Always close the manifold drain before sparging. Loosing all hot water half-way through is no good.
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Always ensure the various plugs are DRY before making the connection!
While brewing, filtering, cleaning, etc. stay at least one or two steps ahead of your process so you don't have to play catch-up.
Don't forget to sing once in awhile as you are scrubbing out the inside of the mash tun. These tanks have GREAT acoustics!
Prost!
DaveGlacier Brewing Company
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Originally posted by GlacierBrewingDon't forget to sing once in awhile as you are scrubbing out the inside of the mash tun. These tanks have GREAT acoustics!
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Make sure you have empty grain bins before mashing in
Make sure you have empty spent grain bins before starting the brew. It is a realy pain in the ass to scramble to empty bins when you are the only one at the brewery so you can refill them. Just happened to me this morning, my farmer neglected to bring me empties.
Michael Uhrich
Carter's Brewing
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1) A banana a day will keep the cramps at bay.
2) Rubber boots require long socks. Really long. Compression socks are good.
3) Keep a complete change of clothes in a sealed plastic bag at the brewery, along with a new disposable razor, a toothbrush and toothpaste.
4) A sleeping bag and two short stacks of pallets makes decent bedding on hell-nights.
5) When brewing for an audience, don't brew your trickiest 9.2% abv RIS or IIPA. I got reamed on this one today. If I ever do this again, I'm brewing my weizen -- light grain bill, rice hulls, complex enough to make me look like a wizard. (Today -- stuck mash, bad sparge, didn't hit target gravity, had to use a bucket of syrup, and then my heat exchanger clogged solid. Thankfully everyone left before vorlauf.)
6) Doesn't matter how long the day was, get the worst of the mess off the floor and into the drain. Coming back to a sticky mess the morning after a 16-hour day just isn't fun.
7) Gold Bond Medicated Powder.
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look three times
Pretty sure I have already mentioned this, but its worth mentioning again.
Before you open/close valves, discinnect hoses, turn on pumps, stick your bare hands in liquid... etc.
Look at everything and ask yourself 3 times what action you are performing and if everything is, at the present time, the way you think it is and should be.
SAVE: yesterdays brew (post boil-WP) had my hand on the kettle bottom out to the maifold when I stopped, looked and saw 2 valves on the manifold open. One was 8" to my left at eye level.
FAIL: Using brewhouse pump to CIP FV's (CIP pump in shop). Left the kettle CIP valve open after draining manifold and blew caustic into tomorrows brew water... DOH!! .. it was already hot too. Such a waste.Jeff Byrne
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In no particular order:
1/ Spell your name in the snow at least once a year.
2/ Walk in green grass with naked feet. Remember how it feels.
3/ Learn to sing louder than your CIP pump.
4/ Have regular sex with your significant other.
5/ Yeast like music. Give it to them.
6/ Give a brewery tour to children (no samples of course).
Pax.
LiamLiam McKenna
www.yellowbellybrewery.com
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If, perchance, you CIP a tank with hot liquid, consider leaving the manhole door open. If you don't, you and your tank might collapse.
If you like to live dangerously, try the following: Use your potable water system as a chemical highway where chemicals are mixed in a water stream and then dispensed. And by all means rely on those checkvalves that never work when you need them. For some day when you least expect it you'll find soap and chemicals in all the wrong places.
And don't stop there. Make sure your plumbing systems are very complicated and interconnected. If you try hard enough you can have beer coming out of your drinking fountains and "other venues."
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Heating a cool/cold tank causes pressure. Cooling a warm/hot tank causes a vacuum. Either way leave the manway open or at least a large valve or your tank will explode/collapse. I've never seen an exploded tank but I did see a collapsed, brand new 100 bbl fermentor. What a shame that was and very embarassing for the brewery.
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Keep your fingers away from the bottom manway hinge on the Mash tun when it is first opened. Getting your digit stuck in there while the spent grain is coming out is darn painful and hard to remove.Joel Halbleib
Partner / Zymurgist
Hive and Barrel Meadery
6302 Old La Grange Rd
Crestwood, KY
www.hiveandbarrel.com
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Originally posted by BrewinLouKeep your fingers away from the bottom manway hinge on the Mash tun when it is first opened. Getting your digit stuck in there while the spent grain is coming out is darn painful and hard to remove.~Phil
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Originally posted by liammckennaIn no particular order:
5/ Yeast like music. Give it to them.
Pax.
LiamCheers!
David R. Pierce
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Yes!!!
Originally posted by liammckennaIn no particular order:
1/ Spell your name in the snow at least once a year.
2/ Walk in green grass with naked feet. Remember how it feels.
3/ Learn to sing louder than your CIP pump.
4/ Have regular sex with your significant other.
5/ Yeast like music. Give it to them.
6/ Give a brewery tour to children (no samples of course).
Pax.
Liam
Sound advice.Beejay
Pipeworks Brewing Company
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