Where did you get your sight glass setup? I need something like that!
So who's brewing this weekend?
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Where did you get your sight glass setup? I need something like that!
Brew Hardware, if you have a keggle this is the one I have but they have them with thermometer options as well.
https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/lk.htm
Brewed a NEIPA yesterday, and a saison with brett today.
I have a batch of Guinness Draught clone boiling right now. It’s one of my house beers that I always try to have on tap.
BrewMan13
Whole Nother Level Brewing
Sticke altbier today. No issues, hit target OG almost dead on.
Also, it pays to be friendly with your local brewery. He was brewing up a beer he said always yields too much so just bring by a carboy if I wanted some. By coincidence, the OG of both beers were exactly the same.
So 2 beers into carboys today
Also, it pays to be friendly with your local brewery. He was brewing up a beer he said always yields too much so just bring by a carboy if I wanted some. By coincidence, the OG of both beers were exactly the same.
So 2 beers into carboys today
Leapsandbounds
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I’m “brewing” my mango hard seltzer on Sunday.
I'm brewing a one gallon clone of Left Hand Milk Stout tomorrow morning.
6Tap
To drink beer is human..
Sunday I plan to brew 2 Hearted Ale Clone.
Derp
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Tomorrow I'm brewing something similar to Belhaven at a friend's request. I'm not a huge fan of the stuff, so I'll only brew 5 gallons instead of my usual 10.
Just finished brewing up a batch of Pilsner, one of the beers I always keep on tap. Made a 5.5 gallon batch and filled up the 5 gallon carboy instead of my 6 gallon... found out that a 5 gallon carboy will perfectly fit 5.5 gallons 
Leapsandbounds
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Today is brew day! Going to be brewing up a 5 gallon batch of some alt bier. Haven’t tried it yet, so as you all know, should be a blast!
Brewed up an ESB today on my redesigned brew stand. Worked great!
Very nice! Did you used to work for the Army Chemical Corps?
Yesterday, I brewed up a 5.5 gallon batch of Amber Ale with a lot of agave nectar in it -- calling it Agave Cheer -- and had to improvise half-hour into the boil when my last can of extract turned out to be bad. So instead of 3.3 lbs of Light LME, I added another 3 lbs of agave nectar. I hope it has enough yeast nutrients from the can of amber LME I put in...I added half a teaspoon as insurance, but the resulting mix was 61% sugar vs malt...
It's an experiment, so I'm not that emotionally invested in it, but I am a bit torqued about the bad can of extract. Going back to the LHBS to swap/refund today...
Update: LHBS hadn't seen this before, and let me swap for a (hopefully) good replacement.
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BikeguyBob
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Madking - From the photo, it appears that we may have the same burner on your rig, only yours appears to have been modified from original. Mine (still stock, about 5" from BG14 burner to 15 gallon brew pot) gets killed by cross winds; I think that is rather a bit too far. I would appreciate any advice to windproof this thing, and improve the heat transfer. Thanks.
I actually didn't modify it in any way that would affect that unfortunately. It just has two pieces of flat bar stock attached to the underside of the pot-stand arms to attach it to my 80/20 frame.
I tried moving the burner up closer to the pot but it interfered with the draw of the propane and it wasn't burning as cleanly so I moved it back down.
I've seen people take metal flashing and make pot skirts from them to help hold some of the heat in though. I would look into that, or just adding a wind screen to your brewing area if the wind comes from one direction.
treacheroustexan
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I'm just finishing up the boil on thew New Albion Ale recipe. Excited to see how this turns out!
I've got a starter going for a Festbier I'll be brewing on Saturday.
OG-wan Kenobi
Arcane Artisanal Ales
Making a starter for a Brute IPA for Sat. in an hour or two debating on the second brew being a honey porter or an oatmeal cream stout
Another No-Boil Hefe...15min total time.
treacheroustexan
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Care to share the recipe/process for this?
3.5gal water, 3lbs of Pilsen/Wheat DME each, boil hops (Stirling this time) for 5min to 15ibu, and WLP300 Hefe yeast. I strain the hops. Mixed well. Sanitize the sh!t out of everything. Wait 3 weeks/keg. Easy Peasy.
Any doubts? Ask @afro_lou or @TwistedGray. Even took some to a craft beer brewing event. Surprised everyone...in a good way.
Abrayton
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Doppelbock on Saturday. 2nd lager attempt.
Up early to brew a batch of the Hoppy Lager that turned out so well a couple months ago. Have a honey-do list for later so hoping to get done by 9:30am. On the boil now, smells fantastic even before first hop addition. Husband bought a new door handle & digital deadbolt for the front door yesterday and it will be up to me to install as he gets too frustrated with tools and stuff. Then laundry and housework that gets put by during the week as we both have two jobs. Sunday Funday!
Abrayton
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Brewed a Doppelbock and bottled the last of my Christmas gift six pack beers. 2 bottles each of nugget/cascade pale ale, Munich dunkel and raspberry vanilla cream ale
devilssoninlaw
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I brewed up a 5 gal batch of NB Cream Ale. Its my second time on this recipe, I like it and it's an easy one to share with most people. Updates in about a month!
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11 gallons "pre phohabition" style lager (which just means I'm winging the recipe again, haha), with 2# rye malt, 1# flaked corn, 10# pilsner, 3# pale 2 row, 3# Irish ale malt. 1 0z N brewer FW, 1 oz amerillo 30 min boil, .5 oz leaf mosaic post boil steep. 1.053.
First brew day significantly below freezing, will have to adopt winter brewing protocols from now on. Easy to run lagers now though!
Got a late start because a friend picked up his 20 ft dumpster out of my yard I'd filled with scrap metal all week, darn dumpster walls were blown out a bit, so we had to screw around with loader and straps to get the door shut.. could haul out a few more according to my gal..
First brew day significantly below freezing, will have to adopt winter brewing protocols from now on. Easy to run lagers now though!
Got a late start because a friend picked up his 20 ft dumpster out of my yard I'd filled with scrap metal all week, darn dumpster walls were blown out a bit, so we had to screw around with loader and straps to get the door shut.. could haul out a few more according to my gal..
catdaddy66
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A 5 gal batch of smoked porter for my first batch since football season began. Feels good!
