What I did for beer today

[lumpher]

Worked on my next keezer today. Already cut the boards and coated them with primer and a little color, even though internal collar. Got the internal collar sealed in place today, and getting ready to add the external collar after cleaning it up a little.

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Cleaned up the entire basement, and super-deep-cleaned the fermentation closet in my basement office.

 

[Novacor]

Attaboy Brewing in Frederick MD was giving away wort to home brewers today. Picked up 9 gallons that are boiling right now.

 

[MaxStout]

There's a silver lining to everything, even this cold af weather. I have four 5-gal buckets of free malt I got from a local brewery, so I took them out to an unheated shed to spend some weevil-killing quality time for several days (it's not expected to get above zero until Wed.).

 

[day_trippr]

Wait...the free malt came with free weevils? Was that why they were free?

 

[Skeeter686]

Wait...the free malt came with free weevils? Was that why they were free?

Well, who would actually pay for weevils? Of course they were free!

 

[Rish]

https://www.thailandunique.com/canned-edible-insects-bugs/canned-palm-weevils

 

[MaxStout]

Wait...the free malt came with free weevils? Was that why they were free?

Preventative measures. You never know when they will show up until the weevils wobble but they don't fall down.

 

[lumpher]

There's a silver lining to everything, even this cold af weather. I have four 5-gal buckets of free malt I got from a local brewery, so I took them out to an unheated shed to spend some weevil-killing quality time for several days (it's not expected to get above zero until Wed.).

I'm a little jealous. You got free protein AND free grain. I never get free adjuncts...

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Today I made 12 litres of Belgian Blonde
2400g Europils malt
300g Vienna malt
100g Melanoidin malt
100g Biscuit malt
300g Corn sugar @ 10m
45 minute boil.
25g EKG @45m
25g Saaz @15m
5g Coriander seeds @ 15m
15g Bitter orange peel @ 15m
Crossmyloof Belgian yeast @ 22C

 

[wetmk]

Kicked a Marzen keg today. Fortunately I had another one chilled and ready to be carbonated.

 

[T Murph]

Kicked a Marzen keg today. Fortunately I had another one chilled and ready to be carbonated.

I have ingredients ordered for a Marzen. Gonna brew it when they arrive.

 

[Langerz]

Brewed a blonde ale. Put an American pale ale on tap. Cleaned a couple kicked kegs. Was a good beer day

 

[leedspointbrew]

Added a spigot to the wort cooling kettle for this Sunday's Irish red.

 

[HM-2]

Kegged my WC DIPA.

From the sample drawn, it's going to be a great beer. I came up a litre of two short on keg volume despite getting a bit over 23 litres into the fermenter, which I think is a combination of transferring a LOT of hop matter from bit-over-8oz of cryo hops that went into the kettle, and the effects of the ~3oz dry hop.

 

[JAReeves]

Packed up about 30# of NA beverages to ship to my sister stationed in Kuwait. Late Christmas, but hopefully it won't sit too long in transit this way.

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

https://www.thailandunique.com/canned-edible-insects-bugs/canned-palm-weevils

dammit Rish, now they're out of stock!

 

[Bramling Cross]

While trapped by the weather in Oregon I decided to do something useful. I made 4lbs of invert #2.

(The large jars aren’t clear, they have a rose tint)

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Made a beer, that came out rather short of expected OG. So I boiled it a little longer to get expected gravity, at the expense of volume.
Got to thinking, this was from a "new" 50lb sack of briess 2-row that I'd picked up at a HBS in LaCrosse WI, and maybe it was actually old as the hills or something.

So I ground up a pound for a "test" batch, figured I'd maybe just use it for a yeast starter or something. And then I noticed that my mill had slipped from it's tightest grind to it's loosest grind.

Two more items to add to the brew-day checklist:

1. Verify mill is at tightest grind
2. Confirm that grain is indeed very finely ground.

 

[T Murph]

I sampled a one month old Blackberry Melomel. It is surprisingly good. I made a blackberry puree on Sunday two weeks ago expecting the base mead to be about finished in primary. But no the lil yeasties had a mind of their own and wouldn't let me add the puree until Thursday. When I looked inside the fermenter, that was to be the secondary, to see the puree it was covered with a dry powder looking film. I was afraid it was infected but it smelled ok. So I racked the puree out from under the film onto the now dormant mead in a fresh keg. I figured I was taking a chance but you gotta go with it. It turning out great.

