beer Hey PASSOW! HOWZ THA HOMEBREW??

cheezydemon

cheezydemon

Tried for a minute to find your brewing thread. GOT BORED!!

Your first few batches must have been sampled by now. How were they?

I don't expect perfection from a noob, so don't be shy!

What happened?
 
Got damn near perfection on them. I'll sumerise from first to last:

Passow's Chili-Wine- Not a bad 1st attenpt.
Passow's Imperial Pumpkin Ale- Little sour (used too much Belgium Candi Sugar), but at 12%, it's aging nicely.
Passow's Senatorial Brunette 1- Was supposed to be a Blonde, came out too dark and too low in ABV. Very tasty session beer.
Passow's Stoned Clone Stout- TOP NOTICE. By far my best beer and everyone agrees.
Passow's Senatorial Brunette 2- Came out a little hoppier and higher abv. GOing to be my first all grain recipy in a week or two and will soon become the basis for my Blackberry beer.
Passow's Bourbin Oaked Bell Ringer- Too soon to tell, tasty, but too soon. Probably needs another month or three.

Just finished my all grain set up (well, still need a propain tank and high temperature tubing). More brews to come.
 
Nice Work!

High temp tubing? Just drain your mash tun into your brew kettle.

Wort should be cooled in the kettle before transferring.

You aren't making a brew stand are you??? That would be bad ass.

Just bottled My
Hazmat IIPA. (Imperial IPA)

I think a barleywine is next on deck. Something I can age until november.:)

Glad you got the bug!
 
cheezydemon said:
Nice Work!

High temp tubing? Just drain your mash tun into your brew kettle.

Wort should be cooled in the kettle before transferring.

You aren't making a brew stand are you??? That would be bad ass.

Just bottled My
Hazmat IIPA. (Imperial IPA)

I think a barleywine is next on deck. Something I can age until november.:)

Glad you got the bug!
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The high temp tubing is needed for sparging. Once I get the tubing, I'll take a pic for you guys to see. And yes, I'm going to make a brew stand.
 
AGAIN: tubing not needed for sparging.

Are you still on homebrewtalk.com ???

Sorry, I am just still on AG on the cheap. No tubing needed.
 
cheezydemon said:
AGAIN: tubing not needed for sparging.

Are you still on homebrewtalk.com ???

Sorry, I am just still on AG on the cheap. No tubing needed.
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No offense ment by this, but, are you sure you are brewing right? I've read up on 8 books for the subject, learned from many actual brewers (that operate breweries), been to homebrew meetings, and had my system designed by a nuclear engineer....high temp tubing is needed. You have to sparge at 170+ degrees F to stop sugar conversion in all grain brewing.............maybe we are miss comunicating on something and I'm not understanding on what your set up is like.
 
imaguitargod said:
No offense ment by this, but, are you sure you are brewing right? I've read up on 8 books for the subject, learned from many actual brewers (that operate breweries), been to homebrew meetings, and had my system designed by a nuclear engineer....high temp tubing is needed. You have to sparge at 170+ degrees F to stop sugar conversion in all grain brewing.............maybe we are miss comunicating on something and I'm not understanding on what your set up is like.
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what books did you read? i bought the one you suggested just this past friday. i'm already planning a first brew (Bethlehem, PA homebrew store this coming Sat., i'll be there). The Mr. Beer stuff turned out great i must say. Not "the best", but damn drinkable with a nice body and great head (like i like my broads meheh!).
 
fineexampl said:
what books did you read? i bought the one you suggested just this past friday. i'm already planning a first brew (Bethlehem, PA homebrew store this coming Sat., i'll be there). The Mr. Beer stuff turned out great i must say. Not "the best", but damn drinkable with a nice body and great head (like i like my broads meheh!).
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I'd have to go look them up and right now I've got the case of the lazies...
 
I dump hot water into my mash tun to sparge at 170 or so.;)

You could use tubing, don't get me wrong, but it is far from necessary.

If you are jumping straight into a brew sculpture, pumps, tubes etc, then yes, tubing would be needed. If so that is GREAT!

Forgive me for assuming, but most people do AG on the cheap the first few times(ie. just dumping the hot sparge water in rather than pumping it). If you are already buying pumps, wort chillers etc........GOOD ON YOU MATE!

I was just trying to help you get your first AG done as cheap as possible, and without waiting for tubing.

A brew sculpture will be post kids for me. Maybe when I am 45 or so!
 
cheezydemon said:
I dump hot water into my mash tun to sparge at 170 or so.;)

You could use tubing, don't get me wrong, but it is far from necessary.

If you are jumping straight into a brew sculpture, pumps, tubes etc, then yes, tubing would be needed. If so that is GREAT!

Forgive me for assuming, but most people do AG on the cheap the first few times(ie. just dumping the hot sparge water in rather than pumping it). If you are already buying pumps, wort chillers etc........GOOD ON YOU MATE!

I was just trying to help you get your first AG done as cheap as possible, and without waiting for tubing.

A brew sculpture will be post kids for me. Maybe when I am 45 or so!
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Yep, I'm going space age with this one (well...no pumps, gravity fed) :lol:
 
Damn! Nice.

My AG involves my bottling bucket to mash in (on a HOT day in the summer, or set near the fire in winter to maintain temps ;)) My brew pot to heat sparge water, and another large pot to collect the first runnings in, and my brew pot again for the boil.

Both AG attempts went great, A fantastic IPA, and a Helles Munich,it was just a PITA with the 3 kids running around. I turn out world class partial mashes, so for now, the few extra bucks per recipe are OK given the time saved.
 
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