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[drew9242]

Bugger.

Worth a call though to check if they supplied them.

 

[Pennywise]

I'll do that on Monday, I realized I wasn't quite ready for my maiden full boil AG, Ive just done some volume measurements of my pot and now I'll need to do a boil off test. So I prolly won't get to do it till next weekend anyway as I really only get one day a weekend to brew. I've decided to throw down a couple of kits to feed the brewing zombie in me. After having a few IPA's last night I think I'll put a Coopers IPA down and throw about 100g of hops at it with some spec grains.

 

[Bribie G]

Dedicated Herms Guide, Problems And Solution Thread is now up to 26 pages with 507 posts.


<shitstir>

We choose to go HERMS. We choose to go HERMS... (interrupted by applause) we choose to go HERMS in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

</shitstir>

:lol:

 

[DUANNE]

after a lot of upset the bombers have finally won a game. some one had to break the cats streak. woo hoo

 

[bigandhairy]

after a lot of upset the bombers have finally won a game. some one had to break the cats streak. woo hoo

Cracking final quarter

 

[brettprevans]

I'll do that on Monday, I realized I wasn't quite ready for my maiden full boil AG, Ive just done some volume measurements of my pot and now I'll need to do a boil off test. So I prolly won't get to do it till next weekend anyway as I really only get one day a weekend to brew. I've decided to throw down a couple of kits to feed the brewing zombie in me. After having a few IPA's last night I think I'll put a Coopers IPA down and throw about 100g of hops at it with some spec grains.

Good idea to 'map' tge system first. Nothing wrong with some k&k keg fillers to keep supplies up. He'll I've got tge worlds biggest mongrel beer to fill kegs... had ~10L of extra AG beer in a cube, decided to take it out of fridge and warm and I'll just ferment a 10L batch. Next day the fkr is spontaneously fermenting with god knows what... Hmmmm i really need that keg filled, so let's throw in a tin of Belgian goo I had left over and sugars and fill to 18L. Dry hop a little. Bloody passable quaffer in the end. Sometimes u get Belgian tones other times u get POR.

Ferment what u can when u can. It's better than no beer at all

 

[drew9242]

Ferment what u can when u can. It's better than no beer at all

Or buying beer!

 

[Lecterfan]

Turns out the double batch of stout I just knocked out was my 30th AG batch. I don't feel so bad about getting drunk now - kind of like a pre-emptive celebratory event. I am close to moving to a more "adult" version of equipment but can't decide between 3v or biab (as I am at the point where either would be an easy transition).

 

[petesbrew]

Isn't it annoying when your lager is sitting at 1012 for a week, you start planning for bottling night, then it drops another 2 points?
Oh well, another week's not gonna hurt it.

 

[Pennywise]

Whirlfloc mystery solved. I recieved an e-mail from supplier saying it wasn't sent because it hadn't arrived yet & they didn't want to hold up my order any longer. Stupid gmail put that email in my spam folder so didn't notice till' I did my weekly Monday morn check of said folder. Big brewday this weekend, FOR SURE

 

[Dave70]

Don't hydrometers break easily, eh?
I'm now onto #4 for 2011.
Tried to do the right thing by keeping it in it's original little cardboard tube and all. But it would seem that the arse of the thing got moist at some point and perished. The last time I saw the little poofter in one piece it reflected a glint of sunshine as it slipped through the bottom of its container, bounced off the shelving and and splintered on the garage floor.

Normally my cat like reflexes would have snatched it from mid air. But I had my favorite pint glass in the other hand, half full mind you.
Life's about priorities.

 

[bconnery]

Don't hydrometers break easily, eh?
I'm now onto #4 for 2011.
Tried to do the right thing by keeping it in it's original little cardboard tube and all. But it would seem that the arse of the thing got moist at some point and perished. The last time I saw the little poofter in one piece it reflected a glint of sunshine as it slipped through the bottom of its container, bounced off the shelving and and splintered on the garage floor.

Normally my cat like reflexes would have snatched it from mid air. But I had my favorite pint glass in the other hand, half full mind you.
Life's about priorities.

Get yourself one of these Dave... http://craftbrewer.com.au/shop/details.asp?PID=894

I went through a few hydrometers in the past, haven't broken a single one since I got this a few years back

 

[bum]

They do melt in front of the heater pretty easy but...don't ask.

 

[Dave70]

Get yourself one of these Dave... http://craftbrewer.com.au/shop/details.asp?PID=894

I went through a few hydrometers in the past, haven't broken a single one since I got this a few years back

Wanna laugh?
I'm on my second (similar) one of those also. Took a hot wort sample in the first one and it wilted and collapsed like the cheap, wonk cocked piece of shit it was.
Silly of me, but in my defense, the only beer I had on hand that day was a Triple. Lesson learned.
Nowadays I keep my brewday beers at 5%>...

 

[Goofinder]

Get yourself a 100mL measuring cylinder made from glass, that won't melt. Need to overfill it to take an FG reading as it's only just tall enough for a 'standard' hydrometer.

Although I did break my first (and only) hydrometer by crushing it against the cylinder while trying to turn off the tap... I guess hydrometers just want to be broken.

 

[Airgead]

Get yourself a 100mL measuring cylinder made from glass, that won't melt.

No... but they do make an impressively loud noise (and make an impressive amount of mess) when your kids knock them a shelf on and onto a tiled floor...

I know I'm going to jinx myself when I say this. Been brewing for 15 years and only ever owned 1 hydrometer. Bought it with my first kit and its still going strong.

Cheers
Dave

 

[brettprevans]

I've owned two. Still have one, but swapped to a refractometer a few years ago. Sits in a nice padded case in case it gets bumped off tge table. Love it.

 

[Pennywise]

Anyone feel the earthquake?

 

[argon]

I've owned two. Still have one, but swapped to a refractometer a few years ago. Sits in a nice padded case in case it gets bumped off tge table. Love it.

me too... since buying my refrac i've not used the hydro... too easy just to take a tiny sample then look at the chart.

 

[Dave70]

I've owned two. Still have one, but swapped to a refractometer a few years ago. Sits in a nice padded case in case it gets bumped off tge table. Love it.

Don't you still need a hydro for some readings? Have we got a 'how to' thread for these jiggers? Do you need mathematical skills to operate one?