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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby db1979 » Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:17 pm

RC Al wrote:Did you have abv readings before hand? some of what was missing may only be water... :shifty:

Doubt it, if it's close to azeo then it'll be mostly ethanol evaporating. It'd be nice though if it was mostly water evaporating, cause then we'd all air for 1 week :))
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby RC Al » Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:23 pm

True that, been reading about barrel evaporation vs humidity, interesting equation
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby EziTasting » Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:26 pm

Haha left some 95% in a fridge that died - dropped to less than 20%....
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby db1979 » Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:50 pm

EziTasting wrote:Haha left some 95% in a fridge that died - dropped to less than 20%....

That's a fuck up worthy of this thread :laughing-rolling: sorry mate, I feel for your loss 8-}
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby EziTasting » Fri Jan 31, 2020 10:27 pm

8-} :angry-banghead: Wasn’t a pleasant discovery, that’s for sure!
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby Lowie » Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:09 pm

LOL. I've never left my jars more than 48 hrs before so I was pretty surprised at the amount of loss. ABV was 92%. I was wondering if the extreme heat events (42ish) had a hand in it too :think:
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby EziTasting » Sat Mar 21, 2020 7:15 pm

So, trying to make some of TeddySads FFV, coz, you know, my son has a lot of alcohol swilling friends....
So I’m cleaning my 60L FV and find this...
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I tried putting it back in using 2 hands on opposite sides; I tried the fridge; and I tried the freezer (coz we know it makes everything smaller...). None of it worked.
So I got a little emotional and fixed it...
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Then, following the recipe, I started boiling the Bran.... and left it after 35 Mins coz it refused to boil... a commercial or three later I figured ‘that Brans had enough time on the stove!’ And find this...
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Better be a good wash!
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby dans.brew » Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:03 pm

Just one of those days Ezi... don't stress too much, we all have em!
Hopefully you got that mess cleaned up before the Mrs saw it :laughing-rolling:
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby EziTasting » Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:03 pm

Haha FU3!
Nope, caught red-handed! I cleaned her real good!
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby db1979 » Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:27 pm

Don't worry about the fermenter seal, just put the lid on without it. So long as it's run soon after finishing it'll be all good. Or use glad wrap, no lid.
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby EziTasting » Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:40 pm

Thx DB,
Tried glad wrap... wasn’t too successful on account of finding loads of ‘turdbudgies’ in the wash... probably because the dogs opened it up...
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby db1979 » Sun Mar 22, 2020 7:08 am

Maybe use glad wrap and then your lid on top, but loosely.
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby wynnum1 » Tue Mar 24, 2020 12:36 pm

If fermenter is not sealing put a plastic bag over the fermenter to stop bugs and stops condensation and dirt .
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby EziTasting » Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:13 pm

Got the lid loose and it seems to be working...
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby tubbsy » Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:36 pm

In my rush to gather bulk supplies, I forgot about the malted barley needing milling. The best I have for grinding is a nutribullet which hold only ~200g. Luckily I was mashing with unmalted cracked barley as well so only had to grind 6kg of malt. I'll find out tomorrow how successful my grind was.
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby EziTasting » Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:58 pm

tubbsy wrote:In my rush to gather bulk supplies, I forgot about the malted barley needing milling. The best I have for grinding is a nutribullet which hold only ~200g. Luckily I was mashing with unmalted cracked barley as well so only had to grind 6kg of malt. I'll find out tomorrow how successful my grind was.



Good luck! I hope it works out for you... chances are it will, seem to be quite forgiving and the whole purpose of 'cracking' is to allow access to the sugars/Starches within so a fine grind may present issues with 'dough-balls' but not so much with extraction.
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby tubbsy » Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:12 pm

I was worried about going too fine and in the process have probably not gone far enough. It's in an esky overnight so has plenty of time do convert, if it can.
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby tubbsy » Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:36 pm

So that worked better than I imagined. 9kg of grain into a 30L wash at an SG of 1.066.
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby Jim-Bob-shine » Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:23 am

Accidentally bought 5 kilos of citric acid online instead of 1kg
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Re: Tell us Your Fuckup's

Postby dans.brew » Tue Mar 31, 2020 6:01 am

Jim-Bob-shine wrote:Accidentally bought 5 kilos of citric acid online instead of 1kg

Well you wont be running out of it anytime soon.
I suppose its not all bad in current circumstances with lots of ingredients being on the short side. :laughing-rolling:
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