Minions of the Dark

[MrTea]

Well I was tending to my veg tent when I pulled the kraken out I noticed it had shot out a side branch of balls that looked as if it had been in flowering for a long time. I swear it must've happened almost practically overnight. It is also showing male preflowering on the rest of the nodes. I must've stressed it the hell out LOL. It's been in a 1 gal pot for 2 months and gets underwatered far too often. It's been under a T5 that started at 24/0 to 20/4 to 18/6. Lol. I lost my phone a few weeks ago so I can't get you pictures right now, but I swear to all hell that this was a female leaner; it has had so many trichome glands since it first broke seed. I wonder if I get it back on track under far less stress if it will throw out pistils once I can reveg it for a few months. Highly doubtful, but at least I have some pollen to work with from a frosty male in veg. Hmm

 

[HatchBrew]

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Done and done.

 

[Screwston]

Goodnight growmies. Just got in from the beach. Update tomo as promised. Hope everyone had a good weekend.

Bong rips for the minions!

 

[HatchBrew]

Goodnight growmies. Just got in from the beach. Update tomo as promised. Hope everyone had a good weekend.

Bong rips for the minions!

Been itching for some beach time!

 

[HillBilly1]

My favorite beer is Grolsch and Steinlager, that's what I
want to make, and I started having a thing for Mt Shasta
Brewery's Jalapeno Beer it's damn good.. And their Golden
It mighty fine too

Damn forgot to add you Hatchbrew and the quote

 

[HatchBrew]

My favorite beer is Grolsch and Steinlager, that's what I
want to make, and I started having a thing for Mt Shasta
Brewery's Jalapeno Beer it's damn good.. And their Golden
It mighty fine too

Damn forgot to add you Hatchbrew and the quote

No worries HB. I picked it up.

Grolsch, is a real simple beer, highlighting the quality of the ingredients and the craftsmanship. It uses two row hops, hallertau hops, and a clean well-attenuating strain of lager yeast. Being a lager means that it is cold-fermented, beer is stored at 50-55 for two+ months. Grolsch is also a SABMiller co, which is owned by altria which also owns phillip morris.

Steinlager, owww getting fancy on us Hillbilly...stuff is from New Zealand. Same process as Grolsch, uses a local "green bullet" hop and a different strain of yeast.

Ales are quicker. 3-4 weeks to ferment. 3 hours to bottle a batch. 3 weeks to allow it to carbonate. If you were to keg the beer you wouldn't spend so much time bottling or waiting for it to be ready. Kegs you can force carb in 2-3days or naturally over a couple weeks.

I've brewed a chile beer before, it was a yes or no if people liked it.

Golden, feel like we're getting into belgians. Higher alcohol, yeast flavors are accented with the grain bill and all is balanced by the hops.
I've brewed a triple before that came in a 11% abv. I had to use twice a much grain to make such a high gravity beer and pitch almost twice the amount of yeast. I brew that one for the holiday season...turkey time is when it gets busted out for the first time.

I photograph my set-up so you can see how I work it.

 

[HatchBrew]

Good Morning Minions. What's the good word today?

 

[HillBilly1]

The weed Golden taste like a double bitter but it's super
Smooth

 

[Screwston]

Afternoon fuckers

 

[SG1]

I should of showered last night, now my GIX is itching terribly.

 

[HatchBrew]

All Grain Brewing Simplified:

1st: Mash Grains = converting starches to sugars. Higher mash temp more complex sugars that the yeast can't eat. Residual sugars= sweeter beer/more body. Lower Mash Temp- More fermentables (read simple sugars) and less body/ crispier/ lighter brew.

This step is done with water that is 145*-158* F for an hour or whenever all starches are converted.

2nd: Mash Out: Stops the enzymes that are converting starches to sugars. Need to get mash up to 170* plus. Sounds easy...thermal mass and calculators help.

3rd: Collect and Sparge= draining sweet wort into boil kettle whilst rinsing/ running water thru the grain bed to collect all the sugars that are hanging with the grains. Run until hit desired pre-boil volume or when pH starts to get below 5.

***or skip these three steps of making your wort and buy malt extract dry or liquid. Recommended for first brews until ready to make the step to all-grain brewing, which is the process I've been describing.

