What I did for beer today

@seatazzz congrats on the celebratory dinner for closing!

kegged an american amber, cleaned the conical

Drilled a hole in my kettle to finally add a ball valve.

Nursing a vicious hangover...

BikerMatt said:

Nursing a vicious hangover...

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You need some hard water and ibuprofen.

Too much Rauchbier and schnapps?

I'm brewing beer today! don't have any yeast, so i'm just going to pour some cool wort into a freshly empty/unrinsed keg and dump the dregs into the fermenter!

Wish me luck! had a couple accidentally sour beers. but this keg was a clean ferment.

Brewing a smash 90 min double IPA with honey, oranges, Cascade, and two row at a buddies house. Having some of his HB stout.

Schlenkerla said:

You need some hard water and ibuprofen.

Too much Rauchbier and schnapps?

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There`s a Finnish saying that goes something like "what gave it takes it away"

Kegged my Oyster Stout & put in to cold crash before carbing. 6.9% ABV.
Cleaned fermentors and CO 2 transfer equipment.

Fired an American Amber with cinnamon, 6 lbs of raw amber agave nectar and Citra finishing hops, using Wyeast 2112.

Made 5 gallons of oatmeal stout then made some spent grain dog treats with the kids.

Put a half pound of CO2 pressure on fermenter.
Obtained gravity sample.
Measured and drank gravity sample.
Dumped hops from fermenter.
Strained dumpings with kitchen strainer and put liquid into a soda bottle with carbonator cap.
Purged O2 from soda bottle.
Carbonated soda bottle with 30 psi for future enjoyment.
Put soda bottle in fermentation chamber.
Drank carbed dumpings from two days ago. Was delicious.
Set BrewPi to a beer constant of 33.8F for crash.
Cleaned blowoff hose and blowoff container.

Vacuum sealed my hops from bags that were already opened. Somehow managed to poke myself in the eye with one of bags. Since I'm already working on 2019 recipes, I was able to split some stuff up into batch sized bags, not just the usual 1 or 2oz. Also found out I got more hops than advertised in all the bags I dealt with; including a whopping 6oz extra in one

Down to my last pound of 2016 Jarrylo hops, so checked out Yakima Valley Hops for a deal on something. Got excited when they had 1lb bags of Chinook 2017 for 7.99.

56.76 with shipping for 5 lbs of chinook, yeah! i love chinook!

Check on the smash double IPA I brewed yesterday and it's already taken off big time. Used harvested wyeast 1007 this will be the second generation. I did an over build on my starter collected a good bit!

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I bought a new octoberfest beer stein today! (the big oone on the right) figured i'd take a pic, of my progression as an alcoholic...

All i need to do before i can drink out of it is make my ounce marks on it...

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Nice! Have not seen one of those Stein's since I was stationed in Germany 35 years ago! They used to drop some kind of German liquor in a shot glass down into the Stein glass full of Doppelbock and called it a Lighthouse..it was more like Lights out!! Lol

Now dry hopping ESB with Target cones.

seanjwalker1 said:

Nice! Have not seen one of those Stein's since I was stationed in Germany 35 years ago! They used to drop some kind of German liquor in a shot glass down into the Stein glass full of Doppelbock and called it a Lighthouse..it was more like Lights out!! Lol

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Up here that's called a submarine.

Figured I could squeeze in an a propos brewday next weekend but realized I`m all out of yeast so decided to order a mixed assortment of dried yeasts based on what caught my eye at the online shop without thinking too much. Think I got sth like six to eight bags. Gonna brew sth simple just to test my new grain basket at first.

Today i made a 2.5L starter of Voss Kveik to build up my culture. Then desinged some simple labels(i think i need some new toner)Gonna bottle some beers next and prep for tomorrows brewday.

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Today i made a 2.5L starter of Voss Kveik to build up my culture. Then desinged some simple labels(i think i need some new toner)Gonna bottle some beers next and prep for tomorrows brewday. View attachment 600850

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Bottled some Voss last night. Split batch w Kolsch. First time using it and I’m sold. Virtually anyone, anywhere can use it with the same result. Really like the orange character I get in the finish. Would be great in an IPA I’m thinking.

