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RETIRED: briang's OFFICIAL BYO (brew your own) thread! let's talk beer!
December 17, 2008 at
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everyone else has theirs.... i want mine.
everyone else has theirs.... i want mine.
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good times.
man i learned a lot...and brewing on a cheap old electric stove in my kitchen taking 2-3 hours to get a boil...i don't miss that!
Can I pull off my first homebrew after work or should I wait for the weekend?
Things I wish I'd had handy at the time but didn't:
- A bucket of sanitizer to keep things soaked in.
- A Spray bottle of sanitizer for odd and end things or "just to be sure".
- A turkey fryer or something, anything even slightly better then a kitchen stove.
Things I messed up on:
- Although I remembered to turn off the flame when adding my LME, in the "heat of the moment" I forgot to wait for the wort to reach a boil again after turning the flame back on. Instead I promptly threw in the first hop addition and started my 60min boil that wasn't boiling.
Things I wish I'd had handy at the time but didn't:
- A bucket of sanitizer to keep things soaked in.
- A Spray bottle of sanitizer for odd and end things or "just to be sure".
- A turkey fryer or something, anything even slightly better then a kitchen stove.
Things I messed up on:
- Although I remembered to turn off the flame when adding my LME, in the "heat of the moment" I forgot to wait for the wort to reach a boil again after turning the flame back on. Instead I promptly threw in the first hop addition and started my 60min boil that wasn't boiling.
Was it a gas stove in the kitchen? What volume did you boil? Mine comes to a boil without an issue. But, I have a glass top electric stove. Either way, I have a burner for outside now. This last batch (partial mash) was done outside. Kind of annoying to have to take my hops outside. But, less of a stink in the house which my wife hates.
Before I do an all grain, I think a wort chiller will be needed.
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Things I wish I'd had handy at the time but didn't:
- A bucket of sanitizer to keep things soaked in.
- A Spray bottle of sanitizer for odd and end things or "just to be sure".
- A turkey fryer or something, anything even slightly better then a kitchen stove.
Things I messed up on:
- Although I remembered to turn off the flame when adding my LME, in the "heat of the moment" I forgot to wait for the wort to reach a boil again after turning the flame back on. Instead I promptly threw in the first hop addition and started my 60min boil that wasn't boiling.
Well just say, I could have been more organized in how I was boiling water. I was boiling water to rinse out my Iodifor sanitizer etc, not only for the wort. In hind sight I wish I had Star San to begin with and wasn't as paranoid about rinsing. I was also using RO water from my RO filter which only had a holding tank of 3 gallons and so it took forever for it to do it's thing for the remaining 2-3 gallons etc etc.
Despite all my research online, reading and re-reading Palmers "How to Brew" etc, I was still less organized then I thought. It's painful to watch, but I have the event on video too as I was self documenting it. My voice near the end was so f'ing groogy.
if i were to do it over, i would have just bought it.
clearance price still didn't seem very good..
Linky [craigslist.org]
No list is included, but from the picture you can see a wort chiller, glass carboy, mod'd trash can to fit carboy in submerged water, and probably a few more goodies in the plastic bin. All for a list price of $95.
Doesn't come close to Brian's steal from the other day, but not a bad deal just considering the carboy and chiller.
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Linky [craigslist.org]
No list is included, but from the picture you can see a wort chiller, glass carboy, mod'd trash can to fit carboy in submerged water, and probably a few more goodies in the plastic bin. All for a list price of $95.
Doesn't come close to Brian's steal from the other day, but not a bad deal just considering the carboy and chiller.