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re: Homebrewing Thread: Volume II
Posted on 9/29/17 at 11:55 am to BugAC
Posted on 9/29/17 at 11:55 am to BugAC
When I did my raspberry sour I pureed the fruit, then strained it thru one of those metal strainers with small holes. I had to kind of smash it to get any "juice" to come thru. It had some small bits of sediment get thru but nothing major, and it stopped all the seeds from getting thru. I think I did 9 pints of raspberries on mine, but added the liquid straight to the carboy and a few days later transferred to a keg. I think your best option would be to puree them and strain them, if I had put the original "juice" thru the strainer again I'm pretty sure I could've added it straight to the keg.
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Posted on 9/29/17 at 3:45 pm to I_heart_beer
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When I did my raspberry sour I pureed the fruit, then strained it thru one of those metal strainers with small holes. I had to kind of smash it to get any "juice" to come thru. It had some small bits of sediment get thru but nothing major, and it stopped all the seeds from getting thru. I think I did 9 pints of raspberries on mine, but added the liquid straight to the carboy and a few days later transferred to a keg. I think your best option would be to puree them and strain them, if I had put the original "juice" thru the strainer again I'm pretty sure I could've added it straight to the keg.
I did this with figs. I took the frozen figs and put them in a pot with a little water and heated it up, then puree'd with the immersion blender. FWIW, figs are very very faint. I did about 1 lb/gallon, but due to space issues, was only able to get about 4 lbs worth of puree'. I'm trying to sour the batch right now, but it's already at 28 IBU's, so it may be difficult. If not, i plan to blend 1 gallon of a sour to the batch and see how it comes out.
Did i give you a bottle of my sour?
Posted on 9/29/17 at 3:53 pm to BugAC
Making Candy Syrup for an upcoming Belgian quad brew.
This post was edited on 9/29/17 at 4:11 pm
Posted on 9/30/17 at 11:28 am to BugAC
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Did i give you a bottle of my sour?
Yes, it was great. And I think you tried my raspberry sour too.
Posted on 10/1/17 at 1:21 pm to I_heart_beer
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Yes, it was great. And I think you tried my raspberry sour too.
I did. Very refreshing. Hoping to emulate framboos morte from wicked weed.
Posted on 10/2/17 at 4:07 pm to BugAC
Monday is Quad day.... Belgian quad day... Just gonna mash today and boil tomorrow.
Posted on 10/2/17 at 4:09 pm to Zappas Stache
Who's Judd?
Posted on 10/2/17 at 4:22 pm to t00f
Posted on 10/2/17 at 4:23 pm to Zappas Stache
LOL, your truck is your damn sig! 
Posted on 10/16/17 at 8:23 am to Zappas Stache
Did some sour beer Blending yesterday.
Back right is a fig saison blended with my first mixed ferm sour at a 4:1 ratio.
Front left is 3 gallons of a sour racked onto 8 lbs of puréed raspberries.
This sour alone tasted fantastic so I reserved the trub and a little beer and will build it back up in a starter.
And this is the base sour that the raspberries went on.
Back right is a fig saison blended with my first mixed ferm sour at a 4:1 ratio.
Front left is 3 gallons of a sour racked onto 8 lbs of puréed raspberries.
This sour alone tasted fantastic so I reserved the trub and a little beer and will build it back up in a starter.
And this is the base sour that the raspberries went on.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 2:58 pm to BugAC
Also just ordered 8 oz. spruce to go into my quick soured spruce gose (only 2.5 will go in this batch). Plan to brew that beer middle of next month.
I currently have 2 kegs to dump. 1 is an old NE style IPA, not much left in it. The other is my coffee stout. I let the coffee grinds steep too long (had a baby on the day i was supposed to pitch the coffee) and it became too acrid and bitter. I'll keep it in the keg until i need to the space, but it isn't up to my expectations. It's not terrible, but it ain't great either and i don't care to share a beer that i don't think is good.
I currently have 2 kegs to dump. 1 is an old NE style IPA, not much left in it. The other is my coffee stout. I let the coffee grinds steep too long (had a baby on the day i was supposed to pitch the coffee) and it became too acrid and bitter. I'll keep it in the keg until i need to the space, but it isn't up to my expectations. It's not terrible, but it ain't great either and i don't care to share a beer that i don't think is good.
This post was edited on 10/16/17 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:23 pm to BugAC
I sampled my imperial porter today and it has a brett infection. I’d been doing pretty well on keeping cross contamination infections out of my clean beers, but this one got me. So I threw the porter in a keg with some allagash coolship dregs. This beer just went from a Christmas 2017 beer to Christmas 2018 beer. C’est la vie, you know?
Posted on 10/22/17 at 12:03 pm to BottomlandBrew
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sampled my imperial porter today and it has a brett infection
That’s pretty awesome. I use to worry about cross contamination, but now, since I’ve got a nice little sour pipeline going, that’s just more beer to age and funkify.
Posted on 10/22/17 at 12:12 pm to BugAC
I usually have a pretty laid back attitude when it comes to cross contamination, but dammit, I wanted a boozy porter for this winter. There's still time to brew another one, though.
There's still time to brew another one, though. Posted on 10/22/17 at 12:19 pm to BottomlandBrew
So, this morning I’ve been watching beer shows. Watched the rest of the season of that show on viceland with the awkward host, and started watching beer tv.
Got me thinking, I’ve been using the same all gain equipment for about 5-6 years now. It’s served me well but I think I need to upgrade. Currently I’ve been working with a 9.5 gallon kettle and 2-10 gallon water cooler system. I’d like some advice on what I’d need for my upgrade.
