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 A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial).  3
#10887194 - 08/19/09 02:45 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hey guys, I was thinking about sharing
a VERY simplified
brew session with you, from the very beginning to the end.
I leave out a lot of little details, because
would hate to see you guys bored...
I like to start my brew-days pretty early, because usually do two batches.
I brew 5 or 6 gallon of beer per batch.
Well, here is how my day starts.
I hose down the carport, and get my "brewery" out of the garage.
I start to heat up the HLT (hot liquor tank), and recirculate the water thru pump 1
back to the kettle.
While the water is heating up, I get
my recipe what I formulated before with Beersmith software.
According to the recipe, I get the ingredients: base malt, specialty malts, hops and other stuff.
Then I crush the grain, with a malt mill,
attached to a drill.
In the meantime my HLT reaches the desired temperature.
I then transfer some hot water to the mash tun, and mash in the crushed grains.
Recirculate the mash (after a little rest)
thru pump 2 back to the mash tun.
After mash out I slowly start to sparge.
It means to transfer the remaining hot water from the HLT thru pump 1 to the mash tun.
Also synchronize pump 2 and slowly transfer wort from the mash tun to the boil kettle.
After the wort has been transferred to
the boil kettle, and comes to a rolling boil, I'll add my hops
in a schedule,
according to the recipe.
Now with pump 1 I push ice-water thru a plate chiller.
Pump 2 recirculate the wort thru the plate chiller back to the kettle.
The cooled wort will go to the conical fermenter, and yeast culture will be added.
Always have a yeast starter going on about a week before the brew-day.
The fermenters go to a temp controlled chamber, and yeasties begin their little job: creating alcohol!
Well as fermentation finished, depending what
kind of beer was brewed, it might need to be filtered.
It first has to go in a keg, then with CO2 will be pushed thru a filter into the other keg.
So the beer has been filtered, now it needs to be force carbonated. I like the set it and forget it method. 12psi for a week, in a small temp regulated freezer.
From here I either leave the beer in the keg and hook it up to my 8 tap kegerator:
Or fill regular 12oz. bottles:
Or if I want to make a great gift, fill the
beer in champagne bottles, cork it, wire-cage it, foil it, label it, and put it in a
nice jute bag:
Anyhow, the beer will end up in one of my favorite proper glassware!!!
Enjoy!!!
Ps: sorry for the long-ass post...
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#10887315 - 08/19/09 03:13 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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that is awesome, ive always thought it would be cool to open a restaurant/brewery just dont know anything about brewing. nice setup though, looks like you have alot tied up in your equipment. i cant even imagine how freakin cool it would be to have 8 diffrent beers ON TAP, that i made. must be nice!
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: zenman223]
#10887338 - 08/19/09 03:20 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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zenman223 said:
to open a restaurant/brewery
That's the plan for the FAR future.
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zenman223 said:
i cant even imagine how freakin cool it would be to have 8 diffrent beers ON TAP, that i made. must be nice!
Yeah. I like it, but you should see how my friends like it!!!
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10887708 - 08/19/09 04:46 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Fan-frickin-tastic. I've brewed quite a few gallons in my day, but it's on pretty basic equipment (the ol' aluminum pot and glass carboys.) Your setup looks very sweet!
Of course, it all comes down to how the brew tastes. Yours looks mighty thirst-quenching 
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10887808 - 08/19/09 05:20 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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five mushrooms for you sir
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: GetTheFuckOut]
#10888084 - 08/19/09 07:36 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Nice setup!!
What hops did you use? and how much alcohol precent is in your beer? 
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: dstark]
#10888215 - 08/19/09 09:06 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Fuck yeah. Westmalle sure is tasty...
Respect to your brewing 
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: Beanhead]
#10888499 - 08/19/09 11:00 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Thank you gentlemen for the compliment!
This particular brew was Denny Conn's
BVIP (Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter).
It has Magnum and Kent Goldings hops.
