What I did for beer today

[MaxStout]

Bottled about 5.75 gallons of Red-X SMaSH ale today, 58 12oz long necks. OG was 1.050, FG 1.013, for ~4.9% ABV. Hydro sample tasted great, nice malt backbone, just enough EKG to balance. Got 74% attenuation from S-04. The sample had a bit of a floral aroma, not in a bad way. Not sure where that came from. I don't recall ever getting that from S-04 and I had kept ferm temps around 64. Maybe the hops?

It's not a true-to-form Irish red, but don't care. That's going to be my St. Paddy's brew anyway.

 

[jcav]

Made a yeast starter for an Irish Red I am brewing Saturday for my St Patty's Day party.

John

 

[DBhomebrew]

The sample had a bit of a floral aroma, not in a bad way. Not sure where that came from.

The Goldings

 

[pshankstar]

Transferred the beer to the serving keg. Tonight was the smoothest closed transfer I’ve had to date, so I’m excited about that. Set the regulator to 45psi to quick carb it to fill a bottle to take to the homebrew club meeting tomorrow night.
Cleaning the transfer lines now but I’ll wait till tomorrow to clean the fermenting keg & the keg that just kicked as well as the faucet & line too. I don’t feel like being up all night plus tomorrow it will be warmer weather to do the cleaning in the garage.

 

[aharri1]

My big Stout finally finished. Went from 1.134 to 1.015! 16%. Very tasty also. Plan to put it in an empty rye Barrel soon!

 

[kmarkstevens]

My big Stout finally finished. Went from 1.134 to 1.015! 16%. Very tasty also. Plan to put it in an empty rye Barrel soon!

Dang, that is a BIG stout

 

[aharri1]

Dang, that is a BIG stout

One of my buddies was nice enough to let me borrow his 20 gallon SS Brew tech Mash tun to do it!

 

[seatazzz]

Not much today, other than sipping on some homebrew and listening to the lager (on Imperial Urkel, sitting at 54 degrees) currently in the ferment fridge happily blorp away; you know it's a good one when you can hear it blorping through a closed refrigerator with some good Celtic tunes going loudly as well. We need to add "blorp" to the list of brewing words, I'm thinking. Also it's fun to say. Blorp blorp blorp.

 

[Rudeoso]

Cleaned a keg and prepped my equipment for tomorrow's brew day. Also set up a corny keg to ferment tomorrow's brew

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Dumped and cleaned a fermentor, pretty sure it was a mead. It smelled nice, but was sitting on lees for idk how long, and didn’t taste good, nor did I think I could fix it or blend it with something to make an enjoyable beverage. Freeing up vessels for new brews.

 

[HazyBeer]

One of my buddies was nice enough to let me borrow his 20 gallon SS Brew tech Mash tun to do it!
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How did you get to 88% attenuation with that yeast and without using Corn Sugar please? With that grain bill I'm guessing you did a 5G batch to hit that OG? Also only 1 package of yeast or did you do a starter? And Finally what was your target water profile? Thanks!

 

[aharri1]

How did you get to 88% attenuation with that yeast and without using Corn Sugar please? With that grain bill I'm guessing you did a 5G batch to hit that OG? Also only 1 package of yeast or did you do a starter? And Finally what was your target water profile? Thanks!

Escarpment Labs Cali ale yeast with a 4L starter and 3 grams of wyeast nutrient blend at the last 10 of boil. I also use 1 gram of nutrient in the starter. It was a 5 gallon batch. I use ward labs and sent my water off that was filtered with a carbon filter from home and matched that to the dark ale/beer water profile in beersmith. Hope that helps !!

 

[Rudeoso]

Assembled new 35L Brewzilla and unpacked ingredients for next brew session. It'll be my first time brewing on electric all in one system, so I'm looking forward to the new experience.

 

[hout17]

Bottled the Raging Irish Red today! Two weeks and then BLISS!

 

[JAReeves]

Set up samples for the young man dating my oldest to taste. Since he grew up on Bud Light, I wasn’t sure how he would fare.

