Shit Tea!

Man this stuff smells terrible. I just wanted to show you guys a pic of my brewer in action. I am using worm castings, alaskan fish emulsion ,High N bat guano and molasses.

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This is my first batch. Should I be brewing with the lid on or off by the way?

I've never made straight shit tea before, I use compost and duck manure to make my teas, and from what I have read properly brewed teas should lose the vile odor and begin to just smell kind of earthy( that is what mine does ). This takes two or three days of bubbling, strain out heavy matter, and then bubble indefinitely until you use. Also need to continue to add molasses at the rate of one tablespoon per week to keep beneficial critters alive. if you remove from bubbling container, must use within 4-6 hours or critters will die. Oh, and yes, you need to leave your tea uncovered while brewing.

Oh yeah one more thing, you can massively increase N percentages if you pee in your tea. Research it you'll see. One pee to three gallons is a safe amount.

akgrown said:

Man this stuff smells terrible. I just wanted to show you guys a pic of my brewer in action. I am using worm castings, alaskan fish emulsion ,High N bat guano and molasses.

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This is my first batch. Should I be brewing with the lid on or off by the way?

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I suggest replacing the fish emulsion (cooked process) with a fish hydrolysate (cold process):

Taken from Fish hydrolysate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "If fish hydrolysate is heated, the oils and certain proteins can be more easily removed to be sold in purified forms. The complex protein, carbohydrate and fats in the fish material are denatured, which means they are broken down into less complex foods. Over-heating can result in destruction of the material as a food to grow beneficial organisms. Once the oils are removed and proteins denatured and simplified by the heating process, this material is called a fish emulsion."

As an example, Alaska Fish Fertilizer 5-1-1 is actually an emulsion which recently lost its OMRI rating. A properly prepared AACT tea should smell like fresh earth. If not, bacteria have gone anaerobic.

Lid off or on depends on the capacity of your air pump and keeping the tea in the bucket.

Ideal airflow for a typical consumer level five gallon AACT brewer has been established (by experts in the scientific field) at .4 CFPM (cubic feet per minute) of air per gallon of water. Most air pumps are rated for aquariums in liters per minute (LPM). The conversion factor from LPM to CFPM is one LPM = .0135 CFPM (rounded). My pump is rated at 70 LPM, which converts to 2.47 CFPM. Divided by the four gallons of liquid in my five gallon bucket, that's .62 CFPM and yes, it was pushing liquid way out of the bucket.

I necked down the 3/8" (.375") air pump outlet to 1/4" (.250") using an aquarium manifold and a 1/4" line from that manifold to a 1/4" reducer feeding the 1/2" PVC manifold in the bucket. Mathematically my air flow into the bucket is now .41 CFPM/gallon of water. Pictures in another thread.

(we should all thank a lot of effort by many talented people who developed and made this information available)

on edit: Clean all components used for brewing with something serious after every use! I let mine soak in the brew bucket in a 10% bleach to water solution for 24hrs after each use.

Well I got my recipie from someone at the nursery who seems to think it works well. I only smelled funky in the bucket, after I watered My whole backyard smelled so fresh. I actually ran the airstones in clean water for quite awhile before I stored everything I will be brewing more starting tomorrow. Thanks for the input guys.

akgrown said:

Well I got my recipie from someone at the nursery who seems to think it works well. I only smelled funky in the bucket, after I watered My whole backyard smelled so fresh. I actually ran the airstones in clean water for quite awhile before I stored everything I will be brewing more starting tomorrow. Thanks for the input guys.

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A bit of caution about using just water to clean a brewer; bacteria not destroyed merely hibernate, some for years.

Its cali tap water so lots of chlorine , I will scrub it with some bleach solution to clean it though, good looking out.

Yes, the smell can be really bad.

I brew chicken manure tea, and for the first couple of weeks it is mind bendingly bad.

But after that it really doesn't smell too bad.