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Name: Phil
Country: United States
State: Washington
Gender: Male
Interests: Frisbee, Motorcycles, Calvin & Hobbes, Brewing, Food/Drink and the Preparation of Food/Drink.
Expertise: I'm getting pretty good with a crossword puzzle.
Occupation: Banker
Industry: Banking
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AIM:  goose xing
Member Since:
10/6/2003
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| kegging is frustratingSo there's clearly a leak in my co2 regulator, cause I'm out of gas one day after my force carb began.
annnnd I don't have a wrench to take off one of the stripped couplings on one of my kegs.
annnnd the beer that I did actually get to taste out of said keg was nasty. I thought I had worked pretty hard on sanitation & cleaning of the keg but clearly not. There's five gallons of ruined beer in my keg fridge that I can't even get to if I wanted to as the gas is effing leaky.
Bah. I have two beers that I'm really excited about in fermentation. I'm considering making a basic extract beer to put on tap because I'm concerned that the hard work that I put into those two complicated, all grain brews would be lost due merely to dispense options.
sigh.
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| Belgian TripelIts day two of fermentation on for my latest beer, a Belgian Tripel, and I woke up to go take a peek. I'm using my plastic fermenter for four gallons, even through the plastic its clear that this beer is alive. My airlock is moving quickly, about two or three times every other second. The krausen is rising, so far it looks like a hefty 3 inches.
12.5 Lbs pilsener malt mashed one hour at 153 deg f single infusion. Runnings were hazy a bit longer than last batch, 2 more qts re circulated.
Sparged 3.5 gal at 165 deg f. Collected a scant 4 gallons of wort, there was more in the tun. Should have used the rest to ferment a nice small lager. Lessons learned I guess.
Boiled 1 hr with 1lb candi sucrose (adjunct) and 1/2 lb pilsener DME (just in case  )
OG read a little shy of the spec 1.081, more like 1.065. hopefully the dme and sucrose gave a decent boost. Will have to thief a sample to test another time...I'm late for work
Pitched at 74 deg f, got some orval to culture bottling yeast at another time.
EDIT 08/03/08
Took FG reading today, 2 weeks in secondary left the beer at 1.010, just off of the 1.012 target. Reading past notes reminded me that the OG was running low. I'm interested to see whats going to happen.
Force carbed at 15 psi for one hour...
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| Corny'sI kegged batch three (Dino Amber) tonight. Its the first batch I've been able to keg.
I got a noseful as soon as I opened the lid on the primary. It was a huge whiff of stale, malty co2. Racked the batch into the keg, ran through just a smidge of the wort for a taste. It was very thin. We'll see after its bubbly, but this might not be the greatest batch.
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| All-Grain, no kidding!Yesterday was a day of brewing and brew related activity. I obtained a Keg Fridge with a two tap tower! I've wanted one for years. Now I just need some Cornelius kegs and a couple of fittings til I'm ready to start kegging!
I've taken a drastic leap with my brewing, making my first ALL GRAIN batch yesterday night.
Oak Butte Brown (Palmer's How to Brew)
Mashed 1 hr 153-151 d(f), no mash out, sparged 3.5 gal @ 166 d(f)
7 lbs american 2 row
2 lbs Crystal #80
.5 lbs Victory
.5 lbs Chocolate
Mt. Hood @ 60 min
Willamette @ 15 min
forgot irish moss, broke stupid hydrometer!! Dammit!!
used new mash tun with great success, lost one degree in one hour, no clog, recirculated ~3 qts until clear runnings.
Cooled in ~40 minutes in sink and picnic cooler with siphon/sprayer/ice all going in both sinks. Pitched another dose of rogue's Pac-Man (Wyeast). Excited to start cultivating that strain  .
Fermenting in glass w/ blowoff hose July 3 expected pull is July 17. By next morning the blowoff is bubbling rapidly!
Totally stoked for this batch to come out, might keg rather than bottle...we'll see
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| Brewin'This is a nice obsession.
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