What I did for beer today

[MaryB]

Sounds about right, I got about 1 liter of hops per dehydrator tray and ended with 1.1oz Willamette and 5.5oz Chinook from 5 trays.

Brewing a wet hopped rye ipa as we speak. Filled up a 6.5 gal fermenter bucket from the top 10 feet of one cascade plant. A third will go into my brew, the rest will get dried for keg hopping a few beers. For me, I get roughly 6 oz for every 2 liters of wet hops which yields approx an ounce when dried.

 

[Roycebarrow]

threw a pack of wyeat American ale In the fridge so that I can brew the 512 pecan porter this weekend!

 

[Gonefishing]

Just now agreed to meet someone in the morning to buy a "used once" homebrew kit... buckets, glass carboy, 2 cases of bottles (I keg, but...) brushes, etc. for a very low price.
Worked on the control box for the brewery tonight...it's getting there.

 

[catdaddy66]

I will bottle some today and make some tomorrow...

 

[pshankstar]

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Picked some Cascade hops from my neighbors yard. They started growing the Cascade plant a few years ago for decoration around their pool deck and wall. Now I get to benefit from it! Woohoo!! They are in the dehydrator at 105 degrees (F). Next week my Centennials and Chinook should be almost ready to harvest.

 

[johnwpowell]

Added 2 more taps to my kegerator. https://instagram.com/p/BXtY2f8g1Vy/

 

[MaryB]

They sure do dry down to nothing weight wise! I had 3 full trays in my dehydrator(same model as yours from the look) and net was 2.15oz of Northern Brewer in Mylar vac bags.

These are the bags, I triple seal them in the same spot with my Foodsaver and they seal nice. Just wait and hit the seal button again, if it blinks wait a bit and push it again. 2 times will usually seal them but I do it 3 to make sure. http://www.discountmylarbags.com/ho...art-embossed-aluminum-foil-mylar-vacuum-bags/ With whole hops you can get around an ounce in each bag by compressing them as you fill it. And that makes for easy measuring, grab as many oz bags of hops as needed!

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Picked some Cascade hops from my neighbors yard. They started growing the Cascade plant a few years ago for decoration around their pool deck and wall. Now I get to benefit from it! Woohoo!! They are in the dehydrator at 105 degrees (F). Next week my Centennials and Chinook should be almost ready to harvest.

 

[pshankstar]

They sure do dry down to nothing weight wise! I had 3 full trays in my dehydrator(same model as yours from the look) and net was 2.15oz of Northern Brewer in Mylar vac bags.

These are the bags, I triple seal them in the same spot with my Foodsaver and they seal nice. Just wait and hit the seal button again, if it blinks wait a bit and push it again. 2 times will usually seal them but I do it 3 to make sure. http://www.discountmylarbags.com/ho...art-embossed-aluminum-foil-mylar-vacuum-bags/ With whole hops you can get around an ounce in each bag by compressing them as you fill it. And that makes for easy measuring, grab as many oz bags of hops as needed!

Thanks for sharing the link MaryB! I may have to look into those bags. Right now I am just using the food saver bags or similar ones and keep the hops in my chest freezer. I tried to reseal a mylar bag with my FoodSaver FM2000 sealer, but it didn't work. I didn't think about leaving it in there and doing it 2-3 times.

It seems that each tray had about 1oz of dried hops after it was finished. It was a hand-me-down dehydrator from my in-laws. Old but works great! Take care! Cheers!

 

[seatazzz]

Scooped the raspberries out of the fermenter that my Raspberry golden ale is in, and popped it in the fridge to crash for 24 hours before kegging it tomorrow. BTW, "used" raspberries are really gross to look at. Like what you would imagine bloated flesh would look like. Yes I know disgusting. But the beer turned a beautiful crimson and the flavor & aroma are off the sheet. Going to force carb it and hope to have the first glass Wednesday or Thursday. Will post pics then!

