What I did for beer today

CityOChampBrew said:

I should add that I am drinking beer now, but I bet most of us are!!!

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Yeppers! My Hopped & Confused ale has been in bottles only 11 days,but it's single digit cold,& I'm fresh outta beer. But this ale thast thinks it's a light lager isn't too shabby for version1. Pretty close to what I had in mind. Now when they carb & condition for a couple more weeks...Whew,nice buzz & flavor...

Swung into the LHBS and hung out for awhile talking small batches. Looks like I am going to crank out a few 1 gallon batches.

Refilled my propane tank.

Put my carboy in front of the fire and got it up to 90°F. Still bubbling 5 days after brew day.

I cleaned my bucket and two kegs.. :-D

Started disassembling and cleaning my new (off craigslist) keg-a-rator. I need a tool to take the taps off I think. It holds 3 5gal kegs. I have 2 batches coming up soon; a honey porter and a brown ipa. Both oak aged. I split them with a friend so I will only have 2.5 gal of each batch, but I also have a 2.5 gal keg, yay! Anyone have a recommendation of which one to keg? Unfortunately the are both extract. I switched to all grain 2 weeks ago. I have a black ipa and a double oatmeal stout that should be ready and on tap in 6 and 7 weeks.

I also bought and built an industrial shelf in my room (off craigslist again) because I live in a small apartment and I don't have any room anywhere else.

All while finishing off the last of my first batch I brewed - oatmeal stout with coffee in it!

Made a starter for my Irish Red that I'm brewing this weekend and moved some beer from the closet to the fridge. Then I rewarded myself with some homebrew!

Racked, brewed, and drank! What a rough life.

jdboes said:

Made a blue moon clone

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I stumbled alone one that tasted like a blue moon I'm curious if you would like to compare recipes?

Ordered a larger stirplate, stirstarters 5L.

Put a blow off tube on my fermenting Caribou Slobber, and bottled up my Captain Hooked on Bitters Red Hook ESB clone.

Made a starter for my Irish Red I will be brewing this weekend

I went to the LHBS yesterday. Well, local is an hour and a half away. Still, it's a great little store. I asked the lady working for prices on bottles, and she told me. Then she gave me two cases of used Sierra Nevada bottles. Score! I'm soaking labels off now.

brewbobaggins said:

Put my carboy in front of the fire and got it up to 90°F. Still bubbling 5 days after brew day.

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90?? What's in that carboy??

I bought three books with an x-mas amazon gift card

Radical Brewing
Brew Like a Monk
Brewing With Wheat

BGBC said:

90?? What's in that carboy??

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I hope it's a saison

Oh, I forgot to add: I went by Lowes the other day and looked at their blue five-gallon pails. The plastic is #2, which is the same grade as on my fermenter bucket. The problem is that these are only 5 gallons, but they might do okay for a fermenter on 3-gallon batches. Or for a bottling bucket. Useful knowledge, I'd say!

Tracked down some Hopslam to pick up after work!!! YEEEHAW!!!

Midway through the mash of my Black Coffee RyePA.

Cleaned HLT and all piping on the system
Put away a shipment of 1850lbs of grain
Updated the brewlogs and projections
Prepping grain for tomorrow
About to go into a meeting with the boss

I have to go in the order in which they happened this morning:
1. Bought a large spoon and a large whisk.
2. Bought a pound of 2-row, 3oz. of Citra, a pack of Safale S-05, a large nylon grain bag, Whirlfloc tablets, and put my name down for Vojvodina and Magnum rhizomes. I was the second person on the list.
3. Ate lunch, and then picked up some cheesecloth for a rice wine; I'll pick up the yeast this weekend.
4. Picked up an airlock and a #3 stopper.

What's next? I might brew on Saturday: I might do my wild rice wine. I will definitely do something to make adult beverages. I'll also be making a non-alcoholic potato salad. It has bacon and blue cheese in it, so it will taste great.

Raced over to the LHBS during lunch and got a 3 gallon BB with stopper, some airlocks, hop bags and some DME. All so I can use the 2 gallons of 2nd runnings from the IIPA I made on Monday. I *really* hate to waste wort!

Bought some Gelatin for clarity (First time trying this)

Pitched my second litre of yeast starter wort into my initial mixture from yesterday.....in prep for saturday brew day....Irish Red

Weighed and milled grains for a porter I am planning to brew tomorrow; weighed out hops for the porter as well. Beamed at my four full fermentors and enjoyed that warm, fuzzy feeling knowing that the pipeline will no longer be anemic. Tomorrow's batch should bring the total to 27 gallons since 1/7. Time to purchase another 50 lb sack of 2-row.

Picked up some barrels with brettanomyces from a winery my farming business is partnered with. Going to start playing with all brettanomyces fermentation.

Just racked my first saison to secondary and holy fvckin WOW the pepper, clove and funk is in full force!!! I Was worried cause i was only able to keep it around 70° but it went from 1.062 down to 1.008 in 19 days. Super happy with wlp565 . Now 7 days with citra and Columbus dry hops

Bottle pasteurized my ginger cider, whatever it is. I was thinking that the potassium sorbate in the cider I used to back sweeten would probably keep it from doing much refermentation, but my tester bottle said otherwise. I hadn't planned on carbing this batch at all, but it's nice this way too.

So far just checked my airlock water level on my sours. 2 were good one was low but the squares in the center bell were still covered so I think I'm ok.

just made 2 ounces of kona coffee to cold brew overnight and use when I bottle my oatmeal stout tomorrow.

A friend is coming over for dinner (chicken and dumplings with homebrew). We will be bottling and kegging the AG Caribou Slobber from my Caribrewsary, as well as sampling both it and my Arctic Brown ale that's in primary. Confirmed my 2.75 gallon batch of Black Coffee RyePA is fermenting with the recycled 05. And was disappointed to find out that the Intermediate brewing class I signed up for his semester has been canceled. Guess I will have to brew even more beer to make up for it.

Poured my first pint of coffee Porter. Tried to upload a photo but the app keeps crashing.

Brewed a porter.

Bought Iodophor, a bottling wand and emptied some bottles.

Organized the adult beverage fridge (mango wine in the corona bottles). I need another fridge!

Peeled labels and scrubbed bottles to prep for bottling my MOxSimcoe SMaSH next week.

Bought a CO2 tank and kegged a batch for the first time.

1.Kegged a batch of Janet's Brown Ale.
2.Racked Surly Furious clone onto dry hops.
3. Harvested 3 jars of WLP007 from the primary of the Furious.
4. Miscellaneous cleaning.

Where did you find the recipe for the Surly clone?

Got my camlocks/silicone tubing hooked up. Pump arrives Tuesday. Maiden brew on the new single tier this weekend.