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  • CurlyFatCurlyFat
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    I'm killing time in Walmart waiting for a prescription, and came across this:


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    I'm thinking, why NOT brew 50 gallons? One long day, and I think I could fill it by brewing four batches on my system. The only problem I see right now (besides having 50 gallons of the same beer) is I only have eight kegs.

    Thoughts?

    jlw


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  • flyfisherwesflyfisherwes
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    Just pull out 1 keg at a time for serving. Use a spiggot or something.
  • FuzzyFuzzy
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    go for it!
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  • CurlyFatCurlyFat
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    I'm not sure I'll actually do it, but I really want to try. Just for a different challenge.


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    C_B

  • jlwjlw
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    buy more kegs
    bottle some of it
    Plus if that is 50 gallons you would want some head space for krausen so actually only brew 45 gallons to account for some trub loss then you could fill all your kegs with nothing left over. Also, if you brewed something that could be fermented differently with different yeasts to get different beers. One beer is oaked, one is bourbon another is oaked and bourbon. I think you could make the beers different enough that it wouldn't be 40 gallons of the same beer.
  • jlwjlw
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    I wasn't thinking earlier but the yeast idea wouldn't work since I am guessing that is your primary fermenter. I do stand by the other ideas.
  • JayrizzleJayrizzle
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    CurlyFat said:

    I'm killing time in Walmart waiting for a prescription, and came across this:


    I'm thinking, why NOT brew 50 gallons? One long day, and I think I could fill it by brewing four batches on my system. The only problem I see right now (besides having 50 gallons of the same beer) is I only have eight kegs.

    Thoughts?



    Heck I don't have any kegs and I'm (slowly) working on a brew rig to make that much beer. Planning on fermenting in same kind of drum (though a free one).
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  • ThymThym
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    How much is that thing a wally world?
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  • CurlyFatCurlyFat
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    Lakewood said:

    How much is that thing a wally world?



    $48. 55 gallons.


    I took a short one a couple hours ago. It was nice. --
    C_B

  • C_BC_B
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    Food grade?
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  • ThymThym
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    chandlerbang said:

    Food grade?



    Another excellent question...
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  • JayrizzleJayrizzle
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    Lakewood said:

    chandlerbang said:

    Food grade?



    Another excellent question...


    though less important then cost...
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  • ThymThym
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    Dr_Jerryrigger said:

    Lakewood said:

    chandlerbang said:

    Food grade?



    Another excellent question...


    though less important then cost...


    Well if it was $200 i wouldnt care if it was food grade.
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  • scoobscoob
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    All this talk of foodgrade... worried about cancer or something? Like any of us are going to live long enough at our alcohol consumption rate.
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  • C_BC_B
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    azscoob said:

    All this talk of foodgrade... worried about cancer or something? Like any of us are going to live long enough at our alcohol consumption rate.


    This is a solid point.
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  • jlwjlw
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    azscoob said:

    All this talk of foodgrade... worried about cancer or something? Like any of us are going to live long enough at our alcohol consumption rate.



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  • ceanntceannt
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    jlw said:

    azscoob said:

    All this talk of foodgrade... worried about cancer or something? Like any of us are going to live long enough at our alcohol consumption rate.



    Will there be a TKT retirement home?


    I sure hope so.....
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  • ThymThym
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    ceannt said:

    jlw said:

    azscoob said:

    All this talk of foodgrade... worried about cancer or something? Like any of us are going to live long enough at our alcohol consumption rate.



    Will there be a TKT retirement home?


    I sure hope so.....


    :)
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  • scoobscoob
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    here is a thought, can cancer survive in such a high alcohol environment???
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  • frydogbrewsfrydogbrews
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    give 'er a good rinse, and its fine. food grade be damned. thinking about using two of those to make 100 gallons of cider this fall.
  • ThymThym
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    Make it a blueberry melomel so no one questions the blue dye that leeches out of the plastic.
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  • scoobscoob
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    On the same line, make a fizzy yellow beer for at pattys day. Everyone likes green beer!
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  • FuzzyFuzzy
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    azscoob said:

    On the same line, make a fizzy yellow beer for at pattys day. Everyone likes green beer!



    i'm cool with any color.
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  • CurlyFatCurlyFat
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    It's supposedly food grade. It's intended to store drinking water when the apocalypse happens. It was in "that" isle.


    I took a short one a couple hours ago. It was nice. --
    C_B

  • JayrizzleJayrizzle
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    CurlyFat said:

    It's supposedly food grade. It's intended to store drinking water when the apocalypse happens. It was in "that" isle.



