Pairing Help
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Posted: by mjn5036 (19 hours ago)
Archive for July, 2010
Warm Yeast
Monday, July 19th, 2010Do any of you have a strong opinion on using warm (80-85F) liquid yeast that has been sitting on a FedEx truck for three days? I was expecting the package on Friday (1.5 days out from retailer with cold packs), but the truck was involved in a car wreck and didn’t make it to the house. As such, four packets of Wyeast sat around warming up over the weekend and ended up on my porch earlier this afternoon.
The kicker on all of this is that the yeast is for several batches I am brewing for a buddies wedding. I’m fairly confident that the packets will still make beer (and will certainly know for sure when I start making starters), but I am concerned about mutation and overall health of the yeast given the environmental conditions the buggers went through.
Should I just eat the $25 and order some more to insure that the beer turns our perfect?
BeerCooks: You got my goat and lamb edition.
Monday, July 19th, 2010Posted: by earthboundagain (2 hours ago)
Emerald Coast Beer Festival 2010
Monday, July 19th, 2010anybody coming back this year? I think we all have such a great time, it’s hard to not enjoy it.
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Excessive Trub in Kettle
Monday, July 19th, 2010I have been noticing an excessive amount of trub in my AG batches lately. Yesterday I brewed a Pliny the Elder clone and I thought everything was going great… until I chilled and was ready to transfer to fermenter. Let me begin with the general recipe for a 5 gallon batch:
13 lbs. Pale 2-row
1.0 lb. Dextrose (corn sugar)
.75 lb. Crystal 40L
.75 lb. Cara-Pils/Dextrine
Mashed @152F for 60 min
Boiled for 90 min. Hop schedule was complicated and I don’t have it in front of me but there were 90 min, 45 min, 30 min, and 0 min hop additions with more hops added to secondary for dry-hopping.
I started my boil with about 7.25 gallons and finished around 5 gallons. I figured I was right on target until I chilled and saw the huge amount of trub in my kettle. I lost roughly 2 gallons of wort to the trub. I tried my best to siphon the wort off the settled trub, then stirred it up into suspension and let it settle again to repeat the process. At most, it yielded 3.5 gal from the boil. I had to top it off drinking water to get to my 5 gallon mark.
So what I planned on being a 1.080 OG turned out to be 1.050. I ended up adding additional Corn Sugar to the wort to bring up the gravity a bit but I am way off my mark at this point. On a side note, I added the corn sugar at the beginning of the boil. Should I have waited to add it at the end?
I am sure I can do a better job lautering but is that the only reason I have so much trub?
Corney Keg Heat Exchanger - Adding a bulkhead
Sunday, July 18th, 2010Hi All,
I am trying to convert an old corney key in to a heat exchanger like Tony Verhulst did here. My problem is that I can’t get a keggle bulkhead to seal no mater what I try. I have formed a washer to fit the profile of the keg and still no luck. I feel the issue may be that since the wall of the corney is so thin, the washer can’t get the o-ring to make a good seal. At this point I am willing to use straight silicone to seal in the bulkhead but am worried that the silicone caulk won’t seal with the silicone o-ring. Any thoughts? Unfortunately this has been holding up my brewing and I am running out of beer. Any ideas are appreciated.
Cheers,
Chibrew
Beer Bread from scratch
Sunday, July 18th, 2010Posted: by noslenwerd (23 hours ago)
thermometer to use with thermowell
Sunday, July 18th, 2010I’m thinking of putting a thermowell in my pony keg fermenter.
It’s just to see the temp, not to act as a controller. I have my pony keg in a bucket that I add blue ice packs to.
Do you think this would be ok? It’s for a fish tank.
I have a probe from an indoor/outdoor thermo on the side of the keg now but I don’t think it’s giving me accurate temps. This morning I woke up and the thermo said it was hotter in the keg than in the room (it said it was 75º in the keg when it was 72º in the room.)
I ran down to the gas station and picked up a couple of bags of ice and poured them around the keg and the thermo went to about 59º in a matter of a minute or two. I know there is no way the wort changed temp that fast so obviously the thermo is not giving me the temp of the beer but of the air around the keg.
Stir plate issue
Sunday, July 18th, 2010OK, so I’m making sure the stir plate is working by doing a dry run……… filled up the 2000ML flask with water and tossed a stir bar in. Made sure the stir bar was lined up with the magnets and turned on the stir plate. I had the fan spinning on the lowest setting…… the stir bar was spinning just fine and then it threw the bar. Everytime I tried to get it to go, it would spin for a couple seconds and then throw the bar. Any ideas as to what would cause this?
