What I did for beer today

seanjwalker1 said:

Have to put my Amber ale and Honey ale and everything else on the back burner. Had to have partial knee replacement yesterday. Hurts like hell! But when this pass', it won't hurt anymore lifting my mash tun with 20+ lbs of grist!

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Be well,and have a quick and complete recovery, and more great brew days ahead.

Oktoberfest brewed. Secondary a mead with BlackBerries. Secondary ale w/WLP644 with strawberries. Collected the 644 yeast cake onto a sanitized bomber. Part of my yeast collection experiment..

Taste testing an Irish red. A tad under carbed.

Brewing a sampler lemondrop extract

Carb tested a chocolate milk stout...needs more

Checked my Amarillo Kviek Pale. 1.064 to 1.008 brewed 5 days ago and kept at 80* Has probably been done for at least a couple days but just checked

Brewed some

Hoppy2bmerry said:

Be well,and have a quick and complete recovery, and more great brew days ahead.

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Thank you!!

Made a starter for my Omega Voss Kviek packet and attached a CO2 catcher to my IPA which is near done fermenting so I can cold crash in a few days without risking oxidation

Building a starter to brew some ESB on Monday or Tuesday. Really busy now so must see. Got some additional ideas how to handle the process.

Transferred my SN Clone to secondary and dry hopped with cascade

Filled two kegs with APA then turned co2 gauge to 35 psi.
Gauge then dropped to 20 psi.
Dang , tanks almost out!
Oh yea, the backup 5#er tank.
Back up and running and time for another beer. [emoji482]

Took 2 aspirin and a pot of coffee.

Got up this morning expecting to see some action in the lager brewed yesterday, and....zilch. This yeast always takes off fast (S-23 slurry) so it was either a dud or somebody who shall remain nameless, but is the only brewer in the house, didn't label some ale slurry correctly. So dumped half a jar of what I KNOW is the right yeast in the carboy, swirled it up, and will check again tonight. Also started some laundry so I have something nice to wear today when I go get my 2nd place medal, and schmooze with other homebrewers.

It's been a good weekend for beer. Yesterday I bought some pumpkin cider bottles from Aldi so I can have the swing tops that they come in for 99 cents each .After that I bottled my Irish Red .
Today I am soaking bottles to get the labels off.
All in all a good weekend.

Being it's my vacation, I am being very lazy about starting to brew. Just began heating strike water for a blonde stout...

At the crack of noon.

Tested gravity after 2 weeks on my German altbier and dry stout. only got maybe two to three points left to go on them.

Can anyone tell me why the time is off on these threads? It says I posted today at 3:36 pm and it's just now 1:59 pm.

Took a sample of my strawberry milkshake. Its been on the vanilla for a week, and getting there. Big sweet ripe strawberry up front, and a vanilla cream finish.

Drank green Polski beer

Brewed a red rye IPA yesterday. Got great efficiency - so far both brews this year exceeded my target. Yeast is off to an exceptionally sluggish start though; despite oxygenation, decent sized starter, and all that jazz. Was a PITA to deal with the wind - I really have to make a shield for my burner.
Today I kegged my rauchbier, threw it in my lagering "chamber", filled a couple sample bottles of my wild ale to set aside and share with family at some point (since it's going to kick soon), sealed up the hop bags I opened from the brew yesterday, and did a deep clean on my brew kettle and a couple other things.

jaymosbeershack said:

Took a sample of my strawberry milkshake. Its been on the vanilla for a week, and getting there. Big sweet ripe strawberry up front, and a vanilla cream finish.

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That sounds delicious! What is the base beer?

Brewbuzzard said:

That sounds delicious! What is the base beer?

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Under hopped NEIPA. used 8 oz El Dorado, 8# of strawberries, 1# of lactose and 3 vanilla beans in a 5g batch

jaymosbeershack said:

Under hopped NEIPA. used 8 oz El Dorado, 8# of strawberries, 1# of lactose and 3 vanilla beans in a 5g batch

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Sounds similar to concrete jungle's strawberry alarm clock. Care to share the full recipe?

jiMithing83 said:

Sounds similar to concrete jungle's strawberry alarm clock. Care to share the full recipe?

