What are you drinking now?

[Immocles]

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Weekend begins now and it should be an entertaining one

 

[Section1]

HB Pale Ale.

 

[Gregg TeHennepe]

Very nice set up!

Thanks! This is a system a friend (Nick Barnes) built, I bought it from him and of course started modding. Swapped out the old controller for a Mega setup and BruControl from @BrunDog, which has been great, I run it in a virtual PC on a Mac.

It was originally a RIMS setup with the two 15g kettles, I like huge beers and couldn't do 10g batches in that setup, so this winter got a 20g MT, and turned the old MT into a HERMS HLT. Pros and cons there, that's a shocker, eh? I also started using BrewersFriend, which was totally worth the time investment. I use a grain bag in the MT on top of the false bottom, happy with that. Had a hops bag in the BK that experienced several containment failures, just switched to a stainless basket, so far that looks great.

Lots more to do. One of my two element circuits doesn't run at the full 220V, makes for a slower boil, need to figure out what's going on there. After that, I should add relays for pumps, and make better use of the scripting in BruControl. Maybe add some proportional valves to control the fly sparge precisely. I have the gear to measure volume, but I doubt I'll ever get there.

The latest batch is kegs 151/152. I brew Belgians, farmhouses, NEIPAs, and the occasional Russian imperial stout. Keg fridge is three faucets (Ventmatics, don't get me started!!!), all nitro. Recently I've started thinking about getting a CO2 setup in parallel for the NEIPAs and farmhouses, though I've been drinking nitro for 20+ years and might need an intervention to actually get it installed.

- Gregg

 

[orionol73]

More tailgate brews tonight

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[fourfarthing]

Virtual HB Club meeting

 

[Section1]

HB Nut Brown. Belly is full and cold beer. Life is good!

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Westvleterian12 Clone'ish

 

[orionol73]

 

[hout17]

Sometimes a PBR hits the spot. I'm brewing an oatmeal stout while drinking it of course! This is what we would call Huntin' beer in my family lol.

 

[Immocles]

 

[fourfarthing]

HB shoulda been a strong but became a caramely ESB

 

[pshankstar]

A freaky Friday other half beer! This is delicious!

 

[orionol73]

 

[grampamark]

HB Cream Ale

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Very good local beer.

 

[Section1]

HB Blonde ale.

 

[TwistedGray]

 

[NightFlight]

This is an 1138 dry cider from store bought apple juice no sugar added. 1047->1000. Back sweetened with grape punch concentrate (1 can per gal, no sugar). Stabilized and carbonated. Only a week after fermentation it’s not bad. Could use more age, but not bad. She’s got. Bit of pucker power.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

After tearing out rotten wood and redoing entry...need beer and even

"girly beer" works eh, Dave?

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Begin fueling a go. Giddy up!

 

[Saunassa]

On furlough this week, figured to enjoy my days.
Block North For Pete's Sake rhubarb sour.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

On furlough this week, figured to enjoy my days.
Block North For Pete's Sake rhubarb sour.
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Hope its a short one!

Found this at Total Wine...yum!

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Begin fueling a go. Giddy up!View attachment 682433

Looks like the 30th now. Time to pre-game???

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Looks like the 30th now. Time to pre-game???

Haven't been following the weather but there was a tropical storm just to the north. I guess gas is cheap these days

 

[jlinz]

Weissbier

 

[orionol73]

Day 2 on rhizome growth after only 11 days planted

HB Galaxy IPA

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Haven't been following the weather but there was a tropical storm just to the north. I guess gas is cheap these days

Big Bertha! 2nd Named storm 2 weeks before the season "starts"!

Local pils and movie night with the grand kids coming up.

 

[Dave Sarber]

HB wee heavy. Bottled 1-2-20, 13.1 ABV.
@PianoMan , no hibiscuses! My spellchecker swears that is a word, I guess after one of these, hibiscusi wouldn't work.