What are you doing with homebrew today?

Bottled up this year’s Barleywine. :) Can’t believe I now have 5 of these. ‘21 is getting a bit low however.

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Mastoras007 said:
Yes recirculation clean the wort, I have 50% less trub because of recirculation
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So you recirculate the boil? I can understand that in large batch brewing for temperature. I think what is actually happening with trub is your keeping everything in suspension and then it will flocuate out after fermentation. Which is fine other than dirtying up your yeast slurry if yo plan on re using the yeast. There are ways to mitigate that as well I suppose. Anyway that's my theory of course I may be wrong again
 
Brew Cat said:
So you recirculate the boil? I can understand that in large batch brewing for temperature. I think what is actually happening with trub is your keeping everything in suspension and then it will flocuate out after fermentation. Which is fine other than dirtying up your yeast slurry if yo plan on re using the yeast. There are ways to mitigate that as well I suppose. Anyway that's my theory of course I may be wrong again
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Recirculating at mash, during the mash process
 
Brew Cat said:
I was talking about recirculating the mash. Trub is what drops out of the boil I believe

I can see that. I do a quick stir sometimes or decoct which is always stirring. Basically what Im saying is I'll start at 152 and maybe the the lower stratified layer drops to 148 can't see that makes a difference but I could be wrong. I just try to simplify everything.
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Perhaps @Mastoras007 is referring to the filtering effect of recirculating though a mash bed. I know that the mass of crushed grain definitely retains much of the smaller fragments.

That being said, an occasional stir if there is no external source of additional heat has some benefits, most importantly avoiding inconsistencies in the wort concentration. But you are correct: if not recirculating simplifies things, that is a very good thing.
 
Donoroto said:
Perhaps @Mastoras007 is referring to the filtering effect of recirculating though a mash bed. I know that the mass of crushed grain definitely retains much of the smaller fragments.

That being said, an occasional stir if there is no external source of additional heat has some benefits, most importantly avoiding inconsistencies in the wort concentration. But you are correct: if not recirculating simplifies things, that is a very good thing.
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recirculating through the bed is done when you vorlauf at the end of the mash which of course is what I did back in the day. That is needed. Now not sure if he is talking about small batch or bbl brewing that would make a difference for sure. I'm talking small batch brewing
 
Brew Cat said:
recirculating through the bed is done when you vorlauf at the end of the mash which of course is what I did back in the day. That is needed. Now not sure if he is talking about small batch or bbl brewing that would make a difference for sure. I'm talking small batch brewing
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Well, it is a balance and what you need to do. I don't have a whole lot of time right now. I did all my Sunday morning chores after the meeting last night and woke up at 5am so I could brew beer. I hope in about two weeks I can do the same thing except go to the beach instead.
Getting time to be in the yard is no joke. Sometimes you have to be a little creative to do what you love.
 
I had a neighbor talking to me while I was pitching, and I dropped the damn Pure Pitch packet into the fermenter. I was worried I might infect the damn thing. I see a little yeast activity after 6 hours, and I used 5 1/2oz of hops in 12 minute and whirlpool/flameout additions. Hopefully, that might minimize the infection chance.
And, all this worrying about rain? It still hasn't rained.
 
Sandy Feet said:
I had a neighbor talking to me while I was pitching, and I dropped the damn Pure Pitch packet into the fermenter. I was worried I might infect the damn thing. I see a little yeast activity after 6 hours, and I used 5 1/2oz of hops in 12 minute and whirlpool/flameout additions. Hopefully, that might minimize the infection chance.
And, all this worrying about rain? It still hasn't rained.
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Ouch. I was boiling once and lost track of a plastic hose clamp. I was ballistic trying to find it for about 10 minutes remembered I had spares and dropped a couple in a rolling boil on the stove for about 10 minutes. No they didn’t melt so I figured I’ll just roll with it, the clamp should be ok. Finished up and found the damn thing on the ground behind the kettle.

My neighbor came over today during mash out. I lifted the malt pipe and resumed recirculation while we had a beer. When I came back my gravity was .010 higher :cool:. It’s better to be lucky than good.
 
This thing is starting to take off. Hopefully, the yeast kills anything that got in there. This yeast likes it at 70 as it is right in the middle of its ideal range, so I was able to pitch at 80 and not worry about anything.
 
Sandy Feet said:
This thing is starting to take off. Hopefully, the yeast kills anything that got in there. This yeast likes it at 70 as it is right in the middle of its ideal range, so I was able to pitch at 80 and not worry about anything.
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It’ll be fine. Just remember to not keg the packet…
 
Donoroto said:
It’ll be fine. Just remember to not keg the packet…
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Well, I was evil and fished it out. That is why I was worried about the infection. I tasted the wort when I was taking gravity readings. This is one where I don't have to worry a whole lot about not enough hops. I could definitely taste them.
 
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