New Year, whatcha getting, and other brewing chatter time kill

General Homebrew Discussion
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Actually I’m adding 2 new lazy brewer procedures. The other one is mash recirculation. I used to make an aluminum foil cap with slits in it, and place that on top of my mash. Then recirculation hose flows onto that. I was thinking channeling when I first started doing it, which is not an issue because I’m not fly soaring. But I just kept making them out of habit. Reading Martin’s comment on another thread, that just running the hose into the top is fine and will reduce mash O2dation, I’ve decided to just do it.

Looking forward to not making the foil disk, and not fishing it out after runoff. And looking forward to even more amazing results from this low effort LODO technique.

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Sorry to break it to you but that won’t do anything for ya!

A stepping stone maybe? [emoji6]

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With everything being so much easier, I bet you will feel like you’re fly soaring.  Gotta love autocorrupt!

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Of course it will.  It may not do what you would have him do, but it will make his brew day easier and more fun.

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Agreed. I meant that it won’t do anything oxygen related. Will certainly simplify things though.

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It’s vorlauf. I think it will get my running somewhat more clear of grain bits than just dumping the whole thing into the boil. So there’s that.

I’m an HSA denier, so actually the O2dation part is just to fit in. I realize it won’t prevent HSA but I don’t believe it exists anyway.

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And the people most emphatic about keeping grain bits out of the boil are the ones who just did a decoction mash…is anything real?!:thinking:

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For the record Jim: I wasn’t trying to antagonize you. I recognized the humor I’m sure you intended and was only about 10% serious.

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We’re totally good! No problems

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Of course if you are ever interested in new methods, we got your back!

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Awesome! You want to boil a third of your grain for an hour, but you don’t want to boil just 3 bits of grain at all, ever.

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Unsure of my boil off rate with these new burners, I added a new instrument. It’s called a stick with a line on it at 6.25 gallons. The extra .25 is to account for boil expansion. Gladbi did because they started out with a crazy boil and I dialed it down just a smidge too much. 60 min measure showed I needed an extra few minutes to hit 6.25. Ain’t science neat?

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First thing when I get a new kettle, I take a piece of 1/2" PVC pipe and make a dip stick covering the range of any volume I might want to know.  They’d charge a lot more to put calibration marks inside your kettle – and you’d have to stick your head in the boil to see them!

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Same thing I do.

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I’ve had my old burners since my first all grain. They were so consistent I never bothered with measuring final boil volume. I was due probably.

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Overshot my target OG. Wanted 1.060, got 1.062. Made my day! The brewing gods caused me to go out of style guidelines.

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That’s because in the true religion of the brewing gods, style guidelines are heretical books.

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You guys put way too much work into brewing, I’m down to 2 gallon 20 min boils - all DME w/ hopshots, fill with cold tap water, sprinkle in W34/70 and into the basement. Takes maybe an hour - tops, have to wait for it to boil ya know but maybe not even…  Award winning beer!  Seriously, try it! :wink:

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Awesome!

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You ever get in such a routine that if one thing changes you drop the ball on something else? This happens to me frequently.

Yesterday I decided not to rack from BK to fermenter, but rather just pump it in as soon as I hit pitching temp. Well that meant not having to drag my auto siphon out and sanitize it in the fermenter. Usually I also put my O2 wand in there at the same time.

Well, I got all done brewing. Yeast pitched. Cleaning done. Brewery put away. Gear put away. Hey! My O2 wand is sitting in a keg of iodophor in the hobby room, where I put it that morning after oxygenating my yeast starters. Crap! I forgot to oxygenate my beers before pitching! It had only been an hour, so I just went out and oxygenated them post pitching.

Funny how changing one thing can disrupt the stuff you just do automatically.

If these turn out to be the best beers ever, do you think I will oxygenate post pitch from now on? Uh, yes!