Houston/Katy Cane Island Alers is doing the awards for Operation Fermentation tomorrow. We're raffling off $10K in goodies. Our best ever haul. Which is includes over 20 sacks of grain. Gonna be nuts. Our grand prize is a can seamer.
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See you there! I'll have a bottle of yabba dabba-betes to share!
damn! wish i could go
That's awesome! Did you enter any beers for judging?
lne2011 said:
That's awesome! Did you enter any beers for judging?
I don't compete. I judge and help put the whole thing together. It's easier if I have zero conflicts of interest.
IronRed13 said:
See you there! I'll have a bottle of yabba dabba-betes to share!
Did you already buy your ticket? We're just about sold out and will most likely not have any at the door.
Bought it weeks ago. Great event, 2nd year for me. I don't compete per se, but most of the beers entered by my buddy I brewed with him.
IronRed13 said:
Bought it weeks ago. Great event, 2nd year for me. I don't compete per se, but most of the beers entered by my buddy I brewed with him.
Cool. The venue is being sticky about "No guests walking around with glass bottles" policy. We will have a bottle share table in the room with vendors and all the beer.
Successful Tripel brew day. Missed my pre-boil volume by about a gallon too low, so the gravity into boil was higher than anticipated. I just reduced how vigorous the boil was to get less boil off, and hit my post-boil volume and gravity on the nose.
Chilled for 30 minutes with my immersion chiller and pre-chiller (in an ice bath) to get down under 90F, and into the fermentation chamber to cool down to pitching temps. Should be there by later this evening, hopefully. Starter was cold-crashed the last two nights, and it's out and decanted, so ready to pitch when I get down to 69F. Going to ferment there for 3 days or so, then let it rise to 75F and hold there until I hit FG.
Chilled for 30 minutes with my immersion chiller and pre-chiller (in an ice bath) to get down under 90F, and into the fermentation chamber to cool down to pitching temps. Should be there by later this evening, hopefully. Starter was cold-crashed the last two nights, and it's out and decanted, so ready to pitch when I get down to 69F. Going to ferment there for 3 days or so, then let it rise to 75F and hold there until I hit FG.
WLP530 is no joke. Second time using it, so I knew to use a blowoff tube...should have used a bigger glass (I put a 1gal jug in there now).
anybody out there have the anvil brew bucket? i'm thinking of upgrading to one for ease of sampling, cleaning, dry-hopping, etc.
I think @62Strat has one, but I can't find the post. Might have been a different brand.
Stubby's isn't getting any wet hops this year. I'm just gonna do another Imprerial IPA/Brut IPA partigyle. 9 oz of hops (6oz dry) between the two batches.
Stubby's isn't getting any wet hops this year. I'm just gonna do another Imprerial IPA/Brut IPA partigyle. 9 oz of hops (6oz dry) between the two batches.
where do yall buy your stuff for brewing? Looking to start. Any tips for fresh beginner?
I buy from several different places, depending on price and availability. Austin Homebrew Supply is usually a good spot, and they generally have free shipping on ingredients if you order enough. Depending on where you're located, there could also be a homebrew store in your area. A number of them in the DFW area have closed in recent months, though. 2 of the ones I used the most have.
Most hombrew stores and suppliers (online or brick & mortar) will have starter kits that come with just about everything you need to get started. I got mine from Northern Brewer several years ago, and have added equipment since then to get to what I have now.
Most hombrew stores and suppliers (online or brick & mortar) will have starter kits that come with just about everything you need to get started. I got mine from Northern Brewer several years ago, and have added equipment since then to get to what I have now.
PMC2012 said:
where do yall buy your stuff for brewing? Looking to start. Any tips for fresh beginner?
Where do you live?
CL is a great place to look for brewing gear. A lot of people are exiting the hobby and prices are cheap. Also look for a local Homebrew club and go to some of their meetings. Just say you're new and looking to start. A lot is dictated by your living/storage constraints.
san antonio
I saw defalcos in Houston is closing.
Link plz
oh no!
they and the foam rangers are where i started. I helped them move from the old smaller shop down to the current one.
they and the foam rangers are where i started. I helped them move from the old smaller shop down to the current one.
SON OF A B%&^H
PMC2012 said:
san antonio
I'd look here for clubs near you:
https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/community/clubs/
Scroll down a bit, then look them up on FB. Find a meeting and introduce yourself or contact the president. Go out and meet some people.
A starter kit is just that, you'll make some beer but there's a lot more to it and people can explain why you need this or that. The biggest thing is fermentation temp control. For ales you, generally, need to be between 60-70F. Ambient temps in your home probably isn't ideal. But it's also a hobby you can grow into.
thank you sir
ChipFTAC01 said:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.houstonchronicle.com/business/amp/DeFalco-s-home-brew-shop-taps-out-amid-craft-14308102.php
Yup, Birdwell is done. Not trying to sell and is just closing. 20% off everything right now. We had some FR members at our event a few weeks ago, big blow to their club. Was such a crazy well stocked store too. But hell and gone from where I live.
So about the price you can get it from austinhomebrew.com?AlaskanAg99 said:ChipFTAC01 said:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.houstonchronicle.com/business/amp/DeFalco-s-home-brew-shop-taps-out-amid-craft-14308102.php
Yup, Birdwell is done. Not trying to sell and is just closing. 20% off everything right now.
Sorry.. maybe that was a bit too low of a blow!
