What I did for beer today

[Schlenkerla]

Are you saying I’m a little CDO? (Like OCD, except in alphabetical order, the way it should be)
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No, just wouldn't want that sucker slowly rolling down the driveway, as you pull a pint, it then hits a crack in the pavement, turns ass end forward than tips over, as the nosey lady walking her dog watches the HLT take out Fifi.

It's just thinking practical... And a little CDO.

If I buy a 12-pack I have drink mine left to right as they come out of the 12er or I'm all messed to limit per hour. [emoji43]

 

[501irishred]

No, just wouldn't want that sucker slowly rolling down the driveway, as you pull a pint, it then hits a crack in the pavement, turns ass end forward than tips over, as the nosey lady walking her dog watches the HLT take out Fifi.

It's just thinking practical... And a little CDO.

If I buy a 12-pack I have drink mine left to right as they come out of the 12er or I'm all messed to limit per hour. [emoji43]

Fifi is safe, or more importantly, the to-be-beer is safe. The nosey neighbor....... we’ll see.....

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Attended the Best Florida Beer competition in Tampa, Florida. This is the final judging in the Florida circuit. The Miami Area Society of Homebrewers received 12 medals, which put us in 3rd place overall. Not bad as we are a small club competing against much larger clubs.

 

[OnePlate]

Drilled a hole for an airlock in the lid of a 1 gallon glass jar and whipped up a 20-minute extract batch to take it for a spin. 10 IBUs of Magnum and some original Hornindal to really get a feel for what flavors this culture can put out at 90°F.

 

[BrewMan13]

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

Thanks man, will do! Submitted a porter, Belgian strong dark ale, & doppelbock. The porter is a very tried a true recipe, the Belgian is my first crack at the style, and the doppelbock is my 2nd try at the style and I think I did pretty well.

As for the what I did today: brewed a sahti, and cleaned and replaced the gaskets on 2 of the kegs that were given to me.

 

[aharri1]

Awesome man, congrats!! I'm part of brewers anonymous and we were actually surprised we got 1st. We've been in 5th for a while!!

Attended the Best Florida Beer competition in Tampa, Florida. This is the final judging in the Florida circuit. The Miami Area Society of Homebrewers received 12 medals, which put us in 3rd place overall. Not bad as we are a small club competing against much larger clubs.
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[501irishred]

As for the what I did today: brewed a sahti, and cleaned and replaced the gaskets on 2 of the kegs that were given to me.

How traditional did you go with your sahti? I love the style right up to the point its not carbonated. My brain can't seem to handle it!

 

[Schlenkerla]

Attended the Best Florida Beer competition in Tampa, Florida. This is the final judging in the Florida circuit. The Miami Area Society of Homebrewers received 12 medals, which put us in 3rd place overall. Not bad as we are a small club competing against much larger clubs.
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Cheers!!!!

Have you filled it and drank out of it yet?

I would....

 

[BikerMatt]

How traditional did you go with your sahti? I love the style right up to the point its not carbonated. My brain can't seem to handle it!

Heh, how very odd to spot a Finnish word here (though there are a few other finns here) Proper sahti swoops the legs from under you real quick, you've already downed a couple pints of it until it dawns on you it's usually well over 10%. Gives you a cosmic hangover with the most vile smelling gas too I've been toying with the idea of brewing a beer of some sort from sahti malts, you can get a bag from the local grocery store here though don't necessarily want 20kg of the stuff before making a test batch first. They also sell ready made unfermented wort in many places here too you just gotta plop a dollop of yeast in and wait a while, that way it's not considered selling an alcoholic drink.

 

[BrewMan13]

How traditional did you go with your sahti? I love the style right up to the point its not carbonated. My brain can't seem to handle it!

More than in the past, but still not what I would call fully traditional. Did a multi-step mash, no boil (did steep hops for a bit). I plan to minimally carbonate it. Also used way more juniper than any recipe I saw since I love the flavor (and yet it was still less than I've done in the past, lol).

 

[mullet6577]

Yesterday - brewed 5 gallons of a hoppy wheat, pitched WB06 once the wort finally got down to 63* in the ferm fridge around 9 last night

Today - power is out because of a storm, I'm at work an hour away and have no idea when the power will be back on

 

[501irishred]

@BikerMatt

Pre made wort in the grocery store?! What a concept! One up on a can of extract for sure!

