What I did for beer today

[fourfarthing]

Hell yes, come on over.

Certainly. Be there after my 6 hour flight

Side-note if I am in southern cali, I am now coming over.

 

[jerbrew]

Certainly. Be there after my 6 hour flight

Side-note if I am in southern cali, I am now coming over.

I think you should find yourself in area then, I know a guy with some good beer sitting around.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

The low hanging fruit from centennial bines.

 

[BrewMan13]

Kicked the latest IPA, cleaned the tap and keg, and bottled a few samples of my doppelbock to bottle condition before a competition in November.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Dude..where?

Certainly. Be there after my 6 hour flight

Side-note if I am in southern cali, I am now coming over.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Guess I should post. Built a brewpub. Humble for sure. Planning on 3gal batches in here. If 6gal are required will be in the house.

 

[kmarkstevens]

I'm enjoying a day in Shanghai at the end of a Taiwan & China business trip. I lived in Shanghai for 12 years but left almost a decade ago. Anyhoo, when I lived here in the 90's and 2000's, there wasn't a lot of imported beer (german Kostrizer lager and schwarzbier was about it). I was pleased to see my very local supermarket now has about a dozen german, Danish and Belgium beers on shelf. I also went to a specialty booze shop in the neighborhood that had about 50 imported beers (split about 50-50 between the US and Europe).

Anyhoo, I picked up the German Prinzen Sud schwarzbier and a Puls Dark Wheat. Both of which are cooling on ice as I type this.

And, I just got back to my hotel after crashing some kind of Czech chamber of commerce thing with the Czech national basketball team in town for some kind of international basketball tournament/championship. Free food and free pilsner urkel on tap in 500cc glasses. You can't go wrong with couple of free Urkel's, and I'm pretty sure the imported kegs have much more hop flavor than the imported cans.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Bottled holiday saison
Used blood orange purée for about half of it... tasty.
I’m having trouble getting the Belgian bottles corker with the Portuguese floor corked... I looks so easy on YouTube.

 

[fourfarthing]

View attachment 642271 View attachment 642270 View attachment 642267 Bottled holiday saison
Used blood orange purée for about half of it... tasty.
I’m having trouble getting the Belgian bottles corked with the Portuguese floor corked... I looks so easy on YouTube.

I have failed at corking but never succeeded.

 

[BrewMan13]

Went to a small local hop farm to help harvest (getting 2lbs of hops as "payment" didn't hurt, but wasn't the primary motivation).
Edit: forgot to add that I also did a yeast starter and got stuff ready for brewing tomorrow. My extract-only friend was curious about the grain milling, so he came over for that.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I have failed at corking but never succeeded.

I figured out what was going wrong. And successfully corked the 2 bottles I had (though after I was all done, so only 2) the part where the bottle sits is not lined up with the top, so by pulling it forward and off center the cork goes it without getting mangled. I make sense looking at the plunger having an angle.

Now I just need to adjust the plunger a little. I had to trim the tops a little to get the cage on properly, but I was happy I got the hang of it be fore destroying a whole bag of corks!

 

[itsnotrequired]

cleaned the tap lines and decided to go all in, deep cleaned the keezer. hadn't done it for at least a year, that thing was nasty. it is amazing how a few drips of beer here and there while changing kegs can lead to a cesspool at the bottom.

 

[seatazzz]

Brewed up a hoppy amber this morning that should be good; running low on grain so used 13lbs of two row and .75lb of home caramelized malt. Beautiful color and SG of 1.060, bittered with Chinook and late additions of Southern Passion hops just to do something with them. Just got home from visiting the former brewboss (2nd job precludes me from working there right now) and quaffed a few, brought my latest WF lager for him to try and got approval. Also got our butts kicked at cribbage which he just learned how to play, newb luck I say.

 

[Saunassa]

The local brew pub had their new Neipa on tap. Oh my is it good and has a slight haze and not that murky mess that many places like to sell. I can now say that I do like this style.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

View attachment 642271 View attachment 642270 View attachment 642267 Bottled holiday saison
Used blood orange purée for about half of it... tasty.
I’m having trouble getting the Belgian bottles corker with the Portuguese floor corked... I looks so easy on YouTube.

Did you leave enough head space?

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Transferred my Saison off the cold break, oxygenated, and pitched 3711.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Did you leave enough head space?

Yes I did. Turned out that sitting the bottle on the center of the pedestal meant it wasn’t lined up properly under the jaws and plunger.

