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***OFFICIAL*** Footballguys homebrew thread (1 Viewer)

What's unsafe about bleach?  Just about the most benign product out there and 100% surefire gaurantee to kill anything it comes in contact with.
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Its caustic. Have you ever drank a bottle of bleach? Bleach can be some pretty powerful stuff, but I prefer a more mild sanitizer that works just as well (at least in my experience). Not to mention that One Step you don't have to worry as much about rinsing as well (its designed not to need rinising, but I usually rinse anyway). But to each their own.
 
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What's unsafe about bleach? Just about the most benign product out there and 100% surefire gaurantee to kill anything it comes in contact with.
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Its caustic. Have you ever drank a bottle of bleach? Bleach can be some pretty powerful stuff, but I prefer a more mild sanitizer that works just as well (at least in my experience). Not to mention that One Step you don't have to worry as much about rinsing as well (its designed not to need rinising, but I usually rinse anyway). But to each their own.
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You see I'm the guy that stocks assault rifles and sub-machine guns. I leave nothing to chance.
 
You see I'm the guy that stocks assault rifles and sub-machine guns. I leave nothing to chance.
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:thumbup: A tip for the right amount of bleach from Brew Your Own magazine:

Pour a half cup into your fermenter (whether it's a glass carboy or food-grade plastic bucket) and fill it to the top with cold tap water. Exposing the solution to your beermaking apparatus for at least 15 minutes will kill any unwanted microbe that could spoil your beer. After the sanitizing soak, give the items a thorough rinse to get rid of the chlorine remnants. Residue can leave very unpleasant flavors.
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You see I'm the guy that stocks assault rifles and sub-machine guns. I leave nothing to chance.
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:thumbup: A tip for the right amount of bleach from Brew Your Own magazine:

Pour a half cup into your fermenter (whether it's a glass carboy or food-grade plastic bucket) and fill it to the top with cold tap water. Exposing the solution to your beermaking apparatus for at least 15 minutes will kill any unwanted microbe that could spoil your beer. After the sanitizing soak, give the items a thorough rinse to get rid of the chlorine remnants. Residue can leave very unpleasant flavors.
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yeah, that is the downfall of bleach, you have to rinse, and rinse, and rinse, and rinse, then rinse again. After all that - you have to rinse again.
 
only if you drink the bleach or blow yourself up.

That being said... relax, don't worry, have a (home)brew.
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some sort of freak propane tank/turkey fryer incident, perhaps?
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:shrug: Everytime I mention homebrewing, I hear the "don't blow yourself up" line. I figure worst case is I'll have an eruption followed by a big mess to clean up. And a :hot: wife.

 
Then later when bottling comes closer sterilize the bottles in much the same way and then rinse and dry them in the diswasher w/ no soap.
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Personally, I would rinse the bottles by submerging them in water to make sure that the chlorine residue is throughly rinsed (and I wouldn't bother with the dishwasher, other than to use it to dry the bottles). Maybe someone who uses bleach can chime in to see if I am creating too much work for you.
 
Been monitoring the temp in my "fermenting room" Ranges from 72-75. No sun to speak of.

Good enough?

:banned:
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should be fine.... do your best to keep it on the low end of that - there are a few tricks you could do to keep the carboy/bucket cooler if needed.
 
I think I've determined that Academy thinks people are ######ed.

They sold 32QT turkey fryers with SS pots for $44

32QT SS pot $62

Same pot, same brand, same material and you get less stuff and pay more.

:bowtie:

 
I'm about ready to make the jump to all grain. How much will this set me back?
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I am about to make this same jump. 10 gallon batches are the norm these days with all-grain batches, so at minimum a stainless steel pot, or budweiser keg with the top cut off is a must. This, and maybe another one used as a mash tun (or a huge igloo cooloer). Then you need a burner, and some other stuff like a wort chiller for the larger pot. I think this could cost anywhere from 200-300 bucks total???You can probably end up spending thousands if you wanted to. I am contemplating building one a RIMS system. This is the type of set up microbreweries use to make test batches before moving into full production with a style.

 
Made my first batch this morning. It's cooling in the 6.5G carboy in 5G of water. I have no idea what parts go in the top of the carboy after I pitch the yeast. I've got a ton of crap here I have no idea what it even is. I figure I need to run by the store anyway to figure some stuff out, but I need to put the stopper bubbler thing on it at some point today.

 
put a sample of the beer in a hydrometer jar. Then after testing, drink it (it tastes kind of like a tea at this point).

ETA, you'll want the wort to be as close to room temperature as possible when checking the gravity.(since this is the temp that you'll be doing subsequent gravity checks.

 
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It's cooling in the 6.5G carboy in 5G of water.
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don't put your beer into the carboy until itt has cooled. Glass does not like drastic temp changes.
also if I drop that hydrometer in the beer how the hell do I get it out?
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draw a sample; use a test tube
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It cooled way down. Probably near 100dF before I added it in. PMed some with cc and I'm just gonna skip the initial specific gravity check. It's my first try and I've probably screwed this up somehow anyway.

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well moving to the secondary fermenter was more difficult than I expected. I didn't really understand how the siphon worked so I think in the end I basically oxegenated the beer, badly.

:X

So, I'm probably gonna end up having to chalk this one up to experience. The siphon thing was easy once I figured out what the freaking deal was with it.

I probably should have practiced with just water, but the lesson as always, I'm an idiot.

I do think I'm gonna construct some sort of device in my beer room to hold the primary fermenter so I don't have to haul it to the kitchen to get elevation. How high do you really have to be off the ground to do it?