I worked for Nokia back in there hay days in the late 90’s. Sahti was actually my first home brew I ever tried. That 10%+ was appreciated while cooling off on a snow bank after a long sauna.
I thoroughly enjoyed visiting your country and partaking in it’s traditions!

 

[BikerMatt]

@BikerMatt

Pre made wort in the grocery store?! What a concept! One up on a can of extract for sure!

I worked for Nokia back in there hay days in the late 90’s. Sahti was actually my first home brew I ever tried. That 10%+ was appreciated while cooling off on a snow bank after a long sauna.
I thoroughly enjoyed visiting your country and partaking in it’s traditions!

Glad you liked it, hope they introduced you to the wonders of salmiakki and koskenkorva too, preferrably at the same time

Yea ready sahti wort is definitely a thing although mostly only found in rural areas but for example the small village store on my mail route sells frozen sahtivierre.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Congratulations!

Awesome man, congrats!! I'm part of brewers anonymous and we were actually surprised we got 1st. We've been in 5th for a while!!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Bottled primed some Schwartz bier.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Bottled some hefe from the keg... still getting the hang of it.

 

[ba-brewer]

yesterday:

Seen I had a starter of WLP022 sitting around for almost a months so I brewed up a 3gal batches of bitters. The starter was for 5gals so I figured it should still be good for 3gals. Bad news I pitched the starter of wlp076 I had in the fridge too. That is what I get for not putting a label on it.

Todays:

The bitters was cranking away this morning sort of expected a mess in the airlock but all is well so far.

Brewed a beer for the WLP076 starter I no long have. Going to use some WLP075 slurry I have, it is just off by one should not be a big deal. Was not sure about which hops to add and found a lost package of centennial between the fridge and lager cooler. Not sure when I dropped them there but I used them anyways. Still smelled good in the kettle.

 

[brewbama]

Kicked a keg, cleaned it, close transferred beer to it, cleaned the fermenter.

 

[seatazzz]

After a long day at both jobs finally tapped the Strata SMaSH I brewed two weeks ago. Haven't done a smash in a while, and quite happy with this one, although very confused at how light it turned out, looks almost like a pilsner. Great hop flavor and nose, and the bitterness is very subtle. And doesn't taste like the 6.6%ABV it hit.

 

[RedRyderr]

Plugged in my budget build keezer.

 

[pshankstar]

Plugged in my budget build keezer.

Congrats! A keezer is a keezer it doesn’t matter how much it costs.
On a side note and I’m sorry for not having details. But I believe it’s not good to keep the CO2 tank on its side.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Plugged in my budget build keezer.

Sweet!

I have heard from someone I trust that an open tank of CO2 should not be in any position other than standing, actually there was a bit of a lecture involved that it can become dangerous.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Posted this! Cheers

 

[RedRyderr]

Now I'm afraid to open my keezer! Thanks for the info. Never considered that about the tank being on it's side. I did plan on routing the gas line outside the keezer and keeping the tank outside. that was going to be a next step, then faucets.. I believe I may bump the timing of that step up a bit!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Brew day! (Erm night) pumpkin ale

 

[brewbama]

Prepped the brewery for an early start for tomorrow’s brewday.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Dropped off some competition entries. Smacked a smack pack, will sanitize a fermenter and pitch before the day is done.

 

[aharri1]

Assisted with my first commercial brew at my new job at deadly sins brewing in orlando! We did a Belgian dubbel with omega abbey yeast. Wort sample pictured

 

[Brewbuzzard]

I have been having problems with my stirplate for the last four batches. I tried everything I could think of but it kept throwing the stir bar. I even raised the magnets up closer to the bottom of the flask. Then today I used plain water so I could see what the heck was happening and to my surprise the stir bar would not center on the magnets. I got a new bar and it centered right up. The only thing I can think of is I always boil the bar and it seems it has changed the magnetic field or the bar has demagnetized due to the neodymium magnets. From now on I will use StarSan. Does anyone have any expertise in this field?

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Assisted with my first commercial brew at my new job at deadly sins brewing in orlando! We did a Belgian dubbel with omega abbey yeast. Wort sample pictured View attachment 649591

Congratulations, living the dream.