the homebrew blogtrain

[khoomeizhi]

at risk of getting myself into trouble with my dear wife (since we're trying to buy a house/move this fall), i just scored a bunch more nice glass carboys for pretty cheap, increasing my brewing capacity by 41 gallons. what to do, what to do...

[Jor el]

Dude I work with just lost all his brew & equipment to the recent Royal Oak Basement Floodage.

[RAGER]

at risk of getting myself into trouble with my dear wife (since we're trying to buy a house/move this fall), i just scored a bunch more nice glass carboys for pretty cheap, increasing my brewing capacity by 41 gallons. what to do, what to do...

Eventually bottle and ship some neato stuff to me.  I will pay of course.

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Dude I work with just lost all his brew & equipment to the recent Royal Oak Basement Floodage.

shouldn't that be spelled Floooodage?

[MadJohnShaft]

The mead is going on six months. I'm tempted to transfer it to a clean carboy and give it a few more months. Can't decide.

I have a bit left of #4 and #5 so I need to brew #6 this weekend.

[Beta Cloud]

The mead is going on six months. I'm tempted to transfer it to a clean carboy and give it a few more months. Can't decide.

I have a bit left of #4 and #5 so I need to brew #6 this weekend.

i think you know the answer wise one... patience.

[MadJohnShaft]

Yeah. I got a subscription to monthly growlers from the local micro brewery. $80 for 6.

Brewing this weekend and it's freaking cold outside - so even better. The grains have been sitting in the basement for a while. I just finished off #4 into one perfect pint glass.

I boiled 3.5 gallons of water for a half hour and then put it outside on the porch until I need it. I think you need to drive off the chlorine.

[NCR600]

So, this is what 've been building instead of posting shit here, in case anyone is wondering (which is probably no-one)



And here's my new fermenter & fridge rig.



Pretty swish huh?

The brewery is still manually controlled, I haven't bothered to do any farmer/scientist shit with arduino, but it's capable of doing stepped mashes and with 3 pumps and a heat exchanger & plate chiller, there is no fucking around with buckets & jugs or whirlpooling with a damned spoon

[MadJohnShaft]

Where and why are you doing this?  

Getting my first growler tomorrow.


Look at the gear these guys Kickstarted - I'm insanely jealous.

[RAGER]

That's a pretty sweet rig there NCR

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[khoomeizhi]

way swish. fuck yeah.

[khoomeizhi]

and for the record, NCR, i was wondering, when i started this thread 19 months ago. been competing still too?

[NCR600]

Yeah, still competing, and been getting some good results too, but still haven't cracked an invite to he nationals!
I've got a vague plan to have a range of recipes that need no further tweaking so in around 18 months time I can start a microbrewery so I have something to do when I get retrenched from my current job!

[MadJohnShaft]

You can Kickstarter a Community Supported Brewery.

[NCR600]

You can Kickstarter a Community Supported Brewery.

Well, it's probably a better idea than my current business plan.

[Volume]

Shit, that looks awesome NCR600. I'm still att the plastic buckets and spoon stage... the future holds less guitars and more brew equipment I guess. 

[NCR600]

Plastic buckets and spoons make perfectly good beer! You're probably better off spending on guitars!

[MadJohnShaft]

kegged up number 6

if Shaytan/Yob can do award winning all grain on his chinese stovetop (in China) then I can certainly puzzle this out here. next weekend.

[khoomeizhi]

bottled a ginger-apple-pear cyser last night. s'good.

[ThisHairyGuy]

Great thread!

Here's a double IPA that me and a buddy made. Could have been better. We still very much novices haha...

[khoomeizhi]

a lot of seasonal fruit going into mead these days. started a persimmon/ground cherry and a kousa (edible dogwood) in the last couple weeks. gearing up to rack a batch that i started as a traditional onto something...been putting a lot of stuff aside in the freezer. pawpaw? pawpaw with wild black cherry? something.

[ThisHairyGuy]

So, this is what 've been building instead of posting shit here, in case anyone is wondering (which is probably no-one)



And here's my new fermenter & fridge rig.



Pretty swish huh?

The brewery is still manually controlled, I haven't bothered to do any farmer/scientist shit with arduino, but it's capable of doing stepped mashes and with 3 pumps and a heat exchanger & plate chiller, there is no fucking around with buckets & jugs or whirlpooling with a damned spoon

This looks fucking sick! Well done man!

[MadJohnShaft]

I could go sample number six...

[NCR600]

This looks fucking sick! Well done man!

Cheers! Still learning how to drive it properly, but the beers I'm getting out of it now I tend to prefer to the commercial stuff. tasted the Stone 18th Anniversary IPA tonight and thought that I can do as good as that! On a good day anyway, and only in small batches. Currently sampling my latest Saison. Saisons normally need to be fermented at summertime temperatures, so I thought I'd ferment it at ambient and keep the fridge for a Black IPA I brewed on on the same day, bet we got a cool snap after weeks of hot days and it's not quite what I wanted. Still an nice keg filler and very drinkable. Won't be entering it in any comps though.

I could go sample number six...

Well hurry up and sample it then! I wanna hear what it's like!