What are you doing with homebrew today?

I'm carbed, so I hooked up the picnic tap tonight. I might need to give this one a little more time. I couldn't do a true D rest because of the cold temperatures, and I decided not to mess with the hairdryer. I think I still have a bit of sulphur. I'll just let it ride this week and take another sample on Friday.
 
Was the big bird fryer power plant there when you were working out there. About a thousand mirrors focused sunlight on a boiler in a tower to make steam to run a powerplant. But if a bird flew through the beams. POOF, bar b qued bird.
No, that was after my stint out there in’94. I know the system you speak of though. Great idea, until as you pointed out, an unsuspecting critter flies through the focused sunlight. Sorta like honkers with bad timing flying through wind turbines. That’s usually bad for bird and turbine alike.
 
I'm carbed, so I hooked up the picnic tap tonight. I might need to give this one a little more time. I couldn't do a true D rest because of the cold temperatures, and I decided not to mess with the hairdryer. I think I still have a bit of sulphur. I'll just let it ride this week and take another sample on Friday.
Diacetyl is more like buttered popcorn or butterscotch. Sulfur is pretty typical with lager yeasts during fermentation but wouldn't be lessened in the final product by a diacetyl rest (if I remember my John Palmer correctly :D)
 
We shall see what happens, but the beers I was able to go higher on the temps for a few days seemed a bunch cleaner. I'm sure this one will be fine with a bit of time. I was only able to get it in the 60s for about a day. By our standards, that damn garage was cold the other week and stayed cold. I didn't want to screw things up by opening the refrigerator. We barely missed a freeze last Saturday morning, and an hour north they had a hard freeze.
I will review my Palmer book as I just got another copy after loaning out my first one.
 
Actually, after reading, I think I know what else it could be. We shall see.
 
No, that was after my stint out there in’94. I know the system you speak of though. Great idea, until as you pointed out, an unsuspecting critter flies through the focused sunlight. Sorta like honkers with bad timing flying through wind turbines. That’s usually bad for bird and turbine alike.
94? I guess I have lost track of the years. I havent lived in so cal since about '88 and remember it well. I am thinking it may have been removed by '94 as the last time I went through it was gone.?????
 
94? I guess I have lost track of the years. I havent lived in so cal since about '88 and remember it well. I am thinking it may have been removed by '94 as the last time I went through it was gone.?????
Had to ask Mr. Google. Solar one ran from 1982 to 1986 and had Solar two following it.
 
Sorry to get off topic but if you could understand how much beer was consumed on those trips to the desert it might fit the topic.
 

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