What I did for beer today

Just doughed in a 5.5 gallon batch of Biermuncher's cream of 3 crops ale. This is the first of 2 AG brews I'll be doing today. Next is an Oatmeal stout that will be aged with Vanilla and cacao nibs.

washed some 1968, cleaned two better bottles and my new 13 gallon milk can, and fiddled with the pid logic on my arduino controlled RIMS tube.

dryboroughbrewing said:

washed some 1968, cleaned two better bottles and my new 13 gallon milk can, and fiddled with the pid logic on my arduino controlled RIMS tube.

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1968 is nearly impossible to wash, it just immediately clumps and sinks to the bottom, do you have any advice on that?

Got my dark lager bottled today. 65 12oz bottles from 6 gallons. Nice & clear too. Finally havin some of my Hopped & Confused pseudo lager,version1. Def need a jar bigger than 1 quart to wash yeast in.

Washed a bunch of bottles after watching the UFC fight over at a friend's house.

I brewed a Founders Red's RyePA clone.

Cheers!

Pumped co2 into secondary with the dry hops. My first time trying this.

Finally racked my pale ale to the secondary at 8 days ferm, and dry hopped 10 roasted Serrano peppers for the next 10-12 days prior to bottling. It's good tasting stuff now so should be great with heat!

Tested the numbers for a new 10 gallon pot. Weld less fitting secure, 1.5 gallon loss during a 60 minute boil, less than a pint left in the kettle after draining, and 200f to 65f in less than 5 minutes with an immersion chiller and great winter ground water temps. Ready to brew next weekend.

Stepped up some bottle harvested pacman. It was more of an excuse to test out the new refractometer that came in the mail yesterday.

Cleaned some bottles, vaccum sealed some hops with my food saver.

Sampled my all grain Honey Cream Ale. Tasted great so I put 1/2 case in the fridge for daily consumption.

Crashed a friend's brewing session, contributed absolutely nothing besides helping out with some clean-up, and ended up leaving with a growler of his Irish red ale.

I built a couple raised bed planters for my hops. Starting a new garden, in a different spot of the yard, to see which plants do best and where. This included a trip down to home depot. Even picked up a 10 gal. cooler to build a mash tun! :rockin:

Dump bad beer from serving vessel
Clean and sanitize serving vessel
Harvest yeast
Transfer SMaSH to serving vessel
Clean fermenter
Update brewlog

Brewing a batch of Wounded Knee IPA

bought ingrediants for my belgian wit im brewing up tomorrow... always a fun time buying beer stuff!

Picked up about 25 pounds of specialty malt and 5 different yeasts.

Making a starter out of Wyeast Belgian Ardennes #3522 for a batch of Denny's Golden Monkey clone I'm brewing on Sunday.

pellis007 said:

Making a starter out of Wyeast Belgian Ardennes #3522 for a batch of Denny's Golden Monkey clone I'm brewing on Sunday.

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I also have a 2nd generation started of 3522 going. Love that yeast.

Planned water additions for Sunday's Oatmeal Stout and ESB. Then got starters going for each.

Checked the FG of my two week-old batch of Yooper's Ruination clone (1.012) and added two ounces of Centennial hops to dry hop. Removed blow off tubes from my week-old IPA fermentors and replaced them with air locks. Also removed the buckets from swamp coolers (62F water) where they have been slowly and happily fermenting along.

Racked my Belgian Tripel to secondary for bulk aging. Kegged a Porter, Dunkel, and Rosemary Rye. Cleaned one 6.5 gallon carboy, three 5 gallon carboys, and re-cleaned three 6.5 gallon buckets.

Purchased a bag of bottle caps and a vial of edinbrough yeast... Bottling two batches tomorrow... And making starter for said yeast for a wee heavy

Got a 48 qt cooler prepped to convert to a mash tun. Sanitized bottles to get ready for my pepper ale.

Bottled Mexican cervesa, helped a friend bottle his first batch, caribou slobber. Got ibrewmaster for the ipad for a trial run. Got 2 new hydrometers, and some champagne yeast for a hard lemonade ( obviously stocking up for summer for the wife).

Bottled a one gallon batch of Ed wort's apfelwein and brewed a honey amber ale. Although I did use extract with steeping grains, it's the first batch I've made that wasn't from a kit. Pretty excited to see how it turns out.

Brewed up a batch of Denny's Golden Monkey Homage. OG came in at 1.086 which should end up around 10% abv. Respect the Monkey!

Brewed an ESB. Brewing an Oatmeal Stout.

Bought a sack of organic 2 row, stepped up a starter of 3522 to 3 liters for a tripel, hung out at the brew shop and had a few beers.

Bottled my American Pepper Pale Ale. My pipeline is filling...!

I was traveling through Indiana today (Sunday) and decided to find a liquor store for some Three Floyd's brews. The first liquor store I stopped at was closed. I went to a small grocery store, and a sign there said, "No alcohol sales on Sunday." WTF! The manager told me it is a state law in Indiana. My 14 year old son said to him, "That is stupid law." The manager agreed!

Aren't all stores closed on Sundays? Throughout the whole US?

Stores as in liquor stores by the way.

Swarley88 said:

Stores as in liquor stores by the way.

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Dunno Maine sells liquor in grocery stores and gas stations. You can buy on Sunday if that's what you're asking

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Stores as in liquor stores by the way.

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Liquor stores are open on Sundays in Wisconsin and grocery stores can sell alcohol on Sundays. What's wrong will selling alcohol on Sundays? I don't understand.

Blue law

Just finished my third pint of my HB'ed milk stout. Now, I'm off to bed so I can get up at stupid O'clock to go back to work.

BeerMikeW said:

Liquor stores are open on Sundays in Wisconsin and grocery stores can sell alcohol on Sundays. What's wrong will selling alcohol on Sundays? I don't understand.

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Interesting, I don't think there is anything wrong with selling booze on Sunday . In Minnesota we can't really buy booze in grocery stores (its 3.2 and BMC) and we can't buy at liquor stores on Sundays either. I always heard it had something to do with it being "Gods day" hahha. I don't agree with it, just a little jealous of other states being able to buy at grocery stores and on Sundays.

No such limitations here in Alaska! I think they actually encourage purchase and consumption on Sundays.

I spent part of the afternoon working up a nut brown recipe for tomorrow's brew day. It's been forever since I last brewed! Well, according to my brew log it's been exactly a month tomorrow. Definitely feels like forever.