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[Fents]

brand new temp control for the kooi brewery! means we can make anything!! bring it on...

 

[Pollux]

While driving home yesterday I saw a Camry that had driven over a traffic island. Dunno how he could've done it... sun in his eyes maybe.
Front bumper torn off, driver yelling into his mobile phone. On such a hot day I felt a bit of sympathy for him, but I did let out little sinister laugh at the ruined grey camry.

If it was a stereotypical camry driver he probably spent the last 36 hours losing money at my work and then decided to drive home..........

 

[schooey]

....while yelling into the phone, causing the whole thing in the first place

 

[Newbiebrewer]

brand new temp control for the kooi brewery! means we can make anything!! bring it on...

looks like the temp controller for a nuclear reactor.

 

[argon]

Currently reading the lord of the rings... Thought I'd chuck on the movie tonight. Gonna have to say... I prefr the movie, better tension build up and less facing areou d with superfluous characters. Pfft... Tom Bombadil... get fucked

 

[Dave70]

Currently reading the lord of the rings... Thought I'd chuck on the movie tonight. Gonna have to say... I prefr the movie, better tension build up and less faffing around with superfluous characters. Pfft... Tom Bombadil... get fucked

When I watch the movie (s) now, we like to FF any dialog between Frodo and the stupid fat hobbit.
It camps up the whole show.

'Nothing ever dampens your spirits, does it Sam?'...

Bahhh...poofs...

 

[petesbrew]

When I watch the movie (s) now, we like to FF any dialog between Frodo and the stupid fat hobbit.
It camps up the whole show.

'Nothing ever dampens your spirits, does it Sam?'...

Bahhh...poofs...

Frodo: "Saaaam!!!"
Samwise: "Mr Frodo!"

There was definitely a lot going on there.

I was just pissed off there was no Battle of Hobbiton in the end - not even in the extended dvds. Ripped off.

 

[petesbrew]

Watched 4 Lions last night - Piss funny.

 

[Lecterfan]

Tom Bombadil was the reason it took me three goes to actually read the thing. I kept getting to his character and throwing the book over the shoulder and reaching for some old Conan stories where there is no moral pretence - just plenty of hacking at monsters with swords and axes.


I am just mashing my first double batch attempt. 11kg of grain in a 55 esky fills me with dread and awe...and makes my undies tighten just alittle bit also.

 

[petesbrew]

24c in Sydney today.

 

[Lecterfan]

24c in Sydney today.

Lots of smoke coming out of chimneys in my neighbourhood last night! I had the heater on for a while. Not typical in Feb but not unusual for Ballarat. We have a long Spring, 3 random weeks of scorching summer and then a long Autumn haha.

The double batch went well. Same grain bill mashed together, split between two "kettles" and brewed at slightly higher gravity.

At the end of the day added 2L top up water to an APA using some cascade flowers for the first time (18L batch total), and 3L top up water for an amber ale (22L) batch total. Both fermenting nicely at 18c with wy1272 out in the fridge.

Certainly a worthwhile experiment.

 

[petesbrew]

Lots of smoke coming out of chimneys in my neighbourhood last night! I had the heater on for a while. Not typical in Feb but not unusual for Ballarat. We have a long Spring, 3 random weeks of scorching summer and then a long Autumn haha.

The double batch went well. Same grain bill mashed together, split between two "kettles" and brewed at slightly higher gravity.

At the end of the day added 2L top up water to an APA using some cascade flowers for the first time (18L batch total), and 3L top up water for an amber ale (22L) batch total. Both fermenting nicely at 18c with wy1272 out in the fridge.

Certainly a worthwhile experiment.

Good idea.
I did a double batch of wheat last November - did a mini boil on the side with orange peel & coriander, and split the wort between two fermenters as a hefeweizen & belgian Wit. Gotta say there's only a slight difference in the end, but it was fun to do.