    Your Walmart is so much cooler than mine! Mine doesn't have isle just for paranoid crazy people, I have to search that stuff out.
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  • ThymThym
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    CurlyFat said:

    It's supposedly food grade. It's intended to store drinking water when the apocalypse happens. It was in "that" isle.



    that's awesome. did you buy one?
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  • FuzzyFuzzy
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    CurlyFat said:

    It's supposedly food grade. It's intended to store drinking water when the apocalypse happens. It was in "that" isle.



    the ones we use at work are HDPE.
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  • FuzzyFuzzy
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    they look the same.
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  • ThymThym
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    FromZwolle said:

    CurlyFat said:

    It's supposedly food grade. It's intended to store drinking water when the apocalypse happens. It was in "that" isle.



    the ones we use at work are HDPE.


    Its hard to tell from a picture if they are hdpe or some other form of polyethelyne... but hdpe is the good stuff.
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  • FuzzyFuzzy
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    Lakewood said:

    FromZwolle said:

    CurlyFat said:

    It's supposedly food grade. It's intended to store drinking water when the apocalypse happens. It was in "that" isle.



    the ones we use at work are HDPE.


    Its hard to tell from a picture if they are hdpe or some other form of polyethelyne... but hdpe is the good stuff.


    it should be labeled on the bottom as hdpe. if it's not, i wouldn't trust it.
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  • jlwjlw
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    FromZwolle said:

    Lakewood said:

    FromZwolle said:

    CurlyFat said:

    It's supposedly food grade. It's intended to store drinking water when the apocalypse happens. It was in "that" isle.



    the ones we use at work are HDPE.


    Its hard to tell from a picture if they are hdpe or some other form of polyethelyne... but hdpe is the good stuff.


    it should be labeled on the bottom as hdpe. if it's not, i wouldn't trust it.


    what's the worst that could happen?
  • ceanntceannt
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    jlw said:

    FromZwolle said:

    Lakewood said:

    FromZwolle said:

    CurlyFat said:

    It's supposedly food grade. It's intended to store drinking water when the apocalypse happens. It was in "that" isle.



    the ones we use at work are HDPE.


    Its hard to tell from a picture if they are hdpe or some other form of polyethelyne... but hdpe is the good stuff.


    it should be labeled on the bottom as hdpe. if it's not, i wouldn't trust it.


    what's the worst that could happen?


    Besides blindness convulsions and death?
    Curly's beer will do that anyway .....
    Never attribute to malice, that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.
  • C_BC_B
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    ceannt said:

    jlw said:

    FromZwolle said:

    Lakewood said:

    FromZwolle said:

    CurlyFat said:

    It's supposedly food grade. It's intended to store drinking water when the apocalypse happens. It was in "that" isle.



    the ones we use at work are HDPE.


    Its hard to tell from a picture if they are hdpe or some other form of polyethelyne... but hdpe is the good stuff.


    it should be labeled on the bottom as hdpe. if it's not, i wouldn't trust it.


    what's the worst that could happen?


    Besides blindness convulsions and death?
    Curly's beer will do that anyway .....

    Ouch. Remind me to never visit Curly's.

    Nevermind, no way I'm going to Wyoming for anything. Ever.
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  • ceanntceannt
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    Really good fishing and hunting there ..... I like Wyoming way better than Colorado
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  • ceanntceannt
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    Well... except for Rock Springs .... place sucks....
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  • CurlyFatCurlyFat
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    ceannt said:

    Well... except for Rock Springs .... place sucks....



    Yes. That's the armpit of the state. The butt crack is Gillette. I live somewhere near the crotch, but close to some of the good stuff.


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    C_B

  • jeepinjeepinjeepinjeepin
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    My oak barrel is food grade.
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  • ThymThym
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    jeepinjeepin said:

    My oak barrel is food grade.



    how do you go about filling it? do you have a large primary fermenter?
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  • jeepinjeepinjeepinjeepin
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    Multiple better bottles and several buckets. Around 8 batches over the course of a week. Some were fermented out and some were sweet. All added to the barrel together.
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  • FuzzyFuzzy
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    jeepinjeepin said:

    Multiple better bottles and several buckets. Around 8 batches over the course of a week. Some were fermented out and some were sweet. All added to the barrel together.



    i assume that it's a collaborative effort? that seems like waaay too much of one beer for one person.
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  • jeepinjeepinjeepinjeepin
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    Not a collab. Sour solera. And yes. Way too much beer for one person. Really, if anyone local wanted 5 gallons of it I'd let some go. I'd need them to leave some grain at the house though.
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  • FuzzyFuzzy
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    jeepinjeepin said:

    Not a collab. Sour solera. And yes. Way too much beer for one person. Really, if anyone local wanted 5 gallons of it I'd let some go. I'd need them to leave some grain at the house though.



    that is crazyness.
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  • jeepinjeepinjeepinjeepin
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    Yes. Yes it is.
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  • ThymThym
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    That's friggin awesome. Wish I was in the area.
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