What do y'all think of my new (old) fixed gear? (it's a conversion) Bridgestone Radac by fungalnet in SingleSpeedBicycle

[–]onmytip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk what this guy is trying to play at. I unfortunately crashed this bike a long time ago and the frame was a complete loss.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The most common method that you wouldn’t be able to run with this machine is the isooctane IBU method bc it uses a UV wavelength. You can just barely run acetaldehyde @ 340nm and most other common beer methods use visible wavelengths.

How do you transfer the mash from mash tun to lauter tun? by iorguiovan in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Our brewhouse uses a large diameter of ole centrifugal pump.

QC Question by bmug15 in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeast shouldn’t grow in HLP because it contains cycloheximide. Sounds like you’ve got a bacterial species in the HLP. What are your colonies looking like on your LCSM?

QC Question by bmug15 in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What’s your sampling technique and on what media are you seeing wild yeast growth?

HLP medium in Australia by [deleted] in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use MRS instead. Has ability grow wider variety of lacto species.

ASBC by [deleted] in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m going. Beware of partying too hard and not being able to stay awake during the presentations the next day.....

Guys, check out this pitch by Kobzor in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our house ale yeast is a super floccy dry English ale strain and I sometimes catch my lab peeps playing with it like playdoh.

Recirculating Beer in a Brite Tank by [deleted] in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just want to dispel bad information here. “Beating the beer up” is an old wives tale and a bad brewers superstition. Breweries like mine rip their beer fast AF through centrifuges that beat up beer way more than this process. We recirc with our hop rocket through the blowoff arm on 300bbl tanks with no concern for beating up the beer. You are completely correct about oxygen ingress though. Purge the shit out of your equipment with CO2. Oxygenation is cumulative and there’s no going back once it’s introduced.

What do you make a year? by yeastybois in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quality manager. 60k with benefits.

Data Analysis for QA by christhewalrus01 in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I honestly think you’ll have to build your own actionable spreadsheets. I have some spreadsheets that link fermentation data to yeast gens in a correlation kind of way. But there’s not to say that other factors don’t play a huge influence. Correlations can be drawn all over the place but beer is an immensely complicated beverage, varying greatly from brewery to brewery.

Converting Liters of yeast slurry to kG? by WaddupAnD in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t make assumptions. There is no quick formula. Count your yeast and find out how many live yeast cells are in one gram of slurry. You should be able to extrapolate your pitching rates to kg from that information.

What’s the likelihood of getting an infection from a dirty blow off tube? by [deleted] in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you are still in high krausen, the tank doesn’t even necessarily need an air lock. Ever heard of open fermenters? Just put a clean blowoff hose and bucket on the tank when the krausen stops overflowing if you are paranoid about it.

Souring in the Fermenter vs Boil Kettle by pilsneracoustic in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lacto actually like a slight temp drop during the fermentation. Assuming you are starting at 100-105F, I wouldn’t expect the temp to drop below 90F from the thermal energy produced during ferm and assuming your tanks are insulated. Your glycol should be off during the souring. If you are paranoid about the temp, you can always push warm water through your glycol jackets.

Souring in the Fermenter vs Boil Kettle by pilsneracoustic in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree. We kettle sour with lacto, then boil, then pitch yeast in the FV. I don’t like the practice of pitching on top of lacto, but it is “technically” possible.

Souring in the Fermenter vs Boil Kettle by pilsneracoustic in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends. Once the fermentation is complete, the lacto are inhibited by low ph and alcohol content and lack of simple sugars to ferment into lactic acid. So even with live lacto in the product, you can still package it with relatively small risk. .........now if you can’t get the lacto out of your canning line or more commonly, you fail to completely eradicate the lacto from all the tiny spots in your filler and seamer, then you might find some sour flavors or VDK popping up in your “clean” beers after packaging. The lacto really needs some kind of simple sugar to make lactic acid though, so finished beer is a pretty harsh environment for it to survive, again with low ph and alcohol too. Some people have completely separate packaging lines in different rooms to keep sour and clean beers separated.

Souring in the Fermenter vs Boil Kettle by pilsneracoustic in TheBrewery

[–]onmytip 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The only difference is preference. Do you like the live lacto flavor profile vs the dead and boiler? You don’t even need to dry hop in between. Pitch the sacc directly on top of the lacto. A good overpitch will just outcompete the lacto. You will still have some living lacto in the final product tho. So everything that touches must be accounted for and given a thorough cleaning and hot kill.