we had about 2 gallons of cabbage water. now some ppl actually drink it and it is healthy for you. I'm not keen on just drinking it straight so I wondered about mashing with it. I figure 2 gallons mash water would make a nice beer... and I could sparge with regular water so the total volume of cabba...

so the wife made a mess of boiled cabbage. after straining out the cabbage I was looking at the steaming pot of cabbage water and wondered...

what would happen if you used this to mash your all grain batch of beer? could you? would you want to?

it was such a nice purple too!

mashani... I watched farscape too. . . and yes, he would have made parents cringe.

if you buy grocery veggies like carrots and cabbage... do you wash them? just rinse them in water? with all the foodborne listeria cases if you washed the vegs in soapy water and rinsed, wouldn't this kill the lacto bacillus normally found on them that makes things ferment? do you need whey? or just...

anyone into this? brining and lacto fermenting stuff? im curious to try and have questions I cant find answers to.

thanks

as was mentioned, do what makes brewing enjoyable..but... this is just your first ag attempt. your first anything is expected to be fraught with disappointments and problems.. unless youre one of the few lucky ones who skate through life without a care. my first AG (to date my only ag due to the sti...

I did notice that the fermentation seemed more robust than usual for us05. normally 05 forms a tiny blanket of dense krausen for me, then chugs away slowly. this ferment made a higher kruasen and seemed to be largely done in a week. so 'break matter' is really that disgusting? lol... the words snott...

did a partial mash kit from NB... about 60% grain to 40% lme. I used whirlfloc ( I think ) in the last 8-10 mins of boil. when transferring to the fermenter I run everything through a sieve to catch excessive hops as I toss them into the boil loose. this also serves to aerate. on bottling I noticed ...

wife made a smoothie batch with acai berry, blue berry, pommegrannite juice , beets, carrots, kale and a Tsp of lemon juice. put it in a closed plastic container that LME came in with a kit from NB (washed afterward). fast forward a day or two. container is bulging. went FIZZZZZ on opening. it has s...

if you have a 2l yeast starter that has been spinning for 36 hrs (example).. is it safe to assume that the yeast are relatively evenly distributed in the sample and that pouring off half into a fermenter will net you about half the available yeast cells? (if not allowed to settle out first?)

wrote blue rhino and was told to call them for 'support'. so I called and explained to the operator that: I leak test the tank before use by spraying soap solution on it to check for bubbles... response? you spray soap on it? why do you spray soap on it? if it leaks propane there should be soap bubb...

did a NB palmer's elevenses... partial mash... used stirring at 30 min intervals. got 80% efficiency. yay! i know it isnt a huge beer but it was nice not having to wait for a sample tube to cool etc... and hitting just over my OG was cool too. now if only it wasnt 90F with 97% humidity and wasps bot...

i cranked my blichman one complete rotation (360 degrees) because my 5 gals of wort werent coming to a boil. this fixed that problem however during the boil i noticed the soap solution i sprayed to test for leaks was bubbling where the flow control valve stem enters the tank. it was fine on just one...

the thought behind the pm... cooler tun too small for 5 gallons... however I am building a bigger one. just need to pick up a dremel and learn how to cut slits in copper tubing and I will be good to go.

doing NB's karls' 90 schilling scotch ale this sunday (weather permitting) .. using wlp028 yeast, fermenting at 68-70f. re caramelization: will the 90 min boil produce enough of that caramelly goodness? or should I do the boil 2qt/1lb dme to 1 pint and add that to the boil before flame out trick? ca...