Dropped off a 6-pack of various beers to a good friend. This was his view after I rang the doorbell and took off like a bat out of hell.
What I did for beer today
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Dropped off a 6-pack of various beers to a good friend. This was his view after I rang the doorbell and took off like a bat out of hell.
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Does doing home improvement to earn beer tonight count?? [emoji1787][emoji1787]
Robert65
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Brewed on a Monday. Forced retirement and a lockdown, no schedule anymore. Gotta get used to it.
You'll get use to it
Of course
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In the middle of mashing the 2nd of a 4 part experiment with hot mashing (185F) vs regular 158
F mash vs a cold steep and then mash (158F) vs a second running of the cold steep + 1# of 6-row. Go me.
F mash vs a cold steep and then mash (158F) vs a second running of the cold steep + 1# of 6-row. Go me.
Lusting over electric brew kettles thinking I've deserved me a birthday present trying to budget for one...
Dave Sarber
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Mashing an experimental tripel right now. Going to try this with Neo-1 hops for bittering and flavor, sticking to Styrian goldings for aroma.
Pull that trigger dude
If I can get the numbers to work I probly gonna... One option would be to wait til I get the quad sold I'm currently rebuilding to get a 56L BrewMonk (6-700€) so I could fill two fermenters in one go but since I discovered a full kit with pumps and all (OneConcept Hopfengott 30) can be had for ~300€ I'm really torn about which way to go... With fly sparging I'd already cut the brew session time in 2/3 of what it currently is not to mention burning gas flame indoors... Gotta have a good long think
Finally got around to brewing BM centennial blonde ale. Perfect for a quick turn around ale while I wait for a few lagers to condition. Kind of excited for ales again
One thing I like about the BrewMonk is the power output. It is in 100 watt increments for more precise boil control to prevent boil overs. I also found a system called Danbrygger a Danish company that is said to be identical to the BrewMonk at 2/3 the cost. I would do some serious research. You'll love electric brewing. I built this one myself. Good luck.
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My friend who is an electrician came over today and he installed a 20 amp GFI breaker in my main electric panel. He also installed 4 new electric outlets in my garage for my extra chest freezer, tools, etc.. I can now fit my lager kegs in the extra freezer to lager away and I have plenty of room for my ale kegs while they wait to get tapped in my kegerator!
John
John
Both halves of my golden ale working away just fine did not have to mess with the slow one.
Went and bought some propane for the first in two years. Going to make a small batch of extract bitter tomorrow so need to fire up the propane burner.
Got an email saying my order of grain that was suppose to be delivered today now has an unknown delivery date. Glad it was a small order and I already have some other on hand to brew with.
Went and bought some propane for the first in two years. Going to make a small batch of extract bitter tomorrow so need to fire up the propane burner.
Got an email saying my order of grain that was suppose to be delivered today now has an unknown delivery date. Glad it was a small order and I already have some other on hand to brew with.
I have a couple questions. 1. How old is your house, does it have 14 or 12 awg wiring? 2. Did he use any existing wiring or did he run all new 12 awg? If he is a licensed electrician he would use 12 awg for a 20 amp circuit for code.
Got my 2gal batch of bitter done, 30min extracts are sort of nice for a change of pace.
UPS came through with my grain, so I have more options for up coming brew days.
Watched some bubbles and checked gravity too.
UPS came through with my grain, so I have more options for up coming brew days.
Watched some bubbles and checked gravity too.
Bottled a case of Vienna lager. Tasted exactly how I was hoping it would, so im pretty excited for it to carb up and condition a bit
My house is 23 years old. Yes he used his own 12 awg wire for the 20 amp circuit. He did a really good job and all he wanted was my home brew! Couldn't believe he wouldn't take my money. We had a few beers after the job and that is all it cost me!
John
Kegged off my second batch of Sabro/Citra IPA a few minutes ago. The first one was dry-hopped with the pellets in a muslin bag, for this one I threw caution to the winds and dumped the hops directly into the fermenter, as I have plenty of fresh yeast on hand and I really hate washing hop goo out of yeast slurry. The first one really didn't come into its own until it had been in the keg a few days; this one, straight out of the fermenter, has a HUGE pineapple nose and the flavor is incredible. Super juicy, a tad bit of bitterness to counteract the sweetness, faint traces of coconut, and just eminently fantastic. If anyone wants the recipe, it's fairly simple: 12lbs GW two row mashed about 151 for an hour, standard sparge, and the hop schedule was 1oz Comet at 60; 1oz each Citra and Sabro at 10 and 5, and another ounce of each as a whirlpool after the wort hit 180. 1oz Citra added at high krausen, then 2oz each of Citra and Sabro when fermentation looked to be slowing down after 5 days. At 10 days I stuck it in the kegerator to crash, and I did use gelatin to fine it as I want this one pretty. Cannot WAIT to pull a pint of this in a few days.
I rudely interrupted my self isolating yeasties by adding some gelatine to my pale ale.
I bottle primed a variation of piwo Grodziskie I brewed for a competition, that now may or may not take place. Or I may or may not ship internationally to participate.
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Built a keg washer/rinser based on others' design to work with 2.5, 3.0 and 5.0 gallon kegs. Still need to add keg post attachments. This allows the keg to sit below the lip of the bucket to keep from spilling liquid (actually it spills some from the foam). That is a 3/4" 360 sprayer. I debated on 1/2" but my gamble on the 3/4" seems fine. It can disassembled to fit in the bucket for storage. I will still use a CO2 transfer from a keg of StarSan to the cleaned/rinsed keg and back out to StarSan keg for sanitizing.