I only ever shopped there if I needed one or two small items that either wouldn't be free shipping, or adding $8 shipping wouldn't be worth it. Like a few pounds of specialty grain, a single bag of hops, etc.
I remember at one point, I could get 4oz of hops for same price shipped from farmhousesupply as 1oz at de falcos!
But, on that note, my first homebrew kit came from there.. My then gf begrudgingly made the 50 mile trek there to surprise me with a kit for my bday back in 2008. Now she has to deal with sacrificing our third slot in garage and about 200sf of the basement for the hobby!
bmc13 said:
anybody out there have the anvil brew bucket? i'm thinking of upgrading to one for ease of sampling, cleaning, dry-hopping, etc.
Ornlu said:
I think @62Strat has one, but I can't find the post. Might have been a different brand.
Stubby's isn't getting any wet hops this year. I'm just gonna do another Imprerial IPA/Brut IPA partigyle. 9 oz of hops (6oz dry) between the two batches.
I have a spike brewing conical - CF10.
62strat said:So about the price you can get it from austinhomebrew.com?AlaskanAg99 said:ChipFTAC01 said:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.houstonchronicle.com/business/amp/DeFalco-s-home-brew-shop-taps-out-amid-craft-14308102.php
Yup, Birdwell is done. Not trying to sell and is just closing. 20% off everything right now.
Sorry.. maybe that was a bit too low of a blow!
I only ever shopped there if I needed one or two small items that either wouldn't be free shipping, or adding $8 shipping wouldn't be worth it. Like a few pounds of specialty grain, a single bag of hops, etc.
I remember at one point, I could get 4oz of hops for same price shipped from farmhousesupply as 1oz at de falcos!
But, on that note, my first homebrew kit came from there.. My then gf begrudgingly made the 50 mile trek there to surprise me with a kit for my bday back in 2008. Now she has to deal with sacrificing our third slot in garage and about 200sf of the basement for the hobby!
I have no loyality to the shop. Not hurting my feelings. I've taken BJCP exams there and that's about it. All the LHBS are hurting because online shops are killing them. We kind of expect Farmboy:Katy to fail at some point, but it won't be as big a blow to my club as the FR.
Whole hobby is contracting and I've got 9 sacks of basemalt to start using. It'll be a barelywine life for awhile.
It's interesting the article talks about the decline of home brewing is due to the availability of so many beers.
when I started in '08, there were what, a few thousand breweries in the US? Not exactly slim pickings. I can see this theory working if comparing it to early 90s homebrewing when there maybe 600 breweries in the US. But craft beer started exploding more than a decade ago, way before this apparent decline in homebrewing. There has been every style of beer on just about every shelf for a really long time now.
Oh well.. sucks either way to see a 50 year old business fail due to unforeseeable trends.
when I started in '08, there were what, a few thousand breweries in the US? Not exactly slim pickings. I can see this theory working if comparing it to early 90s homebrewing when there maybe 600 breweries in the US. But craft beer started exploding more than a decade ago, way before this apparent decline in homebrewing. There has been every style of beer on just about every shelf for a really long time now.
Oh well.. sucks either way to see a 50 year old business fail due to unforeseeable trends.
People who were brewing in the late 90's to early 00's are aging out and brewing less. Younger people aren't becoming "lifestyle" Brewers, may blame the recession and lingering impact on how people spend money, cost of living and available space.
Social media has changed things with the desire to "tick" beers and move on and the explosion of breweries in the last decade has fueled that.
Just a bunch of different forces at work.
Social media has changed things with the desire to "tick" beers and move on and the explosion of breweries in the last decade has fueled that.
Just a bunch of different forces at work.
All that, I completely agree with. Totally not related to having more beer choices today though, in my opinion. It's not like choices were limited 10 years ago.
When your mash is too warm, throw in a frozen water bottle.
Yesterday was a perfect brew day. First batch was a 1.075 Imperial IPA, with 90IBUs. Second batch was a 1.052 Brut IPA, with 10IBUs. Mash pH was withing 0.05 of my calculated value too. Both batches hit the OG within 2 points. Only mistake was that I misread the first hop schedule so I dropped my whirlpool hops at 5 mins left in the boil for the first batch. Both got exactly 5.75 gallons in the fermenter. Both are happily bubbling away at 68F right now.
I feel like I've hit my stride as a brewer. Now I just need to improve my pallet...
I feel like I've hit my stride as a brewer. Now I just need to improve my pallet...
How do you do two batches back to back? What redundancies are there in your process?
I've been doing partigyles. One mash, but two boils. First batch is high-grav from the first runnings. Second batch is low-grav, from the second runnings. I mix some of the first and second runnings to get my first batch preboil grav and volume on the nose, then add adjunct sugar (agave, dextrose, mollases, etc depending on style) to hit the second batch grav. Gets me about 82 percent overall efficiency, which usually breaks down as 105% on first runnings and 60% for the second.
With a single mash, the two batches have to be similar malts; definitely can't do a stout+kolsch, but I can do a Belgian strong+kolsch. I also don't really clean the kettle or chiller between the two batches. I start the second boil while the first is still chilling.
With a single mash, the two batches have to be similar malts; definitely can't do a stout+kolsch, but I can do a Belgian strong+kolsch. I also don't really clean the kettle or chiller between the two batches. I start the second boil while the first is still chilling.
That is very cool
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