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Brew Day V2.0

this was the kick-off event, last Thursday evening

https://www.garfield-conservatory.org/events/beer-under-glass.html

(a nice place to be instead of watching the Bulls get eliminated...)

Thanks for the beer history lesson~

I don't think there was a beer served with less than a 5 APV. Maybe a couple of 4.5s but most were 6-8.5 ABV. Some I think went as high as 10!

Perhaps workers today can hold their liquor better than workers of a century ago. Or maybe they're doing less precise and less manually skilled labor where a bit of a buzz isn't going to matter. Most today probably spend their time after lunch playing computer games anyhow. Or visiting message boards...
 
I'm still pretty excited about my new brewery and want to add more photos and posts, etc, but it's going to be a long project and pretty incremental from here on out. I have a lot of work to do in my garage. I need some plumbing work done. I need a lot of finishing work on the walls, and I may paint the floor. I need to install a vent hood and quality fan. A lot of stuff.

I have a functional brewery right now, but I don't have anything I'd want to show off.

I'd love to have an open brew day when I get where I'm trying to go. But until then updates here might be slow.
 
Gameface said:
I'm still pretty excited about my new brewery and want to add more photos and posts, etc, but it's going to be a long project and pretty incremental from here on out. I have a lot of work to do in my garage. I need some plumbing work done. I need a lot of finishing work on the walls, and I may paint the floor. I need to install a vent hood and quality fan. A lot of stuff.

I have a functional brewery right now, but I don't have anything I'd want to show off.

I'd love to have an open brew day when I get where I'm trying to go. But until then updates here might be slow.
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Translation: I'm building a meth lab to look like a brewery.
 
TroutBum said:
Translation: I'm building a sous vide kitchen to look like a brewery.
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fixed

I've actually only made beer on my new system twice but I've used it to make sous vide six times, including tonight when I'm making steaks in one vessel and broccoli in another.

There are some purpose built sous vide machines out there and for anyone interested in trying it it has some amazing benefits. I didn't like it for tilapia filets, but I did like it for lobster tails and it is absolutely perfect for steaks.

With steak you put them in individual vacuum sealed bags (I use foodsaver) drop them in the water held at 130F for 1-4 hours, pull them out and quickly sear them in a red hot pan. Only about 30s per side. Or, use a bernzomatic torch to sear the outside. Less than 1mm of gray overcooked meat around the edges and the rest is perfectly medium rare. PERFECTLY MEDIUM RARE from edge to edge all the way to the center.
 
I'm most of the way through my first ever double brew day and I've got to say that I LOVE my new brew system.

It's been a long day, but at the end of it I'll have over 20 gallons of beer fermenting that I hope has a good run in this year's Beehive Brew Off. I've never made so much beer in one day before.

One thing I will be correcting soon is that for back-to-back batches I really need three pumps. Unfortunately I didn't think of that before I laid out the panel and I don't want to make new cuts now with everything installed, so I'm going to end up having a side panel to turn the third pump on/off.

I might still make a single batch here and there, but I think double brew days are going to become my new norm.

I have a lot of work to do polishing up the brewing area but once I'm done (it might be a year from now, or more) I want to have an open brew day where I invite anyone interested to come over and hang out while I use my brewery. I'm really happy and a little bit proud with what I've got going.
 
Gameface said:
I'm most of the way through my first ever double brew day and I've got to say that I LOVE my new brew system.

It's been a long day, but at the end of it I'll have over 20 gallons of beer fermenting that I hope has a good run in this year's Beehive Brew Off. I've never made so much beer in one day before.

One thing I will be correcting soon is that for back-to-back batches I really need three pumps. Unfortunately I didn't think of that before I laid out the panel and I don't want to make new cuts now with everything installed, so I'm going to end up having a side panel to turn the third pump on/off.

I might still make a single batch here and there, but I think double brew days are going to become my new norm.

I have a lot of work to do polishing up the brewing area but once I'm done (it might be a year from now, or more) I want to have an open brew day where I invite anyone interested to come over and hang out while I use my brewery. I'm really happy and a little bit proud with what I've got going.
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I will be more than honored of 'inspecting' that new brewing system ☺️
 
As a side note, the beers made today are Third Cousin (Scottish Export Ale) and Pistol Porter (English Brown Porter). They should both come in around 5%abv and both are malty beers with little hop bitterness and very little hop flavor/aroma.