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Im not sure 3 vanilla beans is enough, but ill find out in a week when i have to bottle it for my sisters birthday. I used dole frozen strawberries, pureed with the pound of sugar and added when fermentation started to slow down.

wanted to have multiple beers on tap rather than switching single line in kegerator all the time. this stuff arrived this weekend. Installed a gas manifold and a new three tap draft tower. looks pretty good.

Brewed a 1 gallon AG kit, lots of hops so hopefully turn out well.
Need to buy a smaller funnel mind, got a bit messy near the end

Brewbuzzard said:

Can anyone tell me why the time is off on these threads? It says I posted today at 3:36 pm and it's just now 1:59 pm.

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I was wondering about that too when I joined up.. probably depends where you are posting from relative to where the app Homesite is, maybe time zone difference? Possibly maybe a delay based on number of post this app is receiving from God knows how many phones and computers?

Schlenkerla said:

Drank green Polski beer

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[emoji23] ok...if you're into that!

seanjwalker1 said:

I was wondering about that too when I joined up.. probably depends where you are posting from relative to where the app Homesite is, maybe time zone difference? Possibly maybe a delay based on number of post this app is receiving from God knows how many phones and computers?

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What you don't use Greenwich time?? [emoji3]

seanjwalker1 said:

I was wondering about that too when I joined up.. probably depends where you are posting from relative to where the app Homesite is, maybe time zone difference? Possibly maybe a delay based on number of post this app is receiving from God knows how many phones and computers?

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Hmmm. I wonder if your preferences settings effect that. Check under preferences of your time zone is correct.

I fabbed up these faux beams for beer. Well, to make money to spend on beer stuff. Same thing.

Oh yeah, and I hung all those cabinets and built that island.

PianoMan said:

What you don't use Greenwich time?? [emoji3]

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Eastern Daylight. But who knows who lives where and from where they are posting? Several time zones just in the U.S alone..?

seanjwalker1 said:

[emoji23] ok...if you're into that!

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I ordered a Polish Pilsner.... It was green when it arrived. It wanted to be Irish.

Schlenkerla said:

I ordered a Polish Pilsner.... It was green when it arrived. It wanted to be Irish.

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Makes sense!

Kegged 2 beers and did some cleaning. This will be the first time with 2 beers on tap since upgrading the kegerator, can't wait!

Homergah said:

Hmmm. I wonder if your preferences settings effect that. Check under preferences of your time zone is correct.

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Holy smokes you fixed my timestamp issue! I always wondered why the times were so weird, turns out my default time zone was set to Reykjavik.

Kegged a barley wine.

jaymosbeershack said:

Im not sure 3 vanilla beans is enough, but ill find out in a week when i have to bottle it for my sisters birthday. I used dole frozen strawberries, pureed with the pound of sugar and added when fermentation started to slow down. View attachment 618096View attachment 618097View attachment 618098

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Depends on the quality of the beans. With vanilla, it seems like the more you spend, the better the quality(there has to be a point of diminishing returns). I made a chocolate stout years ago with three full beans and the vanilla was maybe too prominent for my liking. Hope it turns out how you imagine!

48 hours into fermentation of my Sour IPA later today I will pull a sample for gravity/pH measurement and depending on the pH reading will pitch Swanson L plantarum pills into the beer. Then will let her sit another week until dry hop and packaging.

HB Dry Irish Stout

Washed and sanitized bottles, planning to package the cask aged red. Opened up to check the gravity —pop fizz- ugh. I put the bung back and have been “burping” it periodically. The gravity did drop a couple points, though it was stable going in. The flavor is developing nicely, getting bourbon notes with out adding it. Perhaps tomorrow.