At the secondary fermentation I've added some vanilla beans, and at kegging some Woodford bourbon.
This is a fantastic brew, kudos to Denny!
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: Beanhead]
#10888535 - 08/19/09 11:13 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Beanhead said:
Fuck yeah. Westmalle sure is tasty...
Respect to your brewing
You live in Belgium, you lucky bastard,
you would know!!!
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10888650 - 08/19/09 11:55 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Awesome setup! I hope I can get a setup that nice once I start my brewing. Cheers 
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: Rebirtha]
#10889582 - 08/19/09 03:05 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Rebirtha said:
Awesome setup! I hope I can get a setup that nice once I start my brewing. Cheers
I've started with extract brewing in large pots and carboys as well, and only bottled and bottle conditioned my brews.
Then I built this brewing rig (it's a Brutus 10 clone)and started with all-grain.
Of course after that you need to store and dispense your brews, so I built a kegerator.
It's not a cheap hobby, but hey, which hobby is cheap, if you do it seriously?!
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10898373 - 08/20/09 05:22 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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where do you get your recipes or do you create your own?
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: dogwood]
#10898763 - 08/20/09 06:19 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Seriously badass gear. Very organized.
Did I read that right? You pitch week old starters????
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10898845 - 08/20/09 06:34 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Fucking intense man. That shit looks awesome.
You should send me some.
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: dogwood]
#10898911 - 08/20/09 06:43 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
dogwood said:
where do you get your recipes or do you create your own?
There are very good beer related forums are out there, with a lot of fantastic recipes.
You start to brew with those, and then figure out if you like it or not.
If you think it needs something more or less, or different, you adjust it to your taste.
And after that you start to create some of your own.
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: Hypercube]
#10898939 - 08/20/09 06:47 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Hypercube said:
Seriously badass gear. Very organized.
Did I read that right? You pitch week old starters????
No.
I make a yeast starter about a week before I brew.
Depends what yeast strain you work with I either make a 2 liter starter (ales) or a 4 liter one (lagers).
It takes about 4-5 days to ferment out, then it needs to be crash cooled, to settle.
So around day 6 or 7 it's ready to be pitched in your new batch of wort.
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10900239 - 08/20/09 10:28 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
stonesun said:
Quote:
Hypercube said:
Seriously badass gear. Very organized.
Did I read that right? You pitch week old starters????
No.
I make a yeast starter about a week before I brew.
Depends what yeast strain you work with I either make a 2 liter starter (ales) or a 4 liter one (lagers).
It takes about 4-5 days to ferment out, then it needs to be crash cooled, to settle.
So around day 6 or 7 it's ready to be pitched in your new batch of wort.
What kind of yeast are you starting with? I assume a smack pack or vial.
I personally get a starter going and after the krausen hits I crash and pitch. Never has it taken me more than 72 hours from starter -> pitch using a mag stirrer. Then again it might depend on starting cell count. Using a wedge and step starters is obviously going to take some time.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but starters are just to get your cell count up to pitching levels, yeah? Krausen forms after the yeast budding stage so I figure you're at your max cell count when you hit krausen, which is why I do it that way. It seems to me that waiting till your starter is fermented out might be a waste of time, no?
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: Hypercube]
#10900494 - 08/20/09 10:55 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I mostly use yeast slurry from previous batches, harvested from the conical fermenters, which of course don't need to be stepped up.
However I have frozen yeast cultures in test tubes, so it has to thaw out, and need to be stepped up. That's why it's usually takes a week.
'There are two schools of thought on when the best time to pitch your yeast might be. One way of thinking is that you should pitch the entire yeast starter into your beer wort when it is a high krausen (anywhere from 8 to 18 hours) as the yeast is actively eating sugars and is ready for more. Another way of thinking about this is that you should pitch the yeast portion of the starter after it has completely fermented the starter sugars and has had a day or two to build up its cell reserves.
