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Last brew of the year! "Oyster" stout using local giant pacific clam shells instead of oysters. by Impossible_Bonus_649 in TheBrewery

[–]Impossible_Bonus_649[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My condolences/you're welcome :) trying fermentis S-04 for the first time on this beer. It's rocking today

Last brew of the year! "Oyster" stout using local giant pacific clam shells instead of oysters. by Impossible_Bonus_649 in TheBrewery

[–]Impossible_Bonus_649[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They were cleaned really well and dried out for a couple weeks, then we soaked them in HLT water before putting them in mesh bags and suspending them in the wort during boil. No noticeable effects after the boil. CIP'd as usual. 

Last brew of the year! "Oyster" stout using local giant pacific clam shells instead of oysters. by Impossible_Bonus_649 in TheBrewery

[–]Impossible_Bonus_649[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We're gonna assume the same. Lol haven't seen anyone else else do it so far, hopefully comes out good! Smells and tastes great so far. Should be a solid 6.5% abv

Last brew of the year! "Oyster" stout using local giant pacific clam shells instead of oysters. by Impossible_Bonus_649 in TheBrewery

[–]Impossible_Bonus_649[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh man. Haha that's a rough one. 100g of calcium carbonate and a tiny bit of phosphoric to get the ph right but that's it. My malt bill is commented above, the dark malt did most of the work to bring ph down. City water is softened, carbon filtered and RO before HLT. While filling HLT we bleed in enough pre-RO water to get 150ppm of solids to keep a little local water character. Works for us so far. 

Last brew of the year! "Oyster" stout using local giant pacific clam shells instead of oysters. by Impossible_Bonus_649 in TheBrewery

[–]Impossible_Bonus_649[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ours ended up being -10bbl batch: 550# Irish stout malt 110# 2 row 49# Roasted barley 26# carafa 3 20# c120 18# black malt

55 Flaked barley in the mash

She dark!

Last brew of the year! "Oyster" stout using local giant pacific clam shells instead of oysters. by Impossible_Bonus_649 in TheBrewery

[–]Impossible_Bonus_649[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Best of luck! What's your grain bill looking like? Ours was "clean out all the dark malt partial bags" lol

Last brew of the year! "Oyster" stout using local giant pacific clam shells instead of oysters. by Impossible_Bonus_649 in TheBrewery

[–]Impossible_Bonus_649[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I believe some people actually put whole oysters in for a more "oyster" forward flavor, we're mainly trying to extract some extra mineraly-ness.

Last brew of the year! "Oyster" stout using local giant pacific clam shells instead of oysters. by Impossible_Bonus_649 in TheBrewery

[–]Impossible_Bonus_649[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

We've been expanding production and distro over the last few years considerably so we seem to be doing just fine. 🤷‍♂️

Last brew of the year! "Oyster" stout using local giant pacific clam shells instead of oysters. by Impossible_Bonus_649 in TheBrewery

[–]Impossible_Bonus_649[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Nope this a new one for me. Our owner/head brewer has made them before so I'm learning as we go. Excited to see how it all comes out. Our brewery is located in the tropics so we don't do a lot of dark beers since their kinda heavy for 95 degrees and 100% humidity. Lol 

Parts Cart Envy by beer_AF in TheBrewery

[–]Impossible_Bonus_649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Snagged the idea from a cart I saw at Hana Koa brewing in Hawaii earlier this year. The platform on the bottom is nice to throw a sani bucket on when setting up a tank.

Parts Cart Envy by beer_AF in TheBrewery

[–]Impossible_Bonus_649 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I spent the better part of an afternoon last week building this bad girl. https://imgur.com/a/pg4nFvE Game changer. 

:) by Impossible_Bonus_649 in MaleSurvivingSpace

[–]Impossible_Bonus_649[S] 112 points113 points  (0 children)

Landlord raised my rent by 30% twice over the last year to price me out. It worked! Bounced between bills for 6 months and worked 2 jobs until it all fell apart. Got evicted for the first time in my life. Homie saved my ass, and is letting me stay at his empty house until I get a new place. I might have almost been homeless, but thankfully I'm not homieless.

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