On tap I currently have a batch of UGLI Baby (Imperial IPA), clocking in at 9%abv and boasting more than a pound of hops, Amarillo being the featured variety. I also just kegged a Citra/Rye IPA, with an ABV of 7% and bursting with citrus aroma and flavor. No name yet for this beer as I was finally getting around to using rye and experimenting at the same time with a current hot hop, Citra. My wife absolutely loved the sample she tried and this is the best I've ever done at delivering tons of hop aroma, in this case citrusy/grapefruit aroma. I'm really happy with this beer so far. I may end up entering UGLI Baby and this beer in the brew off along with my English style beers.
 
Unless someone wants to tell me why it's dumb, I'm naming my Citra(hop)/Rye(grain) IPA "Stifle Tower IPA"

So shall it be written, so shall it be done!

Oh yeah, and when I enter it in this year's Beehive Brew Off I'm going to list, as my co-brewer, Rudy Gobert. I figure that's okay.
 
bigb said:
I'm going to get offended if I don't get something named after me.
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I think a Barleywine is a good choice. Big B Barleywine.

But... and no offense the poster Stifle Tower, the beer isn't named after the poster really. Same for UGLI Baby to an extent, but a little less so because with that one it was something I brewed because he said Hop Rising ruined other beer for him so I made a beer along the same lines as Hop Rising and used his name, but in both cases I think the names are good beer names.
 
Gameface said:
I think a Barleywine is a good choice. Big B Barleywine.

But... and no offense the poster Stifle Tower, the beer isn't named after the poster really. Same for UGLI Baby to an extent, but a little less so because with that one it was something I brewed because he said Hop Rising ruined other beer for him so I made a beer along the same lines as Hop Rising and used his name, but in both cases I think the names are good beer names.
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I said it (mostly) in jest. It doesn't exactly make sense to name a beer after a non-drinker.
 
Gameface said:
Unless someone wants to tell me why it's dumb, I'm naming my Citra(hop)/Rye(grain) IPA "Stifle Tower IPA"

So shall it be written, so shall it be done!

Oh yeah, and when I enter it in this year's Beehive Brew Off I'm going to list, as my co-brewer, Rudy Gobert. I figure that's okay.
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Genius
Nobody ****s with da rudy
 
bigb said:
I'm going to get offended if I don't get something named after me.
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Why would he want to name a beer "lil biotch?"

(I was just kidding btw..... Please don't kill me)
 
fishonjazz said:
Why would he want to name a beer "lil biotch?"

(I was just kidding btw..... Please don't kill me)
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Gameface said:
On tap I currently have a batch of UGLI Baby (Imperial IPA), clocking in at 9%abv and boasting more than a pound of hops, Amarillo being the featured variety.
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Duder, do you ever ship your libations? I would love to purchase a couple of bottles of this stuff.
 
VINYLONE said:
Duder, do you ever ship your libations? I would love to purchase a couple of bottles of this stuff.
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I did recently and it was a disappointing experience for me and the recipient. Not sure what went wrong but the bottles were completely flat upon arrival. Of course, flat beer doesn't taste right but I would expect most people haven't tasted the same beer completely flat and carbed, so I think the assumption was that the beer wasn't very good, carbed or not. Not to mention that if the seal wasn't good then oxygen most likely got in and that is a real flavor killer as well.

I've changed up my bottling procedure but I really don't bottle very much at all. Looking ahead a little I'm going to have way more beer than I have room to store in kegs so I'm going to need to bottle a lot of it.
 
VINYLONE said:
Duder, do you ever ship your libations? I would love to purchase a couple of bottles of this stuff.
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As far as purchasing, I wouldn't sell my beer. People talk about buying it on occasion and I know they're trying to be polite instead of just asking for a freebie, but making 10 gallons at a time, as much as that sounds like it is, it absolutely isn't worth it to me to sell. Letting people try it is one thing, selling it means that there's some expectation of quality that I don't want to be responsible for. And I'm not saying this is the case, but I think most people would guess that it would be worth it to me to sell beer at less than what an average craft beer costs, and that's just not the case. So it just isn't worth going down that road at all, besides the fact that it isn't legal to sell homebrew.
 
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