Dog House Brew said:

Bottled some Voss last night. Split batch w Kolsch. First time using it and I’m sold. Virtually anyone, anywhere can use it with the same result. Really like the orange character I get in the finish. Would be great in an IPA I’m thinking.

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Ive made a NEIPA with it. It was very good.

Brewed 5 gal Scottish Export 80/-

Just finished brewing 5 gal of Resilience IPA in honor of our American friends in Cali. Hoping to find a brewery close by that is brewing this as well and support the cause.

tech yesterday, transferred my kolsh starter to mason jars and placed in the fridge, cleaned the starter flask. also refilled a 5 lb co2 cylinder.

Yesterday, i brewed a batch of porter, got 83% efficiency. Then went to homebrew club meeting, and passed around a few beverages. Got elected as the new secretary of the club. When i got home, the Voss Kveik was already getting to work, so i swapped the blowoff for the spunding valve.

I will be bottling my Galaxy SMaSH tonight.

Andrew Hodgson said:

I will be bottling my Galaxy SMaSH tonight.

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That sounds amazing I love some Galaxy hops. I recently did a Cascade smash 90 minute double IPA.

aharri1 said:

That sounds amazing I love some Galaxy hops. I recently did a Cascade smash 90 minute double IPA.

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I hope it turns out a little more complex than the Mosaic. The Mosaic was tasty but pretty one-dimensional. I think my next attempts will be DIPA strength, I like hop juice but if I am going to throw half a pound of hops in a beer I'd like to feel the buzz off of it as well.

Andrew Hodgson said:

I hope it turns out a little more complex than the Mosaic. The Mosaic was tasty but pretty one-dimensional. I think my next attempts will be DIPA strength, I like hop juice but if I am going to throw half a pound of hops in a beer I'd like to feel the buzz off of it as well.

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Exactly LOL that's why I threw a pound and a half a honey and four blended oranges at flameout on mine and used 15 lbs of two row lol. Looking at 8.5%

Bottled a batch of St.Peter`s ruby red ale, ended up yielding 68 bottles. Bit of a chore to do manually but it`ll all be forgotten once I get the first pour

As can be seen on the cardboard on the table, I need a new bottling wand, this one is crap. Only closes when it feels like it and it doesn`t feel like it too often. Seen some spring loaded ones on ebay for pocket money, gonna order one of those.

Watered and fertilized my future hop makers! Got a comet plant taking off, and a triple Pearl that is finally budding.

First ever double brew day! Brewed my first all grain Porter and another Belgian style quad, both 2.5 gallons.

Kegged my Alt, and poured 5 gallons of apple juice on the dregs. It had a big yeast cake since I double pitched.

WB-06 is really burping away on its dessert.

Got the chilly bin plumbed. A few hours till its debut at work Xmas party.

Not giving up on my braggot: got some fresh yeast, doing a proper starter before adding.

Transferred my first beer under pressure from my new corny fermenter to secondary.
Did a triple brew day with two of my mates.
Made a single-hopped IPA with an experimental NZ hop (#4337).
It was a good day!

Cut off a small branch from a 50yr old fig tree, cleaned it off, drilled holes in it and toasted it to flavour some brews with. I know oak is recommended but seriously the whole tree smells of ripe figs and it doesn't even have fruit on it yet. The wood smells equally fruity and once toasted the kitchen filled up with a scent a lot like toasted coconut. Could be good.

Fining my ESB now. Opened one bottle of Irish Red just to see whether it's properly carbonated already. After one week in bottles it's nearly there and tastes and looks great! Very happy with it, although I could have fermented at a bit higher temperature as the taste is very clean now. I'll give it another week and then I'll take some photos.

Brewing an APA right now for Christmas then I'm going to check the gravity on an oatmeal chocolate stout I brewed last weekend. Maybe all brew again tomorrow if a fermentor is free!