1. He wasn’t afraid to give his honest opinion of how he thought things tasted.
2. He really liked the wild cider and the stout, two widely divergent flavor profiles.
3. His taste buds are still maturing, so he gets a pass on the others that he found too mucho.
4. She likes him a lot, so my opinion really doesn’t make much difference anyway, lol.

 

[hout17]

Set up samples for the young man dating my oldest to taste. Since he grew up on Bud Light, I wasn’t sure how he would fare.

1. He wasn’t afraid to give his honest opinion of how he thought things tasted.
2. He really liked the wild cider and the stout, two widely divergent flavor profiles.
3. His taste buds are still maturing, so he gets a pass on the others that he found too mucho.
4. She likes him a lot, so my opinion really doesn’t make much difference anyway, lol.

He likes a stout so that's a good sign. J/K

 

[BrewChem]

Kegged an IPA… threw a mesh bag with 2oz Azacca hops into the keg for good measure

 

[seatazzz]

Brewed a batch of my WF lager recipe that is currently fermenting in the house; just checked, has a very thick bread-dough looking krausen but airlock isn't bubbling (yes lid & airlock are on right). Hoping this one lives up to the hype and is done quick; nothing currently in the kegerator that isn't hoppy or cider.

 

[Joe P]

Stared at my new brew still fermenting / clarifying for over 1.5 months. Found a Czech Dark Recipe. Tomorrow will be the day for a taste. Only ingredient I added was Belgium Candi. I am REALLY not sure about what flavors that sugar might infuse. The original recipe didnt call for sugar at all but its Czech and sugar is no big deal to those people. I know, I've been there. They really enjoy JUST the beer grains, hops and prob the yeast. Anyway, tomorrow ill have a better idea. Bottoms up folks.

 

[Newsman]

Degassed a gallon brew of cyser I racked a week or so ago. Will probably try to degas it again in a week or so

 

[aharri1]

I've only used this Barrel one time. I had a holding solution I made from citric acid and potassium metabisulfite in there for a while and kept topping It off with water. I just hit it with boiling water for 30 minutes I'm going to rinse it out and add some wild Turkey 101 for a few weeks, and then rack the Stout into there.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

I started the day with fruiting 2 sours, on the left is blueberries and right is raspberries. Gonna add vanilla to the blueberry and maybe lime or lemon to the raspberry. Dont worry, they are out of the light now.

Next I moved on to closed transfering 3 kegs of neipa... well like 2 3/4 cause all the dryhops and I didn't get the full 17.5 gallon on brewday.

Then it was cleanup time, I know I know, everyone's favorite haha.

Now time to relax and had a homebrew.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Bottled a bitter… cleaned.

 

[ba-brewer]

Finished taking care of my slants by wrapping the caps with tape and put into the fridge.

Brewed a best bitter to test out the yeasts I propagated from the last slants to make sure they are still true.

 

[BrewMan13]

Had a "transfer of power" officers meeting for our brewclub. Since I'm the new president, I get to store everything... Also kicked the imperial stout and tapped the doppelbock. Immediately bottled a bunch for future competitions.

 

[aharri1]

Made a starter of 3rd gen 34/70 for my grodziskie. Still required 2L even though it's 3.5% LOL. I plan to do a decoction again. I did a double on a Oktoberfest last year, so I'm thinking of maybe doing a single on this one. I plan to mash in at 144 for 30 min, pull a third of the mash to boil for 5 to 10 min, and get it to 152 for 60 min.

 

[JAReeves]

Made a starter of 3rd gen 34/70 for my grodziskie. Still required 2L even though it's 3.5% LOL. I plan to do a decoction again. I did a double on a Oktoberfest last year, so I'm thinking of maybe doing a single on this one. I plan to mash in at 144 for 30 min, pull a third of the mash to boil for 5 to 10 min, and get it to 152 for 60 min.

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Does that have a UV lamp on it for bacterial control?

 

[grampamark]

Pulled a sample of the Bullwinkle Brown I brewed on the 12th. Should be able to bottle by the end of the week.

 

[loganklaas]

Dumped the trub jar out of my conical. It’s an Old Rasputin clone that I’ll keg on Friday. It has been a hell of an active batch!!

 

[aharri1]

Does that have a UV lamp on it for bacterial control?
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I think he just put lights in it to make it look cool. Not to my knowledge