Always Clean Out Your Mash Tun

[Swinging Beef]

Pwor! What a stink after 36 hours!
Flyblown nappy, with subtle dead cat phenbolics. <_<

 

[matti]

hehehe.
I once put my spent grain in our recycling bin and they didn't come an pick it up until next week. :icon_vomit:

 

[Effect]

I left spent grain in my mashtun for over 4 days.....black and white it was - was so bad I spewed....


NEVER AGAIN!

 

[buttersd70]

It gets even better after a week... :lol:

been there, done that, have the vomit stained t-shirt to show for it.

 

[Swinging Beef]

So this is the smell of Aussie made fresh Lambic?

 

[brotom7]

:wacko: Holy smoke, I just realized I have mine standing since Friday.

IT STINKS!!!

Pored half a bottle of bleach in it and some water to see if it will kill it off, I hope so, otherwise I'll put the lid on and get a new mash tun.

 

[buttersd70]

Take a dump in it, it might improve the smell. :lol:

Seriously, though....when mine got left, I used half a bottle of bleach, filled to the top, let it sit, rinsed, repeated. Then let it sit in the sun for a couple of days. Good as new. (but I did edge my bets, and lent it to Muckey to brew a batch before I used it again. :beerbang: . Didn't tell him until well after, either.....beer turned out great, though. :lol: )

 

[KHB]

Dont know how you can leave it that long, as soon as my first addition is in my mash tun gets cleaned.

 

[buttersd70]

cos we're bloody lazy. :lol:

You're right, though. It's much less work to clean it straight away, which is the way I do it now. Never again, never again.....

 

[Spartan 117]

I threw the grain into our compost bin once, then the mice showed up.

Aaron

 

[Effect]

Dont know how you can leave it that long, as soon as my first addition is in my mash tun gets cleaned.

oh you start cleaning after the first additions? I start drinking after my first additions :beerbang: - hence why it didn't get cleaned

 

[Effect]

oh

I'm also going to buy some of this!

linky

 

[Tony]

Iwould actually describe the smell as a "vomit" smell.

I have left it before and will never again! I dont care if its the end ofthe world............ i clean out the mash tun!

cheers

 

[churchy]

A good cook does the dishes.Lol I make sure I clean mine straight away(only done two AG) then leave the lid off to air out.

 

[cubbie]

I have always cleaned my tun right after the brew. I used to keep the spent grain in the garden for compost, but the smell was just wrong and the fly's loved to lay eggs in it. Straight in the bin these days.

 

[himzol]

I left mine for a week once, held my breath when I threw it to the chooks. I believe it had started to ferment as well.
When the chooks ate it they gave me that.. "what areyoulooking at" kind of look..before quieting down and having an afternoon nap :lol:

 

[Bribie G]

BIAB:

Mash, hoist bag, thoroughly drain, drop bag into baby bath next to urn.
Turn up heat
Lower hop sock and do boil and hop additions
Hoist hopsock and drop into baby bath on top of the biab bag

Go to bed, "clean up in morning"
get up
go to work
Get home

"better clean that up in the morning"

Raise garage door. A cat must have died and made of the garage its mausoleum.

It wasn't so much the smell it was the mucilage strings and sort of jelly substance that clogged the biab and hop bag materials, turning them into a slimy mess like a kilo of snot that couldn't be washed off. I eventually digested the mess in a bucket of nappysan and put both bags through the washing machine twice and sterilised in the sun for two days.

Lesson learned :lol:

 

[warra48]

You only need to do this once, and you will have learned the lesson for life. I know I have. I hope never to smell the likes of it again after leaving mine once for 4 days.

These days, as soon as I finish my sparge, and I have the boil underway, I haul mine to the vege garden, dump the grain onto a bare patch, give it a quick fork over into the soil, and then hose out the mash tun and manifold. I'm back in the brewery in 5 minutes.

 

[Darren]

I intentionally left a mash go for about 20 hours. The boil smelled like "larks vomit". The flavour never left the beer. Final ferment was very close to an organic acid, pH wise.

Its still sitting in the fermeter in the shed after two or more years.

Only person I have seen drink it was Kai, and he mixed it with Ginger beer from memory.

cheers

darren

 

[pbrosnan]

I threw the grain into our compost bin once, then the mice showed up.

Aaron

Yes, I dump the grain on various different parts of the garden. Lately I've noticed that the cat is eating less but not getting any thinner. Mind you this has only really started in the last year or so. I wonder why t took the little blighters so long to find my place? Must have migrated from AusDBs.