 

[jcav]

Cleaned one of my tap lines with line cleaner and then put my Black Butte Porter clone on tap!

John

 

[pshankstar]

Made a yeast starter with WLP008. It will be over built so I can keep some for a future brew.

 

[HopGobbler]

Rearranged my basement to better organize my various beer batches, baby steps...

 

[eadavis80]

Racked Aletoberfest, harvested the 1007, brewed a brown ale.

 

[CudaJoe]

monitoring my Oktobirthfest in the fermentation chamber. 2nd son will be born around the same time this is done lagering.

 

[ChelisHubby]

Well I breathed in relief as the yeast took off in a amber that I brewed. I normally use repitched yeast and it takes off in 4 hours. I bought some 1318 for this batch and it made me wait for 20 hours. Cheers to all!

 

[calibrew]

Cleaned out my kegerator. Been putting that off for way too long.

 

[catdaddy66]

Pitched my starter into my wee heavy at 7 am today and had at least a half inch of krausen at 6 pm... Cool!

Also saw a good inch of healthy krausen on my dark mild after rehydrating and pitching last night, about 22 hours ago.

Exciting...

 

[itsnotrequired]

made a starter for janet's brown ale

 

[kal]

Racked a Kolsch!

Kal

 

[orionol73]

monitoring my Oktobirthfest in the fermentation chamber. 2nd son will be born around the same time this is done lagering.

I thought that you were implying you either had 8 children or octuplets!

 

[CudaJoe]

oh God I hope not.

 

[seatazzz]

Lol. Drew the first (although not quite completely carbed) pint of my Raspberry ale (delicious!), and decanted some slurry that I'm going to use for my very first yeast starter. I've used slurry in the past, but my last experience with it (note to self: DATE the damn slurry jars) left me with a VERY bad taste in my mouth (to the extent that the beer I made with it is getting a burial at sea). I saved some wort from my last batch and will see what happens. Since my next brew day is this Saturday, if it doesn't work the way I hope it will, I'll have time to run and get some fresh yeast. But I hope it does.

 

[EtchyLives]

Pulled the blow-off tube on my Tripel. Day 5 of fermentation and the fermenter sugar additions kept this thing pushing krausen out the BO tube until last night. Fermentation is still VERY active with the Starsan solution in the airlock foaming all over. This thing is a beast (WLP 550, Omega Belgian A) for fermentation and I kept it low at 68° for the first 4 days. It's rising to 76° and I might let it go higher.

 

[kal]

Did the funnest part: Cleaned kegs.

Though that said, I don't actually "clean" them. I just disassemble and soak for ~48 hours in Oxiclean Free, one scoop per keg, then rinse. No scrubbing required. Simple.

Kal

 

[seatazzz]

Cleaned out a couple of fermenters that somehow got missed (read: too lazy after kegging to get them done) and scrubbed out the 12 gallon kettle to be ready for Saturday brew day. Oh, and drank some.

 

[MaryB]

Brewed Thursday, changed ice blocks i the tub I have the fermenters in, drank beer to recover form brewing yesterday...

 

[kal]

Started brewing Janet's Brown Ale! Just heating up the strike water now...

Kal

 

[pshankstar]

Installed my new Intertap Flow Control SS faucets, shanks, drip tray and custom tap handles yesterday. Today I need to insulate the back of the board, install the lines, run cleaner and sanitizer through them. Then I can hook them up to the kegs and move away from the picnic taps. WOOHOO

 

[govner1]

Cleaned & refurbished 3 pin locks for a new buyer.
Also cleaned a keg from my Dry Stout that kicked along w/ the tap lines.

 

[seatazzz]

Brewed a Rye IPA using a yeast starter for the first time. Been worrying it wouldn't take off, just took a tiny peek and krausen is starting and it smells wonderful. So since there was still a bit of yeast in the jug, added some more wort to it and started it up again. I think I'm on to something here. Also cleaned everything up to be ready for next brew day, whenever that is...