What I did for beer today

[BadKarma]

I'm late to the party as usual, but I received my induction plate and sou vis!! Put 2.5 gal of room temp water in my 3 gal pot and ran some tests. How fast to 160 degrees and the stick to maintain temp then run up to 170.

I was amazed! From 65 degrees to 160 was 39 mins on the plate and the wand was flawless. Very happy. Brewing this summer will be a breeze.

 

[bwible]

Never done this before but today I hit my first "cold IPA" brew with the gelatin treatment before putting it on gas. Loaded a pair of 100ml syringes with a split packet of Knox bloomed in 200ml of boiled then chilled water, warmed back up to 150°F and injected into very cold kegs as prescribed.

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Went well, very curious to see how this turns out...

Cheers!

I’ve had good luck with it. I suspect you have floating dip tubes on those. You’ll like it.

 

[day_trippr]

Full length Out tubes on all my kegs, never felt the need for floaters to this point, if I want a truly bright beer I just let it condition for a couple/few extra weeks if the pipeline allows. But I've wanted to try it at least once and it seems appropriate for this style...

Cheers!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

After cold crashing, I closed transferred the light lager to the lagering keg. Moved it to the garage fridge. I’ll brew an American lager to put on this yeast cake. I haven’t drank a Coors light in decades, but I think this reminds me of it. Might be fun to pick up some singles for a side by side tasting. Or not.

 

[Snuffy]

Currently working on a Snake Handler DIPA from Good People Brewing. Took a pic but it came out kinda dark so I deleted it. I'd take another but I've already tossed the can and my lips are numb.

 

[MaxStout]

Took a gravity sample of the Doppelbock I brewed 3 weeks ago. OG was 1.070, FG measured at 1.011, for 7.8% ABV and 84% AA. I had pitched 34/70, so attenuation was right at the top of its range. Sample tasted good, so I'll bottle early next week. Let it condition a month, then stash it in the cool crawlspace to "bottle lager" several months.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Took a gravity sample of the Doppelbock I brewed 3 weeks ago. OG was 1.070, FG measured at 1.011, for 7.8% ABV and 84% AA. I had pitched 34/70, so attenuation was right at the top of its range. Sample tasted good, so I'll bottle early next week. Let it condition a month, then stash it in the cool crawlspace to "bottle lager" several months.

Glad you're calling it a Doppelbock. It's close enough as makes no difference and those specs, like all specs, are pretty arbitrary when you get around the margins.

Looking forward to hearing how it turns out!

 

[Bramling Cross]

I was very pleased with myself because I found a new shop to exchange CO2 bottles. Then they said, "That'll be 46 dollars" and I made a strange gurgling yip noise that I've never made before. I think I might drive 50miles to the other place, the weather is getting nice and I enjoy the drive. Why not?

When I got home I kegged that 5% brown, 2.5% UK crystal concoction that I made a couple weeks ago. The fermenter dregs are tasty enough, if a bit chewy. I'm eager to see what it's like when you don't have to floss after a pint.

 

[OddNotion]

I rarely use gelatin but decided to give it a go yesterday on my Rye IPA that won't clear.

 

[MaxStout]

Bottled a Doppelbock--48 12oz longnecks. Now to be patient for several months.

 

[leedspointbrew]

Rearranged and moved the cabinet holding the few remaining important pieces of beer glassware that I own, so that my cat, paradoxically fat / nimble can't jump on it and onto a higher adjoining cabinet and cause mass destruction. This was only tangentially for beer, I guess.
Found a set of shelves on Marketplace so that I could eliminate the motley crue of milk cartons / card boxes which badly organized the brewing gear that was really starting to irritate my wife.

 

[seatazzz]

Drove a ridiculous amount of miles to a competition awards ceremony (they don't post winners until after ceremony, which I understand but it's sucky) only to come right home with no medals, and some pretty disappointing scores. Not dissing the judges, they were right. Need to work on some stuff. Not a happy day though.

 

[HM-2]

Impromptu brew day, just because. Bit of a "kitchen sink" beer, mostly as I didn't have the yeast I wanted handy (not sure when I used up all my Old English but hey ho).

88% Crisp MO
7% English CaraMalt
5% Crisp Wheat

35 IBU with UK Cascade at 60 and UK Cascade/CF184 at 10m

20g Cascade + 50g CF184 in a whirlpool

Going to ferment with Pineapple Passion as apparently it's the closest thing to a dry English yeast I've got. Didn't want to use LAX/US-05 or Kveik, it'll definitely make beer.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Today I brewed 19 litres of Summer Lightning bitter
3700g Maris Otter
200g Torrefied wheat
30g Challenger at 60m
30g EKG at 15m
Nottingham style yeast

 

[MaxStout]

Brewed a basic APA. Pilsner, flaked barley, a little leftover Briess Special Roast. Centennial for bittering, late boil, and whirlpool. Pitched US-05. Racked 5.75 gallons into the FV, about as expected. OG was 1.056, 3 points above predicted.

 

[Imhoppy]

Brewed a 5 gallon SMASH using Maris Otter and Cluster Hops. Because that's what I had on hand.

