Well I just Effed up my new th 310 by dropping it in the mash, but it's ok to admit that here guys?
Note to self: don't stir and take temp readings at the same time...
Note to self: don't stir and take temp readings at the same time...
Interesting pattern. Associated with a specific FV or keg? I had an issue that I managed to trace back to a specific corny keg. I think it might have had an infection source lurking in the bottom seam that even survived iodophor. Gave it a good scrub with a stiff brush in hot PBW. Problem disappeared. One of the reasons I started switching over to slimline sankey kegs is they don't have seams inside.For the last 20 batches, I get slight Lactic infection in every other batch.
IDK WTF. I nuke all my brewing gear with industrial-grade Peracetic Acid. And still I have this mishap.
But every year, on the dot, for six months? In the dark. With Norwegians. The novelty wanes after a week or two
..and saunas. In the middle of winter, 110C sauna and then straight to the ice hole. And it goes with beer, a lots of it.You guys just don't own enough snow mobiles...
Strong rare earth magnets sealed in a tiny food-safe vaccum capsule.So I just had a mishap yesterday. Bought some sous vide magnets last week so I could try the no-oxygen dry hop trick that's been making the rounds. Beer in the fermenter, yeast pitched, time to attach the hop bag with the magnets! Well. Turns out the magnets are pretty strong, but maybe not strong enough for 7oz of hops in ONE bag, with another magnet and some marbles for weight. Plop!! Dry hops dropped before fermentation even started. It's bubbling away happily this morning, that blasted swollen dry hop bag floating in the middle. I'm sure it will be fine, but man was I disappointed. Even set a reminder on my phone to remove the magnet on Wednesday.
yup. Been there, done that!Seems like it is a familiar place, lol
I boiled some large glass marbles to sanitize them for weighing down my dry hop bag. They shattered into a million tiny razor sharp slithers.
There was no harm done, but a couple of months later I did see a highly respected brewer advising people to do this on his site.
Another case of giving advice when never having done it yourself.
I heated them with the water as it is rather obviously not a good idea to drop cold glass into boiling water.Did you heat them with the water or drop into already boiling water?
I'd've thought the former would heat them evenly without undue stress from thermal expansion; whereas the latter could cause uneven heating leading to uneven thermal expansion and hence the fracturing.
I heated them with the water as it is rather obviously not a good idea to drop cold glass into boiling water.
I did contact the brewer in question, who admitted that he'd never actually done it himself as he uses a metal dry hop tube.
It may have been due to a combination of them being boiling hot and bounced around in a metal pan by the boiling water.That's interesting --- makes one wonder what in the marble-making process leaves them vulnerable to that kind of failure. My long-atrophied undergrad materials science courses are running in overdrive....
Tbh, I could never imagine living somewhere where there is not actually winter during winter... Any place not seeing at least -20c and a meter of snow can just F off!
How were they cooled? If you threw them in cold water that is likely why.It may have been due to a combination of them being boiling hot and bounced around in a metal pan by the boiling water.
I heated them with the water as it is rather obviously not a good idea to drop cold glass into boiling water.
They weren't cooled, they shattered while boiling.How were they cooled? If you threw them in cold water that is likely why.
BTW , you could buy some chrome pkated pinball on ebay for not much.
I really can't remember, but they could have been coloured. That might be it.were they clear? or maybe have plastic melted into them for color?
I boiled some large glass marbles to sanitize them for weighing down my dry hop bag. They shattered into a million tiny razor sharp slithers.
There was no harm done, but a couple of months later I did see a highly respected brewer advising people to do this on his site.
Another case of giving advice when never having done it yourself.
Our local hardware store (not HD) had those furniture dollies on sale a few months back for $20 each; I snagged two. Next time I had to move my fermenter from the garage brewery to the room where I ferment my kveiks it was soooooooo easy.Just finished the boil on a Weissbier. As I was retrieving my IC I realized that the furniture dolly that I use to move the hot BK from the brewery to the utility room to chill was absent. My son had loaned it out to a friend. It’s only about 10 feet but that’s a long way for an old guy to carry 50, or so, pounds of boiling liquid. I decided to carry it as low as possible, with my hands at about knee level. All went well until just as I went through the door to the utility room and I looked down and saw that the valve was open. Apparently, the handle had snagged the cuff of my pants.
Got the chiller started, washed down the concrete, and surveyed the loss. About a gallon. Oh well, a 4 gallon batch is better than no HB.
Yeah, I have two of them as well. They work great. One of my son’s friends has a pizza joint down the street from my son’s store in the little town south of our farm. He got a new pizza oven last month and was looking for a way to roll it in his back door after it was unloaded behind his shop. My son loaned him the dollies and they haven’t come back yet.Our local hardware store (not HD) had those furniture dollies on sale a few months back for $20 each; I snagged two. Next time I had to move my fermenter from the garage brewery to the room where I ferment my kveiks it was soooooooo easy.
Looks like it's finally time to tape-label the beer lines.
Just had a very silly mishap. One of my kegs is slightly overcarbed, so I decided to use @fastricky's trick (stickied in the kegging/bottling forum by the way). Did everything right, got the connectors back on, proud of myself. Until I looked again at which tap the line was connected to. Oops, just degassed the hell out of my hefeweizen instead of the Pale. Looks like it's finally time to tape-label the beer lines. Oops.
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