Wanting to be able to brew 10 gallons if I wanted to, but majority of batches will be 5 gallon batches. I want to go away from gravity and use mostly pumps. I also want to use quick connects on all my hoses/fittings.
So here’s my list I was thinking of offhand that I might need to upgrade. I may still incorporate the 10 gallon sparge cooler from my old setup and that would be the only gravity fed operation.
- 15 gallon stainless mash kettle with temp gauge.
- 1 March pump
- 1 additional burner
- quick connect fittings and hoses
- 15 gallon brew kettle with sight glass and thermometer
- in line water filter
If your watching brewing tv, I want the setup that’s on the Brewing with wil Wheaton episode.
Got me thinking, I’ve been using the same all gain equipment for about 5-6 years now. It’s served me well but I think I need to upgrade. Currently I’ve been working with a 9.5 gallon kettle and 2-10 gallon water cooler system. I’d like some advice on what I’d need for my upgrade.
Wanting to be able to brew 10 gallons if I wanted to, but majority of batches will be 5 gallon batches. I want to go away from gravity and use mostly pumps. I also want to use quick connects on all my hoses/fittings.
So here’s my list I was thinking of offhand that I might need to upgrade. I may still incorporate the 10 gallon sparge cooler from my old setup and that would be the only gravity fed operation.
- 15 gallon stainless mash kettle with temp gauge.
- 1 March pump
- 1 additional burner
- quick connect fittings and hoses
- 15 gallon brew kettle with sight glass and thermometer
- in line water filter
If your watching brewing tv, I want the setup that’s on the Brewing with wil Wheaton episode.
This post was edited on 10/22/17 at 12:59 pm
Posted on 10/22/17 at 2:04 pm to BugAC
I have a 20 gallon SS mash tun, 15 gallon SS boil kettle and a 7 gallon and 10 gallon aluminum hot liquor tanks. I usually only use the 7 gallon but for a 10 gallon batch I use the 10 gallon. I have temp gauges and barbed valves on each kettle. I will say that for a batch less than 7 gallons, my temp gauge is useless as the liquid doesn't fill enough of the mash tun to reach where the gauge is mounted. But, using this 20 gallon pot has greatly improved my mash efficiency because the mash is so shallow and wide. I usually get 80% and up efficiency where I was getting 65-75% with the 10 gallon cooler. I don't have any sight gauges....what would be the purpose on a brew kettle?
Ive had this King Cooker Dual burner system for a few years now and it works great. It has a 105,000 btu jet burner and a 60,000 btu cast burner on the higher level where I put my mash tun. I used to put my hot liquor tank on a higher level using a work table I banged together w/ 2x4 legs and plywood top. But I recently found a metal frame someone threw away and it works perfect for my 3rd tier. The system sits underneath my 2nd story deck and out of the rain. I have a chugger pump I use to circulate through my chiller plant post boil. The only lifting I have to do is to carry my 7.5 gallon Brewbucket fermenter into the house to my ferm fridge.....I can carry it by myself but I try to get my neighbor to help me.
Ive had this King Cooker Dual burner system for a few years now and it works great. It has a 105,000 btu jet burner and a 60,000 btu cast burner on the higher level where I put my mash tun. I used to put my hot liquor tank on a higher level using a work table I banged together w/ 2x4 legs and plywood top. But I recently found a metal frame someone threw away and it works perfect for my 3rd tier. The system sits underneath my 2nd story deck and out of the rain. I have a chugger pump I use to circulate through my chiller plant post boil. The only lifting I have to do is to carry my 7.5 gallon Brewbucket fermenter into the house to my ferm fridge.....I can carry it by myself but I try to get my neighbor to help me.
This post was edited on 10/22/17 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 10/22/17 at 5:19 pm to BugAC
About once a year I get the urge to upgrade. I'll do a month of research and then scrap the plans due to laziness and money.
The past couple times I've looked to upgrade I've looked at all-in-one BIAB systems like the high gravity or Brew Boss. If I came across a spare $1000 tomorrow, I'd probably get one of these.
The past couple times I've looked to upgrade I've looked at all-in-one BIAB systems like the high gravity or Brew Boss. If I came across a spare $1000 tomorrow, I'd probably get one of these.
This post was edited on 10/22/17 at 5:25 pm
Posted on 10/23/17 at 10:22 am to BottomlandBrew
So here's some of the equipment i was looking at.
15 Gallon Mash Tun
Looked at the Blichmann ($494) vs. the Spike ($395) for the 15 gallon ported kettle with all appropriate fittings and false bottoms. Looks like Spike is the way to go.
In regards to pumps, are you able to adjust your flow? What am i looking for? I'll be using the pump for recirculating and for sparging.
15 Gallon Mash Tun
Looked at the Blichmann ($494) vs. the Spike ($395) for the 15 gallon ported kettle with all appropriate fittings and false bottoms. Looks like Spike is the way to go.
In regards to pumps, are you able to adjust your flow? What am i looking for? I'll be using the pump for recirculating and for sparging.
Posted on 10/23/17 at 12:27 pm to BugAC
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Looked at the Blichmann ($494) vs. the Spike ($395) for the 15 gallon ported kettle with all appropriate fittings and false bottoms. Looks like Spike is the way to go.
Converted rectangular cooler is hard to beat as far as large mash tuns goes.
Posted on 10/23/17 at 1:33 pm to BugAC
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Looks like Spike is the way to go.
I have a Spike kettle that they custom built for me last year. They were very helpful and the quality of the kettle is fantastic.
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In regards to pumps, are you able to adjust your flow?
Put a ball valve on the discharge of the pump. You can control wort flow with it. Since March pumps are magnetically driven, you can ramp down the flow without worrying about doing any damage to the pump. IMO, the only trick with March pumps is that they have to be primed, so you will need to take that into account.
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