 

[ba-brewer]

Made a beer, that came out rather short of expected OG. So I boiled it a little longer to get expected gravity, at the expense of volume.
Got to thinking, this was from a "new" 50lb sack of briess 2-row that I'd picked up at a HBS in LaCrosse WI, and maybe it was actually old as the hills or something.

So I ground up a pound for a "test" batch, figured I'd maybe just use it for a yeast starter or something. And then I noticed that my mill had slipped from it's tightest grind to it's loosest grind.

Two more items to add to the brew-day checklist:

1. Verify mill is at tightest grind
2. Confirm that grain is indeed very finely ground.

Sounds like a good idea to inspect your mill, but you can also use a refractometer to monitor the mash gravity to watch for full conversions instead of just going by time. When I started doing that I got much more consistent results.

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Well the "test" batch came out spot-on per the grain-weight / pre-boil-volume chart that doug293cz posts, so I guess at least there's nothing wrong with the grain!

 

[grampamark]

Kegged a Cali Common at the city house. Kegging sample tasted pretty good.

 

[ba-brewer]

Put my GPM alt in the keg today. Kegged my simcoe/azacca IPA a couple days ago.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Bottled my Munich Helles yesterday 34 bottles.

 

[JAReeves]

Preparing to label the hopped cider and hopped Muscat wine. Finally got my smoked porter and fresh hop PA on gas.

 

[lumpher]

Slow day at work, so I brewed a Hefeweizen. I've worked from home for the last 13 years...

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Bottled a very small volume dubbel and a Belgian golden strong. Now I’ve got cleaning to do.

 

[pvtpublic]

I kegged 3bbls of ESB, moved 750# of pilsner malt, washed and marked 41 kegs, prepped for brewing a Flanders red, fixed a glycol chiller, and allsorts of miscellaneous and tedious chores, 13 hours of work today. Sometimes I miss being only a homebrewer. At least I have 12 taps instead of 2...I guess haha

 

[day_trippr]

"Living the dream!"

 

[HM-2]

Mocked up an English IPA recipe with First Gold, Challenger and T45 Jester.

 

[Novacor]

Kegged the beer that I made from the wort giveaway 3 weeks ago. Drank a bunch of winter warmer because I need that keg to kick to make room for the new beers.

 

[BeerAndTele]

Brew day today. Old school west coast IPA split batch. Identical to this point, but one fermentor will be dry hopped with Centennial, the other with Amarillo. 12 hours post-pitch and we’re rockin’.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Today I’m brewing a Sierra Nevada Pale
4500g Maris Otter
300g XL Crystal
45g Cascade @ 60
35g Cascade @ 15
20g Cascade @ 0 whilst chilling.
US05 lookalike

 

[BrewMan13]

Bottled some of the bock for comps and FOTHB, subsequently kicked it, cleaned the lines, and put the weizenbock on CO2.

 

[Sammy86]

Bottled 1 gallon each of German Pils and Kölsch and kegged the 5 gallons of each left over.

 

[Rish]

Bottled a Mexican Cake clone. Screwed up the abv because I forgot to account for the ppg of the lactose when modifing the milk stout kit I used as the base so shooting for 10%, got 7.1%. Tastes good, though.

 

[day_trippr]

Conducted a semi-organized circus to swap a kicked keg in the keezer, create yet another 1318 starter from my overbuild stash for 10 gallons of neipa to be brewed soon, keg my latest Ballantine IPA revival, clean the carboys after racking, then finally clean the kicked keg. Woof!

Cheers! (And now I'm chillin'! )

 

[ba-brewer]

Brewed 2gal of best bitters today I will ferment with Brewlabs F40 yeast. The starter has been sitting for almost a month so expecting a slow start.

Brewed 3gal of American adjunct lager a couple days back. I dumped it on the yeast cake of my last lager I made. The keg has been chilling in the cooler for a while like maybe 6weeks or more. Guessing it was about 4x my normal pitch of yeast but was quite surprised to have it start cranking in a couple hours. Check gravity this morning and it was just about to terminal gravity(start at 1046 so short trip).

 

[Immocles]

I need to get back into checking out this forum again. Been awhile since I posted!

Kegged a rye lager while brewing a helles. The rye is my favorite recipe.