What's your least favourite thing about brewing?

GHW · Dec 29, 2015

Mine has to be cleaning the propane soot off my big pot. It's filthy dirty stuff, goes everywhere, stains everything, the whole process takes ages and generally reinforces my family's perception that brewing is unpleasant.

Which bit do you hate most and why?

Dads_Ale · Dec 29, 2015

Hops.... Bloody things get everywhere ...

GHW · Dec 29, 2015

Dads_Ale said:
Hops.... Bloody things get everywhere ...

I have to say, hops is not an answer I would have predicted.

That's a bit like having gardening as your hobby and hating dirt!

HisDudeness · Dec 29, 2015

Cleaning up, bottling and constantly getting bollocked for 'being in the shed again!'

dad_of_jon · Dec 29, 2015

lifting the fv with 22 litres of wort/beer in it.

not good if you have a bad back :-(

stevej · Dec 29, 2015

Waiting :lol:

Sonnal · Dec 29, 2015

stevej said:
Waiting :lol:

LOL. Mine has to be cleaning the element on the boiler. Way too fiddly.

Twostage · Dec 29, 2015

Cleaning up afterwards. I've recently made it quicker by carrying a horse bucket full of starsan into my brew shed and dumping stuff into it as I go.

GHW · Dec 29, 2015

stevej said:
Waiting :lol:

I thought about banning 'waiting' as an answer but then figured it's probably the thing most people like the least!

Funnily enough I don't mind it too much, I can kind of forget about it in between brew day/bottling/sampling.

johnnyboy1965 · Dec 29, 2015

Garethhuwwilliams said:
Mine has to be cleaning the propane soot off my big pot. It's filthy dirty stuff, goes everywhere, stains everything, the whole process takes ages and generally reinforces my family's perception that brewing is unpleasant.

Which bit do you hate most and why?

You haven't got the burn/flame set correctly. You will always get a little soot but if its up the side of your pot, its not set correctly. Check the air intake manifold is set correctly. HTH

brumbrew · Dec 29, 2015

Has to be bottling.

Hence why I moved to the 5litre mini kegs ;-)

Bunglebrewsbeer · Dec 29, 2015

Trying to prevent the cat snooping around.

stevej · Dec 29, 2015

Bunglebrewsbeer said:
Trying to prevent the cat snooping around.

Is that not where Brewdog comes in :lol:

Bunglebrewsbeer · Dec 29, 2015

If brewdog sees said cat. He is intrigued by her and wants to sniff/stroke her. Which cat isn't too keen on. So the dog chasing the cat as I'm trying to move bags of hot grain about juggle hops is a factor I could do without ideally.

stevej · Dec 29, 2015

Bunglebrewsbeer said:
If brewdog sees said cat. He is intrigued by her and wants to sniff/stroke her. Which cat isn't too keen on. So the dog chasing the cat as I'm trying to move bags of hot grain about juggle hops is a factor I could do without ideally.

Keep the cat and i will collect Brewdog tomorrow:grin:

Bunglebrewsbeer · Dec 29, 2015

Haha. Good idea.

GHW · Dec 29, 2015

johnnyboy1965 said:
You haven't got the burn/flame set correctly. You will always get a little soot but if its up the side of your pot, its not set correctly. Check the air intake manifold is set correctly. HTH

Ah, thanks. Is that the bit where the gas hose joins the burner? How should it be set? As you can see I'm clueless at this sort of thing

stevej · Dec 29, 2015

What gas are you using Gareth

GHW · Dec 29, 2015

stevej said:
What gas are you using Gareth

Propane (which I can't help but say like Hank from King of the hill).

Prompted by Jonny I've just done some research and indeed it burns bright orange and very sooty. Air intake and/or amount of propane going from tank to burner seem to be the problem and I do open it right out. Will have a fiddle with it and see if I can get a bluer flame.

Bunglebrewsbeer · Dec 29, 2015

What burner is it?

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