What I did for beer today

[ba-brewer]

I don't think Voss likes to flocculate. At all. Makes some tasty and very unique beers though.

I have used Voss a few times before but I didn't recall it being so cloudy. On reviewing my notes I see the beers were noted as being hazy I had used gelatin on all of the previous uses too.

This time it was very cloudy not hazy but this is the fastest I have went from grain to glass(10days). The beer was drinkable but cloudier than I prefer, I will transfer it to another keg in a few days and give it a few weeks to condition.

 

[grampamark]

Scored 2, near new, ball locks to add to the quick ‘n’ dirty keezer.

We were visiting with our neighbor across the street, who is something of a hoarder. His garage is filled to overflowing with all the stuff he collects while dumpster diving. My wife saw six corny kegs sitting by the door and asked Ray if he was getting into homebrewing. He said “No, Why?”. She pointed to the kegs and he said “so that’s what those are for”. Turns out that his brother and SIL had recently bought a house and found the kegs in the attic above the garage. They didn‘t know what they were for, either, so gave them to Ray because-Ray.

Anyway, long story short, I got 2 for 30 bucks apiece. I don’t think they’re used soda kegs; they’re too shiny and undented, and have short gas dip tubes. I was at the LHBS today and the owner said he’d take the other 4 @$30.

 

[wetmk]

Haven't brewed since 2/20. Contractor will finish brew area this weekend and I can get back into it. Picked up this beauty to tide me over.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Scored 2, near new, ball locks to add to the quick ‘n’ dirty keezer.
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We were visiting with our neighbor across the street, who is something of a hoarder. His garage is filled to overflowing with all the stuff he collects while dumpster diving. My wife saw six corny kegs sitting by the door and asked Ray if he was getting into homebrewing. He said “No, Why?”. She pointed to the kegs and he said “so that’s what those are for”. Turns out that his brother and SIL had recently bought a house and found the kegs in the attic above the garage. They didn‘t know what they were for, either, so gave them to Ray because-Ray.

Anyway, long story short, I got 2 for 30 bucks apiece. I don’t think they’re used soda kegs; they’re too shiny and undented, and have short gas dip tubes. I was at the LHBS today and the owner said he’d take the other 4 @$30.

Well you've had quite the success in your recent beer war raids. Worthy of song and praise ! Now only if my queen were as understanding of brewing ill gotten booty as yours. There's a certain finesse and pride in acquiring brewing treasure which certain cretins label as junk. Curses unto those of the brewing uninitiated ! You're a brewing hero grandpa !!!

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Brew Day Friday for me. Perfect day too since not much to do outside with the predicated high temps, geez, 91 right now.

Brewing an amber, almost done with the boil right now, only 78 in the brewery.

 

[Dr_Jeff]

Kegged ~14 gallons of hard lemonade.
7 Gallon of pink lemonade
7 gallons of lemon-lime lemonade

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Kegged ~14 gallons of hard lemonade.
7 Gallon of pink lemonade
7 gallons of lemon-lime lemonade

Hard lemonade - yummy. That would go down good on a hot day! Congratulations!!

 

[Immocles]

Packaged a blonde ale for the summer. 3G keg and 18 bottles. Naturally priming the keg since my fridge is full and I was making a lime addition to the beer anyway. I hadn't made a priming solution in ages and I forgot how annoying I find them.
Hoping the lime comes through because the ale is otherwise tasting a little bland...

 

[BrewZer]

Squeezed 6.2 gallons of Lawn Mower Ale out of 13 pounds of fermentables and 8 gallons of water. Software predicted 1.059 OG, I managed to hit 1.063. My "expired" Dusseldorfer Alt yeast spun for 3 days, and pitched nicely -- 3 hours in and we've got a thin layer of kreusen already! The gravity sample has great balance (other than being sweet) but there's a lot of trub, so I wonder if I screwed something up...

 

[seatazzz]

Set the Too-early-dry-hopped IPA to crashing, with an eye to kegging tomorrow. Going out tonight to see Ron White at Little Creek Casino (about a 90 minute drive) with no hotel stay, so it's gonna be a sleep-in kinda day for me tomorrow. Still might squeeze in a brew, need another batch of my celebrated (by me and husband) Lutra blonde. And got the Amazon order for stuff to make my 4-tap kegerator into a 5-tap; was looking for something in the garage yesterday, and found the extra brand-new tap and shaft that I thought was lost. Gotta use it!! Already have a 6-way manifold, so plenty of room for another co2 line. Now I just need enough beer for five taps.....

