cultivate a crop of plants that have certain desirable characteristics.
What I can’t figure out is how to apply these ideas to a colony of billions of single celled asexually propagating critters called yeast.
I would really love it if someone could provide or point me to a good, clear, relatively concise explanation of how a brewer goes about selecting the traits he desires in a yeast and cultivates a colony with those traits, eventually resulting in a strain unique enough and consistent enough to be worthy of recognition as a new and unique strain of yeast.
Like I mentioned, I did look so if I naively overlooked some simple resource please forgive me and point me in the right direction.
Thanks!
Chris
Massive Blowoff On My Honey Weizen
Monday, October 22nd, 2007It was coming out of the tube within 3 1/2 hours.
First time I ever bothered with the hose, but I remembered reading wheat’s were pretty active. Its also a good thing I left the gallon pitcher in the sink as that has been overflowing since last night too.
Any Beer (ingredient) Kit Reviews?
Monday, October 22nd, 2007I like the ease of the premeasured kits. Has anyone done any reviews of the various offerings? I know I’m going completely against the AG people. Maybe in the future I’ll do AG but I’d like to rip through a bunch of the extract kits first until I feel like I’ve really got this version of the brewing process down.
So I guess if anyone has any kits that they’ve found to be good (or even better, consistently good) I’d like to hear about them. I think for now I’d like to stick with LME with specialty grains and some form of dry yeast (first two batches have used nottingham which seemed to ferment fairly easily and no huge rush to brew right away).
What kits do you guys like that generally fit the above description? Thanks! 
GABF Rap Up
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Homebrew Bottle Design
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Hey all. I just wanted to post a picture of a bottle design that my brother came up with for my latest homebrew entitled: “Autumn Ale.” Enjoy.
New To Me Starter Brewing Sculpture
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Just scored on this a few minutes ago, have to pick it up in a week or so.
It’s a little over 1 year old & includes everything you see plus 3 books, 4 glass carboys, one of those blue styrofoam Fermenterators with temp control, couple cases of bottles, large auto syphon, immersion chiller, capper, lots of little items.
Making dinner for a new convert
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Posted: by Taelec (21 hours ago)
It Still Wants To Be Beer - Right?
Sunday, October 21st, 2007I brewed an all grain APA today and introduced a newbie to the gentle arts of all grain brewing. We discussed Mashing and I hit my numbers. We discussed sparging, and I hit my numbers again. Gravity and temperature were all right in line with expectations. The boil went well, nothing close to a boil-over and the smell of boiling wort and hops was the sensory experience that hooks newcomers to the hobby.
One small problem with my rig is that I don’t have an effective means to cool the wort quickly. In the past, I made due with a smaller 7.5 gallon pot from a turkey fryer. This, with a lid went into my Ice Cube I chilled in a swamp-bucket. Slow, but effective. I wanted to use my 10 gallon pot this time, and it doesn’t fit in the Ice Cube.
My plan was to heat my 6 gallon glass carboy in the Ice Cube with Hot and boiling water so as to gently raise it’s temperature so as not to fracture the glass. This worked and we gently as possible trasferred the hot wort without issue into the carboy. Then began the chilling, and the start of my problems.
I did the swamp bucket thing again, this time with the carboy in the Cooler. Hose water flowed in and around the carboy of hot wort cooling it slowly. I didn’t want to wait around all day, so I had thoughtfully bought 40 pounds of ice. I thought the glass would hold. I really did, but in when the glass fractured in a long spiderweb.
Had I been alone, I would have called it a day. But I wanted to see what I could do to salvage this beer. I tried siphoning, but I couldn’t (for the first time in my brewing history) get a siphon going. I tried other methods - nothing worked so I turned to Alcohol. Specifically a mouthfull of Vodka usually reserved for topping off air locks. I gargled and siphoned by mouth into a spare carboy that was hurriedly sanitized with Star San.