 

[itsnotrequired]

brewed up a janet's brown ale

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Yes I did. Turned out that sitting the bottle on the center of the pedestal meant it wasn’t lined up properly under the jaws and plunger.

You'd think an Engineer would design that in.

 

[aharri1]

Brewing what I'm calling the Irish hurricane stout using voss Kveik in case the power goes out! Lol

 

[CJ-3]

Made a mash paddle for a friend of mine and bottled a Wee Heavy to give away as Christmas presents.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

@beermanpete yes, or instructions would come with it.

 

[beermanpete]

@beermanpete yes, or instructions would come with it.

@hoppy2bmerry, I think meant this for @Brewbuzzard. But an engineer would assume proper usage is obvious an not bother with instructions. [emoji6]

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

^^^ pardon me... I must be half asleep.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

@hoppy2bmerry, I think meant this for @Brewbuzzard. But an engineer would assume proper usage is obvious an not bother with instructions. [emoji6]

Not instructions, proper alignment in the design and manufacturing.

 

[aharri1]

Hop plant rescue complete. Having some HB Belgian dubbel.

 

[BrewMan13]

Kegged and tapped the black IPA - great attenuation, but needs a week or 2 to round out the harsh edges. Got ingredients at my LHBS for 4 brews (1 already done), so I finalized my next 3 recipes, and updated my hop inventory.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Having a brew day splitting wort from one mash to yield 5 gallons of hot apple pie graf, and 2.5 gallons pale ale with galaxy and topaz hops

 

[CharlieW]

Bottled up my Blueberry Ale, the only one my wife drinks, haven't made it in a few years. 11 days in the secondary on 5 lbs of berries. Very nice, slightly malty with just enough hops to keep it from being too sweet and nice light Blueberry aroma and flavor. Nice red-amber color and will probably improve after some conditioning for awhile. Even flat and warm it tastes pretty good.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Practiced using my new beer gun.

 

[CharlieW]

Not too bad. Not a really good pic though.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Pitched yeast yesterday and harvested mt hood today. Apparently I have something that is a male the Newport and the mt hood have seeds.

 

[davidabcd]

Belgian bottles corker

I was going to buy a Portuguese floor corker--I think it is called "Portuguese" but maybe not. The guys soaked the corks in Starsan which I found interesting. A very fancy tool. All in all, though I make mostly Belgian beer, the 750ml bottles are a little too tall for my set up. Hopefully, you had a good run of getting those corks seated.

 

[Immocles]

Bottled a rye bitter. Comes in a hair under 4%. Tastes like a winner

 

[johnnymash]

Built a 6 pack holder out of scrap

 

[JaymzMF]

I brewed an APA of my own design. Had been having trouble with my BH Efficiency in the last couple brews and was able to fix it and then some. Had been at 83-84%, but was dropping down to mid to high 70's. First time building a water profile and maintaining PH, and stirred mash every 15 minutes. No heat loss as I run a small HERMS setup. Managed to hit 89.9% I've never had my efficiency this high before. Was pretty happy, but at the same time my easy drinking APA got another percent of alcohol added. That's ok.

 

[JaymzMF]

Built a 6 pack holder out of scrapView attachment 642900

Hey, nice work! I've been wanting to do that.

 

[Phildo253]

Sunday, cleaned 4 kegs

Yesterday, picked and cleaned 5 ounces of coriander, checked on grapes. Still sour as hell.

Today, checked hop plants, dry-hopped NEIPA and added 6 lbs of blackberries to berliner Weisse.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Check this bad boy out. This one is new and unfinished. It's my 4th one, the other 3 have a varnish finish. 3/4" pine with dovetailed corners, internal dividers are notched 1/4" pine. Holds 12 22oz bombers snugly, no rattling.

Remember back in the day, when soda came in glass bottles, and they came in wooden crates? I wanted something similar, but tall enough that you could stack them while protecting the tops.

Now I need to design/dimension a crate for a case of 12 ouncers.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I was going to buy a Portuguese floor corker--I think it is called "Portuguese" but maybe not. The guys soaked the corks in Starsan which I found interesting. A very fancy tool. All in all, though I make mostly Belgian beer, the 750ml bottles are a little too tall for my set up. Hopefully, you had a good run of getting those corks seated.

Yes, auto correct problems... I only did 2 for that beer, but now I’ve got the technique down for my barrel aged imperial stout.