What I did for beer today

Mashed in on a golden sour and a farmhouse rye

 

I stewarded this past weekend at the NHC judging event at Singlecut Brewery in Queens, NY. A lot of fun and a great bunch of people. Shout out to Chris Cuzme for organizing and Singlecut for providing space.

 

I hope you handled my beers well

 

I worked Porters in the morning and Strong Belgian Ale in the afternoon. If yours was in those categories, then I shook it up on the way to the judges table

 

I did enter a BDSA - damn you!

 

Nothing at all...

 

Ordered some Nelson Sauvin to dry hop Tuesdays brew, and some Golden Promise and Mosaic for a smash.

 

You're safe.

Per BJCP 2015, Belgian Dark Strong Ale is now in category 26 "Trappist" (go figure). I was stewarding 25c Belgian Golden Strong.

I'll get ya next time.

 

I built a wooden shelf from deck boards and 2x4(s) in my keg fridge. The glass shelves and plastic rails weren't built for two full kegs.

 

Last Night I kegged/ bottled my Blackhawk Black IPA, can't wait until it carbs up..

 

...I found out a couple minutes ago I won the ITC 1000 in the Inkbird contest! BOOYAAAH! I guess there is a first time for everything!

 

I hooked a ITC-310T up to a freezer I picked up off CL last week and **SHAZAAM** ! .... I gots me a fermentation chamber! At this very moment I'm cold cashing a Fizzy Yellow Beer and getting a feel for the newest addition to my brewery.

 

I purged a bunch of co2 out of a keg that was pouring foamy. Then i realized I purged the wrong keg. Doh!

 

I went up to the Stony Creek Brewery in Branford, CT and got a tour of the place from the president. What an awesome place, and an awesome bunch of folks.

 

I really like their. Big cranky dipa. Very underrated which is a great thing raise you can actually find it in stores.

 

Worked...now am drinking it..

 

Cleaned a stainless fermenter and keg. And drank some homebrew.

 

Gonna put some of my stout in the fridge for my birthday next Thursday. I'll make it to the big 6-0...

 

Ordered a fast fermenter from Midwest supplies.

 

Made a spunding valve

 

Took a sample of my APA. Fermentation was complete so in go the dry hops.

 

Put a 1x4 on my keezer and reworked my faucets so I could put some tap handles on. They were given to me a while ago, but due to the way I constructed my collar, they wouldn't work. With the angle of the handles they would hit the lid before the faucet was completely off.

Then I kegged an oatmeal stout and set it at 35 psi. I'll turn it down to serving pressure after 24 hours.


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Working on harvesting some Bell's yeast from a sixer of Oberon.

 

Brewed a Brown Ale!

 

Checked the FG on my 'Gooder Than Guinness' and liked the number so decided to bottle it..Got 47 bottles from the 5G batch..Why bottle when I have started kegging? Wanted to try a new method of bottling- using a priming sugar solution..Will see what the outcome is like in about 2 weeks..

 

Used the beer gun to bottle up some of the punk monk for sharing next week. Drinking some of it, too.

 

Transferred my White IPA from secondary to kegs. Cleaned the carboys & transfer equipment.
I also weighed out the grain for an APA I'll brew Tuesday. I'll mill the grain Tuesday AM.

 

Drunk a Guinness at lunch! Whoa whoa...

 

Did some cleaning & straightening around the man cave/brewery yesterday. A lil more this morning to come. Son is supposed to show up with his fiance, so cleaned up some clutter.

 

Checked the gravity on an American Wheat to make sure it was finished and then kegged it up. Used WLP 090 for the first time and I'm already a big fan.

 

Yep, brew I bottled last night is now officially the Hair of The Cat Beer..More specifically The Hair Of Goku Beer!..LOL...Guess it makes for a comfy bed..

 

Gravity checked my pale

 

Kegged and bottled a batch of different blonde with a 5th or 6th generation yeast that brought it down to 10.06 Yikes but it is dry with very little aftertaste sorta like a lager. I picked the yeast in the trash now I am questioning that decision?

 

Ran my climbing lines for the hops beds. All prepped now I'm gonna be anxious for the rhizomes to arrive...every day...

 

I literally just dumped 3 oz of hops in for a dry-hop addition into my latest 2.5G batch, a red rye IPA. Half an ounce of Columbus, an ounce of Nelson, and 1.5oz of Mosaic - I am going for fruity & dank for this dry-hop addition.

 

Bottled my 3rd batch of Home brew, a coffee porter made from a Brewer's Best Pumpkin Spice Porter, without the pumpkin spice and instead dry hopped with whole coffee beans and 1oz of Northern Brewer for 10 days. Drank half a bottle that was left, nice coffee flavor on the back end of the beer. First of my 3 home brews that really tasted nice un-carbonated on bottling day.

 

Started a starter for a smash I'm doing tomorrow.

 

Kegged a rye IPA, my first time kegging! And the empty fermentor was just begging to be filled, so I made a red IPA.

 

Pretty busy last two days of "not brewing". I cleaned and organized my beer closest. Cleaned a bunch of bottles. Organized my bottles (yes, they are all now sorted by type now!), bought ingredients for my next beer (a pils), gravity tested my hefe, and cleaned a spent keg. I'll bottle later this week and the first brew day will hopefully come this weekend.

 

Wooo!!! After about a month and a half delay, I've finally been able to pick up grain for a 5.5 gallon batch of ESB I'm going to brew this weekend!