What I did for beer today

So far today I've watched some bubbles. Hope to brew later.

 

Calibrated hydrometer and thermometer. Fine tuned beersmith for my evaporation rates on brew kettle and my mash tun weight. Washing a WLP300 starter and taking one of those and adding back to a 1L starter for my Hefe I am brewing this weekend, the rest go in the fridge. Later today I will be running BLC through my beer lines and kegging a Bell's Oberon clone. Lot to do at the home brewery today

 

I also input another PM IPA recipe into BS2 that uses some of the hops from Latitude 48.

 

Sent out a box to a fellow HBT'er, drank some beer...

 

Just hauled 20 gallons of homebrew and a fellow homebrewer down into Center City (collection point for our club).

 

Added the banana wine to my bottled homebrew inventory sheet. Yup, 21.96 gallons of homebrew.

 

Didn't do an brewing, but I made a hell of a beer run on my first day of vacation

 

I kinda want to see the total on that receipt.

 

+1 to that. Very nice selection though fine sir.....

 

Had my first dogfish head 120 minute IPA, so this is more like hat has beer done for me today!!!!!!

 

Made a starter for my brew tomorrow.. so let's do a quick rundown.. Couldn't find my stir bar .. until I did.. in the garbage disposal in a million little pieces stuck to the side of disposal... not the best place to store your stir bars

Then as I'm pitching my White Labs vial into the starter.. I dropped the entire bottle into the flask.. .. luckily I sprayed the whole thing with starsan before I pitched.... had to use a sanitized knife to fish it out.

And took a sample of my IIPA. Fermenting 6 days and went from 1.081 to 1.021, now I'm going to up the temp a little to finish out at 1.014. Now I'm RDWHAHB'ing.

 

Since SWMBO is not a member here, I'm safe. I was surprised that it was only 170. Looking at how full the shopping cart was, I was certain I would break $200.

 

Hah, that's a steal. Last time I spent that much on beer, I didn't even get a full case...

 

I thought so too. For that price, I got 56 12-ounce bottles/cans, 4 16-ounce, 4 bombers and a 750ml bottle.

Oh, and a bottle of red wine for SWMBO

 

Got some new buckets and airlocks. Also picked up grains for 2 brews.

 

Brewed a Rye Pale Ale AG batch, but forgot my starter. So, I whipped one up and will pitch in the morning. Brew day went well otherwise....

 

Brewed 10 gallons of Centennial Blonde Ale on my new rig. What a joy to brew on!

 

24 feet of hop-growing glory.

The main (horizontal) runs go through eyebolts and then tie off some extra slack below, allowing me to untie and let the middle sag down for harvest.

The vertical drops are offset by a few feet so that the back lines aren't shaded by the front later in the afternoon.

Talk about a long day (and a sore back)!

Sorry for the grainy cell phone pic.

 

Brewed a Scottish 80/-. Took my keggle apart and gave all the parts a good cleaning.

 

Racked a little under 5 gallons of Berliner Weisse onto 10 lbs of white peaches. I love the floral aroma of white peaches and am excited to try them in a sour.

 

Kegged 5 gallons of my house IPA; picked up some corn sugar to bottle another 5 gallons whenever I get motivated; substituted a keg of Yooper's Ruination clone for an empty keg of Denny's Wry Smile Rye IPA in the beer fridge; cleaned a dirty keg and a fermentor; and prepared a list of specialty grains I need for my next brew but don't have already.

 

Today I washed some bottles, ready for bottling an American Blonde and a Belgian Blonde on Thursday to be ready for my girlfriends family annual summer party. Haven't met most of them before, so I hope my beer will impress them.

 

Looked up wiring diagrams and ideas, for my new STC-1000 build. And went to my LHBS, to buy ingredients for my next batch, a pale ale. Ended up with, 6lbs of Maris Otter, 2lbs Munich, 2lbs Vienna, and 1lbs Honey Malt, WLP007 Dry English Yeast. I can not wait, to try this recipe!

 

Brewed a Quadrupel, and halfway through the mash on an Ordinary Bitter.

 

You won!! Love child and lucky 13 both amazing beers!! But if she asks me to hang out with her and drink love child I will let her be the winner. Lol good score!

 

Drank 2 homebrews while swimming in the mashtun of all grain!

Have a 5 gallon batch of a 'cream of 3' ale mashing as i type. Had to alter my hop schedule as I didn't have one variety (EKG).

Hope for the best!

 

Today I picked up a mini fridge off craigslist for $20 to turn into a fermentation chamber and installed a drip tray on my kegorator.

 

Today I stopped by my LHBS and purchased the ingredients for my next brew.

It'll be a partial mash version of Biermuncher's Centennial Blond.

 

I went to two different places to get my co2 tank filled. The first is a fire extinguisher place and they weren't there, but they will fill on the spot. I bought a new 5 lb tank around this time last year and wanted to keep it new. The second place only does swaps, but they swapped for another mostly new tank, so no great loss.

My brew is back on co2. It was getting a bit flat.

 

Prepped for tomorrow (hopefully) morning's brew - 10 gallons of Yooper's Oatmeal Stout. Weighed out grains and hops, milled grains (so I don't wake my wife if I actually manage to drag my butt out of bed for an early start) and made a starter with some Denny's Favorite 50 I washed and saved from a prior brew. I'm planning on doing half with that yeast and half with S-04.

 

I drove almost 800 miles before cracking one open. Does that count?

 

Finished the cooler conversion to mash tun and HLT. Sanitized the Fermentor. Checked my ingredients for my first try at an all grain recipe Northern Brewers AK47 with an extra pound of pale malt. I am trying to decided if I want to use a White labs yeast instead of the dry Britannia? Yeast I got with the kit. I have to go get a full propane tank in the morning and finish putting together the Darkstar propane burner. I think I am ready!

 

Refilled my CO2 tank, kegged my Bohemian lager and placed it back in the fermentation freezer to continue carbonation and lagering process while I'm on vacation, heard my wife say,"ooops" when she was washing dishes, and realized she broke my hydrometer when she placed a pot on top of it.

 

Got most of the cutouts and test fits done for the temp controller for the ferm fridge. Also had first bottle from my NB Hope&King scotch ale kit. Yum.

 

Cleaned the kitchen today so I can brew a Roggenbier later. Also gonna do a starter (from a bottle of Wild Brew) for a hoppy Saison that I'm brewing on the 4th.

 

Let my wife go to the casino so she won't pitch a fit when I buy something.

Went to two stores looking for a 4 foot propane tank hose. Bought one only to find the burner end has a male fitting...need female, sheesh! Guess I'll be making another run later this week to be able to brew on Saturday.

Bought measuring equipment in metrics to make a starter on Thursday.

Moved 5 gal of Caribou Slobber to the secondary.

 

I bought all the fittings to make my cooler-mash tun stuff. That's a start, right?

 

Realized it's time to replace the spout on my bottling bucket. I use it to mix up star san. Opened the top to put a thief in there to soak and when I went to flip it over, the bucket was leaking from the spigot seal. The vacuum from the lid being closed thankfully kept 4+ gallons of sanitizer from leaking out while I was gone for almost a week.

 

Just racked a founders breakfast stout to secondary. Wow it's good! May be my best beer yet!!!

 

Awesome. Great beer! Hope your clone turns out close to it!