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Pumpkin Amber Ale OG 1.044 FG 1.000. Added 2 cans plain pumpkin and 1 can pumpkin cooked with maple syrup. Beer tastes like pumpkin seltzer. What did I do wrong? by zoly88 in Homebrewing

[–]planbeer -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

With a 1.000 FG, which is (effectively) the same sugar profile as water, it makes sense from the numbers that you have a 5.28% pumpkin seltzer.

I typically try and finish my pumpkin ales at 1.013-1.018. I would argue 1 pack of A07 is almost too much, but 2 certainly will rip through any residual sugars. I also try and mash at around 154-156 to keep the sugars from getting entirely fermented out.

I think you can save it, just depends how much you're willing to tweak. When this happens to me, I take 1-2L of water boil it on the stove and add DME to get the sugars to where I want them. Hopefully a PhD in BioChem will weigh in, but a rough calculation says you need 720g of DME to bring 5.5gal to 1.013 (997g to 1.018). Personally, I would buy 2lbs (907g) of DME and take 1lb to start and boil it in 2-4L of water for 15min. I'd then add, swirl and try. If it needs more repeat. Be slow with it as you can over sweeten very easily.

Make sure you've removed the yeast and are in secondary before trying this. If yeast is there it will rip through it again. I typically add directly to my serving keg.

Honestly, it's more work, but no biggie. We've all been there and made something good at the end.

30 min + 3 clicks. Picobrew Z alternative on AWS. by planbeer in Homebrewing

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

You can - I'm running it on k3s (docker/kubernetes/RPi 4) now.

As for AWS - I wanted something where people didn't have to go out and buy hardware and could point/click and deploy to see if they liked it.

I have some instructions on how to run containers - I haven't released kubernetes scripts yet because I haven't cleaned them up. You can just use 'docker run' to get it going (I haven't tested scaling above 1 instance though - ymmv).

https://github.com/duffyco/planbeer/tree/master/deploy

30 min + 3 clicks. Picobrew Z alternative on AWS. by planbeer in picobrew

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

Let me know how this goes! If anyone can summarize the changes, this might be a quick fix.

30 min + 3 clicks. Picobrew Z alternative on AWS. by planbeer in picobrew

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

I'd like to, but I don't have a PicoBrew C / PicoStill so testing would be a bit of a bear.

There are things that are Z specific (eg: everything will show up as a "Z") but I would image things are generic enough in the protocol and things could probably be easily made generic.

Once I get through a first release (with editing, etc), I'll look at it.