What I did for beer today

[Leapsandbounds]

Brewed a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Clone.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

First brew using my new 10 gallon kettle. Working up a tropical stout recipe.

 

[seatazzz]

Yesterday ramped up the temperature on the Brut from 62 to 66 because first test had it at 1.020, and yeast were starting to settle out; glad I did, they woke up again and seem to be chowing down. Today will keg up the Brown Something so it's ready to bottle later this week. And planning on brewing another lager next weekend that can just sit in the ferment fridge while we're on vacation. Wonder if I can convince our neighbor/housesitter to send me pics every day?

 

[Phildo253]

Added gelatin to my blueberry berliner weisse yesterday and cleaning the keg and tap for it today. Tomorrow, I will keg the beer. Monday, I will be brewing a Centennial Blonde on Presidents Day.

 

[catdaddy66]

Just got my grain bill for tomorrow's saison ground. Purchased the flaked oats for my blonde stout. They were out of flaked barley so I subbed flaked rice.

 

[aharri1]

Bought my grains and hops for my German altbier I plan to brew next week!

 

[seanjwalker1]

Ordered a #7 stopper/thermowell combo for my 4 gallon Anvil fermenter. Tweaked my recipe for upcoming American Honey ale partial mash.

 

[bracconiere]

checking on my 'Brüt Farmhouse APA', see it's only at 1.002, thinking...i'll drink some more beer, and decide if i want to keg it today or tomorrow....probably today!

 

[BrewMan13]

Dropped off my entry for a homebrew competition. Since the drop off was at my lhbs, I got the ingredients for my next 3 beers. Got a lot of gift cards for the place for Christmas, so didn't spend a penny of "real" money.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Dropped off my entry for a homebrew competition. Since the drop off was at my lhbs, I got the ingredients for my next 3 beers. Got a lot of gift cards for the place for Christmas, so didn't spend a penny of "real" money.

Oh it's real money...just someone else's real money![emoji23] Lol

 

[BrewMan13]

Oh it's real money...just someone else's real money![emoji23] Lol

I should have said not a penny of "my money"...but even that would be wrong since one of the gift certificates was from my wife, lol...

 

[seanjwalker1]

I should have said not a penny of "my money"...but even that would be wrong since one of the gift certificates was from my wife, lol...

That's what I'm saying! Me too! My wifey gets me alot of my equipment by way of gift cards and presents! It's "their" money but it's all good!!! Unless of course they get the money from us to buy the gift card! Kinda comes full circle!! [emoji23]

 

[catdaddy66]

I forgot about pulling the trigger on an order from Morebeer... A variety of hops and fermentables and yeast!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Pitched the yeast on the red ale, and ordered some White Labs yeasties and hop pellets.

 

[aharri1]

Found out why I lost an entire two and a half pound tank of CO2 in one day . Note to self, replace CO2 poppets on a refurbished keg.. duh

 

[pshankstar]

Found out why I lost an entire two and a half pound tank of CO2 in one day . Note to self, replace CO2 poppets on a refurbished keg.. duhView attachment 613100

I’ve received and bought many used kegs. I’ve learned over the years to clean them myself, even if they look clean and to replace all of the gaskets. [emoji6]

 

[aharri1]

I’ve received and bought many used kegs. I’ve learned over the years to clean them myself, even if they look clean and to replace all of the gaskets. [emoji6]

I do the clean it myself part, but I guess I need to make sure to replace all of the rings anyway!! [emoji16]

 

[tiredofbuyingbeer]

I brewed an adapted all-grain version of John Palmer's Port O'Palmer. I also experimented with dumping an entire 1.2 liter starter into the fermenter instead of decanting. (The brulosophy xbeeriment says it doesn't make a difference, I didn't feel like waiting around, and I wanted to see if this would work for future benefit.)

 

[brewcat]

Did a diacetyl test for a maibock. Heated sample showed acetolactate still present. Will check again in a few days.

 

[Immocles]

Bottled two cases of kolsch and 9 bottles of a cascades amber ale yesterday, harvesting yeast from both. Finished tidying up the brew area this morning, vac sealed some crushed grain I won’t get to for awhile, and ordered a cheap mill this evening.

