What I did for beer today

[jperry]

Gagged while turning over my spent grain compost heap... which is for the hops garden. Almost forgot, I exchanged my 20lbs. CO2 tank, at airgas in El Cajon. $35 bucks dang...

 

[unionrdr]

Scrubbed nearly a case of emptied hb bottles. Still haveta check my NZ IPA 2nd FG test. I hope it's done & cleared more so I can dry hop it...

 

[SPR-GRN]

Last Night: did some prep work for Brew Class Session 2 that will occur on Saturday.
Tonight: make sure everything is in order for tomorrow; going to be a good day.

 

[dcHokie]

A very beery week for me! On Wednesday, I volunteered at an AHA event on Capitol Hill pouring beer for congressional staff, brewers and folks like Charlie P . Yesterday, I helped brew a 10 BBL batch of a collaboration beer that is going to NHC. Today, I'm brewing the 4th iteration of my RIS, to be aged until fall '14. Tomorrow, I'm brewing a double batch of Brett Saison and/or a Brett Trois IPA.

 

[unionrdr]

Wow! Sounds like a cool time was had. I finally got a good FG on my Maori IPA just now. So I'll be dry hopping it for a week after a run to get some spring water for my next brew hopefully tomorrow. A PM Berlin Wheat kit from midwest.

 

[Aschecte]

Kegged 5 gallons of pale ale and a lot of cleaning.

 

[BlindFaith]

Brewed 5 gal of EdWort's Haus Pale Ale and got almost 70% efficiency!!!! That is a record for me with low SRM beers.

 

[Nightshade]

Brewing the second batch of amber
Put together a grain and hop order
ordered more CO2 and compressed oxygen

 

[Chuckus95]

Does drink it count?

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Just mounted my 3 shiny new ss perlicks through the kegorator door. No more picnic taps!

 

[Qhrumphf]

Kegged a Cream Ale and Northern English Brown. Clubmate's kegs. I wish I had the funds for a kegerator. It's on the horizon though. So much faster and easier than bottling.

Then bottled my Tafelbier.

Then transferred my Smoked Porter from a bulk primary into 5 separate 1 gallon secondaries. Added peppers that have been soaking in vodka. First gets 3 jalapenos, second gets 3 serranos, third gets 1 habanero, fourth gets a 1/2 ghost chili, and the fifth gets a jalapeno, a serrano, a habanero, and the other half of a ghost chili.

 

[Howiedw]

Off to the LBHS. Picked up the ingredients for my Dark Chocolate Mint Coffee stout, and a pack of Notty for another batch of Drunken Emu. Then off to Safeway for the rest. Tomorrow's brewday!

 

[plainbrad]

Emptied my keg of IPA (by drinking the rest) so that I could clean it and keg my Kölsh tomorrow.

 

[bobmcstuff]

Bottled my multigrain saison. Sample tasted promising!

 

[TNGabe]

Then transferred my Smoked Porter from a bulk primary into 5 separate 1 gallon secondaries. Added peppers that have been soaking in vodka. First gets 3 jalapenos, second gets 3 serranos, third gets 1 habanero, fourth gets a 1/2 ghost chili, and the fifth gets a jalapeno, a serrano, a habanero, and the other half of a ghost chili.

Wow. I've never even though of combining my two least favorite beers into a chili/smoke beer. Seems like you would have used chipotle or another smoked pepper while you were at it. I love smoked and spicy food, but can't get into either flavor in beer.

For beer today, I stalked ECY on facebook wtih no luck.

 

[Guden]

Bottled my blackberry Brett and now bottling half my sour brown, it smells and tastes amazing!

 

[user 103238]

Picked up a stand-up freezer for free from my boss who is moving. I have a 2-tap kegerator in a 4.2 cubic foot fridge and a 5 cubic foot freezer for family food. One of my primary goals is to end up with a fermentation chamber - now the decision is how to play musical appliances to make it all work.

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Inspected my hop plants for bugs and finding a few aphids, sprayed every leaf, top and bottom, on my 15+ foot long plants. I also measured out grains and hops for a double IPA I hope to brew tomorrow. Before the day is done I also expect to kill an IPA keg in the fridge and to begin carbonating a keg of Wry Smile Rye IPA. Luckily I have a second keg on tap and a bunch of bottled homebrew to drink while it carbonates.

 

[sweed]

Bottling my wee heavy. Sample tasted good! A few points high on the FG, but that's fine. 10% will be nice in the fall.

 

[Howiedw]

Brewday! Brewed my Dark Chocolate Mint Espresso Stout Experiment, and another batch of Drunken Emu for the SWMBO. Found out that you cannot fit more than 3 gallons into a 12 qt pot. Boilover and transfer to a bigger pot cost me a few points, but OG was still over 1.090. I figure that if I used the bigger pot in the first place, I would have had closer to 1.10. This is going to be a big Stout.

 

[Leadgolem]

Bottled my oatmeal hefeweizen. Found that 28mm PET closures only work on some soda bottle tops. Got the adhesive residue off that last stubborn wine bottle. Moved my latest batch of cider to the bottling bucket and added a fining agent. That should be ready to bottle in 3-4 days. Cooked another 15 cups of dry jasmine rice for another batch of red rice wine. The rice is cooling now.

I will be harvesting the last batch of red rice wine and reusing the leftovers to start the new batch later today.

 

[BlindFaith]

Drank an ESB Dark way too early after only being bottled for 8 days, but it had a little carb and tasted clean.

 

[Aschecte]

Brewed 5.5 gallons of a English Ordinary Bitter.... Drank some great homebrew....cleaned a lot of brew gear after brewing.

 

[25518]

Drove an hour and half to get supplies. Thinking to myself. I'll sit, read me book, wait for fiancee to get done working. But got roped into working.

 

[mattd2]

Emptied my keg of IPA (by drinking the rest) so that I could clean it and keg my Kölsh tomorrow.

I tried to do that once - turned out I was not that good at estimating how much was left. After about 2 litres I gave up... only to have the keg kick on the first pint the next day!

 

[Shred]

Dry hopped my Habanero Imperial IPA.

 

[StompingClover]

Made a 3 gal batch of a very hoppy beer based on Surly's Furious, but using Warrior, Amarillo, Ahtanum and Mosaic hops.

 

[Mark_]

On a whin, brewed a 5 gallon batch of Biermuncher's cream ale!

 

[pellis007]

Not today but over the weekend brewed up 5.5 gals of my Steroid #8 and 5.5 gals of Janet's brown ale. Then bottled 2 cases of Spotted Dog brown ale and 2 cases of I'm a Hoppy IPA. Pipeline is fat n happy:rockin:

 

[Piratwolf]

I inadvertently tried no-chill brewing for the first time. Hose blew out on my CFC and I couldn't fix it. Guess we'll see.