It’s a homemade stir plate. I used a “project box” from radio shack……. a computer fan………… two rare earth magnets attached to the top of the fan assembly (each magnet is about a quarter inch in diameter). It has worked before many times and now all of a sudden it’s throwing the bar. I don’t get it.
Please help.
Darin
Were can i find more info on raw wheat
Sunday, July 18th, 2010I am trying to find what the extract potential of raw wheat. I didn’t buy it so I don’t have any source for information. I am just trying to figure out ball park figures. It is red raw wheat. The beers I’ve used it in have turned out well but the efficiencies I’m getting are inconsistent with the rest of the beers I make. I use beersmith to formulate my recipes and it’s just on a default of 1.035 SG.
Thanks
Young’s double chocolate stout and a scoop of vanilla
Saturday, July 17th, 2010Posted: by bssendelbach (10 hours ago)
Funky smelling secondary fermentation
Friday, July 16th, 2010Hi all,
I made a Porter. I let the beer ferment for 7 days in the primary, and 7 days in the secondary. My gravity is right and has been consistent. The only issue I am having is that my beer has a funky smell. This smell clearly came around after secondary fermentation in a 5 gallon better bottle. The brew smelled and tasted like it was coming along great when I transferred it to the secondary.
What should I do? Should I just wait it out another week or two and see if the smell dissipates? Is there something I should be adding? Thanks for any help.
What beer is in this brat?
Friday, July 16th, 2010Posted: by wchesak (15 hours ago)
Brew School Highlights Reel
Thursday, July 15th, 2010I’ve been editing a ton of video from brew school, putting together this longer video made of a bunch of chapters… but in the process I put together this highlights reel the other day…
cornies
Thursday, July 15th, 2010I have a old resterant a few miles from my farm that has been close for 20+ years. just resently it was purchassed and will be torn down for a new business. I stopped by and asked the owners if anything way left inside. They said everything and its all for sale. I bought a stainless counter for 10.00, a 3 bowl stainless sink for 25.00, a small pump for 20.00 and all the soda stuff for 20.00
This included 10- cornies, about 20 metal corny connectors with threaded end, all the hoses and 2 regulators
New England Summer Beer Dinner
Thursday, July 15th, 2010Posted: by BrewedAwakening (18 hours ago)
Food and Beer Pairing Help
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010Posted: by Bmoyer0301 (2 hours ago)
Promash/attenuation question
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010What are ADF and RDF and what do they tell me? If a given yeast is expected to attenuate 75% then which of these numbers will give me a more accurate prediction?
Need a Sauce for Tonight
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Posted: by GregoryVII (21 hours ago)
BeerCooks: Pass the Pasta Edition
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Posted: by earthboundagain (3 hours ago)
Blue Crab recipe
Monday, July 12th, 2010Posted: by Pabs311 (21 hours ago)
Wortwizard
Monday, July 12th, 2010Just got a counteflow wort chiller and was wondering if there is anybody out there that has a wort wizard that they have no use for anymore.
Kev
Sierra Nevada BEER CAMP entry
Monday, July 12th, 2010Here is my SN Beer Camp entry. Wish me luck and enjoy the video!
Beer and Ice Cream
Monday, July 12th, 2010Posted: by MBPChead (15 hours ago)
Fly Sparging
Sunday, July 11th, 2010I have been batch sparging over the last year for my AG batches and I’ve alwayse been curious about the procedures for a fly sparge.
What are the procedures for a fly sparge?
with respect to the equipment, I’ve got a 5 gallon rubbermaid cooler that i could use to as a hot water tank for the sparge water and I mash in a 10 gallon SS braid.
Would I be heating the sparge water to the suggested temp then monitor the flow?
Minnesota beer
Sunday, July 11th, 2010you guys up here are spoiled with micro brews! Been up here for over a week doing some adjusting work for the hail storm. Tried some summit beers, surly furious, great lakes IPA, a schwartzbier but forgot the company. couple others I forgot. any other suggestions on good micro brews to try? I’m staying in plymouth but working all over Minn/St. Paul.
thanks
basic beer recipe
Sunday, July 11th, 2010I have brewed from kits and would like to simulate that with my own ingredients - i.e. water, grain, yeast, priming sugar, and hops. What else do I need? Thanks. I have the equipment needed.
Saphir hops
Sunday, July 11th, 2010LHBS carries them, seem pretty cool: citrusy, tangerine scented hallertau. Was wondering if any has any experience with them.
Cooking with Beer. Let’s hear your ideas chefs.
Saturday, July 10th, 2010Posted: by JohnWaynes44 (16 hours ago)
Bratwurst marinade
Saturday, July 10th, 2010Posted: by jkirker (17 hours ago)
