Quote from: brimo on January 01, 2012, 09:54:51 PM
The Irish Ale has turned out great, http://www.brewerschoice.com.au/images/stories/recipes/beer_recipes/maltsters%20shovel%20amber%20ale.pdf unfortunately it's too damn hot to be doing any brewing for the next couple of months.
(I'm too tight to build a cooler)

Saison.  'nough said.

I ferment my cider in a bathroom closet that is always cool.  It's got a plumbing panel for the tub, but it also keeps it cool since it opens directly to the crawlspace.  Even on 90º days in the summer it's usually around 65º in the bottom of that closet.

JM

That all grain gallon kit looks pretty awesome.  I have been doing extract brewing for a little while and this seems like a great way to get a hold of the all grain process without the hard part of the volume.  Of course a gallon of beer goes pretty quick so I'm sure it would be a short step. 

I've kicked around the idea of doing some 1 gallon batches just to try new beers.  Seems like the brew day would be a lot shorter than it is now just for the fact of staying inside the house and having running water available...

My girlfriend and I will be doing 1 gallon batches come our harvest of hops. We have 3 different ones going, so we should probably do a 3 gallon batch and split it, but I think the idea of having a tiny all grain sculpture on counter with a mini chiller would be funny as hell, so I'm gonna build it.

Moving my batch of cider I started in October to bottles finally!

JM

That's a long fermentation!

also:

Bubble bubble

IPA fermentation got out of hand today, luckily I caught it before it blew up everywhere.  Still some hop residue in the airlock, but sanitizer and hops won't hurt anything.

Lucky.

I luckily had gottan a free stand up fridge for my first blow out. Clogged the airlock, blew it and the krausen out, painting the entire fridge with yeast / hop material.

I have a 3 piece that had cracked so I permanently attached a hose and snag an empty juice container, milk jug the week I brew. I have thought about harvesting the yeast....

I think the reason I caught it was the fact that I'm fermenting in a winpak container and it can swell quite a bit.  If it were one of my carboys, it would have blown quite a bit earlier

How come Tht happens and how can you prevent it?

Vigorous fermentation. When you put the wort in the container and pitch your yeast, it farts out co2 (which is why we put airlocks on instead of sealing the container) and also creates of foamy layer of.krausen. if you put too much wort in, and don't have enough room for this to take place, it will blow out, which is why folks put a blow off tube. also while fermentation is active, it literally looks like someone is churning it with a stick, and some of the hop debris can get into the airlock and clog it, creating pressure from aforementioned co2 creation, until something fails.

It can be avoided with a blow off tube and a water/juice/milk jug filled with water, or just assuring you dont put too much wort in the fermentation vessel to begin with. I have a tendency to fill my carboys up all the way so I get more beer.

Yea the kit says to do that.. cool.. 

See, i was really surprised cause the winpak is a 6 gallon container, but actually can hold more like 6.5-7 gallons.  The IPA was about 5.5 gallons collected, yet it still went to town.

I decided to take the oppertunity (since I needed to pop the airlock off anyways) to toss in another ounce of hops.  mmmmmmmmm

Quote from: Punx Clever on January 02, 2012, 05:51:21 PM
That's a long fermentation!

No kidding.  I was hoping it would have been done in time to share for my post-Christmas trip to FL.

The 1/4th of the carboy I didn't get into bottles last night is still lazily bubbling.  STOP FERMENTING already!

JM

My ciders usually ferment for a month... what's the gravity at?