What I did for beer today

Brewed 6 gal AG batch of Grapefruit Wheat IPA w/ my daughter. Pitched half w/ 1056 & half w/ 1272.

Well here's what beer did for me today. It ate my temperature probe

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Right now it's sitting at the bottom of my mash.

bmorosco said:

Sounds fantastic I have never heard of a Anglish Sippah

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Of course you haven't, since I made the name up. I've never copied anyone else's recipe, so I have to make up crazy names for them. But man is it easy to drink.

Well, it was actually yesterday but I brewed a batch while watching my 7 month old son! It was an absolute challenge, but it worked. Opened my eyes that it was actually possible to do. Maybe another batch soon???

Picked up some spring water to hopefully get my whiskely stout going tomorrow. Gotta take son back & forth to both jobs tomorrow though?

The day is young, but so far I took a 1028 starter out of the fridge where it was crashing so it will warm up for pitching into a BCS Brown Porter tonight, and I ramped down the cold crash on an American Blonde that's done fermenting.

Added some more PBW to the ice cream pail my nylon grain bag's soaking in. It got nasty and needs a little more time. Gotta clean the grain bucket too, so I can get the whiskely stout mash going.

Yesterday I poured a taster of my captured wild yeast that I grew out and made with just a straight starter, slight sour but not bad considering how green it is. Going to do a 3 gal experiment this weekend and go with some sour cherries then age out.. tasting promising so far

I was crushing grains for my whiskely stout just now & the English chocolate malt smells way better! Smells of semi-sweet chocolate with a touch of coffee. Me us'em this one from now on. Also using Black Prinze in place of black patent malt. Combined with 4lbs, 5.2ozs 2-row, it smells darn good so far! Gonna start mashing first thing in the morning, gotta run boys to second job in a bit...too busy today cleanin' & runnin'...

SFGiantsFan925 said:

Well, it was actually yesterday but I brewed a batch while watching my 7 month old son! It was an absolute challenge, but it worked. Opened my eyes that it was actually possible to do. Maybe another batch soon???

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Before you know it; you'll have a brewery assistant

Gelled a BCS Blonde that has been cold crashing for a day. Pitched a starter to a Brown Porter.

Strange thing about the starter. It's the second one I made for this batch. The first one followed the same exact process. Prepped a 1028 Smack Pack, pitched it to 1500ml of 1.036 wort. Put on the spin plate for 24 hours. It was DOA. Dark color and the only aroma was malt - and never a hint of krausen. Never had that happen before.

Dumped it and went for the do-over. After 24 hours on the spin plate, there was a little foaming, a nice tan color throughout, nice yeasty aroma. Second time's a charm I guess.

Defrosted & cleaned my kegerator. Cleaned all the serving lines & taps (4) reconnected kegs to 3 lines.

Finally got the boil going for my whiskely stout. Busy run around day again...

For the first time ever, I made a starter out of pressure canned starter wort. My goodness, was that easy.

Got an OG of 1.052 against BS2's estimate of 1.049. Not bad. Pitched rehydrated S-04 on it. Now the wait to see how long it takes to start visibly fermenting.

Today I designed and printed out the labels for my latest batch.

Took them into the basement to seal them and realized I am out of sealant. Guess that will wait till the weekend.

Took a gravity reading from a saison which has just settled down after 3 weeks in primary. First wyeast 3711 experience, love that yeast.

Helped my self to a sampler, gravity measured at 1.004 from 1.069, nice and dry, tasted great. Can't wait to bottle it up and try it carbed up!

Purchased a feeler gauge to set the gap on my MM2

Speaking of which, I finally gotta take my BC apart to fix a stuck roller.

Renewed my AHA membership. I guess maybe next time I'll finally get tired of renewing every 3 years, and just spring for the lifetime membership.

Gotta check the FG on my Buckeye Red today, at 14 days. Looks to be done. Then some more cleanup from brew day.

Bottling 5 gallons of a wheat beer I made for my sisters wedding in 4 weeks.

Racked my Mo'Citra IPA to kegs & put in my lager chamber to cold crash.
Cleaned & rinsed the carboys, auto-siphon, & other equipment.

Ordered 2 new ball locks and cleaned the 3 kegs I had sitting around. Gonna fill them tomorrow with a Belgian red, American brown, and Biermuncher's centennial blonde, respectively.

Used my new Barley Crusher today and had a 5% efficiency increase with the factory gap settings. Then I brewed an Amber.

No more worrying about room temps these baby's and once my stc1000's come from Amazon will have my yeast working better then ever can't wait gotta make a small rack for the bottoms to off set the back and the fermenters to be sitting out in the door area slightly

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And bottled some too. Also drank some. Population control.

Morning brew before my son's tball game this afternoon. haven't brewed since February. That's way too long.

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Gettin some PBW mixed up. Forgot I had to clean my hydrometer/tube to take the sample of the Irish red. Besides other (ugh) cleaning.

1977Brewer said:

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And bottled some too. Also drank some. Population control.

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I have that same shroud on my grain mill.

Thetonymartin said:

I have that same shroud on my grain mill.

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You have great taste in Seasonal IPAS and jury rigged dust protection.

I melted together both lines on my wort chiller.

I was so ANGRY!

Now I have very short lines on my wort chiller.

I am now relaxing with an orange wheat home brew. Ahhhh.

Bottled my saison, racked a Liberty Ale to secondary.

for the last day of American Homebrew Craft Beer Week I brewed a Wild Yeast Experiment, drank some Anglish Sippah and Juniskeet Wheat.

Took a first FG sample of the PM Irish red. Not quite there yet...dry stout is just past initial fermentation.

Ordered a porter mash kit

Cleaned the keg after my son's first birthday party yesterday
Had an APA on tap and by all accounts it went down very well.
Carbonation wasn't perfect due to Co2 running out during the week, but we persevered

brewing Pliny clone!! oh and drinking lots of home brew!!

Cleaned up the brew spot, and got things ready for my next brew day. Disassembled, and cleaned off, my monster mill. Swept the floor, and consolidated some equipment.

Planted a comet plant from sunny brae hops our local Carlisle pa hop grower
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And got two home brews from him
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Marked my out lets for temp controllers that are ordered and waiting to be wired up
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And admired my cent Columbus and chinook growing
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Helped a brew buddy w/ an AG batch of his Buzz Bullet IPA.