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Sandy Feet said:
Loved OMF too. I have to remember the name, but one down here had a Carrot Saison that was very cool. I picked a great hotel too.
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Ah yes, Ratio. I should have mentioned them too. They sell a ton of that Elderflower Carrot Saison it seems. I get a hankering for it every once and a while. It’s tasty! Let me know if you want any more recommendations, but it seems like you’ve already been to some great spots.
 
Ratio Carrot Saison
Prairie Dog said:
Ah yes, Ratio. I should have mentioned them too. They sell a ton of that Elderflower Carrot Saison it seems. I get a hankering for it every once and a while. It’s tasty! Let me know if you want any more recommendations, but it seems like you’ve already been to some great spots.
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Oh, yes. I drank a shitload of good beer this week. I did the Pikes Peak train and Garden of the God's yesterday. I couldn't do anything nutty driving the rental car, but I had one Saaz Blonde at a chain taproom in Colorado Springs, and that was very good too.
The Google bitch got me lost the other day, and I ended up having one very nice Vienna Lager in Idaho Springs
with lunch.
 

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Sandy Feet said:
Ratio Carrot Saison

Oh, yes. I drank a shitload of good beer this week. I did the Pikes Peak train and Garden of the God's yesterday. I couldn't do anything nutty driving the rental car, but I had one Saaz Blonde at a chain taproom in Colorado Springs, and that was very good too.
The Google bitch got me lost the other day, and I ended up having one very nice Vienna Lager in Idaho Springs
with lunch.
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Tommy Knockers?
 
Sandy Feet said:
Ratio Carrot Saison

Oh, yes. I drank a shitload of good beer this week. I did the Pikes Peak train and Garden of the God's yesterday. I couldn't do anything nutty driving the rental car, but I had one Saaz Blonde at a chain taproom in Colorado Springs, and that was very good too.
The Google bitch got me lost the other day, and I ended up having one very nice Vienna Lager in Idaho Springs
with lunch.
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Nice! Glad to hear you saw some of the state as well. Denver has great breweries, but traveling into the mountains is the best part of Colorado. Some of the mountain towns have great breweries as well, like Idaho Springs.
 
Complete disaster in the home brewery today. I found out that my fermenter was leaking due to the nut on the spigot not being tightened enough. First time using this fermenter, so this is a lesson for me. I was able to get it into a different sanitized fermenter, which means I took it off the yeast cake right around Day 4.5 of fermentation. I took a reading and it was down to 1.010 (intended gravity is 1.008), so I'm hoping it isn't too far off from what I was intending. So much for a closed transfer! I threw some dry hops in there anyway and am crossing my fingers. I think I'll still keg it up and forget about worrying too much about oxygen.
 
Put together a 1.25 gallon batch of cider. Trying out cider yeast for the first time (safcider ab-1). I'll use the yeast cake to brew a proper 4.5 gallon batch afterwards. Hoping for 5-6% abv and not too sweet
 
Prairie Dog said:
Complete disaster in the home brewery today. I found out that my fermenter was leaking due to the nut on the spigot not being tightened enough. First time using this fermenter, so this is a lesson for me. I was able to get it into a different sanitized fermenter, which means I took it off the yeast cake right around Day 4.5 of fermentation. I took a reading and it was down to 1.010 (intended gravity is 1.008), so I'm hoping it isn't too far off from what I was intending. So much for a closed transfer! I threw some dry hops in there anyway and am crossing my fingers. I think I'll still keg it up and forget about worrying too much about oxygen.
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Well no different than doing a secondary
The good news is you have an empty fermenter
 
I'm carbonating simple saison cider & thinking about the next beer to brew.
Probably a tripel or a blonde.
Just need to check on yeasts in stock and temp range they work at
 
Prairie Dog said:
Complete disaster in the home brewery today. I found out that my fermenter was leaking due to the nut on the spigot not being tightened enough. First time using this fermenter, so this is a lesson for me. I was able to get it into a different sanitized fermenter, which means I took it off the yeast cake right around Day 4.5 of fermentation. I took a reading and it was down to 1.010 (intended gravity is 1.008), so I'm hoping it isn't too far off from what I was intending. So much for a closed transfer! I threw some dry hops in there anyway and am crossing my fingers. I think I'll still keg it up and forget about worrying too much about oxygen.
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Ehh, some times it just goes wrong. I think it’ll be fine. Even a little more yeast activity will consume the oxygen.
 
Sunfire96 said:
Put together a 1.25 gallon batch of cider. Trying out cider yeast for the first time (safcider ab-1). I'll use the yeast cake to brew a proper 4.5 gallon batch afterwards. Hoping for 5-6% abv and not too sweet
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With that yeast, you'll have residual sweetness but not too bad. I used it a couple of years ago. I liked it.
 
What Don said about the "failure". She'll be right.
 
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