I am Brewing Right this Second!

[HomeBrewMaster]

Ha ha I had to come on here and just share how excited I am to be brewing right now. This is my 2nd AG BIAB and I am making a Seirra Nevada Pale ale. I did lots of research to make up the recipe. So far this brew day is going great, hitting all my numbers and everything is running smooth.

So just wanted to share because people that don't brew don't understand how exciting this is!

 

[kh54s10]

I am not at all excited that you are brewing..





I wish I was but have other things to do today.

 

[huckbof]

I have 4 fermentors full of brew in various stages

 

[pricelessbrewing]

Glad to hear a new biaber. Good luck, and hope everything goes well.

 

[ol-hazza]

Love it! My fermentation chamber is full so no brewing for me this weekend

 

[sboyajian]

Even after all this time, I get excited when I brew.. perhaps not excited enough to post about it, but I get it.

I think I'm going to brew this weekend.. maybe a Blonde Ale since Summer is coming.

Cheers!

 

[HomeBrewMaster]

Ha ha first time not using a hop sock. Put a lot of trub in there oh well. 1 hour after pitching my yeast starter I have airlock activity. Boom!

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[huckbof]

u got a hop trub city address

 

[HomeBrewMaster]

Ha ha I know. Def going to use the hop socks next time.


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[AlesofAnarchy]

Wish I was brewing! I bottled 10 gallons of "Iroh's White Lotus Lager" today, I hate bottling.

 

[HomeBrewMaster]

Wish I was brewing! I bottled 10 gallons of "Iroh's White Lotus Lager" today, I hate bottling.

So do I that's why I built a kegerator and bought 2 kegs with pass through taps. I got tired of washing and sanitizing all the bottles. Best decision ever to go with the kegs


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[HomeBrewMaster]

Double post

 

[kev211]

Ha ha first time not using a hop sock. Put a lot of trub in there oh well. 1 hour after pitching my yeast starter I have airlock activity. Boom!

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That'll will settle out over time and kind of compact. I never use a hop sock or filter and my trub usually settles out pretty thin compared to what it looks like at the beginning.

So do I that's why I built a kegerator and bought 2 kegs with pass through taps. I got tired of washing and sanitizing all the bottles. Best decision ever to go with the kegs


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Touche. I still bottle some of my smaller batches, but I feel for AlesofAnarchy. Last time I bottled 10 gallons I really regretted it (not trying to push kegging on anyone, just stating how much I prefer kegging)

 

[sboyajian]

I dump from kettle into fermentation through a sifter/mesh. It clears it out and aerates the hell out of it.

 

[njviking]

I dump from kettle into fermentation through a sifter/mesh. It clears it out and aerates the hell out of it.

+1

I started using a screen a bit ago and it has helped immensely.

I brew 7 or 14 Gal batches also so I can keg and bottle a few.

And I'm glad your brewing right that second.. Makes me envious and motivated. Nothing lie a little competitivness to keep the senses sharp.

I might just brew tomorrow, just because I can.

 

[Gavin C]

I completely share your enthusiasm. I am brewing in the morning. My first lager. So excited it's weird every time. Feel like a kid on Christmas eve. With an early start to my brew I like to prep the night before. The anticipation building all the while.:cross:

• Mill grains
• Prepare strike water salt additions and pH adjustments.
• Calibrate pH meter
• Starsan in carboy
• Heat strike water and insulate kettle.
• Have homebrew (biermuncher's Centenial Blonde to my left right now)
• Go onto HBT and read up on this obsession that has enfolded my life in its tender embrace

.

 

[Chadwick]

I like your happiness about brewing. I need an injection of that myself. I have 3 batches ready to bottle and I'm searching for the enthusiasm to get it done. In the meantime, I'm just dry hopping the hell out of the IPA, thinking about how to bottle condition the super-high gravity 18% abv Frankenstein brew done with a lot of raisins, and wondering if the SMASH with Chinook wasn't a mistake.

Your enthusiasm is a welcome energy. Some of us have grown a bit lazy. Like me. I want to bottle my beers, but there always seems to be something that comes up that delays it for yet another day. Like mowing the grass (read wild onions is what you mow in the spring), or spending a day with family for Easter, or hunting Morels while the weather breaks.

The good thing is that the beer will wait. At least for a while. I've allowed a brew to set for 6 months in the primary before I've given it attention. It turned out to be a fine brew. I suppose these will turn out good as well. Still, distractions are always there.

Somewhere in this is an important lesson. Maybe even a realization. Think about it a while, tell us what you think. I'm curious as to what others might say.

 

[kev211]

I like your happiness about brewing. I need an injection of that myself. I have 3 batches ready to bottle and I'm searching for the enthusiasm to get it done. In the meantime, I'm just dry hopping the hell out of the IPA, thinking about how to bottle condition the super-high gravity 18% abv Frankenstein brew done with a lot of raisins, and wondering if the SMASH with Chinook wasn't a mistake.

Your enthusiasm is a welcome energy. Some of us have grown a bit lazy. Like me. I want to bottle my beers, but there always seems to be something that comes up that delays it for yet another day. Like mowing the grass (read wild onions is what you mow in the spring), or spending a day with family for Easter, or hunting Morels while the weather breaks.

The good thing is that the beer will wait. At least for a while. I've allowed a brew to set for 6 months in the primary before I've given it attention. It turned out to be a fine brew. I suppose these will turn out good as well. Still, distractions are always there.

Somewhere in this is an important lesson. Maybe even a realization. Think about it a while, tell us what you think. I'm curious as to what others might say.

What was your base malt for the Chinook smash? I did a simple 2-row Chinook and it was actually pretty good! Not quite as good as my simcoe smash but still a decent brew

 

[sboyajian]

My first lager.

And now I am envious. Something new is always exciting. I find I even get excited just by making a new style or recipe.

I want to make a schwarzbier so bad, but I don't have the ability to control the ferm temps for a lager yet. I need to pic up a temp controller for my mini fridge, then I guess it will happen.

In the meantime, I will just be jealous of you.

 

[Allergic2hops]

Consider buying a bag from Micheal Wilser. They are great and greatly reduce the trub. http://biabbags.m.webs.com

 

[HomeBrewMaster]

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Settled out very nicely and seeing great high energy movement. (Never made a yeast starter before).

And yea I strained this batch through a SS strainer.

I am happy if my excitability can encourage others.


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[wilserbrewer]

Consider buying a bag from Wilser. They are great and greatly reduce the trub. http://biabbags.webs.com

Thank you for the plug....fixed the typo in the link for you.....
http://biabbags.webs.com/