 

[tdf]

Today I broke my almost 2 month brewing hiatus. Running out of beer!

The brew: something many folks would call a black IPA.
85% pale marris otter,
10% light munich
5% midnight wheat.

CTZ, Eclipse, and Mosaic hot side
Mosaic, Eclipse, Citra dry hop.

I used WLP004 because that is what I had on hand. I think it's probably good at fermenting dark beers .

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Opened an email to find out that both of my entries to NHC are moving on to the finals! Grodziskie got a gold and my mead took silver. So, for now I’m walking on air. Planning for a brew day tomorrow. It’s time to brew an American lager.

 

[day_trippr]

Congrats, Hoppy!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Yesterday after brewing the Summer Lightning, I bottled my Kolsch 30 bottles at 5.5%.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Brewed the American lager, cleaning up now. I’ll have another brew day soon for a fundraiser.

 

[broot]

Brewed an English brown ale today after 5 months of not brewing. looking forward to having beer on tap again.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Let’s see what happens. Starter with apple juice and yeast from 2020. If it’s alive it’s going into a cider, and I’ll over build it to use for beer as well, but I won’t wait nearly 5 years to brew it.

 

[Willy]

Swapped out a CO2 tank at Arc3, milled a little under 20 lbs of grain on the new mill table in the shed, ordered 100 + lbs of base Malts from Rite Brew, and now... Watching the Brewers vs Royals, enjoying my first pour of the day - a satisfying HB American Porter, hopped with Magnum. Yeah!

 

[mac_1103]

Brewed a five gallon amber ale kit for a friend who got it as a gift and hadn't had any time to use it. Gotta say that the folks at Craft-a-Brew know how to put together a nice kit - all DME and everything is packed in nitrogen-flushed bags. This baby probably could have sat in his basement for five years and still made good beer.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Gave the yeast starter a small dose of nutrients since there are signs of viability. Hoping I have time later to package some kegged beer to ship to a comp.

 

[Willy]

Postponed brewing today because I wanna ferment the 11 g batch of Mocha Irish Stout in Stainless steel vs plastic buckets. Only one available now. My brewbucket #2 is on day 11 of fermentation ... Just wait a day or two and I can ferment the stout batch in stainless steel. Okay. Patience grasshopper.

The new mill station in the shed is a home run. Clean. Low dust. Dialed in and consistent. Love it. Stout base Malts milled at 3.5 on the Spike mill and the roasted malts at 5.5. Didn't mill the flaked barley. Works so well. Yeah!

Waiting on the mail ... Hope to install another Nukatap faucet in the keezer and upgrade the Gen 1 Nukatap to Gen 2, with a new "back end", a SS part replacement for the faucet control and self closing spring. Tweaking the perfect pour. While I am historically ambivalent of FC faucets, I am very pleased with the Nukatap faucet (the intertap faucet child).

A good day for beer and the pipeline - now with 10 g in the queue.

 

[lumpher]

Busy day: brewed 5g Blonde Ale, transferred 5g mash for... stronger purposes...cleaned and got 2 kegs ready and sealed for transfer, and have another bucket sanitizing for next brew

 

[ClaudiusB]

I am currently testing the brewery hardware inside and outside, thanks to those sand storms.
Automation sure helps, and doesn't require leaving the control room.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

The 2020 Hornindal today, I gave the starter more juice.

I also got 2 entries together to ship for a competition. Oh, and cleaned stuff.

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

Dry hopped a citra/mosaic IPA.
Ran my RO water and set the profile for my brew and sparge water for tomorrow's brew.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Okay last image of this yeast, we can easily see why a “top crop” harvest is recommended.

 

[MaxStout]

Was really bored (pun intended) yesterday afternoon and made a bottle holder for 200ml pony bottles I use for small batches of cider, etc. This will come in handy when I bottle the upcoming batch of limoncello I'll be making.

I just used recycled oak boards from an old shelf I had cut apart and drilled with a 2-1/8" forstner bit in a drill press.

 

[mac_1103]

The black IPA kicked (I'm going to miss that one) so I cleaned the beer line. There's a full keg in the basement but I'm not going to hook it up until it conditions for another week or so.

 

[tdf]

Doing a quick extract pale lager. I hope the fermcap earns its keep.
I wanted to use all of the remaining dme and the gigawort has very limited space

 

[tdf]

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Doing a quick extract pale lager. I hope the fermcap earns its keep.
I wanted to use all of the remaining dme and the gigawort has very limited space

So far so good.

 

[mac_1103]

So how come they don't call it boilcap?

 

[elproducto]

Well, I just got a new Fermzilla Conical, brewed yesterday and was doing a trub dump before pitching and was not paying attention and removed the wrong tri clamp. 6 gallons of west Coast Pilsner all over my garage floor.

I hate brewing lol.

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

Well, I just got a new Fermzilla Conical, brewed yesterday and was doing a trub dump before pitching and was not paying attention and removed the wrong tri clamp. 6 gallons of west Coast Pilsner all over my garage floor.

I hate brewing lol.

On national beer day-No bueno! We do feel your pain..there will better days..

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Kegged my Summer Lightning into 19 litre corny.