Yeasty,

You old devil! You know the trick! My wife knows it too. That's why I re-fight the battle of the bulge each and every day! Her attempts to shut me up! Today I am restarting the film? editing and will cut 2 hours down to eight or ten minutes. Next year, when I am pinning the first place in Cheesestradamus medal on your chest, I hope to do it in Grand Rapids?

We can always dream!

P.S. The rest of the guys here are to cheep to go!

P.S.P.S. Grand Rapids is not a sexy town! No offense Michigan!

All,

I worked like a dog to get the video done. Never promise a good steady video when you spend a day (3 days) drinking. The video was shaky (from OTHER people bumping me) It was pretty much a failure as my blog was! Anyway here it is http://youtu.be/WSvUvJTQQ6Q

Sorry for the length and quality but "It's free"!

Very nice Bob. Who were the three others in your group? Did you travel with anybody?

Mad_Scientist,

I traveled alone. My wife and I drove from Wisconsin to Michigan where I left her with my daughter and her family. I drove straight through alone unless you call my GPS my partner. The others in my group did about the same. Visiting their families out east and taking a train or plane home. A good time was had by all. We ended up wearing our club t-shirts on club night. I was just luck on my part the others planed it. We will have lots of stories next club meeting!

The only downer was the exploding beer can's. Oh well!!

Well done Bob; great video again.

I can't believe you haven't had more comments? I appreciate the time you have spent anyway

By the way, was it just coincidence that there was always a beer wench in front of you?

I thought that the coincidence was that his dodgy camera angles only seemed to occur at those times mally.



How's the guy in the alien suit giving Bob the cheers - lol!

Mally,

I look for beer wenches and any other girl in a bathing suit or cleavage. NOW, it's just for you young guys that I am doing this. I could care less about soft young girls with sexual attractions to father (or grandfather) issues.

PP,

The dodgy camera angles were my fault. I was either awaking from a "senior moment" or getting off the floor? The alien was saluting me because I was wearing a buzzard hat! Doesn't everybody wear one?

Looking good Bob, but so sorry, Jenny has all ya'll beat in the looks department. Does she have a funny accent too?

Mad_Scientist,

Yes she does! Apparently we all do? I never noticed before? Keep listing to BBR. You can laugh at my accent for 40 minutes! I tried to talk real slow so all the panhandle people could follow!

The Podcast should be out soon? I don't know when but there are some other good shows recorded that week? Who knows? http://www.basicbrewing.com/index.php?page=radio

I haven't had a chance to listen yet? I will on the way to the brew club meeting tonight! I hope it went OK? The first 3 minutes will be commercials, but hey it's great anyway?

Basic Brewing Radio http://www.basicbrewing.com/index.php?page=radio
Just posted another show from Philly: Bob Stempski's no-chill aging experiment.

This is the link below to listen. If you want to download it to a mp3 player go to the link above?
http://ec.libsyn.com/p/3/6/0/3603cb730d ... id=5877080

"July 18, 2013 - No Chill Aging Experiment
Bob Stempski returns with another no-chill experiment. This time, how does storing unpitched no-chill wort for four months affect the final product?"

That was a very good experiment and interview Bob. I went with the 'C' also.

I learned that you can set your siphon in the gunk and start your siphon. Can you expound on that a little? Do you start with the cube level or tilted and where do you place the tip? Does the junk form a dimple?

I have always carefully keep the siphon away from the junk, holding it the whole time.

joshua,

Bob, Do real 3V brewers chill the stuff right out of the Mashtun, and ferment it??????

Yeah I misspoke! I had a bad day remembering words and lost my train of thought a few times. I listened to it on my way to the brew meeting last night and was appalled by the crap I put out! Oh well, I am sure most everyone knows by now that I have a few "Brain Farts" now and then.

Mad_Scientist,

I learned that you can set your siphon in the gunk and start your siphon. Can you expound on that a little? Do you start with the cube level or tilted and where do you place the tip? Does the junk form a dimple?

What I was trying to say is that I used to have trouble keeping my siphon out of the gunk. It seem that I would always draw clear wort out and then knock the siphon around and into the trub as the last minute and spoil the clear wort with trub and hop residue? I have since learned that you need some trub in the fermenting wort to have a better ferment and if you put the siphon into the bottom of the gunk it will stay there.

So what I do is this. I use my freezer as a table. I let the N/C container sit a day or two to let the (Irish-moss or Whirlfloc) solidify the trub. I have a sliver of wood that I put under the cube to slightly tilt it back. I then place the sanitized siphon into the cube at its lowest point. I hold a pitcher in one hand under the hose and I give a steady push of the pump and draw the trub into the pitcher. I may pump it twice? As the vacuum sucks the trub it clears a spot around the intake. As it clears I splash the clear wort into the fermentation bucket for a little extra oxidization.

I dump the pitcher down the drain or if the wort is already pretty clear anyway I will drink it or use it to take readings? The siphon now sits solidly on the bottom and the area around the siphon tip stays clear. I may waste a bottle or so of beer but that doesn’t bother me? I used to want my wort to be as clear as possible in the fermentation bucket and went to great lengths to succeed at it. Now I don’t worry about it and know how to prevent it? Life is good?

Podcast was great Bob. A few good laughs but very interesting as well. Btw, I still have one cube, an English IPA, left from 15 months ago that I haven't pitched yet. Maybe this weekend???

Hope you are smelling better .