What I did for beer today

[Antitoxidote]

Bottled 5 gallons of belgian blond, dry hopped a black IPA and took a gravity reading of my dry stout. It's still too high!!

 

[Peruvian802]

Dry hopped an APA with an ounce of cascade.

 

[Tactical-Brewer]

Got my girlfriend's father stoked to brew some beer. But what's even better, is that he wants to "make it worth his wild" and brew 10 gallons. So we're gonna split a 10 gallon batch of cream of 3 Crops! Now I've got to find him all the gear. Always a good time!

 

[gometz]

Checked on my hops. The centennial, chinook, and tettnang are still dormant, but the sorachi ace is coming up already.

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[Pantherjon]

Checked on my Irish Stout I put in secondary on 1/30..Nice ring of krausen<sp?> on top..Didn't really expect that! Checked on my Magical Mystery Brew, airlock is quiet now, went into primary on 1/30, so has some more time to go then it goes into secondary Saturday..Looks like the Irish Stout will be my 1st batch into a keg(IF I remember to get the CO2 canister filled!LOL)...

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Bottled 2.5 gallons of "Lizzard Warning Wit" my first BIAB AG brew. And took a gravity reading on a chocolate milk stout.

 

[Oceantendency]

Checked my Mia's Witty Wit temp, it took a bit to ramp up, but whoa Nelly fermentation is going off crazy..had to drop a degree.

 

[unionrdr]

Bottled 2.5 gallons of "Lizzard Warning Wit" my first BIAB AG brew. And took a gravity reading on a chocolate milk stout.

Or maybe even a Belgian quadzilla? Took a 1st FG on the AG porter just now. Got a 1.014 @ 62.9F with S-04. Gettin' really close.

 

[bransona]

Or maybe even a Belgian quadzilla? Took a 1st FG on the AG porter just now. Got a 1.014 @ 62.9F with S-04. Gettin' really close.

The Belgian porter I had going at the same time just went into bottles this morning! Now I'm brewing a dubbel to make use of this lovely yeast cake

 

[Peruvian802]

Kegged a batch of 15 minutes of flame.

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[Hoppy2bmerry]

Stopped into the LHBS and picked up some Belgian Abby Ale yeast, and a few other things.

 

[BUCKNUTS]

Made a yeast starter last night and brewing up A Belgian blonde to use it in as I type this.

 

[philipCT]

I'm out of town, so I facetimed my son, had him walk downstairs and show me the IPA bubbling happily away in the fermenter. Ah, that's better.

 

[gometz]

Stepping up my starter for the IPA I am brewing tomorrow

 

[slym2none]

Dry-hopped my rye pale ale & added a little sugar to the beer; I am giving this method a shot, although I have no control to test against.

 

[Alpotun]

Got my last step-up of harvested Bell's yeast going towards tomorrow's brew day.

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[mblanks2]

Founders is a godsend. Their porter is my absolute favorite. I actually have a clone brewing now. If you like their stuff, their lead brewer is very willing to help with recipes!

Interested in sharing? My favorite porter out there.

 

[bransona]

Interested in sharing? My favorite porter out there.

This is an email from their head brewer. I've personally modified it to have caramunich instead of Munich and light caramel, and I like to use English hops. This one most recently hit 1.072 exactly, and ended at 1.020. Perfect. So for my 1.5 gallon batches:

3lb 2-row
8oz pale chocolate
6oz caramunich 60
2oz C120
1oz black malt

Mash at 154 for 75 min

Bittered with 7g nugget for 60 min, then 14g goldings in hopstand for 30 min. That got me something like 45 ibu, I believe.

Use us-05 for a great roasted, coffee, chocolate American robust porter. I personally am really enjoying it with t-58, and am going to brew it again with trappist high gravity yeast, but I'm just weird like that

 

[philipCT]

Tested an APA that is done fermenting at 20 days in. Whoa - down to 1.007 - a bit too low but still tasted pretty good - dry but not too dry. Started the cold crash on that.

