What I did for beer today

[TheEagleRising]

Brewed yesterday

 

[TheEagleRising]

Got some custom coasters

 

[Imhoppy]

Took the blow-off tube off my primary of 5.25 gallons Caribou Slobber and installed the air-lock a little over 28 hours after yeast pitch. Used Danstar Windsor dry, rehydrated in 4 oz. water at 86F for 15 minutes.

Fermentation really took off 5 hours after pitching and started to overflow from the blow-off tube on the 6.5 Gallon Big Mouth Bubbler after 5 more hours.

Then watched the air-lock bubble away until I got thirsty. [emoji481]

 

[6Tap]

Harvested 2 qts of Flagship Yeast.
Also removed labels on some bottles. [emoji482]

 

[aharri1]

About what temp does keep your fermentation? I have thought about this as an alternative to using a wet t-shirt/towel as an evaporative cooler.

Mid 60s usually which is fine for most yeast. I just throw a 20lb bag of ice in there and it keeps cool for a week!

 

[aharri1]

Got some comet growing now !

2nd iteration of Northern Brewer Blonde turned out SO much better than the first! Really digging on using Comet for bittering, it's a lot more subtle, and the lighter late additions of NB give it a nice kick. Been crashing a couple days, almost perfectly clear and will get kegged today. Six days grain to keg? Hell yes! It will get some more conditioning time in the keg if I can keep my hands off it (fat chance).

 

[TheEagleRising]

Gave Gracie a sweet Ardent bandana!

 

[aharri1]

Magnetized my stickers!

 

[Dave Sarber]

Magnetized my stickers!View attachment 652063

Whoa! I frequently travel international, and often get stuck in Miami overnight. When I do, it's Aardwolf's for sure!

And that sure as hell looks like a meal cart on the right side.

 

[6Tap]

Dry hopped an ipa today with 4 oz of Cryo Hops.

 

[govner1]

I pitched two yeasts ( WY1280 & 1318) into my share of a 50g Bach of English Brown we brewed yesterday.
Transferred a Session Blonde to secondary for lefty hopping and transferred 18g of a Wookey Jack clone from a whiskey barrel to carboys for DH before packaging.
Cleaned up all my equipment.
I’m pooped!

 

[orionol73]

Brewed 5 gallons of a Hopslam clone and bottled a batch of Strata IPA

 

[501irishred]

Transferred a Session Blonde to secondary for lefty hopping

Is that anything like a left handed cigarette? Sorry, google let me down.....

 

[seatazzz]

Home from work to ogle the two beers I brewed this weekend in the ferment fridge; both are going crazy busy in there, had enough headspace to use airlocks in both so no blowoff blorping to listen to. The Amber I brewed today turned out great - wort coming out of the BK tasted like Frosted Flakes, and came in at a nice 1.064. And I think I've figured out my crappy efficiency issue; I mash in a bag, and the bag I use is a bit long for the mash tun. Today I shortened it up until none was hanging over the false bottom, and grabbed 6 more points at preboil. One of those "duh" fixes that for some reason I never thought of. First brew in a long time that I've done a 60 minute boil instead of a 90, and still managed to get the right gravity. If I'd done a 90 would have wound up with rocket fuel. Gonna be kicking myself over this one for a while.

Sipping on some of the NB blonde kegged yesterday, tastes better with every sip. Sitting on a streak of at least 8 batches that turned out great, hope to keep it going.

 

[aharri1]

Aardwolf is great! That my kegerator lol. The top part

Whoa! I frequently travel international, and often get stuck in Miami overnight. When I do, it's Aardwolf's for sure!

And that sure as hell looks like a meal cart on the right side.

 

[shetc]

Decided I needed a change in cigar for making starters

 

[JAReeves]

Making the collar for my keezer.

 

[grampamark]

Finished cleaning and sanitizing the bottles for the 12 Beers of Xmas exchange, and bottled the
Abbey Weizen. I was reminded of why I started kegging about six years ago, but it’s done.

