What I did for beer today

[NineMilBill]

Curious how this went? I just don't see it, but have a sister/Brother-In-Law that won't even taste my homebrew because drinking'd a 'sin.'

Well, I reminded them that Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine - so he was a homebrewer himself. They countered with something about public drunkenness, and I explained to them that homebrewing is an art and the vast majority of homebrewers aren't attempting to get trashed, otherwise I'd just got buy a bottle of the cheapest Vodka I could find. They seemed pretty set that I was an exception to the rule, and that most homebrewers were functioning alcoholics.

It's really not productive to "argue" an issue with someone when you're the only one with personal experience in it.

Whatever.

 

[seedubxj]

Tonight I kegged a strawberry blonde and an IPA. cleaned out my rootbeer keg and associated lines. Took delivery of some hardware from Bobby for my keggle build. And helped some guys out by lending my bottle opener at a music in the park event here in town.

 

[sagacity]

Well, I reminded them that Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine - so he was a homebrewer himself. They countered with something about public drunkenness, and I explained to them that homebrewing is an art and the vast majority of homebrewers aren't attempting to get trashed, otherwise I'd just got buy a bottle of the cheapest Vodka I could find. They seemed pretty set that I was an exception to the rule, and that most homebrewers were functioning alcoholics.

It's really not productive to "argue" an issue with someone when you're the only one with personal experience in it.

Whatever.

Just tell them that, by that logic, ALL people who COOK, would be gluttons. That means everyone, including themselves.

 

[Qhrumphf]

A week later than intended, just bottled two batches of Bitter. Now for a double header brew- Dry Stout and Scottish 60/-

 

[duckredbeard]

Overhauled a keg fridge that I got off Craigslist. Also kegged my (accidentally over-efficient) 8% ABV APA and put it to bed in the keg fridge.

 

[user 103238]

Split 5.5 gallons of Centennial Blonde ale between 12 bottles and the remainder into a keg.

First time saving the yeast for a future batch.

 

[HopJuicer]

Decanted 2 2000ml starters and transferred to mason jars for tomorrows kolsch. Picked up some extra hose to add a pre chiller to tomorrows batch since it is going to be in the triple digits . Today was 106!!! Stay cool!

 

[NineMilBill]

Bottled two gallons of wine. One of my 750ml's bombed (clean split along bottom rim) shortly after corking. Really didn't think this batch needed a decant with all the racking I did. These were recycling center bottles, so their strength is probably a tad diminished anyway. No biggie - puts me out less than a dollar.

 

[dr_sanch]

Bought ingredients for my Red Irish Ale brew session tomorrow... Also enjoyed a buddy of mine's schneider weisse clone and a fantastic English style bitter he made recently

 

[Dawnhulio]

Bought some Better Bottles, racked the Dubbel to secondary.

 

[downtown3641]

I hooked up all of my components necessary for adding a second keg to my fridge. I started soaking the new keg in Oxiclean so I can sanitize it tonight or tomorrow and have it ready to go for a quick kegging of my IPA on Wednesday.

 

[thetragichero]

picked up a fridge a buddy of mine wanted to get rid of
about to go scrape it down and put on the first coat of paint
will be using the fridge part for fermentation and the freezer part for a kegerator (eventually)

 

[punkrockdave]

Set up my second keg yesterday. Washed about 3 cases of bottles and picked up 4 of these glasses at the good will also.

 

[Dunerunner]

Bottled some of my recent IPA for friends to try and moved 5 gallons of Sweet Stout from the Whiskey barrel to keg to force carb. Barrel empty Oh, No! So I transfered 5 gallons of my IPA from cold conditioning in the keg to the barrel for a few days.

 

[Channel66]

Dropped some samples off at the brew store sharing the goodness with those who enable my addiction. Picked up the grainbill for swmbo's cream ale. Was going to make a starter of wy1056 tonight and brew tomorrow but I've already got a starter of wy2565 left over from a kolsch that I never got around to making last week. Might just use that and brew the cream ale tonight and something else with the 1056. I also have a black ipa that I should probably bottle today because my kegs are all full (good problem to have, though I've got my 30 gallon brew day coming of age in another week or so, gotta drink faster! ) also entered my whiskey stout my tripel and my absinthe barrel IPA in a local competition while I was at the lhbs. Working on my basement bar build today as well.

