Beer Buzz: Home Brew

[TeeDub]

If any one has any pointers on using the keg please post. I know I'll need a dedicated fridge and a keg box (and a keg).

I sold most all of my kegging stuff after my second child (unfortunately once you have two, the drinking crowd starts to diminish once momma keeps giving them the stink eye.)

Anyway, once you go to kegging you will never want to go back to bottling.   Imagine just running out of your carboy straight into a keg, dumping in a little priming sugar, hitting it with a little CO2, shaking it up and setting it in the back of your garage fridge for a month.   Total time, 10 minutes.   No washing bottles, capping, etc.    It has been a few years, but, kegs should cost you (used) 25-35, and a CO2 setup should be around $150.   If you want a tap in the door to your fridge (rather than having to open the door every time you want to pour another beer) add another $25.

[jacobi]

Yeah.If you think think that high traffic volume makes something a center of interest, then you should talk to the interchange between I-35 and I-44. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I'll agree that, at least mostly, high traffic volume doesn't make something a center of interest.  Something of interest will often create a lot of traffic.  It may not be of interest to you but it is to enough people to create a lot of traffic.  Maybe that interest is just to drop off the kids at Woodland Hills Mall to get rid of them for an afternoon.  Maybe that interest is to get dinner food at Pyramid,Target, Walmart, Aldi's, and soon, Reasors.  Maybe that interest is to sit on a Pub patio overlooking a parking lot and Memorial with a southerly breeze sending the aroma of Red Lobster your way. A bit more seriously, there are a lot of restaurants along "Restaurant Row" on 71st.  You may not like them but someone does or they would go out of business and no one would take their place.  There are a lot of businesses on the 71st St corridor.  Would you really want all those national chains downtown?  What kind of character would that be to define Tulsa?  It has been suggested that Tulsa de-annex the 1966(?) areas.  That would certainly get rid of the responsibility for a lot of infrastructure.  Jenks, Bixby, and BA would probably pick up those areas.  I don't know that it would be any better though.


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Anything south of 51st street is dead.  I'm being generous.  In reality its more like 31st.  If you live south of that, you aren't a tulsan.


I have an idea of what you want to consider an area "alive" but please reinforce or correct my perception.  Please list a few things.   I expect them to be things I would like to be available to "you" but that I will probably have little interest in personally.

I am south of 31st, 41st.....111th.  I am in Bixby.  I don't claim to be a Tulsan except to people who barely know where Oklahoma is on the map.  I wish Tulsa could have kept the people that want to live 5 feet from each other.  They are ruining the neighborhood.  Plus, we wouldn't need Memorial to be so wide and full of traffic lights.  Tulsa is a nice place to visit but I am happy living in what used to be the sticks.

This is evidence of why I should have a breatholizer on my computer.  Drunk TNFing leads to bombastic overstatements.  Sorry about that RA.   I can't say it won't happen again.

[Red Arrow]

This is evidence of why I should have a breatholizer on my computer.  Drunk TNFing leads to bombastic overstatements.  Sorry about that RA.  

Not a problem on this end.  Most of us get a little overly enthusiastic on occasion.

[Red Arrow]

   Imagine just running out of your carboy straight into a keg, dumping in a little priming sugar, hitting it with a little CO2, shaking it up and setting it in the back of your garage fridge for a month. 

Why not just artificially carbonate?   I've had a couple of moderately big beers that didn't carbonate by bottle conditioning and then wound up a bit sweet from the added sugar.

[carltonplace]

I haven't done a batch in almost two years because frankly, the quality of available micro-brews have gotten so good that I've realized I can spend more time drinking and less time brewing.  It's all about efficient use of time for me, and an ice cold Marshall's or Tank 7 while sitting in a deck chair just seems a better use of time than standing over a boiling pot of wart.

Its fun
The conservative in me likes the savings. My last amber which was better than full sail (IMHO) cost $26.47 to produce and made two cases of beer. That's about $.56 per bottle compared to $1.41 per bottle at the liquor store with mine having a slightly higher alchohol content.

[nathanm]

I don't claim to be a Tulsan except to people who barely know where Oklahoma is on the map.  I wish Tulsa could have kept the people that want to live 5 feet from each other.

Help us get rid of the ridiculous zoning, parking, and height requirements that continue to plague us despite all the talk of change and maybe we can take some of them back.

[Red Arrow]

Help us get rid of the ridiculous zoning, parking, and height requirements that continue to plague us despite all the talk of change and maybe we can take some of them back.

I would need a fake photo I.D. to vote in Tulsa.

[TeeDub]

Why not just artificially carbonate?   I've had a couple of moderately big beers that didn't carbonate by bottle conditioning and then wound up a bit sweet from the added sugar.

I liked the little extra alcohol spike it gave.   If you use dextrose it won't give you that sweet finish you get from most sugars.  The initial hit was to purge the tank of air and make sure there was no oxygen/etc in contact with the beer.

[nathanm]

I would need a fake photo I.D. to vote in Tulsa.

You can help by just spreading the word. Surely some of your friends and coworkers live in Tulsa.

[RecycleMichael]

I would need a fake photo I.D. to vote in Tulsa.

Easy.

http://marvelphoto.com/

[Red Arrow]

Easy.
http://marvelphoto.com/

Thanks but I think I'll pass on this golden opportunity.  I'd just get caught anyway.

[patric]

So, who recognizes this setup?

[Red Arrow]

So, who recognizes this setup?

Don't use that handle to lift a full carboy.  Get a webbing system that lifts from the bottom.
http://www.highgravitybrew.com/productcart/pc/The-Brew-Hauler-126p1775.htm

Edit:  I hope you keep them covered to keep light out when you are not taking pictures.

[carltonplace]

So I brewed 5 gallons of stout and dropped it to 70 degrees and pitched my brewer's yeast and...nothing. No activity for a full 24 hours.

Then I did something crazy: I used bakers yeast and within an hour fermentation had gone wild. I started to worry that I might have messed up my batch and after searching the web where consensus is: "they are the same strains of yeast...but have different credentials. Don't swap them".

Then I ran into this: http://en.sevenload.com/shows/Basic-Brewing/episodes/DeDcrKR-09-28-07-Basic-Brewing-Video-Trading-Places-Beer-and-Bread-Yeast

Outcome: in a pinch you can swap brewer's and baker's yeast. I'll post after racking, bottling and conditioning and report if the stout is any good and if it has any carbonation.

[Gaspar]

So I brewed 5 gallons of stout and dropped it to 70 degrees and pitched my brewer's yeast and...nothing. No activity for a full 24 hours.

Then I did something crazy: I used bakers yeast and within an hour fermentation had gone wild. I started to worry that I might have messed up my batch and after searching the web where consensus is: "they are the same strains of yeast...but have different credentials. Don't swap them".

Then I ran into this: http://en.sevenload.com/shows/Basic-Brewing/episodes/DeDcrKR-09-28-07-Basic-Brewing-Video-Trading-Places-Beer-and-Bread-Yeast

Outcome: in a pinch you can swap brewer's and baker's yeast. I'll post after racking, bottling and conditioning and report if the stout is any good and if it has any carbonation.

Done it.  Tasted icky.  

I was in college when I pulled that stunt, and the beer was so bad that we loaded it all into a home made still my roommate and I had and distilled it into beershine.  Still tasted bad but you could knock it back much faster.