 
If it is an auto siphon, you only need a few inches. Do you have a stool you can move in to the beer room for transfering?

 
A buddy of mine is getting a 10 gallon homebrew unit for FREE! So, we sre following in culdeus footsteps and creating brews. :thumbup:

First beer we are making . . . . Hoppy Daze. :banned:

 
If it is an auto siphon, you only need a few inches. Do you have a stool you can move in to the beer room for transfering?
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I'll probably just go ghetto and use cinder blocks or something like that. I don't trust any of my furniture to hold it up.
 
Oh, and I made a cluster#### out of botteling the other night... what a mess for 12 bottles (and two 5L minikegs).

 
A buddy of mine is getting a 10 gallon homebrew unit for FREE! So, we sre following in culdeus footsteps and creating brews. :thumbup:

First beer we are making . . . . Hoppy Daze. :banned:
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What's in that kit? You'll need some ridiculously huge brew kettle. My 36 qt is really not big enough for what I'm doing I've found out.
 
If it is an auto siphon, you only need a few inches. Do you have a stool you can move in to the beer room for transfering?
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I'll probably just go ghetto and use cinder blocks or something like that. I don't trust any of my furniture to hold it up.
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you may be able to find a free barstool on craigslist or something - maybe a cheap one at a yard sale. Cinder blocks will work though.Tip: use the kitchen counter when bottling.

 
Oh, and I made a cluster#### out of botteling the other night... what a mess for 12 bottles (and two 5L minikegs).
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how? It doesn't really look to be all that big a PITA to bottle to me. I'm sure I'll make a big mess though.
 
A buddy of mine is getting a 10 gallon homebrew unit for FREE! So, we sre following in culdeus footsteps and creating brews.  :thumbup:

First beer we are making . . . . Hoppy Daze. :banned:
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What's in that kit? You'll need some ridiculously huge brew kettle. My 36 qt is really not big enough for what I'm doing I've found out.
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I have no idea. Just talked to him last night and his boss is upgrading so he is handing this one down. I can get some info and post it. Is 10g a lot? :unsure:
 
A buddy of mine is getting a 10 gallon homebrew unit for FREE! So, we sre following in culdeus footsteps and creating brews. :thumbup:

First beer we are making . . . . Hoppy Daze. :banned:
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What's in that kit? You'll need some ridiculously huge brew kettle. My 36 qt is really not big enough for what I'm doing I've found out.
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I have no idea. Just talked to him last night and his boss is upgrading so he is handing this one down. I can get some info and post it. Is 10g a lot? :unsure:
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That's like 2 cases of bombers and a 12 pack.I'd get a couple of those smaller kegs if I were you. Knowing how much beer you drink this will be nothing for you.

 
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A buddy of mine is getting a 10 gallon homebrew unit for FREE! So, we sre following in culdeus footsteps and creating brews.  :thumbup:

First beer we are making . . . . Hoppy Daze. :banned:
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What's in that kit? You'll need some ridiculously huge brew kettle. My 36 qt is really not big enough for what I'm doing I've found out.
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I have no idea. Just talked to him last night and his boss is upgrading so he is handing this one down. I can get some info and post it. Is 10g a lot? :unsure:
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That's like 2 cases of bombers and a 12 pack.I'd get a couple of those smaller kegs if I were you. Knowing how much beer you drink this will be nothing for you.
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I'll get more info. The odds of ME being wrong are pretty good being that I talked to him last night. Thats a little past my memory limit.
 
Oh, and I made a cluster#### out of botteling the other night... what a mess for 12 bottles (and two 5L minikegs).
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how? It doesn't really look to be all that big a PITA to bottle to me. I'm sure I'll make a big mess though.
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ugh... a few things.First, the lever on my bottling spigot broke (link) so I wound up switching it out with an older one... this was after I had already transfered the beer in to my bottling bucket.

The older spigot was bigger than the current one, and I had a hell of a time getting a hose on it.... I had to dig up a bigger hose - but didn't think of that for a good 30 mins.

The new spigot was leaking... so I wound up sticking my arm into the beer to tighten it (Sanitized the arm first FWIW). :rant:

I was using a spring tip bottle filler and some how managed to have the spring tip fall off inside the 2nd 5L mini-keg I was filling. :rant: :rant: That made a plesant mess.

I knocked over my drip bucket.

I spilled the beer I was drinking. :wall: :rant:

Fun times... the best part is, for some reason I waited until 10 PM to get started on that mes - haha!!

Still, It was good times....

 
That's like 2 cases of bombers and a 12 pack.
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It's probably about double that.FYI: most homebrewers work in 5 gallon batches... a 10 gallon kit would be like brewing a double batch.

 
That's like 2 cases of bombers and a 12 pack.
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It's probably about double that.FYI: most homebrewers work in 5 gallon batches... a 10 gallon kit would be like brewing a double batch.
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10 US gallons = 1 280 US fluid ouncesThat's 99 bottles of beer on the wall for you. :eek:

 
That's like 2 cases of bombers and a 12 pack.
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It's probably about double that.FYI: most homebrewers work in 5 gallon batches... a 10 gallon kit would be like brewing a double batch.
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See, the conversation could have easily been that the boss is getting a 10g kit and my buddy is getting a 5g. GDB weed. :hot:
 
Well, the stuff is sitting in the secondary fermenter and has gotten awfuly quiet. no activity to speak of that I can detect. I guess I should start taking SG's, but I don't have time to bottle till the weekend.

My second go round will be with a Pale Ale. I want something for football season that's poundable. Any recipies?

 
yeah, you're not going to get much activity in secondary... and it can sit in there for a few weeks if needed.

 
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