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It’s Beer Thirty FReepers! Time For The Homebrewing / Wine Making Thread #2 June 8,2012
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Posted on 06/08/2012 3:28:55 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232

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41 posted on 06/08/2012 5:45:12 PM PDT by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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Multitasking. Watching UFC Live on on FX, on my 3rd 14% or better IPA, making tacos for 125 people for kids open house tomorrow, monitoring this thread.

Life is good.

42 posted on 06/08/2012 5:47:24 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (Politics is fake. I think it's owned by Vince Mcmahon)
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43 posted on 06/08/2012 5:50:24 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Manic_Episode

Wow tacos for 125 pepole. Do they get to eat more than one? sounds like a chore glad it is not me doing that.


44 posted on 06/08/2012 5:53:59 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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I will brew mine up next week. From the reviews I have read it is a winner!


45 posted on 06/08/2012 5:55:40 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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One more thing: Could you add me to your ping list? Thanks!


46 posted on 06/08/2012 6:01:16 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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If I had three of those those tacos would not get made! LOL


47 posted on 06/08/2012 6:02:58 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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48 posted on 06/08/2012 6:05:14 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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Add me to the ping list please. Thanks


49 posted on 06/08/2012 6:25:30 PM PDT by KirbDog
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This weekend I'm working on an oatmeal stout, a partial-mash brew with 5 pounds of Maris Otter malt, a pound of roasted barley, a pound of British chocolate, carapils (for head retention), a pound of Quaker oats, and the balance of the malt done up with six pounds of liquid malt extract. Fuggles hops all around. I've done this one all-grain, but I've found that using the partial-mash technique I can confine the entire thing indoors, using my electric stovetop for the boil. I've got a nice 40-quart stainless kettle that will bring five or six gallons to a boil in just about 25 minutes. My mash tun is a 10-gallon Rubbermaid cooler with a stainless-steel toilet supply line, which is ideal for the home brewer who wants to brew fantastic beer easily without turning his house into a commercial brewery!
50 posted on 06/08/2012 6:28:24 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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The longer you bulk condition the beer in the secondary is sometime very beneficial.

Most definitely! I started my brewing hobby with Mr. Beer, which leads people to think that you can bottle beer after a week of fermentation, and drink it at two or three weeks. Wrong! You need patience to brew good beer! After the initial fermentation, get it off the sediment and transfer to secondary (even if it's no longer fermenting!) and let it mellow for at least two or three weeks before bottling. After bottling, give it at least three weeks before drinking. If you're brewing ales, and you've got an extra refrigerator, age it at around 50 degrees Fahrenheit for that three weeks--add a little ale yeast before bottling, since the cold temperatures will play havoc on the residual yeast you need for carbonation. You'll be rewarded with beer that's every bit as good as some of the finest name-brand beers available.

51 posted on 06/08/2012 6:34:46 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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52 posted on 06/08/2012 6:44:28 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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How much yeast do you add to each bottle when refrigerating?


53 posted on 06/08/2012 6:50:17 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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How much yeast do you add to each bottle when refrigerating?

Actually, I add it just before bottling--only if I've been cold conditioning beforehand. I add about a third of a packet of dry ale yeast to the entire batch, along with my carbonation sugar, for five gallons. It's just to make sure you've got enough viable yeast to produce carbonation.

54 posted on 06/08/2012 7:01:30 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I typically leave my beer in the primary for two weeks and do a two to three week secondary/mellowing.


55 posted on 06/08/2012 7:02:39 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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This thread is worthless without free samples.


56 posted on 06/08/2012 7:14:48 PM PDT by Principle Over Politics (Obamney or Rombama 2012. Two sides of the same coin. Pick your poisen!)
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My oldest graduated last year and we had somewhere around 100 people at his open house. Planning around that number.

My motto is anything worth doing is worth overdoing, so I figure everyone should be able to eat as much as they want.

We will probably have so many leftovers we will probably hate tacos for life after the next week.

Crazy week. We had a surprise party for my daughters 16th Birthday last night. Thankfully my Mom chopped up 10 heads of lettuce and 25 tomatoes today. I cooked up 25 lbs of taco meat, chopped up about 5 lbs of onions, and cooked up 25 cups of Spanish rice.

Moms transmission went out tonight on her way to my nephews graduation ceremony and she is buying a house on Monday.

On top of all that I am putting together a worship service for church Sunday.

It's all coming together in spite of adverse circumstances.

Loving it.

57 posted on 06/08/2012 7:22:18 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.)
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Sounds like your week is living up to your screen name.


58 posted on 06/08/2012 7:52:14 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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I’m a newbie wine/mead/beer maker. Been making fruit wines for a couple of year now. We have also brewed 5 batches of beer (extract with specialty grains). And I’m working on my 3rd batch of mead (which is taking a month of Sundays to ferment).

As I type, I’m drinking some homemade wine made from Welches grape concentrate. Not bad for cheap drinking wine.

We have some cream ale to bottle tomorrow and I have no idea what it’s going to taste like. I’m hoping for a “lawnmower beer”.

But, more importantly we made a breakfast stout a few weeks ago and it is ready to drink! It has coffee and chocolate in it. It came out pretty darned good! (Okay, it has a few coffee grounds in it, but these things happen). So, we will be drinking this while bottling tomorrow.

We plan to eventually start kegging our beer instead of bottling. Hubby wants to get a freezer and convert it to a “keezer”. Been looking at a small freezer at Costco. But the cost of the freezer, corney kegs, Co2 tank, and all the other bits and pieces are a bit more than we can afford right now. So we will be bottling for a while. With two of us, it doesn’t take too long to bottle (ugh, I would hate to bottle 5 gallons of beer by myself, it would take forever).

Okay, I’m thinking I need to be added to the ping list (not that I’m sure how that works). I’m mostly a lurker and this would be my 1st FR ping list.


59 posted on 06/08/2012 8:57:27 PM PDT by cg56 (Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?)
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Added to the ping list.

I hear you on the cost of kegging. It is hindering me also.

Bottling day around here is just me. I don’t mind it since I bought a spring loaded bottle filling wand no leaks or messes. Capping is still a chore for me, using a red hand capper,

Being added to the ping list is easy. I do all the work to get you pinged to the thread each week. Just sit back and wait for the ping. You will get the same red notification at the top of the page just like you got when I sent you this reply.


60 posted on 06/08/2012 9:15:23 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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