 

[ba-brewer]

Working a starter of wlp835 Lager X up from a slant, about half way there. I normally do a Marzen for October drinking, but I am going to do a festbier this year. I see there is contest about that time so I might enter it if it tastes good.

Canned 4gal of starter wort, 14 quarts, 7 pints, 7 half pints and 7 quarter pints.

The last time I bought corn sugar it was about 2 dollars per pound so I did 1.5 pounds of invert sugar using table sugar in the pressure cooker while I was canning the wort.

 

[bracconiere]

Canned 4gal of starter wort, 14 quarts, 7 pints, 7 half pints and 7 quarter pints.

for 4 gallons, i'd probably just drop a corny keg in a boiling water pot with a spunding valve.....push out as needed...but i gotta say impressive!

 

[ba-brewer]

for 4 gallons, i'd probably just drop a corny keg in a boiling water pot with a spunding valve.....push out as needed...but i gotta say impressive!

Sort of a interesting idea not sure you need a spunding valve, but the keg would be taking up space in a cooler displacing beer. The sterile jars can sit on shelf in the garage. I want/need sterile wort for the first few steps(small jars) to give the desired yeast a fair chance to grow.

 

[bracconiere]

Sort of a interesting idea not sure you need a spunding valve, but the keg would be taking up space in a cooler displacing beer.

just need a extra keg for canning in, and a spunding valve would be like a loose lid in a mason jar? just take it off after heating so it can vacuum seal? now that i think about that, not sure the seal from below lid would work with that, maybe hit it with 30psi of co2 after 'canning'....and if you leave your jars in the garage, why not the keg?

 

[ba-brewer]

just need a extra keg for canning in, and a spunding valve would be like a loose lid in a mason jar? just take it off after heating so it can vacuum seal? now that i think about that, not sure the seal from below lid would work with that, maybe hit it with 30psi of co2 after 'canning'....and if you leave your jars in the garage, why not the keg?

The jars are heated to 245F via boiling at 15psi so they dont need refrigeration. A sanitized keg of wort would need to be refrigerated to food safe temps down around 37F. Not sure the shelf life in the fridge but pretty sure it would be less than sterile jars. The last batch of canned starter was close to 5 months ago, I still have half the small jars left.

 

[bracconiere]

The jars are heated to 245F via boiling at 15psi so they dont need refrigeration. A sanitized keg of wort would need to be refrigerated to food safe temps down around 37F. Not sure the shelf life in the fridge but pretty sure it would be less than sterile jars. The last batch of canned starter was close to 5 months ago, I still have half the small jars left.

245f? i think you can get away with just bringing it to a boil with spunding valve releasing pressure? then seal the keg off with some co2...

i mean normal canning isn't done at 250f, and 15psi just steam and a boil isn't it? loose lids, then tighten them as they cool down to create a vacuum?

 

[ba-brewer]

245f? i think you can get away with just bringing it to a boil with spunding valve releasing pressure? then seal the keg off with some co2...

i mean normal canning isn't done at 250f, and 15psi just steam and a boil isn't it? loose lids, then tighten them as they cool down to create a vacuum?

If you are canning low acid products you need to get the temp up.

There might be a faster less work way of doing it but I would prefer to not have to worry if it is good enough.

 

[seatazzz]

This is a combination "what I did for beer today" and "mishaps blah blah afraid to admit all friends here" post. So I'm gearing up to add the fifth tap to the kegerator; got the wood backing piece cut (after clearing a whole bunch of stuff off my table saw, aka place to set random brewing stuff and new angle grinder that I'm not brave enough to use yet). Hole drilled in the kegerator door with my trusty hole saw. Cannot find bottle of glue anywhere, that my tiny little brain insists I used for the last tap add. Turned house upside down, nothing. So decided to use silicone, yeah I'm too impatient for that. Sitting here thinking well here's another trip to HD for glue, when it hit me; I OWN A GLUE GUN. With GORILLA GLUE STICKS. Which is what I used to add the wood backing for the last tap. Said glue gun is now heating up to affix the wood backing. Sometimes I'm amazed I manage to dress myself every morning.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Went to the club brew day to drop off the gold plated lawnmower blade for the limbo Challenge competition. Sampled a few HBs too.

 

[bwible]

Bought a tapless kegerator to use as a fermentation chamber for lagers. Had to be ordered and I will pick it up when it comes in around July 9.

