What I did for beer today

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Yesterday I waxed the wooden cask I had prepared (the Angels share was a bit too large) later today I'll sanitize it again, check for leaks then fill it.

 

[Leapsandbounds]

I put some nibs and vanilla beans in vodka for a Neapolitan Stout (strawberry, chocolate, vanilla).

 

[Schlenkerla]

I'm in Kona HI. Almost bought a beer shirt ”Dyed in Beer.". It was $35 dollars. Walked away thinking I do that myself on accident.

It was this one.... I think "Dyed In Beer!" is their brand.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Ha! If I have another dumper, this would be a way to get something out of it.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Brewed 15 gal of Pale Ale.

 

[AJinJacksonville]

I sniffed the crushed grains of my upcoming blonde ale, and squeezed the bag of Centennial and Cascade hops.......any day now......

 

[aharri1]

View attachment 616867 Yesterday I waxed the wooden cask I had prepared (the Angels share was a bit too large) later today I'll sanitize it again, check for leaks then fill it.

I've got one of their 5 gal ones myself!

 

[mullet6577]

Yesterday - kegged a chocolate milk stout and brewed an Amarillo Pale Ale

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I've got one of their 5 gal ones myself!

It smelled great when I was preparing it, and that process seemed to wash most of the color and aroma away... So today I’m likely to top it off with some bourbon.

 

[aharri1]

It smelled great when I was preparing it, and that process seemed to wash most of the color and aroma away... So today I’m likely to top it off with some bourbon.

Awesome!! I moved during the fall and didn't care for my barrel like I should so now it has a pretty decent leak under one of the rungs. I got some paraffin wax and plann to rub it all over and hopefully seal it back up.

 

[catdaddy66]

Probably going to get a starter going from some recently out of date Belgian saison yeast (2/8/19), wlp565. I have about 4 brews coming up before I will be able to use it, so it's best I grow it out a bit.

 

[seanjwalker1]

I'm in Kona HI. Almost bought a beer shirt ”Dyed in Beer.". It was $35 dollars. Walked away thinking I do that myself on accident.

It was this one.... I think "Dyed In Beer!" is their brand.View attachment 616890

Nice shirt, but def tourist rippoff priced!

 

[biochemedic]

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Turned more stickers into magnets and placed them on the kegerator/fermentation chamber/beer fridge.
@TwistedGray, do you see El Jefe? [emoji6]

Love the Pizza Boy ones! They make some awesome IPAs!

 

[Novacor]

Added another tap to my kegerator.

 

[aharri1]

Fertilized and watered my hop plants. The comet is a beast! I think I have enough to harvest one batch and dry them with my homemade drying unit which is a wood slat, cheap air filters, and a box fan LOL

 

[catdaddy66]

Fertilized and watered my hop plants. The comet is a beast! I think I have enough to harvest one batch and dry them with my homemade drying unit which is a wood slat, cheap air filters, and a box fan LOLView attachment 617148View attachment 617149

Those are gorgeous!

 

[seatazzz]

After a week of waiting....finally opened my email this morning to discover my lager won a 2nd place medal in the Cascade Cup! Woohoo so excited! And apparently it's going to the 2nd round of judging (if I'm reading it right). Brown beer did meh but I like it. Judges comments for the lager were quite nice, got an average 37 out of 50 so I'm happy.

 

[jaymosbeershack]

Brewed a batch of amber ale. Over shot my gravity 1.057 instead of 1.052 (brew father shows efficiancy at 88%)

 

[AJinJacksonville]

Fertilized and watered my hop plants. The comet is a beast! I think I have enough to harvest one batch and dry them with my homemade drying unit which is a wood slat, cheap air filters, and a box fan LOLView attachment 617148View attachment 617149

Those things look ridiculous!!! Me wanna!

 

[aharri1]

Those things look ridiculous!!! Me wanna!

I know! This is my first harvest I did use some organic fertilizer with bat guano and nitric acids and what not so I guess that paid off! I'm building me a hop drying system already bought all the parts at Lowe's for 35 bucks

 

[aharri1]

Built my beer gun! Also, harvested a good couple ounces of hops from my plant and put them in my DIY hop dryer!

