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What I did for beer today
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Kegging my 10 gallons of Sterling Bitter today.
John
John
Cleaning up from a brew yesterday - Raptor Red Amber is in the fermenter burping away.
Kegged off my Strata Pale and plain hard seltzer this morning. Husband wanted to go to Puyallup Oktoberfest today, but I convinced him that staying home, drinking some of his wife's amazing homebrew, and watching our 20-year-playoff-drought-breaking Mariners hopefully kick the BlueJays butts is a better option. I might even make some popcorn. Also going to make some candy.
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Finally kegged my fizzy yellow swill version of an Oktoberfest after work tonight. It hit TG from 1.057 on day five, then spent another thirty days at 35F waiting for a keg to open up.
I've been looking forward to this one all summer, so it's a relief to finally have it in a serving keg.
Lastly, I did a bit of cleaning up of my Brewsmith files from this past winter, spring, and summer. I recall that some of you got a kick out of my Great Beersmith Cleanup from a year or so ago and my tendency to write pithy tasting notes. So here's a tasting note from a beer that I brewed this summer that featured some seriously soft water that was meant to validate my drift over the past two years toward ever chunkier water in my lagers:
"You designed this beer fail and it has. In the future, focus more on making good beer and less on methodological rigor. Methodological rigor makes for five gallons of !($*%$ beer."
I've been looking forward to this one all summer, so it's a relief to finally have it in a serving keg.
Lastly, I did a bit of cleaning up of my Brewsmith files from this past winter, spring, and summer. I recall that some of you got a kick out of my Great Beersmith Cleanup from a year or so ago and my tendency to write pithy tasting notes. So here's a tasting note from a beer that I brewed this summer that featured some seriously soft water that was meant to validate my drift over the past two years toward ever chunkier water in my lagers:
"You designed this beer fail and it has. In the future, focus more on making good beer and less on methodological rigor. Methodological rigor makes for five gallons of !($*%$ beer."
Had a good weekend for beer. Kicked a keg of honey lager and had a batch of peanut butter stout waiting to be kegged.
Then went to a friend's house and helped him brew 2 of the 3 batches he had planned for the day.
Then went to a friend's house and helped him brew 2 of the 3 batches he had planned for the day.
bracconiere
Jolly Alcoholic - In Remembrance 2023
i deculmed some malt for what will hopefully be my first lager in like 5-6 years, and first brew day since july.
kinda getting bored with fermented sugar water, i think break time is getting about done.
kinda getting bored with fermented sugar water, i think break time is getting about done.
Kegged the Blonde Ale I brewed last month. I now have 3 beers on tap and 2 more kegged. Happiness is a full pipeline. 
bracconiere
Jolly Alcoholic - In Remembrance 2023
Happiness is a full pipeline.
damn sometimes these forums get fraternal-polar, and it's not always me....
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/magic-keg.703734/
BrewMan13
Whole Nother Level Brewing
Both of my marzen kegs kicked at my friends' Oktoberfest over the weekend. So last night I finally cleaned those kegs, and the line. Also I decided I had enough of the roggenbier, so I put the rest of that in a growler so I could put 2 new beers on tap (have another party this weekend, so need to get them carbonated anyway). A couple of messes to clean up along the way, but 2 fresh kegs are on and everything that needed to be cleaned has been.
Well that's certainly a sad moment . . . . .
Kicked the keg on my APA. Time to brew again.
bracconiere
Jolly Alcoholic - In Remembrance 2023
Brew Day! 
A Happy Day for sure! What's on the menu?Brew Day!
bracconiere
Jolly Alcoholic - In Remembrance 2023
my first attempt at homemalt lager since i modified my oven, got the fridge down to 51f, two outdated packs of S-23...which is what motivated me to do a lager, they've been sitting in the fridge for many years.
and now that i got a cheat to keep the kegs full making hard seltzer, can spare one of my fermenters for a fews weeks to ferment with the coveted temp control! set to the max!
just all 'base malt' haven't even checked to see what hops i have to add yet...
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It's always something, and if it's not something, it's something else . . . . . Been there.
That's an excellent title for a homebrewing book.
I've been fighting a slow, years-long retrograde battle with the beer stone in my kettle and decided to escalate the violence with this stuff. I've made a bit of headway with it this evening, but it's no miracle cure. I'll give it another shot tomorrow.
If you spray it on your computer, does it protect you from social media?
Hmmm....but why stop there?
You've got me thinking about trying it in the shower tomorrow.
BS Remover - boy I could have used some of that when I was working at my job.
Brewer dad
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Brewed the single tree: spice bush ale from the Homebrewer’s almanac. The berries, and probably the leaves, really darkened it up.
Brewed 5 gal of Bullwinkle Brown. Lotsa bubbles in the blowoff bottle already; pitched the yeast about 1 1/2 hours ago (3rd gen Nottingham).
Bottle some beers for a contest, Grampmark's Alt, a dark mild and a strong bitter. I was going to enter a festbier but it was not up to snuff.
Today is just beginning for me, once coffee is ready my day will really start. For today I'll drop the yeast from my fermented Raptor Red I brewed a week ago. I'll get two kegs ready; sanitized and ready to fill.
So that's what I'll do for beer today.
So that's what I'll do for beer today.