I considered many options and I thought this was the best one.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/EdgeStar-U...tor-for-Kegerator-Conversion-Black/5005373369

 

[grampamark]

Brewed an Amber Ale today. Predicted OG was .053. Close enough.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Nothin, darn it.

 

[seatazzz]

More shenanigans. After my previous (very hilarious, come on guys need more likes) post, discovered that I ordered not only the wrong duotight connectors, but also the wrong size duotight for the end of the shank once I get that installed. This is what I get for thinking I know what Amazon is saying. Quick order to brewhardware.com (thanks @Bobby_M for having those premade ball-lock w/tubing and shank duotights!) , and the correct fittings (as well as new false bottoms for both the BK and the MT) will be winging their way to me later next week. And I mowed both lawns, changed out the furnace filter, and about to go get kitchen ready for dinner. Later I might mill grain for brewday tomorrow. Yep I like to keep busy.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Yesterday Saturday I got my brew kettle and mashtun cleaned up from Friday's Amber brew day. Also dumped the last two buckets (three total) of spent grain in the woods. Great brew day and better yet now that it's all cleaned up, even scrubbed the floor from a couple small spills.

 

[jwill911]

Today was like Xmas. I made a mistake when I ordered my kegerator with three taps. Why would I need anymore than three? Well today I fixed my mistake. I now have a four tap

Also gave me the opportunity to reorganize the interior. I soaked the new EVA barrier beer lines in hot water long enough to remove it's memory of the tight bends, labeled the lines every 10" or so and made cut the lines the correct length. The added bonus is the four tap tower is taller which makes for filling larger growler easier. BTW temperature is 64 degrees 'cause I just turned it back on after the upgrade. Cheers Oh that is my Fresh Squeezed clone in the IPA glass my son gave me for Father's Day.

 

[bwible]

Today was like Xmas. I made a mistake when I ordered my kegerator with three taps. Why would I need anymore than three? Well today I fixed my mistake. I now have a four tap

Also gave me the opportunity to reorganize the interior. I soaked the new EVA barrier beer lines in hot water long enough to remove it's memory of the tight bends, labeled the lines every 10" or so and made cut the lines the correct length. The added bonus is the four tap tower is taller which makes for filling larger growler easier. BTW temperature is 64 degrees 'cause I just turned it back on after the upgrade. Cheers Oh that is my Fresh Squeezed clone in the IPA glass my son gave me for Father's Day.View attachment 773159

Does the kegerator hold 4 cornies inside? If so thats awesome. Mine will hold 3. And I have 2 taps which I still think is good for me. I use the space for the third keg to lager.

 

[jwill911]

Yep. Four corny kegs fit. I have one with carbonated filtered water. Still cold crashing my latest brew Haze Craze NEIPA.

 

[BrewZer]

Today was like Xmas. I made a mistake when I ordered my kegerator with three taps. Why would I need anymore than three? Well today I fixed my mistake. I now have a four tap

Also gave me the opportunity to reorganize the interior. I soaked the new EVA barrier beer lines in hot water long enough to remove it's memory of the tight bends, labeled the lines every 10" or so and made cut the lines the correct length. The added bonus is the four tap tower is taller which makes for filling larger growler easier. BTW temperature is 64 degrees 'cause I just turned it back on after the upgrade. Cheers Oh that is my Fresh Squeezed clone in the IPA glass my son gave me for Father's Day.View attachment 773159

Darn you! Now you've got me thinking about moving from bottles to kegs... and it won't be cheap!

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Today was like Xmas. I made a mistake when I ordered my kegerator with three taps. Why would I need anymore than three? Well today I fixed my mistake. I now have a four tap

Also gave me the opportunity to reorganize the interior. I soaked the new EVA barrier beer lines in hot water long enough to remove it's memory of the tight bends, labeled the lines every 10" or so and made cut the lines the correct length. The added bonus is the four tap tower is taller which makes for filling larger growler easier. BTW temperature is 64 degrees 'cause I just turned it back on after the upgrade. Cheers Oh that is my Fresh Squeezed clone in the IPA glass my son gave me for Father's Day.View attachment 773159

Very nice. I love the black taps! Merry Christmas, or whatever you want to call it!

 

[govner1]

Participated with one of my brew clubs in a brew day in cooperation with a local brewery.
5 bbl’s of a base pale ale that can be fermented with the yeasts of our choice for a variety of beers.
I’m done no an APA and a Belgian Pale Ale.