Brewcommune

My first batch on the GF is currently fermenting away. Nice to dust off the brewing boots, I mean flip flops, again!

I'll bring a sample from the Boysenberry Porter club barrel.

hjw wrote:Will bring a Saison /Brett and if Brian is coming I have an old ale that I brewed when he had his homebrew shop.

Wow Hal, that's incredible. I'll definitely be there now!

maltbarley wrote:

lars wrote:I'll be there... I may even bring some beer

Whoa!

No kidding. Welcome back!

Fat Head's
Breakside
Bailey's Taproom

Voodoo Donut
Stumptown Roasters
and the food carts!

Waste water? 3:1 ratio? It did not occur to me that you would have to put 100 gallons of tap water into the system to get 33 gallons out? Is that what you are saying? Yep. You can soften your water (add salt ions), in order to make it easier to remove the ions? Yep. At least that is what "they...

3:1 out of the box, and it comes with a 2:1 optional reducer. They recommend not using the 2:1 reducer if your water is hard, but I set it up on mine since I had the softener.

Also, I've given up on the water calculator spreadsheets. ProMash does a great job calculating the amounts to use, and I had gotten pretty good at estimating the amount of acid to use to drop the mash pH if needed. I add my salts to the mash tun and boil kettle and use all RO for the sparge to keep ...

That's a good price. On the membrane, I'm still on my original one. Not exactly sure how much water I've ran through it, but it's been quite a bit (mostly thanks to Sam). I ended up putting an inline TDS meter on mine so I can watch for TDS creep. Think it was around $25 for the meter. I also ended ...

Nicely done!

Cool! Just let me know by tomorrow night, and I'll send you the details. Well, I'm out for Saturday. Just went to bottle and was about 4 ounces short in the 2nd bottle. Fortunately I still have a bunch of the beer, but unfortunately it is all bulk aging so I'll be spending Saturday force carbing an...

I am planning to head down on Saturday. If anyone wants to go with or give me your entries, let me know... I am thinking about heading out in the AM to avoid traffic and do lunch down there.. And maybe a brewery stop before heading back up. :) Lexuschris Provided I get mine bottled up today or tomo...

I'm all paid up as well, and also did the banquet.

I'll likely be heading down to drop off my entries, or willing to carpool and turn it into a day beer trip.

I'm putting one in. We will see what another year does for the sour old ale.