What I did for beer today

[ba-brewer]

Made my 1st attempt at creating copies of a yeast slant (Timothy Taylor).View attachment 648350

With the bottom filled in like you have it gas can build up and push the agar into the cap.

smaller vials and less agar will make it easier to keep the agar inside the vial and also to inoculate and retrieve yeast from the vial.

It is a long read but there is a lot of good information in the slanting sticky in the yeast section.​

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Yep, I used the sticky amongst other articles to get started. Overfilling is definitely a newbie mistake. Thanks!

 

[seatazzz]

Dropped the temperature on the controller down to 50 to cold crash the Strata SMaSH in the ferment fridge, with an eye to kegging on Thursday. Dry hops went in last Thursday; a taste of it last night proves to be a bit grassy for my taste, so hoping some crashing will help it out.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Dumped a pin cask I've had soaking, refilled with 180° water (really nice bourbon aroma while refilling). Now I need to buy some bourbon to sterilize it. #5.5 silicone bung seals it perfectly.

 

[ba-brewer]

Yep, I used the sticky amongst other articles to get started. Overfilling is definitely a newbie mistake. Thanks!

These are my slants of WLP076 old Sonoma ale yeast. This is the third time I re-slanted that yeast from one of the first a vault releases. Just put it in the fridge after a week on the counter.

I thought slanting would reduce the space requirements for storage compared to mason jars, but I think yeast follows a gaseous characteristic and will fill the vessel it occupies. I am up to about 25 strains, mostly vault or seasonal releases and a few Brew labs ones including the TT strain you did. That was the last brewlabs yeast I brewed with and it should be ready to sample in a few days.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Looks awesome! Hope mine work out like yours.

These are my slants of WLP076 old Sonoma ale yeast. This is the third time I re-slanted that yeast from one of the first a vault releases. Just put it in the fridge after a week on the counter.
View attachment 648481

I thought slanting would reduce the space requirements for storage compared to mason jars, but I think yeast follows a gaseous characteristic and will fill the vessel it occupies. I am up to about 25 strains, mostly vault or seasonal releases and a few Brew labs ones including the TT strain you did. That was the last brewlabs yeast I brewed with and it should be ready to sample in a few days.

 

[ba-brewer]

@shetc If you do it according to the sticky you should be OK. Those looked like that after about 5 days, the ones I did from scrapes off of the brew labs slants filled in about a day or more sooner. I let them sit for a week maybe 8 days to makes sure they don't grow mold before going into the fridge.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Browsing the beercave this morning, (yes, looking for a 7/16" wrench) I found a case of bombers of an RIS I brewed back in January. Put a few in the fridge to cool, will update later....

 

[JAReeves]

These are my slants of WLP076 old Sonoma ale yeast. This is the third time I re-slanted that yeast from one of the first a vault releases. Just put it in the fridge after a week on the counter.
View attachment 648481

I thought slanting would reduce the space requirements for storage compared to mason jars, but I think yeast follows a gaseous characteristic and will fill the vessel it occupies. I am up to about 25 strains, mostly vault or seasonal releases and a few Brew labs ones including the TT strain you did. That was the last brewlabs yeast I brewed with and it should be ready to sample in a few days.

This looks pretty slick. I may have to upgrade from the mason jars I currently use.

 

[ba-brewer]

@JAReeves I still have the mason jars, maybe more. It takes a bit longer to work up a starter from a slant so I still save the yeast cake for at least a few brews. The first couple steps need sterile wort so I started canning starter wort which also needs mason jars.

It is a bit more work but I think it is a good way to keep a hard to get yeast going.

 

[ba-brewer]

Kegged the second half of a dry hop experiment, split the batch and dry hopped one for two days and one for five days to see the difference in hop flavor and aroma.

 

[aharri1]

Started working at one of the local breweries in central Florida called deadly sins as maintenance and assistance to the brewer. Cleaned and stacked two pallets 3 high of kegs today! I'm sore lol

 

[ba-brewer]

Brewed 5gals of Panther Piss IPA(simcoe/chinook).

