What I did for beer today

[AJinJacksonville]

Rearranged the entire garage with my son to make room for my newly acquired serving fridge...tried to soothe my wife's nerves that the beer stuff now takes up one entire wall of our garage...haha.

 

[brewbama]

Racked Boston Lager homage to the keg for a nice low temp long lager.

 

[pshankstar]

Added the second set of dry hops to my NE IPA. Plan on kegging it on Tuesday if all goes well.

 

[BikerMatt]

promised small indoctrination kits for two workmates and happened to find the perfect paper bags to pack them in too. Also just bottled a batch of El Gringo Cerveza, intriqued to find out how it tastes like after bottle conditioning as right now it didn't taste like anything

 

[Amadeo38]

Left work early at 2:30pm in order to:

1. Cold crash the double IPA for my dad that was dry-hopping
2. Boil, hop, cool, the Gose I’ve been Kettle-souring for three days, then pitch the stir-plate of yeast.
3. Back-sweetened and acid-blended three gallons of cherry hibiscus oaked mead into 10 champagne bottles (corked, sparkling) and 6 8oz beer bottles (still - required weighing out k-meta and k-sorb for each bottle).
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4. Went to keg the double IPA referenced in #1 above and found my co2 literally ran out as I was purging head space. Frantically cleaned bottles and found just enough plus caps to get it done. Then, the spigot on my bottling bucket broke. Luckily I had an extra.
5. Bottled the double IPA and am now buzzed at 1am on a work night because there was a half pint left over that I chugged, and it’s 9.7% ABV.

 

[jhart94949]

Mid week BREW DAY!!!!!

 

[Schlenkerla]

Starting to brew an English Cask Ale...

 

[Master]

Starting to brew an English Cask Ale...

I just put my Best Bitter into the Pin Cask I have.

Also kegged a batch of Porter.

 

[jcav]

Just put 8 ounces of cacao nibs into my conical, containing my 11 gallons of "Left Hand Milk Stout" and purged with Co2. Love this beer!

John

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Set up Belgian strawberry abbey, that had grown a pellical during primary, in secondary in a heated water bath for addition of WLP650 (Brett), added Brett when temp was 84F. Let's see what happens next!

 

[MaryB]

Swore at the wind that interrupted my plans to brew, 28 degrees and a 30mph are NOT something I am going to brew in!

 

[Master]

Currently pressure canning sterilized water for yeast washing

 

[pshankstar]

Just kegged and filled a few bottles of my NE IPA. Getting it ready for the game this Sunday! Go Patriots!

 

[BudgetBrewer]

Took delivery of some carbide hole saws. Gotta get busy on the weekend soldering in 2" TC ports and 1/2" couplers in the new kettles, and etching vol. markings in the pots. Wanna brew with these guys the weekend after this one. Pipelines gotta stay healthy. lol

 

[Yeastieboy]

Check the OG of this “pre-pro” lager after two weeks.

 

[Master]

Welded a coupler into a keggle.

@#$&$@(& TIG Pedal is out to lunch so I had to "Scratch start" TIG for the first time in probably 20+ years.

 

[Dog House Brew]

Welded a coupler into a keggle.

@#$&$@(& TIG Pedal is out to lunch so I had to "Scratch start" TIG for the first time in probably 20+ years.

What is that pedal you speak of? Man I’ve only scratched, I’d love a pedal. My machine smoked a few weeks back. It is from the late 70’s. Looking forward to a small suitcase machine. It was huge!!

 

[Master]

I have a mid 80s Lincoln TIG300/300

It's a beast. Pedal was sticking around high power.

 

[KYBLUE]

Built a stir plate.

 

[Schlenkerla]

I bagged my home made roasted malts after several weeks of mellowing in my barley oast. 5lbs of chocolate and 2lbs of black malt.

Chocolate

Black

Black ... close up...

Aged to mellow and now bagged.

 

[Master]

I have a mid 80s Lincoln TIG300/300

It's a beast. Pedal was sticking around high power.

The aforementioned Beast.

And my less than awesome TIG Weld.

 

[BrewZer]

Bottled 5.2 gallons of "Good Burglar" ale. Settled out at 4.4% ABV, has a good light brown color, nice hoppy nose, satisfying mouthfeel and a pleasantly bitter linger. Can't wait 'till it carbonates!

 

[pshankstar]

Bottled some of my Graff and kegged the rest. Force carbonating at 30psi hopefully it will be ready for the cider friends I have on Sunday.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Bottled some of my Graff and kegged the rest. Force carbonating at 30psi hopefully it will be ready for the cider friends I have on Sunday.

When cold tomorrow......like in the morning.

At 30 psi, carb it until it stops hissing, then shake the keg a lot like three minutes. After you shake the Hell out of it, it'll take more co2. Fill till it stops hissing.... shake.... Then repeat five or six times.

It's gonna be carbed. You might be drinking by 3pm.....

On Saturday. [emoji1]

 

[BudgetBrewer]

Soldered in 2" TC fittings, 1/2" couplers into a new kettle. Etched vol. markings..
Now watchin OHL hockey... Threw a pint of Fizzy Yellow Beer. lol
Cheers all!

 

[Master]

Finished welding on my new boiler.

 

[Master]

Just ran lines to my Beer Engine for the Super Bowl. And Spiled/Tapped my cask.

 

[Master]

Here is a pint (partially drank) of Best Bitter I made.

 

[brhenrio]

Watched the airlock bubble on my sour and the blowoff bubble on my koelsch

 

[JonM]

Kegged my favorite oatmeal stout recipe (which I didn’t make last year, so I’m especially excited to have it again this year) and started carbing it alongside the bock that’s been lagering.

 

[hagar]

Bottled 5 gal of Kölsch and tucked it away for conditioning. Tastes good already.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Bought pretzels for a one of several snack items for the game. I had repurposing in mind when I bought them. LOL

5 lbs of beech wood smoked pale malt.

 

[Schlenkerla]

BTW - The cheddar bacon dip is better with the pretzels.... Not so much with the grain.

 

[Burndog]

Doing a 10 Gal batch of Bertus Brewings Citra Double IPA on a sunny So Cal day while the kid does his homework... Life's good.

 

[Transamguy77]

Brewed a 5 gallon batch of a Citra pale ale, trying some new water chemistry.

 

[MaryB]

Try the Utz cheeseballs! good stuff and I reuse the containers in the shop.

BTW - The cheddar bacon dip is better with the pretzels.... Not so much with the grain.

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[jcav]

Today I kegged my Chocolate Milk Stout! Also cleaned 4 kegs and cleaned my conical fermenter. Got the conical soaking in PBW as I type this.

John

 

[Bigfly]

Filled 10 bottles for Maine Homebrewers Competition. And bought a keg while I was at the store

 

[MaryB]

Washed 2 fermenters(kegged 2 days ago), washed 2 more kegs so I can empty 2 more fermenters...

 

[JonM]

Kegged my Dortmunder lager last night and hit it with gelatin this morning.

That’s it - all my kegs are full and fermenters are empty. Plenty to hold me until the weather warms up.