What I did for beer today

Racked 5 gallons of my toasted stout into the keg and fertilized the hop plants. They're looking good but not ripe yet

Picked up my yearly supply of fertilizer and soil to finally transplant my 3rd year hop plants. I can at last start my own in ground garden at our new house and I couldn't be happier. Looking forward to seeing how the 3rd year goes. The labels were all sun bleached so I have no idea which plants are what. Oh well!

aharri1 said:

Racked 5 gallons of my toasted stout into the keg and fertilized the hop plants. They're looking good but not ripe yetView attachment 619339

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Where do YOU live? I'm just about to get the season started! Ha.

bobeer said:

Where do YOU live? I'm just about to get the season started! Ha.

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Central Florida so I can actually get two harvest a year sometimes 3 if I treat them really well!

Racked 3 gal of Velvet Hammer clone.

Closed transferred a Beantown Lager to keg and began lagering it. If the hydro sample is any indication it’s gonna be a good May Day.

Poured three qts of sterile water in the BrewBucket, swirled it up good, waited 10 min to let the chunks settle and drained off two qts to harvest the yeast.

Filled the Brewbucket with PBW to clean, mowed the yard, and poured a pint of Dortmunder Export to chillax.

Not yet, but anxiously watching the clock at work so I can run to the LHBS afterwards to grab some yeast and adjunct grain for an ambitious double brewday on Saturday. Beautiful day for a long drive out to Snoqualmie.

Made a 3724 2L yeast starter for Saturday's brew.

Ordered 2lbs of Mosaic leaf from YVH (on sale for $12/lb!), haven't had any for yonks and it's what makes our house IPA terrific. Won't be here in time for this weekend but will do up a SmASH with it next weekend.

Fertilized the hop plants and picked a few ripe ones to test them and make some tea!

Tapped a Cashmere blonde and a Medusa pale ale. First time with the new setup and 2 beers on at once, it's awesome.

As a side note, I swapped out the one tap tower for a new 2 tap version, and the foam issue that I'd learned to live with is gone.

Just finished milling the grain for the two brews I'm planning for tomorrow. If the first one kicks my butt can always brew the second one on Sunday.

aharri1 said:

Fertilized the hop plants and picked a few ripe ones to test them and make some tea!View attachment 619625View attachment 619626

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They are beautiful!

Brewbuzzard said:

They are beautiful!

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Thanks!

Bottled 5 gallons of Sweet Stout. It tastes great right now, I can't wait to sample one in a couple weeks!

Put together a clone recipe for New Holland’s Dragon’s Milk Stout. 24 pounds of grain for a 6 gallon batch....oh yeah...mash tun gonna be up to the brim

Got my girlfriend to join untapped so she can stop asking me, "What's that one I like again?"

devilssoninlaw said:

Bottled 5 gallons of Sweet Stout. It tastes great right now, I can't wait to sample one in a couple weeks!

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Go through it slowly. My sweet stout is good fresh, but really gets great after about 6-8 weeks after packaging.

Oh, let's see... I got my bottles sanitized to bottle my blonde stout tomorrow. I picked up 55# of pilsner malt and 10# of flaked rice and barley. Seems my LHBS ordered just the rice but received it mixed with flaked barley so he discounted it 70%... Yay! I was thinking of using it in a cream ale or a frankenbeer of some description.

It will be beer... Oh yes, it will be beer!

Drank lots of beer, ordered hops, grains, renzimes. [emoji111]️

Brewed up the 3rd iteration of my wild ale; same as the 1st to blend gueuze style. Also kicked the cream ale.

Brewed up the Bastard clone this morning which is now happily building a huge krausen 8 hours later. And just finished demolishing a lovely bone-in New york steak the husband brought home for me to cook with some steamed asparagus and baked potatoes. Washed down with almost-fully-carbed WF lager that tastes fantastic. Oh yes a good day.

Set my carbed dry English stout to serving pressure, cleaned a keg and transferred a dry hopped German altbier to it from another one with a stuck dip tube due to the hops and cleared the obstruction. Prepped to brew my sour ale for Sunday and have a starter of lactobacillus brevis going. Made a filter with a muslin bag to transfer it cleanly.

In the process of planting some mandarin trees on this 70 degree sunny day, so hopefully in a few years I can harvest the fruit and add it to a batch of beer.

Bottled a 1 gallon hoppy pale and did a 5 gallon extract NEIPA

Brewing a kettle sour ale today!

Cleaned the keg and tapline from the beer that kicked yesterday. Kegged and put the red rye on tap. Got great attenuation, but still needs to clear up some.

Bottled my first joam!

Started planning my next stout

Brewed a bitter. Cleaned up the brewery a bit. Looks a little better... Still too much non-brewery stuff.

Drinking a maibock. Probably could use a couple more weeks lagering. Still good. I need to save it to share.

Checking inventory. Might need to use some older grain. I think I might brew an Irish Red instead and save the grain for another day.

Just got home from second job to a text from the brewpub boss....who just got his glycol chiller up and running and is asking ME how to brew a lager. Promised to work this weekend to help brew it up. Also opened the ferment fridge to gloat over the two beers brewed this weekend that are happily chugging away.

Almost 48 hours since I pitched lacto brevis for my kettle sour. Starting to taste tart. Plan to start my boil this evening

aharri1 said:

Almost 48 hours since I pitched lacto brevis for my kettle sour. Starting to taste tart. Plan to start my boil this evening

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Would you skim the pellicle before the boil or just boil as is?

Just ordered a Spike CF5. Cant wait to have a fermenter that will last for ever, and do everthing i want.

Almost finished my Keezer build

ApolloSimcoe said:

Almost finished my Keezer buildView attachment 620286 View attachment 620287

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Where did you get the push fit faucet shanks? That is slick.

helterscelter said:

Where did you get the push fit faucet shanks? That is slick.

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RiteBrew
http://www.ritebrew.com/product-p/843483.htm

Built a low pressure gas rig to support pressurized transfers from my Chronical to keg.

Dry hopped an NEIPA and ordered some citra to do another dry hop later in week

Also ordered a Mosaic pale ale extract kit

Brewed yesterday, now i'm bleaching my malting tub for a barley soak, and starting my week long process of brewing the hard way....

Got my yeast starter going last night for a doppelbock this weekend. Have to give it plenty of time to do it's thing.