 

[Schlenkerla]

Passivated all my stainless steel stuff...

Ok - not the Yeti.

This was before passivation.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Toasted some wheat for a recipe and I’m roasting some squash for a pumpkin ale.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Guys & Gals,
I've been searching for very small 8mm hollow food grade red plastic balls to use in my sight glasses as level indicators. I finally found them and am getting ready to order. The more I order the lower the cost. It is easy to see the level of the boil kettle but not so easy in the mash tun or HLT. With these you will be able to see from across the brewery, garage, or patio. Anyone interested? My cost plus shipping. PM if interested.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

View attachment 648857 Toasted some wheat for a recipe and I’m roasting some squash for a pumpkin ale.

Toasted honey wheat sounds like a cereal. Hummm

 

[Dave Sarber]

Toasted honey wheat sounds like a cereal. Hummm

Well, it's a breakfast beer. No milk required.

 

[MplsUgly]

Mounted the panel on the bench and filled everything with water to brew tomorrow morning.

 

[Imhoppy]

Finished off my keg of Kama Citrabanero IPA. Tapped my next keg - Fresh Squished IPA. Started carbonating a chilled keg of Dead Ringer IPA. Then watched some of the last few bubbles escape from the air lock on my Brickwarmer Holiday Red. I need to brew some more beer so I don't run out. [emoji481]

 

[Immocles]

Cleaned up my first bottle bomb. Something seemed off with a few Hefeweizen bottles. The one that exploded seemed thin glassed, so hopefully it was an anomaly. A couple other thin looking bottles were put in a cooler with ice, the rest in a Rubbermaid container snapped shut. Hopefully at least contain the explosion. Yikes.

 

[Dave Sarber]

I've never had any blow yet, but have had a few geysers on opening. Turned out I didn't stir in the sugar well enough when bottling. Some were fine, others required a sprint to the sink!

 

[Immocles]

I’m really really hoping it was just a few thin bottles. I don’t have fridge space to get the entire batch cold. Guess I’ll find out in the coming days. Wife said the cats went nuts at the basement door around 10pm last night. That was probably my kaboom

 

[6Tap]

Today I went to Admiral Maltings in Alameda, CA to check out their operation, sample some beers in their tap room brewed with their malt, and took a tour of their facility and learned about the malting process.
Had a great time there.
I plan to brew an IPA with their malt soon....

Cheers [emoji482]

 

[BrewMan13]

Dropped off some competition entries and bought some yeast & specialty grains for the next couple brews. Also prepped for brewing tomorrow.

 

[pshankstar]

Dropped off some competition entries and bought some yeast & specialty grains for the next couple brews. Also prepped for brewing tomorrow.

Good luck and keep us posted on the results! Cheers bud!

 

[kmarkstevens]

Did a partial mash 1937 Courage Stout Porter from Shut Up About Barclay Perkins. It's cooling even as I type this. Gonna pitch my Beast Yeast (mix of English yeasties: 02,notty, pub, windsor, adnan's, burton, irish, w yorkie, whitbread, WLP026, WLP085) in the morning.

Full mash Red X & Carared American wheat. Just added the hops so another 30 minutes to go before shutting off the Brewers Edge and letting it cool down overnight. This one gets Danstar Munich Wheat (the non Classic version) tomorrow.

Also made several pounds of inverts of differing shades from invert 2 to invert 4.

I've had a good brew day!

 

[501irishred]

Brewing @BierMuncher ‘s black pearl porter. Shared an ale with a neighbor. I say ale, because he doesn’t like beer, he only likes “ale”.

Luckily I had a Belgian ale handy. I would have had to go inside to get him a “beer”. Lol.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Brewing @BierMuncher ‘s black pearl porter. Shared an ale with a neighbor. I say ale, because he doesn’t like beer, he only likes “ale”.

Luckily I had a Belgian ale handy. I would have had to go inside to get him a “beer”. Lol.


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Wheel chocks or leveling? [emoji16]

 

[501irishred]

Wheel chocks or leveling? [emoji16]

Are you saying I’m a little CDO? (Like OCD, except in alphabetical order, the way it should be)