I see both sides of this and, for me, it boils down to which method fits into my brewing schedule best. If I think ahead enough to prepare a starter a few days ahead and allow ample time to settle out, great. If I think of preparing the starter the night before or even the morning of the brew day, I can pitch at high krausen.'
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10904671 - 08/21/09 03:54 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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WERE NOT WORTHY!
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: GabbaDj]
#10907888 - 08/21/09 11:13 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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You're not worthy!
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10926590 - 08/24/09 02:48 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Awesome setup! I've been home brewing for a couple of years now and still haven't gotten into all grain, but I'd like to. I was looking at the brew in a bag method for a less technical way to get into it. I just started kegging this year and am quite happy to not be washing out old bottles.
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10926937 - 08/24/09 03:42 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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awsome pictoral man 
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: Riboflavin]
#10928159 - 08/24/09 07:03 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Riboflavin said:
I just started kegging this year and am quite happy to not be washing out old bottles.
Kegging is the way to go if you are a little serious, but I enjoy bottling some special brews though...
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: LiquidSmoke]
#10928166 - 08/24/09 07:04 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
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awsome pictoral man
Thanks a lot LS!!!
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10928711 - 08/24/09 08:36 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I am so jealous.
I've been brewing for about a year now, and I hope someday I too can have an 8 tap kegerator.
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: Heffy]
#10929279 - 08/24/09 09:46 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Heffy said:
I am so jealous.
I've been brewing for about a year now, and I hope someday I too can have an 8 tap kegerator.
If you REALLY want it, you WILL!
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10929538 - 08/24/09 10:23 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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i smell underground  xD
How you filter your beer if you do? any other brews? i like dark beer 
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: dstark]
#10932901 - 08/25/09 10:25 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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The canister style beer filter is installed inline between two 5 gallon kegs using CO2 pressure to push the beer out of the full keg through the filter and into the clean keg. The filter is 1 micron, which gives you a very fine filtering.
Not many style of beer needs to be filtered!
I love dark brews to, especially porters.
I also die for a good german Bockbier, or Weizenbock!!!
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10936439 - 08/25/09 08:30 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ever try creamy beers? Is it true that some use milk powder in them?
Ever try nitrogen instead of Co2? I've always liked real Pub style lightly carbonated beers.
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: GabbaDj]
#10937328 - 08/25/09 10:32 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
GabbaDj said:
Ever try creamy beers? Is it true that some use milk powder in them?
I think you mean Cream Ales.
Of course I have tried a couple of commercial examples, and I have brewed it
myself. It is a very thirst quenching, highly carbonated hybrid beer. Hybrid, because not really lager, and not really ale,
but kinda share both characteristics.
I have never heard any of them using milk powder though...
Quote:
GabbaDj said:
Ever try nitrogen instead of Co2? I've always liked real Pub style lightly carbonated beers.
Yes, once I've had a designated stout faucet
hooked up to a mixed tank of nitro and co2.
It's called beer gas, and it's always mixed, not just nitrogen. In Pubs they used to dispense stouts and cream ales with it.
Looks cool, doesn't make much difference, I just got rid of it...
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10938219 - 08/26/09 12:41 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think he meant things like "Milk Stout". Those are brewed with lactose sugars which the yeast don't really ferment. It leaves the beer slightly sweeter and with a creamy and thick mouth feel.
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: ShockValue]
#10940113 - 08/26/09 09:44 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
ShockValue said:
I think he meant things like "Milk Stout". Those are brewed with lactose sugars which the yeast don't really ferment. It leaves the beer slightly sweeter and with a creamy and thick mouth feel.
Oh, OK.
That's right, milk or cream stouts are brewed with lactose (milk sugar) but
that is definitely not the same as milk
powder.
I have brewed an oyster stout a few years back, and it fermented out too dry.
I've added lactose at kegging, and it turned out to be a great brew.
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10979111 - 09/01/09 02:07 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Edit: ooppss
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#10979401 - 09/01/09 02:48 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm interested in brewing and have been doing some research you really helped with filtering that kegerator is fucking sick I'm so jealous
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: whyblameus]
#10985401 - 09/02/09 11:36 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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You're more than welcome.
