[HoosierBrew]

Not exactly sure how I'll handle the dry hopping, probably put it in the spunding keg inside some bags.

That's my plan for dry hopped beers now. The active yeast should scavenge the O2, and the hops aromas would be trapped in the keg, never touching outside air. I like it.

[natebrews]

I did that  (using boiled nylons and a SS weight) for the english bitter I made and the 1oz of EKG came through nice and bright.  The only problem that I saw with it was that the hops all floated up to the top of the sock and bunched up there.  I'm not sure how to deal with that, maybe just give the keg a gentle wiggle to knock the hops free and make them fall to the bottom of the sock.

[HoosierBrew]

I did that  (using boiled nylons and a SS weight) for the english bitter I made and the 1oz of EKG came through nice and bright.  The only problem that I saw with it was that the hops all floated up to the top of the sock and bunched up there.  I'm not sure how to deal with that, maybe just give the keg a gentle wiggle to knock the hops free and make them fall to the bottom of the sock.

I use 5 gallon pain strainer bags (double layered), weighted with marbles. The size of the bags gives the hops plenty of room to break down and circulate. I used to use nylons and then a hop canister and decided I didn't like how the hops tended to not all break apart when using bigger dry hop amounts.

[blatz]

Brewing a simcoe/Amarillo pale ale on Friday. 7% eng med crystal  65%2 row and 28% maris Otter.


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[klickitat jim]

Brewed a GHE tonight and just for fun, another one but with Crystal instead of Hall Mitt.

You have to love the added challenges of winter brewing.  It's been below 30f for a while. Tonight it's 26f inside my shop. It crossed my mind that might cause a problem so I infected my wort chiller and found a freeze split. Lucky I did that or I would have destroyed my first batch. A little plumbing work and I patched it together for the night

Then the steam and freeze made it pretty impossible to use my dry erase boards to record gravity.

Then I went to move my junk and found my propane takes were frozen to the floor.

Everything else went great.

I might have a reason now to buy a stainless chiller, if I can find a 1/2" 50 footer with a recirculation pipe.




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[beersk]

Brewing a simcoe/Amarillo pale ale on Friday. 7% eng med crystal  65%2 row and 28% maris Otter.


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Hey, Paul, you're the creator of this thread, you should change the titles to just, "What's brewing this weekend?"

And what the heck am I looking at, Jim?

[klickitat jim]

Brewing a simcoe/Amarillo pale ale on Friday. 7% eng med crystal  65%2 row and 28% maris Otter.


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Hey, Paul, you're the creator of this thread, you should change the titles to just, "What's brewing this weekend?"

And what the heck am I looking at, Jim?

Portion of my immersion chiller that had frozen and split. And what freezing bk steam does to a dry erase board.

[beersk]

Brewing a simcoe/Amarillo pale ale on Friday. 7% eng med crystal  65%2 row and 28% maris Otter.


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Hey, Paul, you're the creator of this thread, you should change the titles to just, "What's brewing this weekend?"

And what the heck am I looking at, Jim?

Portion of my immersion chiller that had frozen and split. And what freezing bk steam does to a dry erase board.

Sucks about the chiller, but the dry erase board is pretty cool. Kind of an avant-garde way to make art.

[narcout]

With a little luck, the oatmeal stout I didn't brew last weekend

Freezing boil kettle steam?  Damn - and I've been annoyed that my basement's in the mid 60s instead of the usual low 70s.

[Kutaka]

Brewing an Apollo Centennial IPA this weekend.

[chumley]

Nice work on the split immersion chiller.  I wish my immersion chiller would split so I would have a reason to buy an expensive stainless steel immersion chiller.  But alas, I am too cheap, so I am doomed to brew and drink my nasty oxidized beer for the rest of my life. 

[klickitat jim]

Nice work on the split immersion chiller.  I wish my immersion chiller would split so I would have a reason to buy an expensive stainless steel immersion chiller.  But alas, I am too cheap, so I am doomed to brew and drink my nasty oxidized beer for the rest of my life. 

I cobbled it together to get through the session. I just went out to see if I could do a more permanent repair but my copper is so annealed it's too brittle to bend properly. So I ordered a new 70' 3/8ths off Midwest. I looked at the SS and decided to just stick with my copper.

[Bill H]

I'm going to be brewing a Newcastle clone beer. Have my yeast starters going and my new day was going to be last night. Had to stall for a yeast not wanting to start