What I did for beer today

Brewed a 6 g AG batch of my Grapefruit (hop) Wheat IPA w/ my daughter.

Cleaned bottles. Man, I am finally getting a lot of bottles. Just a couple months ago I had none. I now probably have 75ish. Not a huge amount but I am planning to make it to where I'll probably do each batch 1/2 beer bottles/ 1/2 soda bottles, so it will allow me at any given time to have 3 types of brews bottled.

wyccad915 said:

Cleaned bottles. Man, I am finally getting a lot of bottles. Just a couple months ago I had none. I now probably have 75ish. Not a huge amount but I am planning to make it to where I'll probably do each batch 1/2 beer bottles/ 1/2 soda bottles, so it will allow me at any given time to have 3 types of brews bottled.

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I'm with ya man, I HATE bottling, but until I can afford to get a regulator kit and some kegs, I'm pretty much right with you there! Luckily I had a bunch of bottles from my Dad and I's stash from years ago, but it has been a real beer(BEAR) getting some of them cleaned!

BTW, what I did for beer today...I drank a bunch, then ordered some dme...going to bottle this weekend, then maybe can brew next week.

I bottled 21 bottles of a Cascade-heavy rye pale ale tonight, then swirled around the last 5-6 ounces of beer & dumped the yeast slurry out into a jar for later use.

Primed and bottled a chocolate milk stout, should be a good desert beer for St Paddy's Day.

Brewed 2.5G of an IPA. Used lots of hops. Me gusta!

Spent time reading on this forum since I am a cpa in midst of tax season and have to live vicariously through all of you for a couple more months until I can brew again.

Bottled up 5 gallons of AHS Shot In The Dark.

Pretty tasty I must say!

wyccad915 said:

Cleaned bottles. Man, I am finally getting a lot of bottles. Just a couple months ago I had none. I now probably have 75ish. Not a huge amount but I am planning to make it to where I'll probably do each batch 1/2 beer bottles/ 1/2 soda bottles, so it will allow me at any given time to have 3 types of brews bottled.

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Make sure to check the for sale forum. Thete is a thread there for free bottles.

Even better, have where you live in your profile and anyone who reads your prior post can contact you if they have bottles to spare.

I have a few cases I can spare but I have no idea where you live.

I upgraded my brew pump, I have had the manifold just added the six 1/2" ball valves to make my process easier.

Kegged an IPA View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1456014915.656975.jpg and Brewed a mild

I thought about this bulging bottle cap long enough that I ran home and put a bunch of bottles in the fridge before they explode. Probably gonna vent them tomorrow.

phug said:

Labeled my yuengling clone an a chocolate maple porterView attachment 337941

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What is ur Yuengling clone's recipe?

Bringing a 5 gallon batch of a Belgian Wit to boil right now. Gotta throw in a beer for the SWMBO every so often right?

Kegged my OAB ESB, cleaned secondary fermentors & transfer equipment.
Picked up grains, yeast, hops for a 6 gal batch of Yoopers Oatmeal Stout.

I had to drink today and all week to make room for the stuff in the carboys to go in the kegs!

Tired of getting water from an outside source, so I had a plumber come out and install this before the water softener in the garage. Sending a sample to Ward this week to see if my well water is suitable. Fingers crossed.
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Kegged my Black IPA. Now I need to make room in the keggerator.

I got a bottle of Miller High Life (The Champagne of Beers!), poured off about an ounce, then stuffed 6-7 cones of the experimental hops in there I got from aprichman, & capped it back up. I will let it warm up overnight, sit all day & into the evening tomorrow, then put it in the fridge tomorrow night to chill it for tasting the next day. This should give me some idea of their taste & aroma!

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brew day!!!! Boo yah!!!!

I started a pretty respectable yeast bank last year and it's at the point where some of them need to be re-slanted, so I made my first attempt at that. And started the first step of a starter with the same yeast for this weekend's brewday.

And I kegged my Vienna lager and started lagering it. When it got down to lager temp, I hit it with some gelatin.

Finally had time to get some work done on my 4-tap keezer build. Coming along nicely! Struggled with whether to paint the collar chalkboard black (to list what's on tap) or let the natural beauty of the wood come through with a stain. Nature won.

Ordered specialty grains and a fee Oz's of hops for ~10 batches, plus 3 ball lock post sets and a bottle brush from AIH.

Building some yeast revival starters tonight: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/using-yeast-past-its-prime.html

Installed my 6 recently purchased perlick 525 faucets, bottled my Bourbon Barrel/Coffee/Chocolate RIS, and kegged my 90 Shilling Ale.

Finally kegged a beer I brewed last April! It is a barleywine that has been sitting in a bourbon barrel since May.

transferred my Witty Wit from conical to my bottling bucket. Checked on my yeast starter of Edinburgh Ale.

Ok, so it was yesterday, but I stopped by the LHBS for supplies for a double RyePA. And then I sat in traffic for 45 minutes. The things I do for this hobby...

Tweaked a mad fermentationist IPA recipe. Azacca hops. Yum.

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Bottled 50 bottles of my Honey Biscuit Brew.

Tactical-Brewer said:

Bottled 50 bottles of my Honey Biscuit Brew.

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I read this and immediately thought "yum - what a great idea". Is this good? Got a link to a recipe?

Tactical-Brewer said:

Bottled 50 bottles of my Honey Biscuit Brew.

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Read this and thought "yum what a great idea". Is this a good beer, and if so, got a link to a recipe?

rwgaro said:

Read this and thought "yum what a great idea". Is this a good beer, and if so, got a link to a recipe?

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https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=571281

Yep, see if this works. Only thing different from the recipe was that I carbed with brown sugar and not honey. The gravity checks tasted delicious though! I'll let ya know in a week or so!

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Came in at about 6%

Brewed a Rye/Oat/Wheat Blonde Ale and used a new mashing technique. Mashed in a bottling bucket with a BIAB, used spigot to drain first runnings and sparge. Worked like a charm, drainage went really well even with a potentially sticky grist. Got 73% efficiency and I think I'll get higher numbers as I use this method more. Ultimately, I find it easier than standard BIAB because you barely even need to lift the bag. It's also dirt cheap.

Seems to me I saw vids about this on an Australian forum?

unionrdr said:

Seems to me I saw vids about this on an Australian forum?

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If you're referring to the mashing thing, I wouldn't be surprised if others have done this before. It works really, really well and it involves equipment I already had, though I'll get another bottling bucket for actual bottling because of the lacto infection risk.

I'm currently enjoying my first ever homebrew, the AG Malty Brown Ale kit from MoreBeer. I made some boneheaded moves on brew day and was worried about contamination but heeded RDWHAHB mentality and the beer turned out great. I overshot my OG by a large number of points and I directly attribute it to the fine flour grist churned out by my Monster Mill. The recipe assumed 70% efficiency and I calculated 90% based on Palmer. Being my first brew I had no baseline. It was kegged on 14FEB and has been conditioning nicely. 7.1% ABV with a pillowy white head and nutty maltiness with hints of dark fruits; little hop prescence. Excited to be a homebrewer and the itchy bug has me hankering to brew more. Will absolutely require more kegs and Perlicks for the homemade kegerator. Cheers HBT, thanks for the great knowledge base.
-Aeroshock of Hayden Brewhouse

mashed in a Better Red Than Dead Irish Red Ale

Today I'm gravity testing my house porter and two brand new recipes brewed with Mangrove Jack's UK dark ale yeast. Fingers crossed I hit 60%+ attenuation!

I may also make some dark belgian candi sugar

I put a new floor in the bar room, and brought a new love seat to go on it. I am unable to post photos to here from my phone.