If you guys have questions about certain
procedure, don't hesitate to hit me up on it.
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#11060586 - 09/14/09 11:10 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Beer Style Volumes of CO2 Range
British Ales 1.5 - 2.0
Poter & Stout 1.7 - 2.3
American Ales and Lagers
2.2 - 2.7
European Lagers
2.2 - 2.7
German Wheat Beers
3.3 - 4.5
Belgian Ales
1.9 - 2.4
Lambic
2.4 - 2.8
Fruit Lambic
3.0 - 4.5
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#11074513 - 09/17/09 03:30 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Damn I am jealous of your setup. Its spectacular. People like mentioning your eight tap kegerator. But hot damn that's a nice brew setup. I'm so tired of making beer on a kitchen stove with goopy syrup. Luckily I'll have a garage within the next three months. I can start building my dream garage brewery then.
Probably gonna be a gravity feed though. I can do all the welding but I'm not sure about hooking up all those pumps and temperature gauges you have. Do you have plans/blueprints for the setup you have there? What did it cost you to build?
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: NIMH]
#11096752 - 09/20/09 09:44 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
NIMH said:
Do you have plans/blueprints for the setup you have there? What did it cost you to build?
Sorry, I was on vacation for a few days,
that's why the late reply.
Yeah, I got the plans, will PM you tomorrow
with all the details.
Now let me unpack my luggages!!! 
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#12164745 - 03/08/10 03:55 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've received quite a few inquiries about
building an automated brewing system.
I have posted a PDF of a plan in my Journal. Credit due to Lonnie Mac.
Shoot me a PM if you have any questions regarding the system. Thanks!
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#12172499 - 03/09/10 07:45 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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"sorry for the long-ass post"
lol. I dont think we mind much. Your pictorials are what legends are made of. 
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#12372197 - 04/11/10 01:34 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Stonesun, you are an awesome brewer. Love the pictures of the glasses. Shows some knowledge and pride in some the best beers available to you. I brewed a Wit in November and we had the most awesome Christmas day with Turducken (9 Kg) AND Wit Bier. I used a Wyeast smack pack off yeast and the special ingredients made an excellent beer compatible with Hoegaarden. I love Belgian style brewing and are currently collecting different types of yeast for them.
I have so far only found one person in S.A. (South Africa-the country) that made a Belgian Double worthy of good revue. This is also due to the limiting fact of only 3 importers of specialty brewing products are available to us South Afican brewers. I have been lucky this January as a friend gave me some Beet Sugar Syrup from Belgium when his wife came back from holiday there.
We currently only have Wyerman Malt and the local SAB (South African Breweries) Pale Malt to work with. DME is also available from a local supplier. This also conributed to my change towards full grain brewing. The wife and I have been brewing for almost 4 years now and can at the moment only do 10 Gallon batches. We acquired some large vessels and will switch over to larger 15 Gallon batches as soon as we can import some PID controllers from the States as they are cheaper to import than to buy one of the shelf here. BTW Stonesun....Love the controller box, very up market ;0 .
You guys are all lucky to be brewers on your side of the planet. You have so many shops and companies available to you that supply stuff like Stainless conical fomenters and Malt Mills like the Crankenstein etc. Locally we can only get those after going threw allot of money and running around from one place to the other.
We (me and D) also grow hops of the local variety SAAZ Hop. Our plant has been in the ground for only a year now. We use what we have here to make remarkable beers. The amount of brewers have grown from a hand full to hundreds in the past 2 years. This is the first year that we could actually brew with imported candy sugar!
Truly stunning collection of taps Stonesun. Cornelius Kegs are the way to go for easy enjoyment of homebrew. Up to the beginning of this year we have not been able to obtain them and if you could it would be from a fellow brewer at a cost. Then by some stroke of luck I got word from a friend that a Soda filling company 300 Km from me had some that they wanted to scrap. I acquired an investor and we bought all of them before they crushed the good ones! These should last the Brewers club for a while.
