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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Sanitation

« on: March 13, 2010, 05:06:54 AM »

...foam is good...never fear the foam.

except in bottling or kegging where it can trap air.

Kai

HA! 

I should have figured that you would blow a hole in my happy theory Kai. 

I've been using a spoon to scoop the Starsan foam off the top of the keg when I fill it.
Had a few people tell me it's not necessary. Now I have an actual reason
for doing so.

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All Grain Brewing / Re: question about a mash schedule

« on: March 10, 2010, 03:26:41 PM »

First all grain?
I'd say keep it simple
single infusion
good luck
have fun

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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: Fermenting Belgian ales with wine yeast?

« on: March 09, 2010, 05:30:59 AM »

I think near the end the saison episode of The Jamil Show
one of the WhieLab's Whites mentions a wine yeast that
people are using.

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Kegging and Bottling / Re: CO2 fill in South/Central Jersey?

« on: March 09, 2010, 05:11:57 AM »

 Maple Shade, Vineland, Pleasantville
http://www.sjwelding.com/home.html

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: How to Siphon Beer

« on: March 05, 2010, 04:49:57 AM »

This is how I do it.

http://www.maltosefalcons.com/tech/racking-co2

I basically do the same thing but I just use the CO2 to get the siphon started
and I don't have the fittings. I just hold the gas line up to the carboy cap till
the siphon starts. I stick a cotton ball soaked in alcohol in an air lock and put that
in the carboy cap to act as an air filter, I don't know if it actually filters anything but it
makes me feel better.

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All Grain Brewing / Re: figuring out grain bill %'s

« on: February 25, 2010, 02:55:28 PM »

Why don’t you just figure out how much grain you need by assuming a standard 36 ppg for example? For this you need to know the efficiency, target volume and target gravity. If you want to be really precise with the extract potential of the grist you can calculate the weighted average by considering the extract potential of each malt and its grain bill portion.

Once you have the total grist weight the individual grain weights are easy to calculate from their percentages.

That’s how I do it.

Kai

I think that is what I did by
using the gravity per lb of the base malt
for all the other grains, so the weight %'s would stay constant.
 

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All Grain Brewing / Re: figuring out grain bill %'s

« on: February 25, 2010, 04:48:41 AM »

See if this works for you.

http://maltosefalcons.com/tech/malt-bill-percentage-pound-calculator

Thanks
The spreadsheet gave me the same #'s that I calculated by hand.
So I did something right.

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All Grain Brewing / Re: figuring out grain bill %'s

« on: February 24, 2010, 08:12:06 PM »

Here you go, good for starts - and it's free....

http://sourceforge.net/projects/brewtarget/

I have brewtarget , but how do you go about resizing a batch
for efficiencies with it?

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All Grain Brewing / figuring out grain bill %'s

« on: February 24, 2010, 05:24:22 PM »

  I know the percentages of grain I want,
but have to adjust them for efficiency.
  I tried using the method in Designing Great Beers to figure out
my grain bill. What this did was screw up my percents by weight.
I believe the book is giving me %'s by gravity per lb. ?
  So what I did was use the gravity per lb of the base malt
for all the other grains, so the weight %'s would stay constant.
  This seemed to work but I'm not sure it's the correct way to
go about it. Are there any easier way to scale grain bills for efficiency?

I can put all #'s up if any one cares???

Thanks

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Beer Recipes / Re: Roggenbier

« on: February 16, 2010, 04:56:12 AM »

I was thinking about what to brew next
I have a book with a recipe that calls for flaked rye.
I thought I might give it a try.
Any one ever use flaked rye?
I am guessing it would be much more of a subtle
flavor then using malted rye?

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Commercial Beer Reviews / Re: Saison Dupont

« on: February 15, 2010, 08:38:52 AM »

I recently tried this for the first time.
It was very skunked, I however did not enjoy it.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 2/12

« on: February 14, 2010, 03:08:40 PM »

just got done re-brewing a pale ale
I've done twice before trying to nail
down my volumes, temps, times, etc.
got 89% efficiency which is way over
what I was shooting for 

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Worst oversight you've ever done!

« on: February 13, 2010, 09:07:27 AM »

Sanitized a keg with starsan hooked up a cobra
tap to run the starsan out of the keg and to sanitize the tap and lne
I put a rubberband around the tap to hold it open
ran out the starsan filled and pressurized the keg
hooked the tap back up with out taking the rubber band
off.  Didn't lose too much beer but felt like a complete moron.

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General Homebrew Discussion / First Wort Hopping ?

« on: February 08, 2010, 06:09:56 AM »

I brewed a batch that called for first wort hopping.
Do you remove the first wort hops or leave them in
for the whole boil ? ( I left them in)

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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Do You Prime Your Kegs?

« on: January 17, 2010, 07:03:00 AM »

I did it a couple times but I didn't care for the sediment it created in the keg.  In addition, in my case I didn't see any advantage to doing it.

Why would this produce more sediment?