Brewing help from BN

[bubrewer]

I was brewing 10 gallons of Berliner Weisse tonight while listening to the archives. I think it was the information-bereft Superbowl show. Anyway, I swirled up my yeast starter and poured it in the bucket. "Thump" went the stir bar when it hit the bottom of the fermenter.

Two minutes later I heard the warning in the podcast about doing just that.

Can you guys synch the podcasts to my brewing activities a little more accurately please?

[Brewcaster J]

dude...you're absolutely right. I'm reformatting this weeks show right away.



that's funny

[Lufah]

That is great...

Travis

[dawgfur]

I did the exact same thing the day before the Superbowl! Luckily, I was using a V-vessesl conical and it ended up in the collection ball for easy retrieval.

[Bugeater]

Monday was the first time in my last 6 brew sessions that I didn't drop my stir bar into the fermenter. I still need to rack a couple of brews to get my other stir bars back.

Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company

[George]

Wouldn't a magnet on the outside of the glass keep the thing from falling in while you pour the starter?

Just wondering...

[trans]

Getting a stir bar retriever (Cynmar and the like sells them) or a stir bar arrester probably isn't a bad idea. I don't use anything like those at home, but in the lab I use a stir bar retriever. A stir bar arrester like the one in the following link would probably be even better, since there is no contact with the starter wort.

http://www.spectrumchemical.com/retail/ ... Fid=261111

That said, it only helps if you actually remember to use it, haha.

- joe

[Bugeater]

That said, it only helps if you actually remember to use it, haha.

- joe

That is exactly my problem! I have all sorts of big magnets around the house.

Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company