 

[Edward's Beer Cellar]

delete

 

[AJinJacksonville]

Let me know if you have any leftover hops

 

[Edward's Beer Cellar]

Added fittings to a little used welding gas bottle to flush carboys and bottles. Argon is inert

 

[Murphys_Law]

Had a snow day today so I bottled my small batch stout (only 15 bottles), cleaned 5 kegs (been to busy to both brew and clean!), played around with a LODO dry hop process (been reading the other thread!) and just kinda tinkered.

I was going to make a small stovetop batch and glad I changed my mind since we lost power in the afternoon!

 

[jaymosbeershack]

Went to the homebrew club meeting, and picked up my first first place ribbon[emoji482] my rye pale ale scored a 37.

 

[aharri1]

Went to the homebrew club meeting, and picked up my first first place ribbon[emoji482] my rye pale ale scored a 37.

Congrats!

 

[jaymosbeershack]

Congrats!

Thank you

 

[seanjwalker1]

Brewed a batch of amber ale. Over shot my gravity 1.057 instead of 1.052 (brew father shows efficiancy at 88%)

Just a tad stronger, it's all good!! I like strong Amber ale, 6-7%. Haven't had anyone complain yet!

 

[seanjwalker1]

Have to put my Amber ale and Honey ale and everything else on the back burner. Had to have partial knee replacement yesterday. Hurts like hell! But when this pass', it won't hurt anymore lifting my mash tun with 20+ lbs of grist!

 

[catdaddy66]

Have to put my Amber ale and Honey ale and everything else on the back burner. Had to have partial knee replacement yesterday. Hurts like hell! But when this pass', it won't hurt anymore lifting my mash tun with 20+ lbs of grist!

Sucks to need one but the partial replacement heals better and a bit quicker than the complete variety. It will be hell for 3-4 weeks and totally worth it!

Be diligent with your exercises and walk, walk, walk! Then rest with ice on the knee and a cold beer in the mug!

 

[seanjwalker1]

Sucks to need one but the partial replacement heals better and a bit quicker than the complete variety. It will be hell for 3-4 weeks and totally worth it!

Be diligent with your exercises and walk, walk, walk! Then rest with ice on the knee and a cold beer in the mug!

Yep..sucks. Thanks for the encouragement, I'm a retired DOD nurse and former Army medic..we make terrible patients but the wifey is keeping me in line! No brew for me, she watches the Igloo beer fridge like a hawk! Too many meds for alcohol.

 

[jiMithing83]

Yep..sucks. Thanks for the encouragement, I'm a retired DOD nurse and former Army medic..we make terrible patients but the wifey is keeping me in line! No brew for me, she watches the Igloo beer fridge like a hawk! Too many meds for alcohol.

Don't mix booze and painkillers, you're gonna need that liver later!

 

[seanjwalker1]

Don't mix booze and painkillers, you're gonna need that liver later!

Yep I know.. retired army nurse. Thank God for my wife/Command Sgt Major cause nurse or not I'm sure I'd be pulling a sneaky Pete night raid! This pain is unreal!! Thanks!

 

[catdaddy66]

Dryhopped my pale ale and plan on bottling Sunday. 2.5oz dose... BAM!

Aromaville...

 

[aharri1]

Dried my hops and got about 1.25oz. threw them in my toasted stout for dry hopping!

 

[BrewMan13]

A couple days ago we had our local club meeting with a guest speaker who's a brewer at Ommegang. I brought in my spontaneously fermented wild ale and he was very curious about the process I went through so I told him the whole story, and he liked the beer on top of it, so that made me pretty happy .
Tonight planning to get a starter going and other preparations for brewing tomorrow!

 

[6Tap]

Started cold crashing hb APA.

 

[bracconiere]

i needed to stay sober today so i could drive to the feed store for more barley.....but ended up saying, **** it, and pouring a beer....

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Awesome!! I moved during the fall and didn't care for my barrel like I should so now it has a pretty decent leak under one of the rungs. I got some paraffin wax and plann to rub it all over and hopefully seal it back up.

My LHBS didn’t have barrel wax, so I went to a craft store and bought a pound of bee’s wax. Paraffin was less but I wanted to go the “natural” route. (it could be blended with paraffin-fake honey, fake wax maybe) the wood should be dry and the wax melted or at least warm and soft.