What I did for beer today

Last night I rigged up my line cleaner system. Pond pump feeding into one tap and out the next, using a jumper to connect the liquid disconnects. Pump not grunty enough to do 4 lines at once but OK for two. LLC kinda tough on bare skin.

Checked gravity of saison and dunklewiessen... All is good.

Mounted the hook I'll be using with my new ratchet pulley on my next brew day.

Drinking some and planning the two brews I'm going to do this weekend. Tomorrow morning will head off to the LHBS for the adjunct grains I need, then home to completely clean the brewery to be ready to start Sunday morning. Also did some lap rolling of my Roadblock Rye IPA that is force carbing so I have something to "help" me along with the cleaning tomorrow.

Cleaned 2 kegs, flushed a beer line and faucet with star san...

seatazzz said:

Drinking some and planning the two brews I'm going to do this weekend. Tomorrow morning will head off to the LHBS for the adjunct grains I need, then home to completely clean the brewery to be ready to start Sunday morning. Also did some lap rolling of my Roadblock Rye IPA that is force carbing so I have something to "help" me along with the cleaning tomorrow.

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Almost exactly what I did today! Planned be two brews for the next two days, bought about 11# of mixed grains like C60 & 120, victory, biscuit, mesquite smoked malt and flaked wheat. Also got some great deals on yeast and hops that were close to expired! Made my starter for tomorrow's' brew and later will make one for Monday's...

Whew!

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Went to a friends house to harvest his hops. He no longer home brews but he lets me take his home grown hops. Centennials on the left. Cascades in the middle. Nuggets on the right. In the dehydrator and drying as we speak. It should net me about a full pound total when dried I predict. [emoji3]

Checked the Cream Ale I kegged yesterday. Not quite fully carbed yet but tastes quite good.

Mark

Built the platforms for my brew stand, but ran out of wood for the uprights so will finish it tomorrow.

Got the propane tank and gave the burner a test drive; holy smokes does that sucker let out some heat. Gave the kettle and the chiller a soapy boil to clean off any leftover manufacturing oils and to get an idea of the dead space in the kettle.

Tried a bottle of the saison and the stout that I bottled last weekend. The saison is unpleasant seltzer water and the stout is green but palatable. I'll see how they are in a couple of weeks.

Brewed what will eventually be my Road Rage Raspberry porter today. Everything went great except gravity not quite where I wanted it, but it will be BEER so I don't care. Sitting in my mama chair enjoying my Rye IPA, surveying my completely clean equipment for brewing my Bump & Run Blueberry Blonde tomorrow. Nothing more to do today except fold some laundry and get happy with my beer and play with the dogs. Yay three day weekend!!!

Weighed up everything for a brew day yesterday, woke up with a sinus headache from hades today so no brew day. Pushed back to Tuesday. Have to smoke a turkey and feed guests tomorrow and brewing then would be rude.

Brewed my Blond and learned how to use my picnic tap as a bottle filler....stuck my old bottling wand into the tap and it worked great. Dammit, now I have to share bottles....

Pressure canned enough wort to handle all the starters I'll need for the rest of the year.

Checked gravity on a Kolsch, it went nice and dry as is should. Kegging tomorrow.

Getting a yeast starter going for this weekend's brew day. Assuming nothing side lines it.

dry hopped a janet's brown ale

Fed voracious mosquitoes for 5 hours while I brewed... and I was using 90% deet repellent...

Kegged lemon kolsch and Dunkelweizen, primed and bottled the remaining gallon (yesterday) and cleaned, cleaned, cleaned.

I put my first tester bottle of Mosaic Honey Wheat Ale (from this site) in the fridge this morning to try tonight.

Has only been in the bottle a week and I always tell myself not to rush the bottles... But this one tasted so promising on bottling day I can't wait to try it. Lol

Cleaned up the brewery today since the husband came home from New York trip (what's that smell honey?). I caught some sort of bug this week so cleaning went by the wayside. Mash tun was really gross. Wanted to brew tomorrow but money is tight and propane is all gone, so will have to wait until next weekend. May get some kegging done though.

Removed labels from some bottles.

Kegged the blonde I brewed last Sunday and checked the porter from Saturday, it's only down to 1.018 so was thinking of leaving it for a few more days. Then decided the heck with it and will add the raspberries today and leave it until next Saturday. They'll add a bit more sugar and the flavor is almost dead on where I want it now. Just not looking forward to blanching 2.5 pounds of raspberries and making a mess.

Dry hopped 20L of Spitfire clone-ish ale to be bottled next saturday and drank a few highland heavies doing it.

Bottled my Kolsch.

Gave the boil kettle a good scrub, it has been 5 batches and the walls were looking kind of grimy...

Managed to get a brew in while clearing my back yard of the giant limb that fell on my house earlier in the week. Just a quick cream ale, but it'll keep the pipeline healthy and I'm happy to have both fermentation chambers occupied again.

Brewed a batch of Smoke Red Rye and bottled a Waimea IPA

Picked up 100lbs of local grown and malted 2row grain. Gonna take a bit of experimenting with barley crusher settings. I love the idea of brewing a 100% local beer here in SW Ontario, Canada tho. Think Ill try a recipe ive used, sub in the local grain as is first.. see what happens. Then either adjust, or try something totally different, but instead of hiding the differences, highlighting them. Will be interesting. Cheers folks, keep makin crazy good beers!

Checked the American Wheat Pale Ale I brewed on Saturday (chugging along in primary) and drank a pint of the cream ale I brewed three weeks ago.

Mark

Sourced four free pin lock kegs. Converted them to ball lock connectors, replaced the lids with manual PRVs and new seals. Brewed this past weekend and fermenting in 3 of the 4 new kegs. Checked the blowoff tubs and they are bubbling away like crazy in the fermentation chamber. Can't wait to see how the beer turns out with minimal oxygen exposure. I'll dry hop in the fermenting kegs, so I will have to open the lid to drop the hop canister in the fermenting keg.

Checked the cream ale I brewed sunday to see the krausen climbing the neck of the carboy. Didn't have time to switch out to a blowoff tube before work, so I turned the temp controller down to 58F to hopefully control the fermentation speed until I get back. If I could find an ideal temperature range to ferment at so I don't need a blowoff tube at 6 gallons of beer that would be pretty sweet.

After a 3 month hiatus while the GF listed her house and sold and moved into my place, I finally brewed a 5 gallon batch on Saturday night, glad to be back in the brewing game

picked up some specialty grains and yeast for a saturday brew session. yeast starter jamming away downstairs right now (i won't have time to make it later this week).

I kegged a Kolsch today. See you in 6 to 8 weeks.

Checked gravity on Saison... Still dropping a point each week. And brewing with homegrown fresh nugget hops as a late addition. Yum.

Went to the LHBS and picked up the ingredients for a Doppelbock to be brewed the weekend. Thirty-five bucks for five gallons of real beer. That's a buck less than the price of a 36-pack of Bud Light.

Mark

Bottling my British pale ale tonight...

Trip to Afghani-land delayed.


So I made a starter for Fat Dog Porter.

Kegged 11 gallons of my house ale. Need to wash the fermenters tomorrow then setup to brew again on Saturday! Trying to fill my 10 keg pipeline and keep it full until Dec 1st. That should carry me close to march 1st without needing to do a big brew day.

Brewed a Nelson Sauvin Red IPA late last night, early this morning. I used some special red malts from Gladfields (Red Back and Shepheards delight), amazing colour, can't wait to see how it turns out.