What I did for beer today

Started a Franch Saison yeast starter

orionol73 said:

Currently boiling a Golden Ale with Brewer's Gold hops

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Nice! It's on my to do Brewing list. Never made a Golden Ale but already have a recipe mapped out. May be my next one, though I'm anxious to try aharri's white stout.

seanjwalker1 said:

Nice! It's on my to do Brewing list. Never made a Golden Ale but already have a recipe mapped out. May be my next one, though I'm anxious to try aharri's white stout.

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Brewing Classic Styles recipe was a big hit for me

Fertilizing and watered my two hop plants the comet plant is going nuts!

Made my yeast starter (wlp080) for my cream ale. Then I sanitized bottles for bottling. Gonna be doing both (brewing and bottling) before noon tomorrow!

aharri1 said:

Fertilizing and watered my two hop plants the comet plant is going nuts! View attachment 606947

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Blue skies and palm trees....SIGH...God how I miss living in Jacksonville and San Antonio

Kegged a Dunkelweizen that was brewed a couple of weeks ago.

Did a big 3.5L starter of 833 German Bock for a dopple ill be brewing tuesday.

orionol73 said:

Currently boiling a Golden Ale with Brewer's Gold hops

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You should let us know when you taste it how you like those Brewer's Gold hops. I am curious about that hop, in regards to the flavor and aroma in the finished product.

John

Kicked the cream ale, cleaned the tap line it was on, hooked up the altbier.

Ordered a bunch of stuff.

EZ clean ball valve for my BK.
0.5 micron aeration nozzle
2 ball lock gas disconnects
2 ball lock beer disconnects
Bottle of Fermcap
Hornindal Kviek yeast pack
A Spunding valve
1000 polypropylene insulation balls.
1 oz of Brewtan B
Sodium metabisulfate
Potassium metabisulfate

Measuring, cleaning, mashing, boiling and pitching...

It's brew day!!

Helped my buddy on his first brew in 5 years. He's been buying equipment and finally completed his fly sparge setup with hoses and a pump.

shetc said:

Brewing Classic Styles recipe was a big hit for me

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Mine brew day went well and it smells and tasted good going into the fermenter

Brewed an amber, kicked a Scottish.

I got my Mark II Keg and Carboy Washer up and running, today. It's been through two Better Bottles (one with some caked on crud from an English Mild), one 3 gallon keg, and it's working its way through the next 3 gallon keg.

After that, it'll get a five gallon keg, into which I'll rack cider; then, I'll throw that carboy right onto the cleaner.

Kegged 11 gals of barleywine. Have the flu so all i know is that it tasted bitter. Couldn’t do a D test since I cant smell much but it should be all set. Going to leave it with light head pressure and test it when my senses return just to be sure.

Friday, I've been too busy to post.

Brewed a batch of Bitter JO IIPA.
Used my new HopStopper 2.0, worked excellent
Deep cleaned my fermenter while it was sparging.
Cleaned all 3 lines in my keg fridge.
Cleaned and sanitized/purged my 2 empty kegs.

Today I:
Cleaned 6 tap lines

Cleaned my fermentor

Brewed a batch of Blonde Ale.

Created a .5 gallon yeast starter of WLP007 for my 90 Minute IPA clone.

added the cacao nibs about 5 days ago in secondary to my white Stout and just added some coffee beans last night. Took a sample and it's tasting awesome. going to rack it to the keg tomorrow night and cold crash for a couple weeks.

Grain mill showed up and I'm excited to put it to good use for my busy brew month. Gonna do two brew days in January, one week apart. Already had the grain milled for the first batch (didn't know I was getting this for my birthday, thanks to my lovely wife). I plan to try it out for the second batch.

First batch is gonna be a NEIPA and I'm using WLP066 London Fog which I'm excited to try. Been using US-05 for a while.

Second batch might be a another stout while the weather here in AZ is still relatively cold (cold ground water good for cooling and no need for fermentation fridge).

I'm harvesting the yeast after each of these batches, which is something I've never done before. I'm using WLP066 for the first batch and was thinking of using WLP004 for the stout. We'll see how things go [emoji3]

Racked white stout into keg from secondary. The coffee and chocolate notes are not too overpowering so I'm happy with the outcome! A solid 7% ABV.

Kegged my IdahoPA, cleaned the gear, and started to plan my next brew. I'm leaning towards a blonde ale with Cashmere hops and Hornindal Kveik.

Transferred beer to get ready to bottle for the Bluebonnet Brew-off competition and rousted the Velvet Hammer clone.

After work I will check on the sach fermentation for my margarita gose, and if she looks like she has died down a bit will pitch lacto and raise the temp a bit, if not will wait until tomorrow.

Racked 5 gal Golden Ale to a keg.

Took a sample of my white stout after cold crashing overnight. The coffee is a little strong, but hopefully that will mellow out! Overall, the taste is really great! this will be my first beer to go in a competition to be judged by BJCP certified judges!

48 Blondes, getting ready for the Super Bowl

Bottling beer for the Bluebonnet Brew-off. Eisbock is in the first freeze of three.

aharri1 said:

Took a sample of my white stout after cold crashing overnight. The coffee is a little strong, but hopefully that will mellow out! Overall, the taste is really great! this will be my first beer to go in a competition to be judged by BJCP certified judges!View attachment 607574

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Awesome! Good luck!!

seanjwalker1 said:

Awesome! Good luck!!

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Thanks !

Washed and boiled my balls...

My car is in the shop and husband bowls tonight, so settling in for a night of kitchen/fridge cleaning and finally kegging the Southern Passion Smash IPA I brewed 3 weeks ago. It's been cold crashing for the last 6 days because work and laziness, so it's about time. Might have lost some of the flavor/aroma from the dry hops from extended cold crash, but it smells great at least. This one was the husband's idea so I hope it turns out well. Also have to give my Holiday Ale keg a good long soak in hot oxyclean to get the spices out. And gloated over my latest lager that is 5 days old in the ferment fridge, still lots of yeast in suspension and smells terrific in there. Used harvested S-23 yeast in this one that were "expired" in 2016 and did great in their initial batch so looking forward to a nice traditional lager in a few weeks, nothing but Tettnanger hops for bittering and flavor.

*EDIT* For anyone who is thinking of trying the South African hops, I can definitely recommend the Southern Passion. Tastes fantastic, not overpoweringly of guava/passionfruit, just a nice residual sweetness with enough bitterness to keep it from being sickeningly sweet. Can't wait to see what it does on full carb.

Schlenkerla said:

Washed and boiled my balls...View attachment 607757View attachment 607759View attachment 607760View attachment 607761

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That’s nuts you have so many balls!

6Tap said:

That’s nuts you have so many balls!

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Yeah....LOL. I need a lot. My wife tries to inmasculate me every weekend.

1000 of them fit in a 8x8x6 cardboard box.

Nothing yet today, but yesterday I picked up some drill bits, cutting oil, and step bits to drill a hole in my kettle for a valve. Also grabbed 10 gallons of RO water from the Walmart machine for the next brew day. Hoping to find a spot in the house to keep those that won't piss the wife off too much. Getting down to around 17* this weekend and really don't want 10 gallons of RO ice in the garage.

Schlenkerla said:

Washed and boiled my balls...View attachment 607757View attachment 607759View attachment 607760View attachment 607761

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What for?

helterscelter said:

What for?

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It's to act as a heat blanket and oxygen barrier in my MLT and HLT.

Trying to get this insanity taken care of. Completely rearranging brewery space.