Just did some inventory and realized that I should be paying much more attention to it than I usually am. My bonehead moves are having 2 full tubes of keg lube (will last me a decade I'm sure) and currently having 22 pounds of hops!!!! OK so what bonehead inventory moves have you made?
I have a gallon jug of food grade phosphoric acid for water treatment. I use about 1.5ml for a 10 gallon batch. Maybe my great grandchildren will take up brewing and finish it off. This was the smallest quantity that North Country Malt would sell me 4 years ago. It was about the same price as 250ml of dilute acid from LHBS. edit: My most bonehead inventory move is not having enough propane on hand on brew day. It only happened once but that's more than enough.
I always have two things of propane. Once one runs out, I open the new one and put the old one in my truck to be refilled. It's always refilled long before the second one runs out. I have a bit more hops than I'd like to have, but it's not beyond the hope of someday using them up.
I have a propane place that will top off two half filled tanks and charge me for a single fill. Good way to keep the pressure maximized and get the most out of a fill!
I own 7 true brew fermenter buckets. Even accounting for scratches and catastrophic failure I probably have a lifetime supply.
I always have too much white labs yeast on hand. Since there are no homebrew stores anywhere in this area I get too optimistic about my brewing schedule and buy more yeast than I can use
22# of hops!!?? I bought 7# this year and thought that was excessive, what varieties did you get and how many # of each??
I don't stock up on anything, since both Midwest and Northern Brewer are within 3 miles of my house. I never pay attention though...so I'd be in a world hurt if I had to plan ahead much.
Things like hops are great to stock up on (cheapest way to do it) Dont you buy sacks of grain? I dont pick up anything but basemalts, but a sack or two of pils, munich, MO/Halcyon etc will save you quite a few $$ over a year A sack from Rahr should be basically free in the cities!
I just got the grain-mill. So, yeah, I plan on buying a bag of GP my next trip. I'm in an experimental mood, and just seem to use hops whimsically at the moment, other than magnum. I also wanted to wait to buy bulk hops until I grab a vacuum sealer. You're probably right though, I should look into bulk purchases.
Make that just short of 24 pounds..... 2oz Saaz Leaf 2012 3oz Centennial Leaf 2012 12oz Chinook Leaf 2012 1# Columbus Leaf 2012 2oz Styrian Golding Pellet 2012 2oz Centennial Pellet 2012 8oz Admiral Pellet 2012 8oz Nugget Pellet 2012 8oz Mosaic Pellet 2012 8oz Amarillo Pellet 2012 9oz Sorachi Ace Pellet 2012 10oz Simcoe Pellet 2012 12oz Cascade Pellet 2012 1# Citra Pellet 2012 1.25# Chinook Pellet 2012 1# Belma Pellet 2012 1oz Simcoe leaf 2013 1# Simcoe Leaf 2013 1# Amarillo Leaf 2013 2# Mosaic Pellet 2013 14oz Kohatu Pellet 2013 4oz Moteuka Pellet 2013 4oz Riwaka Pellet 2013 12oz Galaxy Pellet 2013 8oz Cascade Pellet 2013 1# Nelson Pellet 2013 2# Amarillo Pellet 2013 2# Simcoe Pellet 2013 1# Centennial Pellet 2013 1# Citra Pellet 2013
how do you have so many old #s ? Almost 10# of 2012?? I think its time for a hop blow out recipe.... HopBurn DIPA (Ive already TM this name ) 5gal Batch 15# MO/Pearl/Optic 1# Sugar 3oz Centennial (leaf) - Mash hop 8oz Columbus (leaf) - Mash hop 2oz Belma - 60min 4oz Mosaic - 15min 4oz Amarillo - 15min 4oz Simcoe - 5min 4oz Mosaic - KO 4oz Amarillo - KO 6oz Simcoe - DH
I ran out of caps once after I had already racked the beer into the bottling bucket back when I first started brewing. This experience spooked me so much that I would buy a bag of caps every time I went to the LHBS. Fast forward 7 years. Now I almost exclusively keg all my beer and I am sitting on about 1000 caps that will probably never get used.
I got panicky and bought more 2012 hops slightly before the 2013 crop came out because I didn't want to risk getting "shut out" on the harder to find ones. But then "hop preordering" seemed to come out of nowhere this year (plus the crop was big) so I managed to land all of the 2013's I was hoping for.
I've got way more hops than I need. Nugget, Mosaic, Amarillo, Citra, Centennial, Columbus, Belma, Simcoe, Saaz, Chinook, Cascade, and Willamette. I have atleast a pound, and no more than 2.5# of each, of various pellet and leaf. I need to get to brewing.
Hah! I just haven't brewed much since the kids were born. I think I'm wanting a brown ale next ( and so is the neighbor ), and then probably a DIPA, and then hopefully our "BA American Stout". After that, some lagers for the spring. So you can see.. I'm not gonna be using all those american hops so soon.. If I had a friend or someone close by that wanted to come over to do a double brew day, I'd supply the hops.. I have THAT much. I have 2012 that are only open because I vac packed them and that was it.. I do have some Chinook leaf that turned yellow because I forgot it in a box after I moved and it got warm.