4th: Bring wort to boil. It'll boil for at least sixty minutes. Harder the boil, more evaporation and caramelization of sugars= stronger darker beer. Watch for boil over, keep by its side with a stirrer and a spray bottle of water (like to use to help push down hot break foam).

Boil overs are sticky wasteful messes. It happens. That's why I don't have a beer until everything rolling and I'm adding hops.

5th: Hop it:
Add bittering hops at sixty minute mark (00:60 countdown = time left of boil) and up until thirty minutes (00:30). Longer the hops are boiled the more bitterness is extracted.

Add Flavor Hops: between (00:20-00:10)
Also add wort chiller to boil wort at ten minutes (if using) to sanitize it

Add Aroma Hops: between (00:10-00:00)

Kill the heat, cool that hot liquid down as fast as possible to 70*f

Transfer into a sanitized carboy or fermenter. Check the gravity =amount of sugars -> how much alcohol it'll produce and to know when it is done fermenting

Pitch your active and bountiful slurry of yeast. Shake it up to introduce oxygen to help the yeasty-beastys. Put a top on it. Place in consistently tempered area away from light. If the ambient temperature is seventy in your room than the beer will ferment in the eighties. which is too hot.

Once your beer hits its Final Gravity= all possible sugars have been fermented (check over course of days, if within recipes range and hasn't moved at all then ready) Nothing worse than bottling a beer that's isn't done... Bottle Bombs!!!

Bottle or keg as desired.

How's that look Hillbilly?

From right to left: Up top is the where I heat water for the mash.
middle pot is mash tun. where warm water and grains come together.
Finally on the ground is boil kettle where wort is collected, boiled, hopped, and cooled.


Next two pictures are a close up of one my kettles. Keg with top laser-beamed off and a sanitary weld on the base for easier transfers.

 

[Seaf0ur]

You look like you're bout one thump keg short of makin moonshine... lol

 

[bugman52]

Colloidal silver? You use it before?

i made CS early on this year. with no luck. [maybe it was too strong]

Im bout to... had a bad run with Ga3... too much alcohol... I got the 90%. If anyone plans to use Ga3, get the weak, water soluble kind.

i used Ga3 a few years back[that shit fuck up my plants] i did get 1 plant to flower a few flowers [4] i made 9 fem seeds.
im going to make CS again[not as strong] & see how it does .

 

[Seaf0ur]

I should of showered last night, now my GIX is itching terribly.

Sounds like you need a salve or a cream to clear up the ole gixer LOL

then you'll be that Arthur Fonzerilli, waterskiing in a leather jacket, type of cool

AAAAAYYYYYYY

 

[HatchBrew]

You look like you're bout one thump keg short of makin moonshine... lol

That one is in the closet...pressure cooker does the trick too. haha. Wathen's Kentucky whiskey straight for this guy.

 

[HatchBrew]

SeaF0ur. Got True Blue ordered~~!!! Thanks for the help.

 

[bugman52]

Haha I only use males and the bucket does not have
My Hillbilly crosses lol don't want my shit to taint the Quality
Of the real breeders lol .. But I do have a pile going to the
Server fund here in the next week haha so be on the lookout
Haha

HB what SEEDS u sending in to SF?

 

[bugman52]

Hey , I have a brand new beer kit and I may need
Someone to hold my hand for the first run came with
no instructions lol. Has Australian batch with it..
If I remember correctly you were a beer making fool
At the other place.. I also really want to start making Mead
So I can have another reason to start a couple bee hives

I make the shit out of some beer.

PM me with questions and such. Can walk you through process and fermentation control. You may want to hold off a couple months to brew. High temps lead to hot fermentation and bandaid/banana tasting beer.

I like to brew Belguim (yeast forward brews) and german (malt dominate). Make a lager monthly. Ales in the winter.

i like making home brews.
i have a few resipes i made if anyone is instred?
if u like wheat beer [bugmans wheat lol]

 

[HillBilly1]

HB what SEEDS u sending in to SF?

Agent Berry ( Agent Orange x Hashberry )
Sour Tracks ( Sour D x Spyder )
Sparkle Fruit bush ( Sour D x Grapefruit Kush )

might send In Granddaddy Spyder ( GDP X Spyder )

Spyder is Purple Widow x Crazy Train. Also goes by
Spyder Tracks

 

[Screwston]

What's crackin growmies?

I get home gonna roll up some gsc
And pull out the macro lense.

Sg. That itch.... Does it burn? Lmfao