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Stock take..............OMG!!!
I've just done a stock take of what I raw ingredients I have instock and see what i need to get in whilst drinking a nice glass of my Turkish Apple Tea Wine............................ and I opened the dedicated hop drawer in the freezer and found:
Halletauer Hersbrucker, Progress, pilgrim, Saaz, simcoe, East Kent Goldings, Glacier Hops, Fuggle, Amarillo, Fuggle Pellets.
and in the selection before my hospital visit un opened i have Nelson Sauvin, More Fuggle's, Northern Brewer and a pack of Magnum. in total 18 seperate batches of Hops!
plus 13kg of different malts!
Does anyone else store/keep so many hops??
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Posted 2 years ago by Moderator
Not as many as you but I got some 20kg pale malt, wheat, oats, munich, crystal and some spray malt
Mouteka, pilgrim, sazz, halertau, brewers gold, cascade, styrian goldings, magnum, ekg and fuggles.
Its gota be done as you know one day you will do a brew with the leftovers and it will be amazing!
Plannin'-
Loads a beer after an upgrade!
nathbrew@gmail.com
Posted 2 years ago by Member
:o)
Nice .. very, very nice!
I've got partially used packets of hops in the freezer but couldn't tell you what they are from memory (I'm at work). I use the inventory thing on beersmith and it keeps track of them. Only discovered that a little while ago .... fantastic.
No grain though .. as nowhere to store it.
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 2 years ago by Admin
You better get brewing then DanDan.
Posted 2 years ago by Moderator
I never knew about that inventory thingy, will have a look at that tonight! Schweeet, beersmith is great.
Plannin'-
Loads a beer after an upgrade!
nathbrew@gmail.com
Posted 2 years ago by Moderator
I too used the inventory thing on beersmith, until my comp died on me! at the mo its a excel spreadsheet, until i get my BS code back!
Thats my plan Greg use up the grains and re-stock! Once the wheat is fermented, I will prob do a single grain pale ale or Steam Beer, then somthing a bit quirky like a heather infused beer.
Posted 2 years ago by Member
Is your comp completely dead dan? I'm terrified of losing everything so I keep about 3 backups.
I have to make a steam beer!!! Actually there's about a 100 beers I want to make but my missus has other plans for my time!
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 2 years ago by Moderator
Well its the to do with the screen it kind of ermmmm fell off the laptop! i've tried to plug in to a monitor and TV and that doesn't work, next step is to remove hard drive and place in another comp to get info off i priced up a repair and it was near the cost of a new laptop so thats what i've done!
Posted 2 years ago by Member
I'm not too hot on the workings of ICT equipment, but is it relatively simple to switch hard drives? Hope you sort it dan .. good luck!
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 2 years ago by Member
Sure, you can just slave it onto another cable or easier still use an IDE/SATA to usb cable (assuming the other PC has a usb port and operating system). Depends how much you want to spend or course.
Something like this should do you.
http://www.nigelcomputers.com/store/images/cb-isatau2.jpg
Should be able to get for under a tenner on the high street.
Posted 2 years ago by Moderator
Tony - thank you!
The inventory is great, everything I got is logged. Oh yeah baby!
Does it tell you when you are low on items or am I asking too much?
Plannin'-
Loads a beer after an upgrade!
nathbrew@gmail.com
Posted 2 years ago by Moderator
When you design your recipe and then click to say you've brewed it, it will take the ingredients out of the inventory thats about it, oh and it will you can select items from you inventory when designing a recipe and if its not in you inventory you can add it to the built in shopping list!!
Posted 2 years ago by Moderator
Beersmith is so awesome that under awesome in the dictionary it shoud say beersmith. In fact from now on I'm gonna say just that.
Eg - "wow that was totally beersmith dude"
Nah, maybe not.
Plannin'-
Loads a beer after an upgrade!
nathbrew@gmail.com
Posted 1 year ago by Member
I don't know... has a certain ring to it :o)
I don't know what I'd do without beersmith. It's a bit like mobile phones... people of my generation (and older) can often be caught saying things like 'look at these kids with their mobile phones. when I were a lad we had to make plans in advance, we couldn't go contacting people..... blah blah blah'. Similar things are said about the internet, dvd recorders.. et al.
I'm a bit like that with beersmith, without it I'd have to go back to all those irritating calculations, the brewing equivalent to going back to tin cans and string before mobile phones!
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Just, wondering, if you have fresh hops is it totally necessary to freeze them. Considering getting some stock together and just need to know how to store it all?
Thanks
Twigster
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Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
keep them away from light, warm temperatures and oxygen mixed with time these are what make hops loose their bitterness/flavour.
For optimum preservation of hops, they should be stored as cold as possible and away from air and light.
Once i've opened a pack of hops I seal the original open pack in a new plastic bag and use my vac packer (£20 from lidl/aldi forgot which one) to get rid of air and seal the new bag, then I chuck them in the freezer. Before I had the vac packer I used to use some of those food bags with the zip on and roll air out.
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Okay thanks for the advice
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