What kind of pumps are you using? I was thinking of using magnetically coupled dishwasher pumps for recirculation and filling from the HLT to Mash Tun and also from Mash Tun to Boiler.
FOAF grew some stunning KSSS, TK, Amazonian, MDK and Cambodian and thought we would one day make some Silly Simon Beer.
Truly amazing site, all though I have not yet spoken to anybody here I feel the love.
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: OT-Yotee]
#12540705 - 05/11/10 01:10 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sorry for bringing it up but...
I see you put your beer in the kegs!
Where you got your kegs from? I see on the net for about 100$ each... :/
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: dstark]
#12540902 - 05/11/10 01:55 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've scored a few of them locally from a restaurant,
and bought a couple of them with a CO2 distributor and
kegerator kit from Keg Connection.
Occasionally you'll find great keg deals on eBay as well.
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#12541526 - 05/11/10 06:31 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks for the link!
Didnt find in their site, they ship outside of US?
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: dstark]
#12541543 - 05/11/10 06:44 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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 on ebay, shipping to israel costs 60$, its almost 4 times the cost of a keg :/
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: dstark]
#12543288 - 05/11/10 04:11 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I would give you 5 shrooms for this if I hadn't done so already...
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: Kamek]
#12545985 - 05/11/10 11:58 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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dstark said:
on ebay, shipping to israel costs 60$, its almost 4 times the cost of a keg :/
Shit man, I forgot you are from Israel
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I would give you 5 shrooms for this if I hadn't done so already...
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#12546025 - 05/12/10 12:07 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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How do you filter your beer? and how do you clean your kegs?
Searched all the net for homebrewing kegs in israel but nothin ...
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: dstark]
#12566224 - 05/15/10 09:12 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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dstark said:
How you filter your beer if you do?
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dstark said:
How do you filter your beer?
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The canister style beer filter is installed inline between two 5 gallon
kegs using CO2 pressure to push the beer out of the full keg through the
filter and into the clean keg. The filter is 1 micron,
which gives you a very fine filtering.
Not many style of beer needs to be filtered!
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#12567371 - 05/15/10 03:26 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks mate!
What you would suggest for my next beer?
Got any interesting recipe?
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: dstark]
#12595084 - 05/20/10 12:07 AM (3 years, 30 days ago) |
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Quote:
dstark said:
What you would suggest for my next beer?
Well, it really depends on what you like, and what ingredients
do you already have in stock.
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dstark said:
Got any interesting recipe?
I've got hundreds of recipes,
do you have any particular style in mind?
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#12596323 - 05/20/10 07:19 AM (3 years, 30 days ago) |
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Searched the whole web, cant find "Edelweiss" beer recipe 
5 gallons of brown ale soon will be transported to secondary =]
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#13608719 - 12/09/10 07:56 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Kegerator. 
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#13608942 - 12/09/10 08:42 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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 How in the heck did I miss this thread?! 
Impressive setup you got there Stonesun, I wish I could sit down and pick your brain over a few of our home brews! 
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: geokills]
#13709477 - 12/31/10 02:21 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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I would really like to get into this hobby.
I have tried the most basic types of fermentation ( sugar wine)
I would like to try stilling, and brewing . I just don't have much money to get into it . Any info would be nice
btw great setup
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#13714848 - 01/01/11 02:25 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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I would really like to get into this hobby.
Any info would be nice
http://www.howtobrew.com/intro.html
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#16517244 - 07/12/12 12:41 AM (11 months, 20 hours ago) |
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Stonesun...everyone of us wishes we had a friend like you bro! Hats off.
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Re: A Brew Session With Stonesun (Pictorial). [Re: stonesun]
#16517256 - 07/12/12 12:43 AM (11 months, 20 hours ago) |
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I love Arrogant Bastard Ale and love being seen drinking it.
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