Beer Feeds

This weekend I was able to bottle up 6 separate Mr. Beer recipes in just under 7 hours, including kitchen cleanup! I bottled up 2 gallons each of the following recipes:
Father's Day Cream Ale, Classic American Blonde Ale w/Pale Export, West Coast Pale Ale w/Pale Export, High Country Canadian Draft w/Pale Export, Cowboy Golden Lager w/Pale Export and last but not least one of my favorites Whispering Wheat Weizenbier w/Golden Wheat.

This time I also used my new Bottle Priming Calculator to determine the correct amounts of priming sugar to use for each different style of beer. I no longer followed the default priming sugar amount recommended by Mr. Beer's instructions. I targeted 2.5 volumes for the Pale Ales and 3.6 volumes for the Weizenbier.



Screwy Brewer

Posted: by UnDeadly (21 hours ago)

I made a starter Friday, planning on brewing yesterday or today (1 to 2 days later)
I'll not be able to brew until Tuesday.
Should I feed my starter some more wort before Tuesday?
Would another 1/2 cup or 2 oz. be enough? (mixed into boiled & cooled water of course)
Should I pour 1/2 of the current starter out to make room for the addition of 2 more cups of wort?

thank you for any answers

I already have a CPVC manifold for my 72qt Coleman Xtreme 5 day cooler.(Roller Cooler)
I want to try a perforated stainless false bottom.
I asume no one makes these so I will probably have to fabricate this myself.
www.onlinemetals.com has small pieces of perforated stainless for sale which gives me a good place to start.
I am looking for tips from someone else who has already done this.
The bottom of this particular cooler is a little odd shaped due to the recessed wheel wells.

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Posted: by ocelot2500 (18 hours ago)

After force carbonating a keg to the desired (12 PSI @ 40F for a 2.47) level, I serve at 2-3 PSI, which means I purge off the 12 PSI, dispense, then I go back to the 12 PSI. I feel like I'm wasting a lot of gas, especially when the keg gets down to about 1/2 or lower.

How long will I maintain my desired carb level (at 40F) if I leave the pressure at 3PSI? Does anyone have a better method? Ideas, suggestions, recommendations?

Posted: by CenturyStanding (3 hours ago)

I have a beer that has been lagering for about 5 mo's now. In your opinion am I OK to bottle or should I re-yeast first?

Thanks

Gary

So a local business owner/friend likes my beer enough that he wants to build me a new sculpture. There are a few features I know I want to put in, and a lot of things I am not sure of.

He is doing this for me on his dime, so my aim is to be economical yet building a system that is going to be reliable after many brews. I was thinking that I would like to build an all electric system, or a system that can work with propane or methane. I also know I want to go with a pump driven system rather than gravity.

What other features have you found to be useful? Please feel free to share any thoughts you have.

Hey everyone,

im new to all-grain and i have a ph meter with auto-temp correction. now, am i looking for 5.1 - 5.3, or am i looking for 5.4 - 5.8 at corrected temp. according to john palmer the ph at mash temp is ~0.3 less than the mash ph at room temp. so would the meter be actually converting it automatically to room temp mash reading?

I kegged a beer on Saturday.
When I pour a glass, I get about 4-5 oz of beer then the line spurts gas (assume CO2), then some more beer, then another spurt of gas, etc...

This has happened from the first glass on Saturday to the last one last night.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

I have a 5 gallon corni keg, 25' of tubing (22' of which is coiled in the kegerator) and a perlick-type faucet.
The keg is at just below 20psi at around 45 deg F.

Thanks.

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Posted: by xicanopride (20 hours ago)

The Dayton Alefest is August 28th 2010, 2-6pm, I'll be at a table pouring somewhere in the madness.

http://www.alefest.com/

If anyone is going and wants to say hi please PM me for a phone number.

Ready to keg my first beer but need clarity on whether or not I put the priming sugar into the keg as I would into the bottling bucket? Any help for the new kegger

Posted: by IntriqKen (13 hours ago)

hi all,

I've been brewing a few AG batches now love the result but now I need to pinpoint my volumes. I set promash for batch size 21L ( sorry for metric ) but end up short of 5 liters or so on every batches but been hitting my target gravity. Instead of struggling with losses and putting more water (dilluting) in my brewing process should I simply make my batch size bigger and leave beer behind and avoid trub siphoning.

So how you guys set promash? any pointers?

thx

Jo

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Posted: by berpwillie (23 hours ago)

I have ben buying on line for years and finally hook up with a local homebrew shop.

Some of the pricing is bit pricing on hops and yeast vs on line.

My question is he has Weyerman pale malt for a full sack.

Never used it so how is it and what is a typical price for #55.

Hi brewers...

A neighbor in his incredible wisdom planted some hops spring 2009. (Golden Nugget).

The great news is that they are now ready for picking.

The question I have is, what is the best way to harvest them - - - should we pick them and immediately use them during a brew session, or
should they be picked and dried/crushed and stored in a cool, dark place? Or what?

How best to harvest & store is our big question.

Thanks to any who can help.

Posted: by Beertsipper (2 hours ago)

I found a recipe for a cream ale that calls for a pound of lactose. Do I add this to the boil and if so how long into the boil should I add it?

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Posted: by jmhart (23 hours ago)

I have been brew extract with specialty grains for sometime, and would like to switch to all-grain. Does anyone know of a simple "KIT" setup that doesn't cost a fortune?


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