 

[nattron]

Aprahop clone in to secondary. Brewing 10 gallons that will be split between us ale and English ale.

 

[davekippen]

Just finished a light wheat brew for an eventual Strawberry Blonde.

 

[quadmx08]

Bottled a brewing classic styles american pale ale this morning. Substituted bittering hops for magnum nit sure if that was the best choice.

Pre-fermentation



Post-fermentation

 

[kitchensqueen]

Just washed 110 bottles for tomorrow...

This is precisely why I brew in small batches. LOL.

Bottled two gallons of wine. One of my 750ml's bombed (clean split along bottom rim) shortly after corking. Really didn't think this batch needed a decant with all the racking I did. These were recycling center bottles, so their strength is probably a tad diminished anyway. No biggie - puts me out less than a dollar.

Were you able to save the wine!?


Today so far I've just washed half a dozen bottles so we can bottle our small batch brown ale later. Since the baby just went down for a nap, it's probably high time to get off my ass and start, actually...

 

[sagacity]

Drank some pale ale.

 

[NineMilBill]

Were you able to save the wine!?

Nope - they were sitting on the kitchen floor, and I turned around to do something in the sink - heard the pop, and it was over - wine all over the floor.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Rejoiced in airlock activity from yesterday's brews, took over a bunch of homebrew to the inlaws for Fathers Day.

 

[nattron]

Made a 10 gallon batch of edWort pale. Split between English ale 2 and American ale 2. Transferred my aprahop clone to secondary with fruit. Blew the airlock in 2 hours. Tomorrow for beer I clean a closet.

 

[chuckstout]

Pickup up a 106lbs of grain, a couple vials of yeast, and some Laughing Dog huckleberry cream ale!

 

[DirtyOldDuck]

Pickup up a 106lbs of grain, a couple vials of yeast, and some Laughing Dog huckleberry cream ale!

Had my first Laughing Dog yesterday - Alpha Dog Imperial IPA - nice beer!

 

[Qhrumphf]

Took 3 cases of empty bottles off the hands of my local bottle shop (they do a lot of tastings, and end up with a lot of empties around they'd otherwise have to take for recycling, win for me and win for them), and picked up a few bottles of deliciousness while there.

 

[jerryteague]

Preparing to bottle 5 gallons of Hefeweizen (I was going to keg, but my Keezer isn't ready yet). Also getting things ready to brew a pale ale after I bottle. I'm going to bitter with 1oz of Summit, flavor with Cascade and Citra (1oz each), and dry hop with 1oz each Cascade and Citra. I'm looking forward to tasting this one.

 

[kitchensqueen]

Nope - they were sitting on the kitchen floor, and I turned around to do something in the sink - heard the pop, and it was over - wine all over the floor.

Ugh, that is devastating.


Yesterday we did manage to get our small batch of brown ale bottled up - we got 8 bottles out of it, so I was pretty happy.

Today, I browsed around for auto-siphons - doing a gravity siphon sucks!

 

[ArtimusBeerimus]

Hmmm...

Friday went to New Holland Brewery. Saturday went to Founders Brewing. Sunday trimmed my hops back a bit to clean up the undergrowth and spent some time organizing my brewery. Today I watered the hops, spent so time planning out this weekend's brew session (Ramble On Red ale), and spent a bunch of time researching Love controllers and DIY temp controls on the message boards.

 

[zacster]

Let my American Amber sit for another day. I'll probably let it settle and keg it this weekend. I brought it up from the basement to transfer to a keg but in the process stirred up the sediment. It'll be 3 weeks in the primary, and I figure a week or 2 in the keg and it should be ready. My taste this past weekend was mostly pretty mellow, and the reading was 1.008, down from 1.055. That fg reading sounds really low come to think of it and I'll have to check it again, getting another taste in the process.