NewkyBrown
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My one year old son removed the air lock and bung from my primary and shouted something into the beer... hopefully just encouragement!
Future plans are for me to move into the shed
I left spent grains in a 5 gallon kettle covered for 10 days. When I went to brew today I took off the lid and the smell was so intense I nearly puked.
I have a lager i brewed 48 hours ago showing no visible signs of fermentation (at 12°c) and im worried about it
My one year old son removed the air lock and bung from my primary and shouted something into the beer... hopefully just encouragement!
My one year old son removed the air lock and bung from my primary and shouted something into the beer... hopefully just encouragement!
So you guys just keep gallons of fermenting beverages where the kids can get them??
Can I call you Dad?
Lol small house=limited storage space for fermenters
What's worse is I let them try the wort on brew day and my son now likes to openly comment his tasting notes. For example, we were in the lhbs the other day and he seen a red label after trying my Irish red and says "dad I don't like that red beer". Just waiting for cps to come knocking at my door because I let my kid try a beer, albeit in a non-alcoholic stage of production.
So you guys just keep gallons of fermenting beverages where the kids can get them??
Can I call you Dad?
So you guys just keep gallons of fermenting beverages where the kids can get them??
Can I call you Dad?
I grew up in a bar in Wisconsin, the things I was around as a kid would land my parents in prison nowadays.
I can't believe how uptight people can get when it comes to kids, Heck, I never even had a bicycle helmet. Also used to have BB gun fights with the other town kids, carried around a can of Skoal, and could buy it at the grocery store across from our bar. I wasn't even in my teens yet. Parents sold it by the time I was 13.
All True..
How's that for a confession.:rockin:
So ... My first all grain brewing day in 5 years comes around and I forget to put on the filter on the MLT before I pour the strike water on the grains. Sigh .. Then I couldn't locate the thermometer duiring all this but had an infrared thermometer instead but was giving readings all over the place on liquid objects but not on solid ones. So IDK the mash temp, and I'm boned at this point so some prayer is involved, so after 60 min I drain MLT and put on SS filter , refill and do my thing but no spare due to no temp control. I taste wort and it's somewhat sweet but not where I should be at all. So I have semisweet grain water and not true wort. Wife is pisses cuz " my hobby costs money all the time and I don't " need" beer to live ( yea right ) so I salvage with 2 lbs sugar I have laying around and pitch saved yeast at 65 f and ferment at 55 and hope.
I use water from the hose
I let my gear sit outside open to the elements between batches, unclean from past brew days
I've used the same fermenting buckets for the past 5 years, scratches and all
I sanitize with bleach water the night before I brew and just rinse with more hose water
I reuse my BIAB grain and hop bags and just quickly rinse them out
I use cane sugar not corn and only bring to a quick boil
and nobody knows until now...
I have spent enormous amounts of money on this hobby which my Wife would not even believe...
I find this hard to believe
(My wife sells stuff on ebay and hey - wouldn't you know it, my grain scale is good for weighing packages.)
I use water from the hose
I let my gear sit outside open to the elements between batches, unclean from past brew days
I've used the same fermenting buckets for the past 5 years, scratches and all
I sanitize with bleach water the night before I brew and just rinse with more hose water
I reuse my BIAB grain and hop bags and just quickly rinse them out
I use cane sugar not corn and only bring to a quick boil
and nobody knows until now...
My confession is that I'm a cheap b@stard. I love my IPAs and big beers and brew them regularly, but if I'm out with friends and they are all spending 6$ a pint for an IPA I aways opt for a 2$ PBR pounder
>>I use water from the hose
Its potentially unhealthy, and if the water has been sitting in the hose for a few days, there was time for stuff to dissolve. It's easy to avoid this, I just fill a pot, and pour it into my brew kettle. Then repeat.
>>I let my gear sit outside open to the elements between batches, unclean from past brew days
Increase risk of infection, good,
Increase risk of rusting, ok.
And expose elements to direct sunlight, helping to age them, got it.
>>I've used the same fermenting buckets for the past 5 years, scratches and all
So have I. But I use a dedicated sponge for cleaning it that is never used for other purposes. And I clean it within minutes of emptying it, so no bacteria gets in and has a chance to form biofilms.
>>I sanitize with bleach water the night before I brew and just rinse with more hose water
That will make your beer taste better.
>>I reuse my BIAB grain and hop bags and just quickly rinse them out
So do I. I dust off the dry grains the next day. You are adding grain to water that will be boiled, so having some bacteria on the bag wont matter. There is already a ton of bacteria on grain.
>>I use cane sugar not corn and only bring to a quick boil
Me too. I use cane sugar for bottling. I use corn sugar for recipes that need a pound or two of sugar.
ahh, it's only a hobby, I lost my uptightness a long time ago, if I hadn't of posted, as mentioned no one would know... my beer circle friends are of the illusion that I make great beer, no matter my bad habits.
I pick my nose and fart too, but not in public
I sometimes dust a keg and just leave it in the keezer until I refill with a new batch....no clean method.
Its all fun n' games til' someone $hits their pants...
I use my wife's old weed scale. Glad we kept it.
New one, I was running cold water into an icebath for my priming solution today and while trying to move some ice cubes to set the pan down in the sink I realized the cold water had started to pour INTO my priming solution.
I thought "Great, now I have to reboil this." And then I decided I wasn't going to do that and I continued to bottle as normal.
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