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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: I'm an idiot

« on: October 28, 2012, 12:49:35 pm »

I've made the dry dock recipe several times and everytime it's great! I've used just one pound and when you pair that with the apricot flavoring the recipe calls for it makes a beautiful and tasty beer. The apricot in the hefeweizen might just had a little more haze and flavor


Cheers!

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Going Pro / Re: Some figures for opening a pub.

« on: September 30, 2012, 05:20:03 pm »

So some quick math, this is much more of a question to you.

1BBL=248 pints (pre spillage)

7BBL=1736 pints

1736 x $5.00 (assumed cost per pint and that's a large assumption on my part)/pint = $8680 grossed

How fast do you think you can sell a 7BBL batch, and how often do you think you need to brew?

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Beard beer?

« on: September 30, 2012, 04:57:41 pm »

As interesting as that is....it's more revolting. 

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Brew Day Results

« on: September 23, 2012, 06:29:33 pm »

I ran out of propane and had to finish my doppelbock on the stove.  Fortunately it was a small batch (3gal) but I still had to make an insulation wrap for the pot to get it to boil.  Beer seemed to come out fine, mat=ybe the longer boil helped.  Finished at around 1.090.

I've made that mistake numerous times! I always keep two propane tanks just for that reason.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Brew Day Results

« on: September 23, 2012, 01:41:12 pm »

Just curious how all your brew days went?!

I'm also needing to vent since my went horribly from a logistical stand point...starting with the LHBS clerk missing my separated milled grains into one bag "for my convenience" and ending with me realizing my wort chiller doesn't fit to my new apartments kitchen spout. The only things that did go right were nailing both beer's OGs.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: When can you call yourself a Homebrew Master?

« on: September 13, 2012, 06:12:18 am »

I have to wonder if the term "Homebrew Master" is something of an oxymoron? But in a great way!!

I kind of enjoy the rankless society that is the homebrew community, and even if you are an experience homebrewer or it's your first batch you can all get together to share ideas and a beer. I really hope this community doesn't go the way of homebrew hierarchy. 

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: I've lost that "new hobby" smell

« on: August 17, 2012, 08:28:41 pm »

I have to admit I also hit this "wall" not too long ago after I did 2 competitions, a wedding, a brew club mass brew, and a large backyard BBQ. Now that I've had a short break from the cleaning, sanitizing, recipe formulation, brewing, transferring, serving...and repeating I'm feeling much more inclined to do something fun versus what the masses wanted. Time to get back to the home brewer roots!

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 6/29 Edition

« on: June 27, 2012, 09:16:10 pm »

Transferring a raspberry honey wheat to the secondary to clear, maybe moving some wine one last time, and the volunteering for some friends who's house burned in Colorado Springs. I'm not sure what to get somebody who just lost their home and only have the clothes on their backs...but a beer is a good start.

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Second attempt at decoction...

« on: May 15, 2012, 05:08:59 pm »

Congrats! I'm still working on how to properly do a decoction...I can boil the heck out of the pull but always seem to be a few degrees short of the goal temp. It can be done though!!!

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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Help Please!!

« on: May 06, 2012, 01:36:49 pm »

I heard about this experiment from a buddy who had a bad regulator. He connected just the regulator and gas, turn the "out" on the regulator off so it was sealed, then put CO2 into it. The test was to see if the regulator would hold the CO2 put into the regulator. I'm just confused how the regulator would seem to hold the gas for several hours, even going up in PSI, and then overnight be completely empty.

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Kegging and Bottling / Help Please!!

« on: May 06, 2012, 12:56:33 pm »

I've had my keg setup for about a year and have moved away from it because I can't seem to find the leak anywhere! I think it may be in the regulator even though it's brand new out of the box. Last night I did a test, I hooked the regulator up to the CO2 tank, turned the valves so that the CO2 didn't escape, put in 25PSI of CO2 and turned the CO2. I checked a few hours later, the gauge still showed 25. I came back a few hours later and it then read 29PSI!! I came back this morning, 0PSI. Is my regulator bad?

Thanks for the assistance.

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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Too much water in priming solution

« on: May 06, 2012, 12:52:09 pm »

I've found success when using the sugar solution still hot. I find that it mixes better. I also prefer to use about 2 cups of hot solution so that it isn't as viscous and it tends to mix more thoroughly.

+1 to this!! I've had several batches were I used warm or cold water and found half my bottles were under carbonated and the other half bottle bombs.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 5/4 Edition

« on: May 05, 2012, 02:37:21 pm »

I debated what to brew all week and even this morning...I realized the kegs needed cleaning and beer transferred into the clean kegs so no brewing for me sadly.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Stirring the boil?

« on: April 23, 2012, 06:50:29 pm »

There are skimmers and non-skimmers.  It's a personal choice.  It will not hurt your beer to leave it in.  That being said...I skim the scum because it's easy, I don't like the looks of it and I don't want it in my beer. 

I was ok with the "white stuff" until it got labeled the scum...I may have just converted to a skimmer.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 4/20 Edition

« on: April 18, 2012, 07:08:14 pm »

Seems like everybody has a least one IPA this weekend 

I'll be kegging my IPA and English Bitter, then moving into probably the house blonde.