What I did for beer today

[MrClint]

Today I brewed a 1g all extract beer with 1/2 Pilsner DME and 1/2 Amber DME. Boil time 30+ minutes, Cascade hops 5.5g/4g/4g. Guess it's an American Amber Ale?

 

[leedspointbrew]

Today I brewed a 1g all extract beer with 1/2 Pilsner DME and 1/2 Amber DME. Boil time 30+ minutes, Cascade hops 5.5g/4g/4g. Guess it's an American Amber Ale?

An Northern Brewer Block Party Amber got me started on my current ridiculous brewing adventure. No one's sure if that first kit was a good idea.....

 

[JAReeves]

Cleaning, moving beers from barrels to kegs, and fermenters to barrels.

 

[Deric]

Brewed a hazy pale…

 

[South Arm Brew]

Bought some grains for a Christmas Stout and a Christmas Cookie Blonde at the local brewery.

 

[seatazzz]

This morning before work dropped 1oz Citra in the IPA I brewed yesterday; recipe calls for it at high krausen, which this has in spades. My ferment fridge is an old Samsung french door, solid as a rock, and I can hear it blorping away even with music turned up. Also made a sweatshirt that turned out well, and created a monster; husband went to the fabric store today to buy fabric for me to make jammie pants for him.

 

[ba-brewer]

Kegged part of my oatmeal stout and moved the rest to secondary on roasted beets. Did not take long for the yeast to wake up and start working on the beets. I had tasted some of the beets after roasting and they did have some sweetness(tasted like dirt first though). The earthy flavor of beets is not too different from fuggle hops to me so seem like it should taste just fine.

Also brewed an ordinary bitter which went well until the very end when I got the beer chilled down to about 90F. I was not seeing the wort breaking and that was when I realized I forgot to add whirfloc. Not the first time I have forgotten to add whirfloc but it was the first I reheated the wort back to add whirfloc and give it a short boil.

Today was also the last time I will be using my supermodel hydrometer tube. I let the hydrometer slide down the side a little too fast and fracture the bottom. From the sound of contact I knew something broke and was really surprised the the tube went and not the hydrometer. Bottom was still in place so a little tape to keep it there a little longer.

 

[South Arm Brew]

Brewed my Jolly Stout yesterday, bubbling away today. Getting ready to brew my Christmas Sugar Cookie blonde ale. Not sure how that will turn out!

 

[Airborneguy]

Picked up an entire setup today from my buddy who has had it stored away for years. I guess as of today I am official “back in business”. Time to get cleaning!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Added toasted coconut and dry hop Sabro hops to a stout.

 

[South Arm Brew]

Brewing a Christmas Sugar Cookie blonde ale.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Cleaning out the kegerator ( sanitize ) and cleaning and sanitizing the beer lines in prep for kegging Sat or Sun...oh what joy ! Tonight it's bottle sanitizing

 

[Airborneguy]

I’m cleaning all of the equipment I’ve re-acquired so far. Man I forgot how backbreaking this **** can be!

 

[TwelveEighteenBrewing]

Brewing a Christmas Sugar Cookie blonde ale.

That sounds pretty delicious. Any chance there's a recipe you can share?

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Kegged my standard bitter.

 

[seatazzz]

Finally dropped the Mosaic Incognito™ in my IPA; turned out all I needed to do was let the little jar sit in hot water about 10 minutes, came out just fine. Also dropped Citra and CTZ which was supposed to be Chinook, but someone forgot they were out of Chinook. And finally got entry for upcoming (as in due tomorrow) competition bottled, and labelled; husband bowls tonight in the alley right down the street from LHBS so he will drop them off, what a pearl he is. It's an american strong that has bourbon-soaked oak cubes in it, that I brewed way back in May. Took a taste of it before bottling and am amazed at the bourbon flavor. Competition is an all-dark with minimum SRM at 18, this one is about 26 to my uneducated eyes. Not expecting a win but looking forward to comments.