 

[Staticsouls]

Made a beer for a buddy

 

[jcav]

Cleaned one of my beer lines in my kegerator. Used beer line cleaner, then rinse, then an acid beer stone remover, then rinse, and then Sani Clean. After that I tapped a keg of my Chocolate Milk Stout, and I blew my friends mind when he tasted it. He said it was better than the keg of a similar stout he bought from a local brewery!

John

 

[HopsNTails]

While it was technically yesterday, I brewed a tipa. 1.100 og. It's currently fermenting away! My biggest beer to date (assuming that it ends in the 1.01ish range)

 

[seanjwalker1]

Received my thermowell today for the 4 gallon Anvil. Been reading a lot of bad reviews about the silicone bung it comes with, just like the Anvil silicone bung. Guess I will take some of my extra #7 rubber bungs and drill a second hole for the thermowell. Don't relish coming back to check on a fermentation and finding the silicone bung floating in the krausen and adding God knows what kind of evil beer destroying bacteria!

 

[BrewMan13]

Kicked my doppelbock, so cleaned the keg and the tapline it was on. Kegged the "imperial cream ale" and put it on - finished at 9.7%.

 

[JAReeves]

Yesterday bought the ingredients for a Centennial Blonde, subbing in Maris Otter for the Pale Malt. Hoping to get around to bottling some of the beers and mead that have been on lees, making space for the new batch. Last brew session was New Year's Day, so I'm jonesing.

 

[6Tap]

I filled a bottle of filtered tap water and shipped it off to WARD Laboratories for testing.
Time for me to step it up and make water adjustments other than for ph.

 

[Punjom]

Soldered up a fly sparge arm during the mash. Tired of manually sprinkling the water for over an hour for many years.

 

[6Tap]

Filled some beer bottles to enter into the CA State Fair HB competition this week. American IPA and Blonde Ale.
Fingers crossed for the gold ribbons

 

[fourfarthing]

Brewed, bottled and cleaned. Good day all in.

 

[catdaddy66]

Checked on my saison fermentation... 48 hours at 72° and I will ramp it up to 75° by tonight, then... The sky is the limit! Or til I get to 80°, whichever comes first.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Added a hibiscus tea and Nelson Sauvin dry hop to my saison, brewed up a white stout and prepared the vanilla/cacao tincture that will go in the stout once fermentation is complete.

 

[aharri1]

Hooked up my caramel double IPA to gas yesterday. Going to check for signs of foam in a few days [emoji16]

 

[Homergah]

So yes, you can pressure transfer from a Chapman fermentor.

 

[seatazzz]

Added 3oz Chinook (most of, some spilled) to my Brut (not really) IPA. Gravity only at 1.010, tempted to add some more amylase but it tastes dry enough now. Second dry hop, hope to keg this Saturday after bowling tournament. And gazed in wonder at my latest WF lager that dropped its krausen only 4 days in. And very reluctantly took my last Cf lager off tap so I'll have enough to bottle for a competition, damn that beer is good and I am half tempted to say eff it and save it for myself...but I want the scores.

 

[bracconiere]

lifted and carried a 50lb sack of barley, from the trunk of my car to the spare bedroom!

 

[Pkbomb]

Camco EVO Water Filter.

$33 at Walmart

3 Stage Carbon-KDF-5 Micron Filter, removes Odor, Bad taste, Sediment, Chlorine, and Bacteria.

Replacement filters are $10 and each filter will yield 100 gallons of water.

Now I can make all the clean water I need, when I need it.
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Really only 100 gallons? that's around 10 5 gallon brews, I have that same one and have been using it for around 200 gallons maybe (?) I'll check my filter condition and order a new one soon.

 

[MT's AZ Ale Haus]

Really only 100 gallons? that's around 10 5 gallon brews, I have that same one and have been using it for around 200 gallons maybe (?) I'll check my filter condition and order a new one soon.

Yeah, not sure, that's just what the manufacturer states.
Even at 100 gallons, its still damn affordable.

 

[Amadeo38]

Decided I was sick of using a spaghetti strainer to distribute my lauter returns over the grain bed, and made a lauter/recirculation manifold as well as a whirlpool arm

 

[bracconiere]

i don't see any barley/malt in that mash tun!

edit: and i still use a colander, so i find your language offensive...lol