What I did for beer today

Started ordering ingredients for the Mumme', & boy was that fun finding a site with secure payment! Let alone one that had that AND everything I need...

 

Labeled a session wit with my daughter, and calibrated my carboy View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1446224531.525291.jpg View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1446224572.131643.jpg

 

Loved the Bumbo seat with my kids...be forewarned though...they will learn (suddenly) one day how to get out of it! Don't ask me how I know...but I will say it involved a near miss from an elevated position... (In my best Keanu Reeves voice: "Close one!")

 

First thing I did this morning after waking up was make my yeast starter because I forgot to do it last night.

 

I helped one of my pale ales escape a bottle about 5 mins ago. And now I am off to clean up from bottling my pumpkin brown ale.

 

Brewed my first homegrown recipe a honey themed Cream Ale. Turned out pretty clear. I think I got the color right.

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Turned up the temp on my stc for the amber that is fermenting and turned a bunch of stickers into magnets for the collection. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1446348429.914418.jpg

 

Punched a couple of holes and sweated fittings in for the Herms coil. Woulda gotten it installed and maybe tested if one of the compression fittings hadn't seized.

 

Kegged off 5g of an APA while I was brewing yesterday. Will bottle the other 5g today.
Started making a yeast starter of sorts for bottling an Imperial Stout tomorrow.

 

Bottled an Amber Ale. Dreamed of kegging instead...

 

Brewed 11 gallons of dirty water brown from brewing classic styles. Nailed every singe vol and temp. Even my mash PH was nuts on. can't wait to try this beer.

 

Brewed a big, 4 1/2 hour boil barleywine last night while "teaching" my buddy to bottle the APA we made about three weeks ago (i.e. I told him what to do and he did almost all of the work )

 

Brewed up 4 gallons of Belgian Tripel/golden strong. Hit 1.082, looking at 10% abv... Hope it isn't too boozy.

 

Cleaned up after a blowoff. I had just put tinfoil over the fermenter thinking the krausen might just bubble up to the top, but no... WLP400 is hell bent on world domination.


Bought tubing for a proper blowoff.

 

You're scaring me here! My barleywine's blowoff is only 6mm ID and I'm still at work for another four hours or longer!

 

• Bottled 5g of APA for a friend's birthday.
• Prepped a carbonation-starter from a packet of Nottingham and a bit of the imperial stout I'm bottling tomorrow.
• Monitored the machine-gun fire sounds of early fermentation on a Pliny clone. I [over]pitched about 500ml of 1056 slurry from the APA and that puppy is just going wild.
• Drowned sorrow in a delicious Imperial Stout I have on tap while watching Broncos dominate Green Bay

 

Got a starter going for a Saturday ESB brew.

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Put my Grapefruit (hop) Wheat IPA in kegs, cleaned keg that kicked & secondary carboys plus racking equipment.

 

Yesterday brewed 11 gallons of Dirty Water Brown on my recently upgraded to version 4 bcs462 controlled system. Kept some of the starter yeast and put it into a 4 L batch to split for more starters.

 

Bottled 5g of imperial stout that's been bulk conditioning for 4 months. 54 bottles. That puppy really dropped during conditioning. Is 11.2 percent now. The taster was pretty boozy. Give it a month to carbonate.

 

Added a pound of Belgian sugar to my tripel last night. After only 24 hours the yeast has died down I little already, but I had to install a blow off tube in the morning.

 

I'll be racking a Helles lager to a keg and making a yeast starter for a dark lager in Friday..

 

I cleaned up the fermenting chamber after the weekends Hoegaarden eruption.

Now I need somethings spicy to get the taste of wlp400 out of the back of my throat.

 

Boy, imperials take a lot of time to ferment. First FG on 10/10 was 1.022. today, 11/4, it knocked off 6 more points, down to 1.016! Still cloudy, but not turbid. Flavors & heat are on point so far in my Hellfire IIPA. Can't wait till it clears up to dry hop & dry pepper it...:rockin:

 

Got some cleaned spigots dried off, sanitized & reinstalled. Wiped down inside/outside bottling bucket while I was about it. Cleaned the avinator inside & out. Sanitizer sitting under the center part can get quite nasty. Gotta clean some tubing & bottles yet...

 

I racked my SWMBO Slayer to secondary.

Thinking about bottling my Fairly Heavy Special Edition (read: colossal cock-up) later.

 

Brewed a Hobgoblin Clone yesterday. Tomorrow, I'm brewing a Surly Bitter Brewer AG kit I got from Northern Brewer. Hope it tastes as good because I love that beer.

 

Ran a heating test on my in-process Herms setup. Questioning now if this 120v element will be enough. May have to be enough for a while...

 

Yesterday I bought the ingredients for my next 3 batches and I am toying with the idea of a IPA/Saison split batch (make 8 gal and split into two 4 gal batches).

 

Boiled all my silicone hoses for an in depth sanitization today.

 

Wrote some more of my 2nd home brewing book. Doing research once more, I found that Cleveland went from 3 breweries in the 1840's to 26 by 1910! Pics of them have been few & far between, but I at least remember a few. Also interesting that the midwest was home to stoneware bottle production. Some of which were embossed, but still quite rare. So that's my afternoon, besides some cleaning & whatnot in the ol' brewery. It's gettin' about time to ramp up production once more, y'all!!!

 

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Long time lurker, but I beer'd it up today!

Bottled my blonde ale
Added yeast to try and carb my woot stout clone (been two month, no carbing in the bottle)
Racked my Scottish to a secondary
Racked a wheat wine-ish ale to a keg for carbing
Racked my attempt at pappy's pub cider to a keg for carbing
Cleaned the ball valve on my kettle

In the process, cleaned and sanitized
2 kegs
4 carboys
My beer gun, my siphon (3x)
And all my brewing equipment for a blueberry milk stout I'm brewing tomorrow.

Marcus

 

Bought a bottle of Wee Heavy, Olde Ale, and Thor's Hammer. I should have bought two of each - one to save and one to drink.

Also, not today, but Thursday I finally got my co2 filled and pressurized my kegs. No leaks. I should be kegging a witbier this next week.

 

Took my DIY RIMs appart...yep, gotta get one of those stainless steel heating elements from @Bobby_M !

 

PLUS
Racked 6 gal of Citra / Simcoe APA tp secondary.
I call this one Macete 731

Cheers!

 

PLUS
Racked 6 gal of Citra / Simcoe APA to secondary.
I call this one Macete 731

Cheers!

 

Ordered the ingredients for 3 more batches even though i still have a full sack of pilzen and golden promise plus the specialty grains to go with those. And im working OT today so im sure some of that cash will go to brewing stuff.

 

Kegged a Chocolate Milk Stout

 

Dry-Hopped a Session Amarillo Pale