The water seems a bit acidic, but then again, so is orange juice.
I do not think acidic precipitation affect human health directly although some may argue it is not good for your respiratory track. I don't think you will get sick though.
I don't know, just to be on the safe side I would give that shit a good boil.
Just this afternoon! I hate bottling! Took pictures because I'm a docuholic! Also I just noted the fact that all the pictures on the front page of my flickr account are alcohol related. Lol.
We do a clean/rinse with oxy clean, cap with aluminum foil, and then an hour in the oven to sterilize. The bonus is that as long as you leave the foil on, you can do this days in advance. Then Adam does the filling while I do the cap crimping, and I usually get a serious backache and a sore hand :)
But it's totally worth it. :-D Happy beer drinking in about 2 weeks!
Hmm tell me more about this bottling technique. Oxy clean? aluminum foil cap? O_o
Yeah I had this hastle of submersing them all in iodine water, draining them all out, rinsing them all in clean water, letting them all dry out. d= Multiply this by some had gunky stuff in them that was NOT coming out so I had to give them several soaks (and tried to attack with a bottle brush but my bottle brush became stuck in a bottle and half an hour later I gave up for the day because I was so pissed off). d=
it's the foreshots, methanol, which in a rig like your would be the first 150 ml or so that attack the optic nerve. but i know, a shot of full strength neutral spirits will set you back on your heels.
when i was a kid, i knew an old man, and i mean born in the 1890s old, who lived in a shack in the swamp. all he ever drank (other than canadian club) was rainwater from a wooden cistern. we kids drank it too, and never got sick. it always had a bit of a green tinge to it. there are some of our brother distillers, i forget which forum, who only use rainwater in their mashes.
The way it was explained to me the foreshots contain a lot of the stuff in the orginal fermentate that would cause you the headache and hangover, and hence are shit you want to get out, BUT since distilling doesn't create anything new and there's no methanol in the original wash, there's no methanol coming out of the still. Makes sense to me. I know I've heard distillers equate the foreshots with methanol before, but I think that might be just a common misunderstanding?
But also, this idea just struck me while writing the above -- if its true the foreshots are the headache causing stuff from what you fermented -- what if y ou made a batch of beer and then ONLY distilled out the foreshots? hmm.
I'm glad you didn't go blind. I'm glad I didn't have to fly out there to give you the crash course in Braille and introduce you to the joys of using a Seeing eye dog! hahaha
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I do not think acidic precipitation affect human health directly although some may argue it is not good for your respiratory track. I don't think you will get sick though.
I don't know, just to be on the safe side I would give that shit a good boil.
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I was thinking about you yesterday when we were bottling our stout. Have you bottled yours yet?
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We do a clean/rinse with oxy clean, cap with aluminum foil, and then an hour in the oven to sterilize. The bonus is that as long as you leave the foil on, you can do this days in advance. Then Adam does the filling while I do the cap crimping, and I usually get a serious backache and a sore hand :)
But it's totally worth it. :-D Happy beer drinking in about 2 weeks!
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Yeah I had this hastle of submersing them all in iodine water, draining them all out, rinsing them all in clean water, letting them all dry out. d= Multiply this by some had gunky stuff in them that was NOT coming out so I had to give them several soaks (and tried to attack with a bottle brush but my bottle brush became stuck in a bottle and half an hour later I gave up for the day because I was so pissed off). d=
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when i was a kid, i knew an old man, and i mean born in the 1890s old, who lived in a shack in the swamp. all he ever drank (other than canadian club) was rainwater from a wooden cistern. we kids drank it too, and never got sick. it always had a bit of a green tinge to it. there are some of our brother distillers, i forget which forum, who only use rainwater in their mashes.
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But also, this idea just struck me while writing the above -- if its true the foreshots are the headache causing stuff from what you fermented -- what if y ou made a batch of beer and then ONLY distilled out the foreshots? hmm.
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i just see some pissed off face being poured into a toilet bowl (aka brewing equipment)
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