Guess How Many Pieces of Candy Are In This Jar

Northern Brewer General
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I’ve always used a bucket for my primaries before. For reasons I won’t bother with, I used a carboy for the batch I brewed on Saturday. It was only after I’d sealed it up and began jotting notes, that I realized I didn’t know the post-boil volume. This is a 6-gal carboy. Does anyone care to hazard a guess at the volume of wort?[attachment=0]Carboy.jpg[/attachment]

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Not quite 5.5 gallons. Maybe 5.3ish I’d wager.

Your wort looks kinda yellow in that pic. Optical illusion, or is there something like saffron or turmeric in there?

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Thanks. I was shooting for at least 5 gallons and hoping for closer to 5-1/2.

The color in the photo is pretty true to life. Nothing special in the beer, although the grist is 50% wheat. I didn’t strain the wort coming out of the boil kettle this time and the photo’s taken right after pitching the yeast, so there’s a lot of particulate matter that hasn’t yet settled. Here’s what it looked like a day later:

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Beautiful color. I love the first few days of fermentation though. All the break, particulates, yeasties pushing it all around. Thing’o’beauty and as my man John Keats said, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

Edit: just noticed the temps, too. Well done.

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I’d guess its just over 5gal.

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I have a 6.5 gallon carboy, if I measure from the floor up 12 inches that equals 5.5 gallons

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I’d say you are about spot on for 5gal.

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Here is my 6.5 gallon for reference. The tic mark in the middle of each label is even gallons.

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What’s the packing ratio of particulate in wort?

I saw this video a while back and was utterly fascinated by the concept. It’s about M&Ms, but per the thread title…

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2 ... -guess-th/
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While I was very pleased with the temps on Sunday, I can’t take credit. I’m at the mercy of the weather. It just happened to be a good weekend to brew here in KS. Unfortunately, the temperature spiked a few degrees yesterday and I had to set up a blowoff tube after finding my airlock and cleaning it up.[attachment=0]Carboy3.jpg[/attachment]

Sadly, I’m very familiar with packing ratios. I studied them in detail as part of an Engineering Materials course in college.

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Isn’t the packing ratio of particulate in wort, 1.5x the air speed on an unladen swallow? Or some such.

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Would that be European Swallow or African Swallow?

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Would that be European Swallow or African Swallow?[/quote]

It’s referring to a Duzzshe Swallow…

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Don’t you just love fermenter pron?

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Speaking of being at the mercy of the weather, this is one of the nuttier days I’ve experienced. We topped out at 75°F this afternoon. The temperature’s plummeted 40° and still dropping. We have severe thunderstorms moving in. And we’re expecting to wake up to snow and freezing rain.