What I did for beer today

Went through and redid my water averaging spreadsheet for the new water at my new address. Took much longer to set up initially even though the data didn't go back as far. Originally averaged all my water data month by month from annual water reports dating back to 2006 from my old water source, took about 6 hours to set up from scratch. My new source goes back to 2001, but only took about 2-3 hours just to punch in the new data.

I calculated my water additives for a batch of westy 12° for Sunday... Also bought the distilled water...

Need to wash some bottles. Damn!


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Happy homebrew day from canada... 10 gal bottled

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Bottled my hard lemon-aid. Racked my blueberry vanilla mead.

Took the yeast,LME out of the fridge & hops outta the freezer for an ESB today. Get the grains crushed in a while.

Switching out frozen water bottles to keep swamp cooler at a nice 62 deg's while Notty does their work on my Sumpin Sumpin clone

Ordered a 1/2 BBL fermenter from SSBrewTech. Been waiting for months. Psyched.

This means I will be able to ferment 10+ gallons batches in a single vessel rather than splitting into two separate carboys. This also expands my pipeline capacity from 15 gallons to 30 gallons.

This will go into the upright freezer I bought on Craigslist for $75. I'll have to pop an STC-1000 into that pretty soon for use as a ferm temp ctl chamber.

I checked the gravity on my APA and added the dry hops.

I bottled 5 gallons of Fizzy Yellow Cream Ale, as well as a gallon of Mandarin Orange Mead.

Put together my own kit to brew tomorrow morning!


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Finally got my son to work,store & all so I can get my boil going for my ESB.

Bottled my Pilinian Legacy. The sample was definitely hoppy which is what is expected of the kit.

Aaaah,I smell ESB & bittering hops boilin'!...

Stayed home and sent my wife yard-selling. Worked out pretty good!

Washed my bottles, was going to bottle but got lazy and will do it tomorrow lol

I hear ya. I gotta clean up after yesterday's brew day this morning. Had to wait a bit long for son to get off work in that cold,dark parking lot last night. But my ESB started bubbling during the night. Covered the fermenter this morning & noticed it's still at 22C (71.6F). But the nearly 5L of cold break compacted down to about 1/2L by this morning,so it's all good. The markings on my Cooper's Microbrew FV read in Liters & the temp strip in Celsius in case anyone's wondering. Out of a max of 1.049OG,I got a 1.060. Checked it twice again to be sure. I guess my mash/steep efficiency is good after more than a year of practice at mashing?...

I was an ambassador for the hobby.

While brewing in the garage, a neighbor was walking up the alley with his two little girls, and he stopped to chat about brewing and how he'd like to get into it. I told him how it's really easy to start with extract and recipe kits, and how you can start just using the stovetop and not a whole lot of fancy equipment, etc.

Finally bottled my saison

Almost done with cleaning up after yesterday's big brew day. I guess I got the re-hydrate temp vs wort temp nailed last night. It started fermenting in a couple hours! Seems like the brew gods were smiling on us all yesterday?! :rockin:

Worked on my brew panel still waiting for a heat sink for the SSVR and 3 switches. Need to have the box powder coated after just like the lid.


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After brewing yesterday & cleaning up today,I decided to order NB's Petite Saison de'ete kit with the French 3711 yeast. Gonna try brewing a saison next when the red ale fermenter opens up. It's good to have the extra cash again to brew regularly once more.

unionrdr said:

After brewing yesterday & cleaning up today,I decided to order NB's Petite Saison de'ete kit with the French 3711 yeast. Gonna try brewing a saison next when the red ale fermenter opens up. It's good to have the extra cash again to brew regularly once more.

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Just bottled my saison with 3711 (on the left) it's definitely my favorite saison yeast

Nice color. I've been doing some pipeline fillers this time. Some beers I haven't brewed yet. Then I'll get back to pb/pm biab after I get a few bottled.

I looked at empty bottles and thought about filling them.

Added my braided filter for my new mash tun, and made a starter for the black ipa on deck

bleme said:

I looked at empty bottles and thought about filling them.

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My thoughts precisely. After some refinancing & all,I got to start brewing again. If I didn't know better,I'd swear it made my wife smile? I just hated seeing those poor bottles being so neglected.

Jupapabear said:

Added my braided filter for my new mash tun, and made a starter for the black ipa on deck

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I started nuking the spring water for my re-hydrations in my 1,000mL flask myself. Then use my All-Temp laser thermometer to get it to the right temp for re-hydrating my yeast. Quicker & easier just using the flask.

I am anxiously awaiting a message back, from someone selling a keg nearby. I'm hopeful that this will work out, however I have my reservations.

after MUCH debating, I ordered a new brew pot!

Kicked a keg of root beer today and a keg of blonde on Friday. Cleaned them and the lines, made more soda and I'm waiting on a beer to finish for the other keg.

Organized some of my beer and brewing equipment yesterday after buying a new shelf.
Son and swmbo filled up the non working fridge with homebrew.

plath said:

after MUCH debating, I ordered a new brew pot!

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What did you get?

Trippel-A said:

What did you get?

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This 5 gallon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017WPY1A/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

Probably not thrilling for most. But as I've been using a 2 gallon pot for my brews so far, I'm excited! It will be here Wednesday and I'm hoping to try a small all grain batch this weekend...
I already have a huge 10? Gallon pot if I ever decide to brew outside.

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Swung past the university science supply store for an Erlenmeyer flask. Turns out campus doesn't charge taxes on purchases making it an even better deal. Guess it's the least they could do to make up for having to park for the privilege of shopping there.

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I might have to check out my local university can the public just stop in and buy or do you have to be a student?

Dry hopped a Conan Pale Ale with one ounce each of Galena, Centennial, and Citra

1fast636 said:

I might have to check out my local university can the public just stop in and buy or do you have to be a student?

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Neither of the colleges I attended had any requirements like that, but there are probably a few that do.

Transferred saison to secondary and added Brett, then brewed up an imperial black saison. Shot for 5.5 gallons at 1.084, got 6 gallons at 1.090!
The first runnings looked like dirty motor oil.

Finishing up putting things away from NHB day brew. It's just about done with initial fermentation today. Got a saison kit coming in tomorrow...

Since my bottle harvest yeast experiment seems to have fallen flat on it's face, I picked up my first liquid smack pack, Wyeast 3068. This weekend may have impending hefeweizen.

Zepth said:

Since my bottle harvest yeast experiment seems to have fallen flat on it's face, I picked up my first liquid smack pack, Wyeast 3068. This weekend may have impending hefeweizen.

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Don't give up on it! My own bottle-harvesting experiment seemed to be entirely unsuccessful for the first five or six days, but yesterday, four days into step two, I saw krausen and active fermentation.