Home Brew

[Rabbitlicker]

Glycol Chiller in action....
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I'm curious...... Why are you using a glycol chiller AND a Spunding Valve at the same time at this time of year?

 

[Dotts]

I'm curious...... Why are you using a glycol chiller AND a Spunding Valve at the same time at this time of year?

Its Not under pressure everything is open.
just getting it down about 5°...was a fairly active yeast which warmed it up abit...

Then put about 2psi when calmed down, usually put a few more psi into when cold crashing to counter act the vacuum/implosion...

 

[Beil]

Glycol Chiller in action....
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Thought I spied a temp twister in that FV.
Mush less of a footprint than a fridge!

 

[Beil]

When the keg drops bright after a few days

 

[Hudo]

I went to pour one tonight and all i got was froth and i havnt had time to brew anything so im gunna have to go out to Loose Moose and get a couple filled. 90 bucks a keg still beats paying 60 bucks for a carton

 

[Beil]

I went to pour one tonight and all i got was froth and i havnt had time to brew anything so im gunna have to go out to Loose Moose and get a couple filled. 90 bucks a keg still beats paying 60 bucks for a carton

What's your fill of choice?

 

[Hudo]

I usually get the Asahi for the misses and the stone and wood clone, but last one tasted like honey and i wasn't a fandont know what happened unless they got em mixed up, so will probably try the moose pale this time

 

[Beil]

Double batch lager today.
Target:
46L
1.042 OG.
1.07FG
4.6%
5.25pH mash
Fermentis 34/70 lager yeast.
22IBU
5.1 SRM colour.
No water adjustment, just dechlorinated tap water. RO water would have been ideal for this one though to get minimal PPM with a few salt additions. My tap water already has a ≈2:1 (80:45) chloride:sulphate ratio with about 50ppm sodium :/ so just left as is.

Just coopers pale malt, carapils and a touch of eclipse wheat for colour, New Zealand Nectaron hops.
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[itchybro]

sorry not a home brewer but considering you have a refractometer have you ever used it to checkout your plant leaves ( brix )

 

[Beil]

sorry not a home brewer but considering you have a refractometer have you ever used it to checkout your plant leaves ( brix )

Nope, but I'll google how to. And what it tells you. all I can think is you put a leaf on it and hope you get some refraction THROUGH the leaf (if thats the actual way I'll eat my boot lol) ...or pulverise X grams of leaf with X grams of distilled water and measure?

 

[Beil]

Ohh, just press out some leaf juice.... that does seems the obvious way now lol.

Oh shit, it will actually tell me really useful information .
Cheers, will definitely be trying it.

 

[itchybro]

Nope, but I'll google how to. And what it tells you. all I can think is you put a leaf on it and hope you get some refraction THROUGH the leaf (if thats the actual way I'll eat my boot lol) ...or pulverise X grams of leaf with X grams of distilled water and measure

yeah you can just use a garlic crusher or something you can crush a leaf with to measure the leaf juice sugars

 

[Beil]

I can do that for any plant in the garden I take it... the olive, the peacharine, the plum, the mulberry...
Last season I got my fertigation (well, the nutrient aspect( sorted to feed via a venturi with proper agricultural feetilisers, rather than just soending heaps on powerfeed, next season i guess I cam check how they're doing along the way!
Interesting

 

[itchybro]

yes it would be interesting because they say plants bottle fed ( so to speak ) can't reach the highs Brix wise as a biologically fed plant , hence the bottle fed plants need a more intense IPM plan to keep pest & pathogens well in check , talking monocropping / large ag here