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Brewed an old school West Coast double IPA using the last of my grain. I was pleased to call the LHBS and find they are open for business. He said "come on by and get what you need". It is a small one man operation.
OnePlate
Yeast are my housepets
Bottled 25 bottles of kolsch.
Wife wakes up from a nap and says "Where's yours?"
Sitting here tweaking a recipe for another batch tomorrow.
Also, spilled the yeast slurry from the above batch on the kitchen floor.
Wife wakes up from a nap and says "Where's yours?"
Sitting here tweaking a recipe for another batch tomorrow.
Also, spilled the yeast slurry from the above batch on the kitchen floor.
lol, your cred just went up to eleven!! i live off beans!! do you have a website to buy them, like the palouse brand? i'd be more then willing to drop $50 on a 25lb bag of grampamark beans!
Sorry, we don’t grow beans; mostly dry peas. Dry edible beans aren’t very marketable in this area as we’re too far from any of the buyers. Chickpeas and Garbanzos can be sold closer to home but the price is so variable, and dependent on quality factors that are a moving target, that we have little incentive to grow them. If you like pea soup I could send you some peas. The shipping would probably cost 10X what the peas are worth.lol, your cred just went up to eleven!! i live off beans!! do you have a website to buy them, like the palouse brand? i'd be more then willing to drop $50 on a 25lb bag of grampamark beans!
Spent a lazy Saturday drinking a LOT of my new IPA and not doing much else. Made breakfast for dinner and took two naps. Tomorrow I might work on the car or might not. First weekend in a long while that I'm not brewing; kegerator is full, with another full keg waiting in the garage, and one in the fermenter that can get kegged next weekend.
split pea soup? love it, i thought they were beans too? split peas and lentils are my two favorites....they're high in lysine and i can mix it with vital wheat gluten to make noodles, and also yeast leavened stuff.....and it's a complete protein that way......(and i figure shipping is the killer, but peas cost $1.50/lb at the store)
edit: here in S. AZ, beans grow on trees.....but the actual seeds aren't that big.....otherwise i'd live off mesquite....
edit #2: when i fix split peas i grind them into flour, mix it with about a third of vital wheat gluten roll them out into noodles, then serve with a cheddar sauce.....the flour works good for a instant split pea soup too....just throw in some ham base, and cheddar! done in a minute....
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Cleaned some kegs so tomorrow I can fill those kegs. That way I'll have empty fermenters and can brew more beer. Gotta keep the quarantine pipeline full!
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Starting to ramp up temps for 3 kegs of lager (Light American, American and Pre-prohibition) for diacetyl rest all using 2124 yeast. Moving them to secondary midweek. Also will be moving three kegs of British Golden Ale to secondary at the same time (each have a different hop selection for flavor and aroma; same hops used for bittering all of them). On a side-note, I'm making a 5-stage makgeolli in a 7 gallon glass carboy.
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pitched yeast for my great experiment.
I bottled "cold mash" experiment with ~45% munich, 45% vienna, 10% carabohemia with 34/70 lager yeast. Did a cold mash, a tiny beer, and a cold mash that went straight from brewpot to keg to spund and in the glass in under a week. The keg wasn't terrible.
Sunday I also finished up with the "hot mash" 185F versions. Did a hot mash, did a regular mash as a control, cold mash with a comparable grain bill, and then 2nd runnings + some 6 row for enzyme conversion. All pitched with Windsor 'cause that or London Ale were recommended by lallemond. These 4 are in the fermenter, and I should bottle the older ones this weekend.
I bottled "cold mash" experiment with ~45% munich, 45% vienna, 10% carabohemia with 34/70 lager yeast. Did a cold mash, a tiny beer, and a cold mash that went straight from brewpot to keg to spund and in the glass in under a week. The keg wasn't terrible.
Sunday I also finished up with the "hot mash" 185F versions. Did a hot mash, did a regular mash as a control, cold mash with a comparable grain bill, and then 2nd runnings + some 6 row for enzyme conversion. All pitched with Windsor 'cause that or London Ale were recommended by lallemond. These 4 are in the fermenter, and I should bottle the older ones this weekend.
Got the grainfather out to get started on a saison then remembered I still had a pale ale cold crashing. Kegged that, might do the saison tomorrow.
i ordered 60lb's of pale malt from more beer, hope it get's here before i have too many empty kegs, but after i have enough empty ones to fill....it's tough having too much, or not enough beer on tap, empty fermenters, full fermenters.......damn, my head's spinning, i need a drink....
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Dave Sarber
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Kegged a couple batches today. The first was a high octane Belgian Brut that originally finished at 0.992. After multiple attempts at bottle conditioning (all epic fails), the gravity rose to 0.996 from all the added corn sugar. Been trying to referment to bring gravity back down (also epic fail) but I'm just killing my yeast. So, force carbing in keg.
The second batch is a Duvel clone, took the FG too low, it is at 1.002. Taste test was a little lemony, will let it sit and carb for awhile and see what happens.
The second batch is a Duvel clone, took the FG too low, it is at 1.002. Taste test was a little lemony, will let it sit and carb for awhile and see what happens.
i ordered 60lb's of pale malt from more beer, hope it get's here before i have too many empty kegs, but after i have enough empty ones to fill....it's tough having too much, or not enough beer on tap, empty fermenters, full fermenters.......damn, my head's spinning, i need a drink....
Is all shipping free from MoreBeer after $59? I've never ordered through them, but I often see some of their items listed as not eligible for free shipping. If thats completely negated at free after $59 bucks, I may have to give them or AIH a shot.
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