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re: Homebrewing: In-Process Thread
Posted on 4/14/14 at 9:56 am to BottomlandBrew
Posted on 4/14/14 at 9:56 am to BottomlandBrew
Other tidbits from brewday:
I planned to make a 7 gallon batch so I can easily get 5 or 5.5 gallons into the fermenter without having to screen out the gunk in the kettle. Worked like a champ this time. I had plenty of wort to go in the fermenter, almost too much even. I didn't account for the starter volume (first time using a starter), so the fermenter is damn near full. Had quite a bit of krausen coming out of the blowout tube this morning. I started using a milk jug to put the blow off tubing in to control "splatter" during the first couple days of fermentation, and that is working well. Last time I used a small bucket, it got a little messy. No worries now though.
The starter worked out well. Not sure when the magic started but I know it got up to speed much faster. Don't see any reason not to use one from now on. Maybe one day I will get a flat bottomed flask and a stir plate, but really wasn't any trouble to swirl around the growler when I passed by.
I planned to make a 7 gallon batch so I can easily get 5 or 5.5 gallons into the fermenter without having to screen out the gunk in the kettle. Worked like a champ this time. I had plenty of wort to go in the fermenter, almost too much even. I didn't account for the starter volume (first time using a starter), so the fermenter is damn near full. Had quite a bit of krausen coming out of the blowout tube this morning. I started using a milk jug to put the blow off tubing in to control "splatter" during the first couple days of fermentation, and that is working well. Last time I used a small bucket, it got a little messy. No worries now though.
The starter worked out well. Not sure when the magic started but I know it got up to speed much faster. Don't see any reason not to use one from now on. Maybe one day I will get a flat bottomed flask and a stir plate, but really wasn't any trouble to swirl around the growler when I passed by.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:00 am to LoneStarTiger
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I didn't account for the starter volume (first time using a starter), so the fermenter is damn near full. Had quite a bit of krausen coming out of the blowout tube this morning.
You can cold crash the starter the day of brewing and pour off the liquid on top of the yeast cake.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:42 am to LoneStarTiger
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I planned to make a 7 gallon batch so I can easily get 5 or 5.5 gallons into the fermenter without having to screen out the gunk in the kettle.
I brew 7 gallon batches for the same reason...
Only 'issue' I've run into with this is sharing recipes with others isn't as easy as when I brewed 6G batches.
I've sent a couple BeerSmith recipe exports and gotten "WTF is wrong with your numbers??" responses bc they fail to look at the batch size.
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