What I did for beer today

[Salty-Dawg]

Brewed my first batch today !

Canadian Blonde (Coopers Extract)

Figured I would make my first brew as simple as possible.

It's sitting in the sink in ice and water just waiting for it to cool enough to pitch the yeast.

I hope it turns out good.

 

[govner1]

Made a stir plate w/ lots of help from a brew buddy. Completely solderless.

 

[Zepth]

Kegged up 10g of Orfys Hobgoblin II. Then realized I had just over a gallon left in the fermenter. Quick rush to find a few soda bottles that I had kicking around for ghetto growlers* and filled them as well using the fancy "pinched tubing" valve method. Added priming sugar directly to bottles. Better than letting that 4.5 litres go to waste.

*Ghetto Growler is a Trademark of Zepth. Free to use but give me props!

 

[billsteiner26]

Since Friday I have stacked my ferm Chambers, built a hop spider, and finally drilled my bk.

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[BrewinBromanite]

Brewed my first batch today !

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Welcome to the addiction...err...hobby!!





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[CJ-3]

Today I finally got around to putting labels on my latest batch of Vanilla Stout.

Also kicking around ideas for the next batch, thinking of an Irish Red for St. Patrick's. Day.

 

[jperry]

Racked an IPA, off dry hops, into a keg. Siphoning went well, racking could have gone smoother, if only I had more hands.:cross:

At least, I remembered to take an FG reading.

 

[ArrogantDusty]

In my brewing off season (because I'm a wuss in the cold), I make wine, Edwort's Apfelwien, and meads. I just bottled all my Christmas gift beers/cysers. But today, even though I didn't brew, I did something for beer. Check it out on this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/civil-life-brewing-behind-scenes-507509/ -- I helped produce this video for the small marketing company I work for. Really cool look at a local brewer's complete process.

 

[lolznrofls]

I unboxed my northern brewer pliney the legacy kit today.= hard on !!

 

[govner1]

Went to my LHBS and purchased the ingredients for my next two brews:
Smoked Rye IPA
Evil Twin Red Ale (zymurgy recipe)

 

[Quaffman]

Kegged my belgian blonde.

 

[govner1]

Cleaned up around my brewery, cleaned a keg & my Drink Tank.
Cooked two pounds of Beer Candied Bacon for my brew club Christmas Party tonight.

 

[Psylocide]

I cleaned 50 bottles on my lunch break to get ready for bottling tomorrow... just needed a quick spray with the bottle washer/hot water.

Cheers to the "rinse immediately after drinking" policy.

 

[wilson42203]

I got to brew!!!!!

 

[gometz]

I transferred my Baltic porter to a keg, hope to bottle it Monday or Tuesday. I had to dump a batch of porter I messed up the carbonate addition on, but have the yeast starter for a replacement batch I will brew tomorrow.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Racked my wheat onto cherries and lactose last night.

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[lolznrofls]

I brewed my plinian legacy..whole lot a yumm about to be on tap!

 

[Flboy]

With no fermentation chamber, and tired of swapping out ice bottles, I turned off the heat in the house. Central Florida, it is staying right around 60F. Have 8 carboys going at the moment.
Oh so worth it!!

 

[Zepth]

Started work on the collar for the perlicks. Stained, all but one side polyurethaned at the moment, tap mounts drilled. Later on will be a quick polyurethane job for the interior and assembly tomorrow morning.

 

[JonM]

Kegged my crystal-clear ESB and harvested the yeast (002, so the yeast cake was like thick cake batter) for the robust porter I'll do hopefully next weekend, and then worked through the water calcs for the robust porter.

Then I cleaned up a keg which held cider up until I kicked it on Thursday. Now it will hold my nieces' favorite homemade root beer when they arrive for a Christmas visit.

 

[kadozen]

Picked up ingredients for my first ESB and went over the Kombucha making process with an employee at my LHBS.

 

[gometz]

Brewed a robust porter for mutt wedding in March. Worried because this is the same recipe that got silver in the porter category at a competition, but I tried making it again two weeks ago and it was terrible. I think I screwed up the water and then accidentally fermented to low.

 

[wilson42203]

Added the raspberries to my raspberry ale. Then I had to switch to a blowoff tube for a couple hours before it calmed down enough to go back to an airlock.

I hope I am getting it cooled down fast enough. Following White Labs' instructions to start in the mid 70s made me nervous.

 

[unionrdr]

Worked in BS2 designing version three of my hybrid lager.

 

[bford]

Writing my dates onto my physical calendar of when things need to be bottled... are done carbing....etc...

I first put it all in my phone calendar... but I like being able to look on the wall sometime and see it all laid out in front of me!

 

[razyrsharpe]

I spent time re-bookmarking brewing sites and downloading brewing software on my new desktop. then i researched for a great Hobgoblin all grain clone recipe.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Kicked a keg of zombie dust, cleaned the lines, and hooked up a keg of mixed fruit blonde. Might clean the keg later if I get motivated.

 

[gometz]

Brewed a saison with Mandarina Bavaria, will ferment with 3726 since the lhbs didn't have 3711.

 

[BGBC]

Brewed a saison with Mandarina Bavaria, will ferment with 3726 since the lhbs didn't have 3711.

Sounds like you lucked out.

 

[gometz]

Sounds like you lucked out.

How's that? I haven't used 3726 before, but I'm holding it at 75 for now. The scant information I've been able to find says it is similar to 3624 though.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

3726 is a great farmhouse yeast.

 

[BGBC]

3726 is a great farmhouse yeast.

^this.

 

[gometz]

3726 is a great farmhouse yeast.

So is what I have heard accurate? More fruity than 3711, but easier to work with than 3724?

 

[themachinist]

Gave my 1st mead it's 3rd sna. Down to 1.040 from 1.095 still chugging along. Smells amazing.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Bottled Belgian IPA and English Cider.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Hooked up my new taprite dual body regulator and creating a list of needed parts to upgrade more of my kegging system.

 

[Brettomomyces]

Worked to increase packaging space for future brews

 

[mcbaumannerb]

So is what I have heard accurate? More fruity than 3711, but easier to work with than 3724?

I've not used 3724 so I can't comment on it. Flavor-wise I definitely prefer 3726 to 3711 and have had no issue with it fermenting to a nice dry finish.

 

[gometz]

Bottling my Baltic porter right now, sample is great. Hides the almost 9%very well

 

[grevengrevs]

cleaned two 5 gallon sanke kegs to rack beer into