What are you doing with homebrew today?

[Donoroto]

On another note (maybe it should be in brewers DIY)
I attached an input cable to my solar system, so I can now use all type of equipmentthat takes higher amps, run via genny and have excess power going into batteries.
So I can now run my mash kettle, but still need to find the malted barley

Very nice! Slowly but surely, beer will occur. But I can guess that sometimes you stop and think "am I crazy?"

No, you're not. Your many photos of the scenery are all I needed to see.

 

[Zambi]

Very nice! Slowly but surely, beer will occur. But I can guess that sometimes you stop and think "am I crazy?"

No, you're not. Your many photos of the scenery are all I needed to see.

You know, it is not that I think I am crazy.... I just know I am

 

[Sunfire96]

On another note (maybe it should be in brewers DIY)
I attached an input cable to my solar system, so I can now use all type of equipmentthat takes higher amps, run via genny and have excess power going into batteries.
So I can now run my mash kettle, but still need to find the malted barley

Can you get raw barley or wheat? I've read about some brewers malting it themselves. I don't know if you have an oven with constant temperature control or not, but it's a simple process in theory

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

Can you get raw barley or wheat? I've read about some brewers malting it themselves. I don't know if you have an oven with constant temperature control or not, but it's a simple process in theory

I've done it and brewed with it, its not that hard but at the same time it's so much easier just to buy premalted grain, I don't think Ill ever do it again

 

[Ward Chillington]

On another note (maybe it should be in brewers DIY)

So I can now run my mash kettle, but still need to find the malted barley

What was it that @Ozarks Mountain Brew 's Mom used to say? Where there's a will....?

 

[Sunfire96]

I've done it and brewed with it, its not that hard but at the same time it's so much easier just to buy premalted grain, I don't think Ill ever do it again

Well sure, you have almost unlimited access to malted barley

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

it takes a couple of weeks just to malt

 

[Tim Bulin]

Well, made up 5 gallons of root beer and 5 gallons of cider yesterday(had to pour the cider into a backup fermenter, after the last tear down and scrub, the bulkhead was leaking). Classic American Pilsner mashing right now...busy, busy.

 

[Zambi]

Can you get raw barley or wheat? I've read about some brewers malting it themselves. I don't know if you have an oven with constant temperature control or not, but it's a simple process in theory

I might, but for now it's more a storage issue than anything.
Cider (from packs of apple juice) is king at the moment

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

My friend tried to add a pound of DME to his brew yesterday and cut off a corner of the bag. He literally could not get it to pour out because the DME clumped up and clogged the hole instantly...

I use DME for my starters and learned (from a post somewhere) to add it before heating the water. That way the steam doesn't instantly turn the DME into clumps and plug up the hole.

 

[Herm brews]

I use DME for my starters and learned (from a post somewhere) to add it before heating the water. That way the steam doesn't instantly turn the DME into clumps and plug up the hole.

Good tip, I’ll try that next time.

 

[FrostyBeach]

It turns out that there's enough power from the solar array to run the brewery on a cloudy sort of foggy day.

 

[Josh Hughes]

I use DME for my starters and learned (from a post somewhere) to add it before heating the water. That way the steam doesn't instantly turn the DME into clumps and plug up the hole.

That’s what I’ve been doing the last 2-3

 

[GFHomebrew]

It turns out that there's enough power from the solar array to run the brewery on a cloudy sort of foggy day.

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Awesome makes it feel even better

Gunna be doing some cleaning 1st kegmenter then beer lines transfer lines bar top drop tray ect ect it sucks but man I love the taste of beer from a fresh cleaned serving line!

 

[GFHomebrew]

Onto me lines now

 

[Herm brews]

It was just too hot to brew today, so I postponed until tomorrow. In the meantime, I have my yeast starter cold crashing, and I picked up 5 gallons of RO water. Everything will be ready for brewing Herm’s Amber Ale on Monday morning.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

just dry hopped my Punk IPA beer, people say its good so I brewed it

 

[Josh Hughes]

just dry hopped my Punk IPA beer, people say its good so I brewed it

I really like it just do not see it often

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

the last time I bought it from a can it seemed weak in flavor, as a matter of fact all of the beers I sampled did, I doubt this will be

 

[Steve Ruch]

Steeping some dark grain to go into an apa.