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Drogo Baldfoot
New Member
Username: Brewhobbit1
Post Number: 1
Registered: 01-2006
Posted From: 207.224.114.16
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 11:55 pm: | 
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I've had some problems with fermentations stopping too soon this winter. Common sense says that temps are too low. However, my fermentation area stays over 66F, which should be in range for the yeast I'm using. I think my son's drumming is doing something to the yeast. If it is loud enough to hurt my ears, wouldn't it be loud enough to hurt the yeast? (or at least to annoy them?) I've moved my fermenter to a warmer and quieter area, but I was wondering if anyone has noticed problems with loud noise impacting fermentation, or seen research on the subject. |
Tony Legge
Member
Username: Boo_boo
Post Number: 122
Registered: 05-2005
Posted From: 142.162.53.243
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 12:37 am: |
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No,I play Bach to my yeast lol. If noise was a factor I think the vibration would keep the yeast in suspension longer causing it to ferment out to the lowest possible sg for the yeast and temperture conditions. Perhaps you didn't aerate enough? Must be a reason other than what you are suggesting. Are you AG or extract? What yeast and what OG and FG are you getting? I guess what I'm saying is more info is needed to help you out. |
michael atkins
Intermediate Member
Username: Mga
Post Number: 318
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 216.170.58.10
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 12:53 am: |
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I doubt it.
What about hard rock? Dosen't Skotrat play the guitar?!
Love This Hobby!
http://msnusers.com/micksbrewery
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Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 4299
Registered: 01-2002
Posted From: 24.57.229.8
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 01:40 am: |
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Does anyone else sense the bobber jiggling?  |
MJR
Intermediate Member
Username: Mjr
Post Number: 260
Registered: 03-2003
Posted From: 71.11.140.107
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 02:43 am: |
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So, who's gonna bite that hook?  |
Randy McCord
Advanced Member
Username: Mccord
Post Number: 536
Registered: 02-2003
Posted From: 216.174.177.200
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 03:23 am: |
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It's hard for yeast to reproduce with there hands over there ears.
Now if some of them had their feet over their ears.............................? |
Richard Nye
Senior Member
Username: Yeasty_boy
Post Number: 1172
Registered: 01-2004
Posted From: 68.225.248.227
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 04:00 am: |
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My yeast like listening to the Yeasty Boys! |
Ken Anderson
Senior Member
Username: Ken75
Post Number: 1296
Registered: 11-2002
Posted From: 69.168.141.10
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 04:21 am: |
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You can't have that be your first post without a disclaimer!
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Fredrik
Senior Member
Username: Fredrik
Post Number: 2845
Registered: 03-2003
Posted From: 213.114.44.244
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 07:12 am: |
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In theory, I guess vibrations at certain frequencies might possibly have some minor impacts by mechanical excitation. But I think that it would be the cause of your stuck ferments is pretty unlikely at this point 
If you still want to dig into it, maybe try to identify the resonance frequencies of the cell components and see if you can find it in the drum spectrum
What more details do you have? receips? strains? starters? lagtimes? primary times?
/Fredrik |
robert rulmyr
Advanced Member
Username: Wacobob
Post Number: 706
Registered: 02-2003
Posted From: 24.155.7.126
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 12:08 pm: |
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I like that bobber Ken. |
dhacker
Member
Username: Dhacker
Post Number: 113
Registered: 11-2002
Posted From: 70.146.175.65
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 12:53 pm: |
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Indeed the bobber is great! I believe it should become the official B&V trollage alert emblem.
No words required . . just the bobber.
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Brandon Dachel
Senior Member
Username: Brandon
Post Number: 1752
Registered: 03-2002
Posted From: 12.161.154.108
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 04:25 pm: |
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All trolls aside I have my drum kit in the basement and the fermenters near by. I've never heard the yeast complain. I've never bothered to ask them either. |
Ken Anderson
Senior Member
Username: Ken75
Post Number: 1297
Registered: 11-2002
Posted From: 69.168.141.10
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 04:44 pm: |
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I've pilfered quite a few gif files over the years. The "right click" is your friend.
While I'm thinking of it, I gotta pass along a pretty cool thing:
It let's you quickly grab stuff off your screen for putting in an email, or, er, a forum post!
It can be very handy.
(http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/)
Ken |
Drogo Baldfoot
New Member
Username: Brewhobbit1
Post Number: 2
Registered: 01-2006
Posted From: 207.224.114.16
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 06:17 pm: |
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I purposely left out the gory details because I think I'll have better results in my new fermenting area (it's only been 2 days, so I don't know for sure). I took over the shower stall in a small under-used bathroom in my basement. I recently discovered that the baseboard heater works, so I now have good control of fermentation temps. But since I changed 2 variables at once (temp + loud drumming), I haven't isolated the single factor that was stopping my fermentations , so I thought I'd ask.
FYI, since I'm a new poster, I should introduce myself. I've been home-brewing for about 6 months with extract+specialty grains. I use 5-gallon glass for primary and secondary. I've made some very good beer before my recent high FG problems, so I'm pretty hooked on the hobby. All-grain is probably in my future, but (correct me if I'm wrong) I don't see a way to work my way up to it gradually, in terms of buying necessary equipment. Since I've been getting away with using a 3 gallon stainless brew pot I already owned, I'd need to buy a bigger brew-pot in addition to a propane burner setup (my electric stove won't cut it), plus mash/lauter equipment, plus wort chiller. |
Drogo Baldfoot
New Member
Username: Brewhobbit1
Post Number: 3
Registered: 01-2006
Posted From: 207.224.114.16
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 06:23 pm: |
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p.s. Does anyone listen to "John Barleycord Must Die" by Traffic when they homebrew? |
Paul Erbe
Intermediate Member
Username: Perbe
Post Number: 379
Registered: 05-2001
Posted From: 12.27.22.67
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 06:33 pm: |
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Yawn |
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