3rd homebrew is about to start fermentation

"OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars" (jakeauern) 07/02/2018 at 23:42 • Filed to: None

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Belgian Saison seemed interesting.

2 degrees from being chilled!

AestheticsInMotion > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 07/02/2018 at 23:46

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One of these days you ought to make a BBQ post. I would read the he out of that 

Nibby > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 07/02/2018 at 23:58

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i have a song in my music library called “fermenting innards”

TahoeSTi > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 07/03/2018 at 00:26

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If you are doing partial boils you can add Cold bottled water or Ice to cool it down faster....if not a wort chiller will save you a ton of time.....wort chiller plus a pile of snow is even better I can crash 10 gallons from boil to 70 in 15mins.....20ish with out the snow. 

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > TahoeSTi 07/03/2018 at 00:46

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For the one gallons this has worked out great. If we upgrade to 5 gallons, the wort chilled might be a good answer. snow in middle Tennessee does not happen that often 

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > AestheticsInMotion 07/03/2018 at 00:47

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We’re doing a whole go this weekend and I’m going to write a RFD post  on our smoker. It’s a big boy we call tank. 

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Nibby 07/03/2018 at 01:03

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Metal gives me baaad anxiety. It’s really weird. 

Nibby > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 07/03/2018 at 08:37

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cute

TahoeSTi > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 07/03/2018 at 10:02

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I thought it was a partial boil , didn’t realize you were doing a 1 gallon batches. When I started brewing i would do a 2 or 3 gallon really high gravity boil and then just add 2 or 3 gallons of cold water after to cool it down before a pitched yeast.  

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > TahoeSTi 07/03/2018 at 10:05

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I had to do that on my first brew because as an accountant and not basically any other career, I th ought a gallon was 64 ounces. Went through all the motions making it high gravity, then added water at the end. T he beer turned out surprisingly okay. Not good, but okay.

thejustache > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 07/03/2018 at 12:20

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Nice! My next beer is going to be a Saison. Given that it’s only my second homebrew (4 th if you count helping friends) it might be a bad idea, but I’m going to try going off the beaten path and modifying a recipe from the internet. I want to try making a Saison with dandelions (Like Fantome’s Pissenlit, there are a few others) so I collected and froze a few bags this spring.

What yeast are you using? In my reading there seems to be a lot of back and forth about different saison yeasts

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > thejustache 07/03/2018 at 12:24

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I got a kit from Brewers Best as I’m still learning the science and methods behind brewing and don’t need to be worrying about the ingredients yet haha. This is what came in my kit though .

thejustache > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 07/24/2018 at 14:15

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One of your more recent posts led me back here, where I can report I brewed my dandelion S aison on Saturday. I ended up using that same yeast as the homebrew shop was out of the one I wanted to try. How is your progressing?

Not sure if it was the heavy OG of my recipe , the warm fermenting temperatures, or how I started the yeast before pitching but about 6 hours after brewing the fermentation took off and started going absolutely gangbusters. It plugged the airlock and shot it out like a cork gun, beer volcanoing my closet in the process. Thankfully I caught it pretty quicky and was able to put a tray in it and some tin foil over the carboy as there was too much pressure to put the airlock back. Going to put it back in tonight now that it calmed down and hope nothing bad happened....

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > thejustache 07/24/2018 at 14:21

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I think I know what happened to you! You need a 2 gallon bucket with a airlock lid. That happened to me too and now I do primary fermentation in the 2 gallon and then after 1 week, put it in the 1 gallon carboy for 2 weeks . My Belgian Saison should be ready to drink next Tuesday but my pine apple honey wheat ended up in a little too pineapple -y. Whoops.

thejustache > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 07/24/2018 at 14:59

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I think you are 100% correct, although I brew 5 gallon batches so scaled up I think I need a 7 or 8 gallon primary fermentation bucket (:

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > thejustache 07/24/2018 at 15:31

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Ah yes. I would probably get a 10 gallon . 2x volume to liquid.