 

[Immocles]

Bottled my Mocktoberfest ale. Used 1009, harvested a jar of it as well. Sampled very clean and smooth, but hoping a bit more flavor pops with carbonation. Bottle lagering this one so hopefully 3 weeks in the bottle, and another 3-4 weeks in the fridge clears it up nicely.
Also washed a case of bottles since I had everything set up and cleaners out.

 

[brewbama]

I cleaned the fermenter in prep for upcoming brewday. I always rinse out the ring around the collar and yeast/trub residue but I don’t always soak it in cleaner right away. Today was that day.

 

[JAReeves]

Finished the collar, the next step is to drill a hole in the back so the CO2 can be kept at room temp. Tap handles on the to do list also, but that is a project for another day.

 

[Dave Sarber]

I've been cold crashing a tripel for about a week, trying to clear it up, not happening, will bottle it later today.

 

[mullet6577]

Dumped a couple ounces of cascade and amarillo into a wheat that's been in the fermenter for a couple weeks. Should be going to a keg this weekend.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Ummm, pic.

 

[davidabcd]

Did my version of temperature control starting this past Friday. I took advantage of the 54°F-56°F basement for two days, then the 60°F furnace/hot water tank room for two days and now upstairs in the 70°F office for the next 17 days.
It's 3 packs of T-58 and I wanted to see the effects of keeping it in the lower range at the beginning. If there is a noticeable and significant improvement in the 11% Belgian from this, I will think about temp control that doesn't require a tour of my home.

 

[brewbama]

Brewed a British Golden Ale

 

[grampamark]

Connected the Inkbird 308 that was delivered yesterday to my antique Hotpoint fridge. Yes, a paint job is in it's future.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Packaged the bourbon barrel aged stout

 

[Robert65]

Spunded a batch of export strength Helles. Now trying to kick a keg of same with the football game so I can clean keg and draught line in some spare time tomorrow morning.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Bottled a batch of tripel today. Used 26 bombers which wasn't quite enough. Had some 12 ouncers clean and ready to go, so used 6 of those.
Normally, I toss bottles with embossed names, but...

How about a New Belgium tripel bottle, with REAL tripel in it!

 

[6Tap]

I added gelatin to help clear my ipa beer while it’s cold crashing.
Plan to keg it Friday or Sat.

 

[Imhoppy]

I inquisitively glanced at my precious fermenter full of Caribou Slobber at the end of day 6 since the yeast pitch. It sat there ever so quietly between the now occasional burps of gas while awaiting its future.

If only it knew what I was going to do with it later.... [emoji481]

 

[Dave Sarber]

I inquisitively glanced at my precious fermenter full of Caribou Slobber at the end of day 6 since the yeast pitch. It sat there ever so quietly between the now occasional burps of gas while awaiting its future.

If only it knew what I was going to do with it later.... [emoji481]

What you do with your slobber is entirely up to you. But remember, nearby thought police may be offended!

 

[aharri1]

6bbl batch at work with 15oz 15 min hops and 60oz whirlpool for our house IPA

 

[Dave Sarber]

Ordered a bag of Dingemans Belgian pilsner. Accumulating supplies for an Allagash tripel clone.

 

[brewbama]

Picked up a #55 bag of 2-row from the local health food store. They have a few supplies but the key is they’re a BSG retailer so they can order anything in the catalog.

 

[Robert65]

Picked up a #55 bag of 2-row from the local health food store. They have a few supplies but the key is they’re a BSG retailer so they can order anything in the catalog.

That's one thing I love about my LHBS. Local pickup of anything any distributor carries, no extra shipping.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Ordered a bag of Belgian pilsner this morning from Northern Brewer, got a shipping notification about 2 hours later. I was impressed.

 

[ba-brewer]

Looks like a big day for grain purchases today, picked up a 55# bag of great western 2Row.​

cleaned fermentors and dumped a bunch of jars of old yeast.

yesterday:
Kegged a 5gal batch of Czech pilsner, a 2gal batch of bitters fermented with WLP022 and a 1gal batch of bitters fermented with WY3655. ​

 

[Robert65]

Cleaned keg kicked last night, cleaned draught line, did all that pesky non beer stuff, replaced ball valve on lauter tun, tapped fresh keg. Ahh, now that's more like it.