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General Category => General Homebrew Discussion => Topic started by: iamjamesp on November 06, 2009, 03:03:23 AM
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Hello, with regards to extract brewing, do you all use lids on your brew kettle or keep them on only during certain times of the brewing? Cheers,
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no lids! Oh, except while it's cooling to keep stuff out of it. :D
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Keeping the lid on while boiling is a bad idea. Even with extract there is a risk of DMS (cooked corn and vegetable flavors and aromas), boiling drives this off, but with a lid on it'll go back in your beer. In addition, if you keep the lid on you're much more likely to get boilovers.
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I recall hearing that as long as you have 15-20% open space on the top of your kettle you'll be OK. So, lid partially off at least.
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I only lay mine on the keggle opening for the last 15 minutes to sanitize it and I still leave it open by about 40%.
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I only lay mine on the keggle opening for the last 15 minutes to sanitize it and I still leave it open by about 40%.
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all the commercial kettles have 10% or less on the vent, so I am not sure that we as homebrewers aren't a little extreme on the lid usage.
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all the commercial kettles have 10% or less on the vent, so I am not sure that we as homebrewers aren't a little extreme on the lid usage.
True, but they have excellent ventilation and likely power vents.
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all the commercial kettles have 10% or less on the vent, so I am not sure that we as homebrewers aren't a little extreme on the lid usage.
OTOH, we aren't commercial brewers so what applies tp them may not apply to us.
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The main reason I stated earlier about the commercial breweries is that they cannot remove the lid and the condensation drips back into their kettle. I understand they may have a fan pulling on the kettle but they don't have a way to remove the lid as we do, and their beers aren't butter bombs.
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Installing a flexible metal duct and power vent doesn't seem like it would be difficult to make and give it a try. A metal flexible dryer vent pipe should work and be quite handy so you could swing it away anytime you wanted. :)
Added: I think I'd put a trap close to the lid, maybe a couple feet away and drill a small hole in it so any condensed steam could drain away from the brew pot. jmo....
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Sorry NB guys, I know you're all sick of this by now.
But, do you mean a hood kind of like this?
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd235/Weazletoe/S5001297.jpg)
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I think he means he wants to put a lid on the brew pot or keg. Connecting a powered vent to the lid is what I was talking about, not a vent hood. ;)
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Man, I really gotta start reading entire posts...... ::)
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Thanks for all the replies! I'll keep the lid off. Gee w-toe, think my apartment manager would let me do that? ;D
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One way to find out!
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The Saw! I saw the Saw.
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I want on this board to embrace the saw, from early on.
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Damn. I wanted to be the first to point at the saw...I missed that saw. You aren't leaving it in the move, are ya?
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Oh no. The saw stays with me, and will be forever part of Three Taverns Brewers.