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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Should I be upset?
« on: March 14, 2011, 06:45:10 pm »
how do we know he WAS wearing pants?
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All Grain Brewing / Re: Water to grain ratio for mash tun.
« on: March 14, 2011, 10:07:55 am »
Is adding copper to the wort a desirable thing? if so why? just curious
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All Grain Brewing / Re: beer gas
« on: March 11, 2011, 11:20:46 pm »
aside from the one bottle that popped that RIS turned out okay. It was a little overwhelming but...
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All Grain Brewing / Re: beer gas
« on: March 11, 2011, 02:21:42 pm »Can the starches in beans be converted......?
Are you suggesting that the OP put Beano in his wort?
It has been done. People use Beano to make 'light' beer. I have used it to try to dry out an extract RIS that was nasty sweet and ended up with bottle bombs (Well one bottle bomb).
Oscar, Yes the starches in beans can be converted. either via beano if you are going to eat them. or, if one was so inclined, via diastatic malt in a mash. (you would have to cook them first). Bean beer. mmmm.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Beer Comp Entries Up?
« on: March 11, 2011, 02:17:52 pm »I know I brew partially (Very partially) because I can have good beer when I want it for .5 or less of the prices in the store. With the economy in the shape it has been in of late perhaps people are getting frugal like their grandparents were back in the 20s.
That could explain increased interest in homebrewing, but not comp entries. And I'm not sure it is really a driving force behind the increase in homebrewing, though it could be a factor.
One thing, it makes getting invited to be a judge easier! But I'm not sure I'd want to be a comp organizer. Wow, how do you deal with double the entries on relatively short notice? Yikes.
Then I'll blame it on reality TV. everybody wants to be in a contest. Ahh I'm just talking out my a$$
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Beer Comp Entries Up?
« on: March 11, 2011, 02:11:42 pm »
I know I brew partially (Very partially) because I can have good beer when I want it for .5 or less of the prices in the store. With the economy in the shape it has been in of late perhaps people are getting frugal like their grandparents were back in the 20s.
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Ingredients / Re: Weyerman CaraWheat?
« on: March 10, 2011, 11:27:23 pm »Can this be right? A Dunkelweizen calls for about 4.0 volumes of CO2? Priming calculators say that means about 8 oz of cane sugar. I only use about 4 oz in most of my other brews.seems excessive to me. Beersmith tells me that style carb levels are between 2.5 and 2.9 volumes which would be more like 4-5 oz of table sugar
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Equipment and Software / Re: Bubble Counter.
« on: March 10, 2011, 12:39:44 pm »
I have a new tag from that though.
Measuring is knowing
Meten is weten dus.
Measuring is knowing
Meten is weten dus.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 3/11 Edition
« on: March 10, 2011, 10:20:39 am »
maybe bottling a small beer and dry hopping my maple barley wine
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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: Saison yeast substitution tips
« on: March 10, 2011, 08:44:18 am »That was my concern. I have 2 or 3 packs of T-58 in the fridge but I have read that it's not very attenuative. It seems to be unsuitable for higher OG recipes. My OG is mid-range at 1.072, target FG of 1.015 using the Saison yeast. It kills me that I might have to drive an hour to Cambridge for the right yeast, ugh. Should have just ordered it online a week and a half ago when my LHBS said they might not be able to get the stuff. Live and learn!1.015 seems pretty high as an FG for a saison.
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Ingredients / Re: Hops Anyone?
« on: March 09, 2011, 12:19:45 pm »2oz of simcoe
2oz of Saaz
2oz of nothern Brewer
2oz of cascade
.5oz chinook
.5oz herbsbrucker
I buy my hops at my local more beer store by the oz. They have good deals.
+1
I like to support my LHBS so if I only need a few ounces of a specific hop I'll buy from them.
of late I have been trying to use only organic ingredients. so I order almost excusivly from 7 bridges as they are the only fupplier of organic ingredients I have found. I don't know that the prices are that good but given I can't find the organic stuff anywhere else I guess they are the best price around for what I want
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All Grain Brewing / Re: Skimming foam from the boil
« on: March 09, 2011, 12:05:00 pm »David Miller's logic seems rational enough. Let's look at Budweiser for a moment. Budweiser's fermentation vessels, are rigged with a level at the top that catches all the fermentation scum, that is up and kicked-out during primary fermentation. The brew master at So. Cal Budweiser say's, the purpose of the top level inside their fermentation vessels is to catch all the harsh, astringent material that would other wise affect the flavor of the finished beer. This may suggest, that skimming the foam in the kettle along with the coagulated hot-break would lessen the harsh flavor contributions.
Yes but that is during fermentation not the boil.
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All Grain Brewing / Re: Skimming foam from the boil
« on: March 08, 2011, 08:22:19 pm »I just let it boil over and have the wife clean it upactually i pour my wort through a strainer enroute to the fermenter and it is not a problem
You funny......
Haven't found a strainer, yet, that will catch the hot break.
I use a regular strainer with a piece of flour sacking over it.