What I did for beer today

punkrockdave said:

cleaning off the stove cause of the boil over from last nights brew session.

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I hate when that happens! That's one of the worst kitchen messes I've ever experienced!

I'm used to it, so is the misses.

Transfered my Sour Cherry Pale Ale over to the secondary.. THEN realized I didnt have the right size stoppers to fit my new better bottle carboys. Just star-saned a zip lock and tapped it on till I can get back to the LHBS tomorrow.

I brewed a saison with piloncillo and Belgian Saison yeast.

Test sampled my Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde after 10 days conditioning in the keg and 1.5 days in the kegerator. Clearly a bit green, looking forward to it improving!

Updated my home brew Facebook group on water and water additions.

Edited some brew video I took on my last brew day.

I smuggled a Wyeast smack pack on to my flight home. They contain 4 oz of liquid... take that, TSA!

sweetcell said:

I smuggled a Wyeast smack pack on to my flight home. They contain 4 oz of liquid... take that, TSA!

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That's awesome!

I just finished de-labeling 7 cases (168 bottles) of bottles in my bottling bucket, 18 bottles at a time. I need some beer.

Horseballs said:

I just finished de-labeling 7 cases (168 bottles) of bottles in my bottling bucket, 18 bottles at a time. I need some beer.

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I think a kegging system is what you need. And a beer, wouldn't deny you a beer.

duckredbeard said:

I think a kegging system is what you need. And a beer, wouldn't deny you a beer.

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I'd keg, but I don't have the space for a kegerator. I do have room to stack cases and cases of bottles though, funnily enough.

I swirled my starter of saison 565 today (and drank some of my bavarian Hef)

Bottled my German wheat for class reunion on labor day weekend. May research labels for this brew...that would be a first.

Made a mini starter of 3068 for EdWort's Bavarian hefe. It's been in the fridge a long time, since December, I think. I might not have washed it that well to begin with, so I did a small one and I'll step it up. Then I'll pitch only part of it (to get some banana) and save the rest. I Brewed Yooper's DFH 60 min tuesday.

Our raspberry patch is producing like mad this year and everyone wants a raspberry wheat, so over the last couple of days I picked 3 or 4 pounds of berries and froze them. Should get many more pounds over the next couple of weeks. I also tended my hop plants today and wept as a beloved keg of porter kicked the bucket.

I don't want to know where on your person you "hid" it.

started a keezer build, and obviously it couldnt have gone as planned....need to fabricate a piece of metal for the hinges to attach to. Oh, well...give the stain time to dry

Pondered my next world conquering recipe that will be brewed on Independence Day! It's looking like it might be a RIS!

Drank a few homebrews while I cooked dinner and made a gigantic starter of my recycled 05 for tomorrow's brew day.

Today, I went to Solemn Oath Brewery in Naperville, IL. It's small, but they are brewing some tasty brew. Right before we were about to leave they tapped a keg of Kidnapped By Vikings IPA brewed with fennel, angel root, and apricot. It smelled like food! Wow, really good.

made a starter for this saturday's tripel with my smuggled 3787.

cdeme123 said:

I don't want to know where on your person you "hid" it.

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ha! hid it in my luggage, not on my person. the airport i fly out of has those millimeter wave scanners ("full body scanners"), so there is no way that i could have gotten away with having it on my person. luckily an un-expanded smack pack is quite thin, i had it edge-wise so it probably looked like something narrow, thin and dense to the scanner operator.

anyone know if x-rays are harmful to yeast?

eanmcnulty said:

Right before we were about to leave they tapped a keg of Kidnapped By Vikings IPA brewed with fennel, angel root, and apricot. It smelled like food! Wow, really good.

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beer is food - it's liquid bread.

Got my water report from Ward Labs! Now I can make proper water adjustments.

I just finished up making my immersion chiller! Also I bought little bits/pieces for my all grain set up.

In the middle of brewing a Belgian Saison right now

Made more than I drank today! Trying to stay ahead of myself.

2 small batches (3 & 4gal) in six hours Rogue Somer Honey Ale clone & re-brew of my Welcome Black IPA

Brewed a 5 gallon BIAB batch of West Coast Blaster. Added .5 Centennial for FWH, and accidentally added an extra ounce of Cascade for bittering. Loved using my new Bobby M refractometer to watch the progress.

Got my sister and her husband over today, built a big ol bon fire, have 2 10 gal batches boiling right now, mine a tripel thats gonna get a healthy dose of funk from some brett lambicus, his a brown, receiving the same yeasty beasties.

Just finished bottling a Blackberry Wit.

Making empties! That's about it!

Made my first starter!

Just brewed up a Belgian Blonde. Had a few mishaps, but OG sample tasted good and everything is cleaned up now. A bad day brewing is still better than a good day at work.

Took gravity readings from two fermentors (both with 5 gallons of BM's Centennial Blonde, one with Nottingham and the other with washed WLP001) and kegged one.

seedubxj said:

Made my first starter!

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Me too!...and had a sip off my Imperial Black IPA a day early

Served two kegs of Centennial Blonde at the after party to my sister's wedding reception.

And started the 4 week lagering of my altbier.

Served 30 strangers!

Bottled my own recipe of an Octoberfest style ale. Sample was delicious. Can't wait for this to carb up and mature for the fall!

Filled 5 kegs from my two big fermenters in preperation of moving to BIAB brewing (the two fermenters had a 4 kits in them, the last time I'll be doing my brews that way).

chuckstout said:

Served 30 strangers!

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Me? No there were one or two, but I knew almost everyone there. Got rave reviews. They're people I've known for years. We had a blast. And I didn't pay for the beer.