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re: Homebrewing: In-Process Thread
Posted on 4/28/14 at 10:33 am to LoneStarTiger
Posted on 4/28/14 at 10:33 am to LoneStarTiger
What PSI are you serving at??
I will pressurize my kegs at 15+ PSI, but before I serve or bottle the beer I detach the gas in connector, dial the regulator back to around 5 PSI, bleed the pressure from the keg, and reattach the gas connector.
There is no science behind that, I just find it's what works on my system.
Oh and when you decide to bottle from the keg; the colder your bottles are, the less carbonation you will lose during the bottling process.
I will pressurize my kegs at 15+ PSI, but before I serve or bottle the beer I detach the gas in connector, dial the regulator back to around 5 PSI, bleed the pressure from the keg, and reattach the gas connector.
There is no science behind that, I just find it's what works on my system.
Oh and when you decide to bottle from the keg; the colder your bottles are, the less carbonation you will lose during the bottling process.
This post was edited on 4/28/14 at 10:35 am
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Posted on 4/28/14 at 11:05 am to LSUGrad00
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What PSI are you serving at??
9-10
and I do the same as far as dialing it up to carbonate then down to serve after bleeding off the pressure.
It was serving fine until I connected the second keg. Not a major thing, but not something I want to deal with if I can get it fixed.
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Oh and when you decide to bottle from the keg; the colder your bottles are, the less carbonation you will lose during the bottling process.
thanks, B told me the same thing just a little while ago
Posted on 4/28/14 at 11:16 am to LoneStarTiger
My stout I brewed on Saturday ended up being even stronger OG than I expected. It was a bit of a rush job, but I was happy with my brewday.
Got an OG of like 1.075.
Will likely be my highest ABV beer yet. I don't do many beers over 6.5-7% and this one should get close to 8%
Got an OG of like 1.075.
Will likely be my highest ABV beer yet. I don't do many beers over 6.5-7% and this one should get close to 8%
This post was edited on 4/28/14 at 11:16 am
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:43 pm to SouthOfSouth
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My stout I brewed on Saturday ended up being even stronger OG than I expected. It was a bit of a rush job, but I was happy with my brewday.
Higher OG is always a welcome surprise.
My sour mash gose never got sour and had some NASTY vomit/cheese/shitty diaper aromas coming off of it... If it would have soured I might have kept it and tossed some brett in there, but I tossed that nasty stuff down the storm drain yesterday...
I started another sour mash this morning. I've given up on commercial lacto cultures for now. I'm going to try pitching a handful of grain in and see how that rolls.
"If you want to be good, you're going to have to dump some beer" - Peter Bouckaert
Posted on 4/28/14 at 1:53 pm to LSUGrad00
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"If you want to be good, you're going to have to dump some beer" - Peter Bouckaert
or have alcoholic friends that don't give a shite as long as it's free.
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Oh and when you decide to bottle from the keg; the colder your bottles are, the less carbonation you will lose during the bottling process.
TIL
I need to find an evening this week to brew. I've slacked off recently. I need to get my second beer for WYES going.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 2:02 pm to BottomlandBrew
If you aren't messing some things up in homebrew I feel like you aren't experimenting enough. Part of the fun is trying new things but that means things can go wrong.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 2:09 pm to SouthOfSouth
I've had some dumpers. I've had others that I was going to dump, but my friends drank it first.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 2:14 pm to BottomlandBrew
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I need to get my second beer for WYES going.
You guys get everything straight with the vendor permit?
Posted on 4/28/14 at 2:18 pm to LSUGrad00
Yeah. Had to go ahead and pay the $50, but whatever. It was going to be a bigger hassle to do what they wanted us to do for exemption, and stuff was due to Sharon today, so we opted to pay. Comes out to $5/person, so no big deal. I'd rather pay $5 than deal with the employees down at City Hall again.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 2:38 pm to BottomlandBrew
My group is apparently in a huge hang over from Zapp's. I go out of the country for the week and no one signs up for WYES while I am gone. So my list did not get turned into Sharon today. I told her we were coming but didn't send in any forms. Guess I should turn in the sign up sheet. May not be worth bringing the canoe down though. 
Posted on 4/28/14 at 2:46 pm to Fratastic423
We turned in our list, but it was like herding cats trying to get commitments and beer details this far ahead of time...
Posted on 4/28/14 at 2:55 pm to LSUGrad00
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it was like herding cats
I actually told Sharon in my email that getting commitments was like herding cats. We have 9 beers so far. I think we might have a few more, but it was hard to pull it all together this early. Posted on 4/28/14 at 2:56 pm to BottomlandBrew
Every year we have participated in WYES I have turned in the list late. I am thinking about seeing if we can just not turn a list in at all.
I am also getting the impression that the canoe will not make it down there.
I am also getting the impression that the canoe will not make it down there.
This post was edited on 4/28/14 at 2:59 pm
Posted on 4/28/14 at 6:07 pm to Fratastic423
I figured out why my hops weren't doing so great this spring. The roots had clogged up all the holes at the bottom of the planter and the water wasn't draining correctly. Some well placed drill holes and rocks solved that problem. Hopefully I caught it before everything completely rotted. All the water coming out was very anaerobic smelling.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 8:25 pm to BottomlandBrew
Damn. Yeah. Hopefully you caught it. Apparently their roots can be pretty intense.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 9:14 am to s14suspense
Ran across this 2012 brettanomyces presentation from Chad Yakobson of Crooked Stave today on YouTube. Pretty old, but lots of great info.
It's all the info of his brewing network interview without having to deal with the drunken BS.
Chad Yakobson - Part 1
Chad Yakobson - Part 2
Chad Yakobson - Part 3
It's all the info of his brewing network interview without having to deal with the drunken BS.
Chad Yakobson - Part 1
Chad Yakobson - Part 2
Chad Yakobson - Part 3
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:14 am to LSUGrad00
Anyone have any plans or ideas on building a 3-tier brewing system?
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:17 am to LSURoss
how big are you thinking?
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:21 am to SouthOfSouth
I'm just doing 5-gal batches and would like something that will work without needing a step stool or ladder to get up to the HLT
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:29 am to LSURoss
Do you mean something like this? I have added hot water to another igloo and added like this.
Then I got another bigger brew kettle that I added a spigot to so I can technically add a sparge arm. I do batch sparges so I don't worry about that though.
Here's it after I added the spigot (later added temp gauge also). Plus my 12 gal fermentor.
Then I got another bigger brew kettle that I added a spigot to so I can technically add a sparge arm. I do batch sparges so I don't worry about that though.
Here's it after I added the spigot (later added temp gauge also). Plus my 12 gal fermentor.
This post was edited on 4/29/14 at 11:52 am
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