I transferred 5 gallons and pitched the yeast, Safale 05 properly rehydrated, at temp. I keep telling myself that the risk of contamination from the ice-water bath is minimal since the wort has a higher specific gravity and was pushing out on the carboy. Things were leaking OUT not into the carboy. (Right?) But I’ve *NEVER* siphoned by mouth before. I hope the vodka did it’s job. My mouth still feels numb.
4 hours later, I’m starting to see airlock activity… so maybe….. Maybe the yeast will win the race and out compete any lactobacillus or other nasties that live in my mouth.
Next on my shopping list, is an Immersion Chiller. This is not happening again.
It Still Wants To Be Beer - Right?
Sunday, October 21st, 2007I brewed an all grain APA today and introduced a newbie to the gentle arts of all grain brewing. We discussed Mashing and I hit my numbers. We discussed sparging, and I hit my numbers again. Gravity and temperature were all right in line with expectations. The boil went well, nothing close to a boil-over and the smell of boiling wort and hops was the sensory experience that hooks newcomers to the hobby.
One small problem with my rig is that I don’t have an effective means to cool the wort quickly. In the past, I made due with a smaller 7.5 gallon pot from a turkey fryer. This, with a lid went into my Ice Cube I chilled in a swamp-bucket. Slow, but effective. I wanted to use my 10 gallon pot this time, and it doesn’t fit in the Ice Cube.
My plan was to heat my 6 gallon glass carboy in the Ice Cube with Hot and boiling water so as to gently raise it’s temperature so as not to fracture the glass. This worked and we gently as possible trasferred the hot wort without issue into the carboy. Then began the chilling, and the start of my problems.
I did the swamp bucket thing again, this time with the carboy in the Cooler. Hose water flowed in and around the carboy of hot wort cooling it slowly. I didn’t want to wait around all day, so I had thoughtfully bought 40 pounds of ice. I thought the glass would hold. I really did, but in when the glass fractured in a long spiderweb.
Had I been alone, I would have called it a day. But I wanted to see what I could do to salvage this beer. I tried siphoning, but I couldn’t (for the first time in my brewing history) get a siphon going. I tried other methods - nothing worked so I turned to Alcohol. Specifically a mouthfull of Vodka usually reserved for topping off air locks. I gargled and siphoned by mouth into a spare carboy that was hurriedly sanitized with Star San.
I transferred 5 gallons and pitched the yeast, Safale 05 properly rehydrated, at temp. I keep telling myself that the risk of contamination from the ice-water bath is minimal since the wort has a higher specific gravity and was pushing out on the carboy. Things were leaking OUT not into the carboy. (Right?) But I’ve *NEVER* siphoned by mouth before. I hope the vodka did it’s job. My mouth still feels numb.
4 hours later, I’m starting to see airlock activity… so maybe….. Maybe the yeast will win the race and out compete any lactobacillus or other nasties that live in my mouth.
Next on my shopping list, is an Immersion Chiller. This is not happening again.
KC Brewboarders - December Get Together
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Since we last met in mid October, and with Thanksgiving coming up, we should probably have our next get together in December. Please vote for a date, and you can vote for more than one date. SWMBO and I will be hosting. If you want to participate in the gift exchange, bring a brewing/beer related gift up to around $20 in value. We’ll do a white elephant style exchange, but no gag gifts. Participation in the gift exchange is optional, you don’t need to bring a gift if you want to show up and drink beer.
please help me electronic guys…
Sunday, October 21st, 2007I have this motor:
http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/item…OR_(USED)_.html
and will be gearing it down to 23 RPMs. I am looking for a rheostat to slow it down even more if I need to. can you give me a link to a rheostat of the right “size”?
I am making a motorized mash mixer….
Went Crazy Yesterday
Sunday, October 21st, 2007I was in a beer frenzy yesterday
I kegged 5 gallons of bitter
Bottled 5 gallons of bitter
Bottles 2.5 gallons of a pale ale
Brewed 11 gallons of Oatmeal Stout
Drank I don’t know how many Homebrews
Man…………. life is good 
Now off to the Redsking game