Then peeked into the ferm fridge I have outdoors taking care of an IPA I brewed last weekend. I've got a heatpad wired into the controller, but still it couldn't handle the 20F outside temps and the ferm temp had sagged down to 16.5C from a desired 20C. I was away on business the last 5 days so I'm not sure when it sagged, but likely it was only Friday when the temps around here dipped hard.

So I placed an additional heatpad in there to boost it back up. Should have completed primary fermentation for the most part so I'm not really worried. I'll bring it back up and monitor for another 5 days. Then we start the dry hop.

 

[Baja_Brewer]

This is an email from their head brewer. I've personally modified it to have caramunich instead of Munich and light caramel, and I like to use English hops. This one most recently hit 1.072 exactly, and ended at 1.020. Perfect. So for my 1.5 gallon batches:

3lb 2-row
8oz pale chocolate
6oz caramunich 60
2oz C120
1oz black malt

Mash at 154 for 75 min

Bittered with 7g nugget for 60 min, then 14g goldings in hopstand for 30 min. That got me something like 45 ibu, I believe.

Use us-05 for a great roasted, coffee, chocolate American robust porter. I personally am really enjoying it with t-58, and am going to brew it again with trappist high gravity yeast, but I'm just weird like that

Well this is pretty awesome.

 

[seatazzz]

Bottled my Dankzilla heavily columbus hopped IPA and swirled the latest hoppy pilsner to get the yeast back up. Have cracked a few Racer 5 clones (my very first batch that went right) and had to take a nap because of it. Going to buy a bomber of the real thing tomorrow and subject the hubby to a blind taste test just for fun. Although will have to have the glasses in koozies as mine is a bit darker than the real thing. Looking forward to next brew day which should be Friday if things go well, will try a brewers best robust porter kit.

 

[dryboroughbrewing]

I cleaned some sadly neglected kegs... oxi-clean is a minor miracle.

 

[mblanks2]

This is an email from their head brewer. I've personally modified it to have caramunich instead of Munich and light caramel, and I like to use English hops. This one most recently hit 1.072 exactly, and ended at 1.020. Perfect. So for my 1.5 gallon batches:

3lb 2-row
8oz pale chocolate
6oz caramunich 60
2oz C120
1oz black malt

Mash at 154 for 75 min

Bittered with 7g nugget for 60 min, then 14g goldings in hopstand for 30 min. That got me something like 45 ibu, I believe.

Use us-05 for a great roasted, coffee, chocolate American robust porter. I personally am really enjoying it with t-58, and am going to brew it again with trappist high gravity yeast, but I'm just weird like that

Very nice. Thank you.

 

[CJ-3]

Not today, but last night I tried a bottle of my new stout. It came out exactly as I hoped it would. Now I have a stout recipe that is good on it's own, or as a base for any stout I want to make.

 

[Oceantendency]

Bottles and kegged my Wulff Lager last night, so dang good, I wanted to drink 'em right then and there.

 

[CBrewer]

I made a yeast starter. WLP001 for an IPA. Not sure on what grain or hops I'll be using yet.

 

[unionrdr]

Letting the priming solution cool to bottle my 1 Gallon AG porter in a bit. Since it's only one gallon, I want the solution cooled off pretty good, thinking there isn't enough volume to absorb the heat & still have plenty of yeast left for carbonating.

 

[Leezer]

Bottled my second all grain batch today, Yoopers Oatmeal Stout. It tasted really nice! Gonna be hard to wait a couple weeks for carbonation.

 

[unionrdr]

Well, I got 8 1/2 bottles after trub losses & such of the AG porter gallon. Now the wait...I also pulled out a couple Hellfire IIPA's. First one poured clear, hops & peppers taste better than they have been?...

 

[Dirt_McGirt]

Bottled 3.5 gal of M.O./Citra SMaSH;
Stepped up the starter for my roggenbier to 3L.