 

[brettprevans]

The idea of making up a massive base batch and splitting it into differant beers (Like diff yeasts, secondary ingredients, and maybe even hop teas or dry hopping) has been discussed on AHB and a few mags. We were discussing it at our collaboration brew day as a point of interest. It has some merit if u wanto to see what a diff yeast will do to the exact same beer or if u want variation but same grain bill. Whilst there are other ways that more efficiently do this, it's still kinda interesting.

 

[Lecterfan]

Whilst there are other ways that more efficiently do this, it's still kinda interesting.

Yea - I'm pretty restricted financially so wanted to push the boundaries of the meagre set up that I have. The beers should turn out ok I reckon.

The experiment is more to see if the process works for me, rather than trying to use different ingredients, so i can brew less often or make 35L of a preferred recipe at a time. Other than hop utilisation being reduced by the higher gravity boil it seemed ok to me.

Out of interest, what are the more efficient methods (to explore ingredients) of which you speak? I am certainly keen to explore the realms of unconventionality without having to brew a heap of 10L "SMASH" beers to explore flavours...

 

[petesbrew]

Out of interest, what are the more efficient methods (to explore ingredients) of which you speak? I am certainly keen to explore the realms of unconventionality without having to brew a heap of 10L "SMASH" beers to explore flavours...

Dunno, who else here buys a certain grain, hop or yeast out of curiosity, then builds the beer around it? I wouldn't exactly call it efficient, but it's interesting.

 

[bum]

Dunno, who else here buys a certain grain, hop or yeast out of curiosity, then builds the beer around it? I wouldn't exactly call it efficient, but it's interesting.

I pretty much do nothing but.

 

[argon]

snip...

Out of interest, what are the more efficient methods (to explore ingredients) of which you speak? I am certainly keen to explore the realms of unconventionality without having to brew a heap of 10L "SMASH" beers to explore flavours...

Using no chill can certainly do this for you... if you're no doing double batches, or 35L as you say. Just do a boil without any hop additions (or very small just to encourage break) drain kettle into 2 cubes then add a big whack of hops to each cube. Then ferment side by side with same neutral yeast strain. EG cascade in 1 centennial in the other, both on US05. Same grain bill, same pre ferment process, 1 variation. You'll now know the difference between cascade and centennial with all other things kept equal.

Sorry for the on topic

Dunno, who else here buys a certain grain, hop or yeast out of curiosity, then builds the beer around it? I wouldn't exactly call it efficient, but it's interesting.

I pretty much do nothing but.

+1

Sorry for the egregious use of the +1

 

[Pennywise]

There's another way? :lol:

 

[Lecterfan]

Aaah cool. So essentially the difference with what Argon is suggesting is that the boil is done with no hops (just to preciptate break), then split between two cubes and add a big whack of hops...this infusion will be the bittering, flavour and aroma hit all in one due to the length of time the hops are in with warm wort.

Cool.

But I have a guilty secret (well, I have openly stated it several times) - my "normal" version of AG is doing a full volume boil across two 20L pots anyway so when adding hop additions for me it is simple to have different additions across the pots. So with my post above, essentially the only thing I did differently was mash twice the amount of grain in my esky (so the mash was stiffer and I put more effort into batch sparging than I normally do).

As far as building beers around certain ingredients goes, that process has led me to my current conundrum of having so many bottles of AG beer I almost have no where left to store them.

Thanks for the help/suggestions/reading of my rambling bullsh*t.

edit: STOKED! My power just went out and I was pretty pooppy as I had just typed this response, but it managed to post. Also, without adding to the car sticker or grammar threads - I drove passed a car before with the sticker "Extinction Suck's" (apostrophe and all). Wow.

 

[jonocarroll]

that process has led me to my current conundrum of having so many bottles of AG beer I almost have no where left to store them.

I find it's more economical to store the beer in large, stainless steel containers under pressure - takes up much less space, you just need somewhere to put a few of these... a fridge works nicely. It's also wise to obtain a method of extracting the right amount of beer out of these vessels, so some sort of opening/closing flow-control device is very handy, and can probably be attached to the fridge one way or another.

And the problem of too many bottles is solved. :beer: