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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 12/28 Edition
« on: December 27, 2012, 01:28:12 PM »
Brewing up a Citra-heavy IPA tomorrow morning, and cleaning a couple recently emptied kegs.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Christmas Presents
« on: December 26, 2012, 11:18:47 AM »
Got the new Hops book and a microscope. Time to go super nerd.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 12/21 Edition
« on: December 19, 2012, 01:24:32 PM »
Currently heating strike water for a brew day with my BIL. Split batch of BPA and APA.
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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Dishwasher Sanitize vs. Jet Bottle Washer
« on: December 13, 2012, 12:33:36 PM »
First of all, welcome to the AHA and the forum. As far as your questions, can we assume the bottles are clean before your iodophor/dishwasher sanitizing regimen? If so, you really only need to do one or the other. Pick whichever is more convenient for you. The jet bottle washer will help you clean the bottles before sanitizing, so if that's what you're considering using it for, go for it. Just remember, you can't sanitize something unless it's clean first.
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Pimp My System / Re: Blatzhaus Electric Brauerei
« on: December 12, 2012, 07:28:47 AM »
Beautiful setup blatz. Thanks for sharing.
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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: Slowing Fermentation advice
« on: December 11, 2012, 08:11:14 AM »
Another vote for probably being done. With the lactose, a lower attenuating yeast, and a high OG, I'll bet you're as low as it will go.
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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Re: 1 step closer!
« on: December 11, 2012, 07:57:04 AM »Alright, looks like I am set for kegging. 4 kegs (+1 borrowed), CO2 tank, regulator, gas tube (need a couple more), Picnic Tap (need a couple more of these too). The temperature controller is on its way from MoreBeer (they had a deal last week for $10 off) and it looks like I just got my hands on a 18cf Chest freezer for $100 off craigslist. I told the lady I would pay her $50 for the drive down to my condo (she is about 25-30 miles away). I am so close I can taste it! looks like I might need a couple more kegs
A couple more kegs? Trust me on this one... You'll need a couple more DOZEN kegs.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 12/7 Edition
« on: December 06, 2012, 06:29:17 AM »
No brewing this weekend, but I finally emptied 3 kegs last weekend. So I can finally keg my stout and a couple saisons that have been done for a few weeks now.
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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: Ideal temp for WLP051
« on: December 05, 2012, 07:27:21 AM »
Assuming you have a healthy, appropriate-sized pitch, it works fine below 66F. I typically pitch this strain at 63-64F, hold it there for the first 24-48 hours, then slowly raise to the upper 60s. Any yeast strain is susceptible to dropping out if the temperature falls, so maybe that's how others don't have success with it?
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Going Pro / Re: getting 30 bbls on line
« on: December 01, 2012, 08:40:44 AM »
I believe I recall seeing pictures of your operation early on with homebrew conicals in upright freezers. You've definitely come a long way. Very nice upgrades.
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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: West Coast Ale dry yeast
« on: November 30, 2012, 08:12:42 AM »
You had signs of active fermentation within roughly a day. I'm willing to bet it turns out just fine. RDWHAHB
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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: Re: Double Boiling, Double Fermentation
« on: November 30, 2012, 07:56:29 AM »A few minutes of stirring should get any remaining sugars dissolved into the sparge water. If you're getting an efficiency boost by doing that extra 30 minute rest, you probably didn't have complete conversion in your initial mash rest.I find that collecting first runnings followed by putting in more water into the mash, mixing well, letting sit for another 30 or so minutes and collecting second runnings (mixing first and second, obviously) extracts way more out of the grain than fly sparging.
Let me understand. You mash in and mash out. Collect all of your first wort runnings and then you add water back to your mashed grains, let sit for another 30 minutes and then collect enough 2nd runnings to combine with first runnings for you boil. I assume the water you add is +/- 170 to 175ish and you would collect around 6.25 to 6.50 gallons for a 5 gallons batch.
Is this batch sparging?
Nope. Batch sparging would be adding the second water addition and running off immediately. I don't really see the point of letting the second water addition sit for 30 min.
The point is to let more sugars dissolve out of the grain into the water. May not seem like it would help, but it really does.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 11/30 Edition
« on: November 28, 2012, 03:17:27 PM »
Filling a bourbon barrel with my club. My share is 10 gallons of RIS.
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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: Starter with London 1968, looked curdled
« on: November 21, 2012, 06:20:46 PM »
That is typical for the yeast strain. Perfectly normal. It will break apart as it gets going in the starter, then clump back up when it's done.
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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Out of ideas.
« on: November 21, 2012, 04:18:18 PM »
If you've tested for leaks and found none, the tank isn't draining, and it stops after a while, I'd guess the sound is just normal operation. I have one regulator that the gas flows quickly and stops right away. The other one I have dispenses the gas over a few minutes before it completely cuts off. Sounds like yours is more like the latter.