 

[South Arm Brew]

That sounds pretty delicious. Any chance there's a recipe you can share?

I made it up myself. My wife makes sugar cookies for Christmas and suggested I make one. So here goes.

12 lbs 2-row
2 lbs c-20
3-11 oz boxes of Crav’n vanilla wafers in the mash
158 degree mash 1 hour.
2 oz Styrian Cardinale hops 60 min.
1-11 oz box Crav’n vanilla wafer in boil 10 min.

I plan on vanilla bean in secondary and addition 4oz almond extract in secondary. Not sure about that but will taste it first.

We will see

 

[HM-2]

Cleaned and sanitized my Fermzilla in preparation for my English IPA brew at the weekend.

 

[Airborneguy]

After nearly 10 years, I’m brewing!

Atonement Brown Porter coming up!

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/atonement-brown-porter-2011-hbt-gold-category-12.238714/

 

[grampamark]

Kegged the Bullwinkle Brown (Moose Drool clone) that I brewed a few weeks ago.

 

[seanjwalker1]

After nearly 10 years, I’m brewing!

Atonement Brown Porter coming up!

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/atonement-brown-porter-2011-hbt-gold-category-12.238714/

Welcome Back Airborne !!!

 

[Airborneguy]

Welcome Back Airborne !!!

Thanks! Hopefully I’m successful in this attempt to hit the ground running.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Sanitized the 3 gal Anvil fermenter to transfer 3 gal of the 5 gal batch so I can cold crash a few days before kegging, sanitized 14 bottles for the other 2 gal. Will have some British Honey Brown on hand for Thanksgiving. Time to get cracking on a Xmas ale. Every year it's Xmas stout or porter. Maybe a white Xmas ale with spices ??? Seems kinda weird though...

 

[seanjwalker1]

Thanks! Hopefully I’m successful in this attempt to hit the ground running.

Like riding a bike. And if not what do we do ? Improvise, Overcome , Adapt.

 

[Airborneguy]

Like riding a bike. And if not what do we do ? Improvise, Overcome , Adapt.

Hell yeah brother. Airborne!

 

[seanjwalker1]

Hell yeah brother. Airborne!

Ground pounding medic myself...but I feel you ! HooRah

 

[Airborneguy]

Ground pounding medic myself...but I feel you ! HooRah

No complaints here. You’d have been on the ground if I needed you!

 

[seanjwalker1]

Transferred 3 gallons of honey Brown ale off the yeast to secondary so I can cold crash for 2 or 3 days, bottled 2 gallons. Looks and taste, smells great ! Thanksgiving football is gonna be good ! I can still smell the sweet malt in the air !

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Milled grain for next weekends brew, gonne be a 1.065 late Victorian era inspired London Single Stout.
Lots of Amber, Brown and Black malt, about 1g/L of boiled oak chips in the fermenter and a hefty dry hop at pitch time.
Will likely require at least 4 months in the keg to smooth out...

 

[BrewZer]

I made it up myself. My wife makes sugar cookies for Christmas and suggested I make one. So here goes.

12 lbs 2-row
2 lbs c-20
3-11 oz boxes of Crav’n vanilla wafers in the mash
158 degree mash 1 hour.
2 oz Styrian Cardinale hops 60 min.
1-11 oz box Crav’n vanilla wafer in boil 10 min.

I plan on vanilla bean in secondary and addition 4oz almond extract in secondary. Not sure about that but will taste it first.

We will see

Yeast?

Meanwhile, back in the fermenter, sampled and measured the Amberspice Ale. Looks like my higher-than-normal mash temp (158) left me with a less fermentable wort, but that's OK 'cause my beers tend to run a bit heavy for a 22 oz bottle.

Still very spicy up-front, malty in the middle, with a nice bit of bitterness at the back. You can drink it now -- I imagine it will be even better once carbonated.