What I did for beer today

[bellhp]

making invert sugar for a bitter .

 

[seatazzz]

Busy day in the brewery today. Kegged my Strata Pale, tapped my Clementine mead (first mead I've kegged), and set the latest Lutra Blonde to crash. Later tonight I'll mill grain for a clone recipe I'm trying tomorrow. Elysian Brewing came out with Men's Room Original Ale a couple of months ago, husband bought a sixer the other night, and I'm in love with it. Seems to be a fairly simple grain bill of two-row and munich, and only Comet hops; I have all of those on hand.

 

[Deric]

Kegged another batch of Festivusbier…

 

[Deric]

… then brewed a WCIPA.

 

[bracconiere]

got my strike water filled and milled my grain for what will be a LONG over do brew day tomorrow....

(my acidified sugar wash was a flop)

 

[brewbama]

Separated the grain for my next three brew days into storage buckets.

 

[Brushwood Brewing]

There used to be a brewery in town that specialized in spontaneously fermented, wild, and barrel aged ales. They have since moved out of state. I found an older bottle of a spontaneously fermented ale that they brewed while they were still in town.

Today I pitched the yeast from that bottle into a rye saison wort starter. I'm trying to start a local / hometown yeast bank, for future brews.

 

[bellhp]

Brewed " Dobby the house Bitter" with the invert I made last night.

 

[JAReeves]

Crossed a metric crap-tonne of items off the to-do list. A couple more scratches and I can schedule a guilt-free brew-day. I did mail some "yeast samples" to family for St. Patties.

 

[Deric]

Kegged another Hazy(ish) Pale thing…

 

[Deric]

… and cooked up some invert sugar for next batch.

 

[grampamark]

Brewed a Cream Ale. 4.5 gal into the fermenter @.040. Something for the lite beer drinkers.

 

[govner1]

My second judging session as a Steward for 2023 Peach State Brew Off ( PSBO)

 

[bracconiere]

welp, i missed brew day yesterday. but got off work early today, mashed in and got my maiden voyage of my spiffy brewing america mash hydro....unfortanly it told me first runnings are 1.060....but that was just after 5 minutes of mash time....hopefully it improves! that what i want my OG to be.....

 

[brewbama]

Brewed a Choc Cheerios Stout. I’ve had mixed reviews on beers brewed with cereal. Hopefully, it’ll be a good one.

 

[bracconiere]

Brewed a Choc Cheerios Stout. I’ve had mixed reviews on beers brewed with cereal. Hopefully, it’ll be a good one.

i'm going to have count chocula in my head the rest of the day.....

 

[seatazzz]

Yesterday ordered some Novalager from labelpeelers; morebeer is out of stock. Nobody around here carries it, so I got permission to order it online. Supposed to be here on Saturday, so an epic brewday planned for Sunday. And tapped my latest Lutra blonde, to keep my grubby paws off the lager that's supposed to go to competition in a couple of weeks. Now it's time for xbox and snuggling with dogs.

 

[Deric]

Took a drive to the HBS to stock up on base malts then spun up a starter for next batch

 

[vtmikko]

Already two days ago:

Bottled a batch of pils
Moved a batch of lager to the basement for lagering
Brewed a batch of dark mild

 

[day_trippr]

Got a 1318 starter started then set about racking a couple of kegs of Julius clone...

Cheers!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Cooked some organically grown golden beets for an up coming brew.

 

[mac_1103]

Moved my quad to 50F for another month of aging. Hit the expected FG spot on and it tastes pretty good - it's got maltiness, fruitiness and bitterness, but all are rather subtle and balanced. It ain't gonna be Westvleteren 12 (what is?), but it seems like it just might turn out OK.

 

[bellhp]

Bottled my "Toad Spit stout "

 

[HM-2]

Kicked the keg on my Bretted Belgian pale, so at some point today I'll be kegging up my "Victeron" hopfenweisse (which is on day 3 of dry hopping).
I'll then have to try and clean up my Fermzilla, because the yeast blowout has glued the lid on pretty hard.

 

[Edd Mather]

I posted a Pre Prohibition Porter recipe on my blog
https://beerhistorybloke.blogspot.com/2023/03/amsdell-brewing-malting-co-porter-1900.htmlCheers All , Edd

 

[HM-2]

Kicked the keg on my Bretted Belgian pale, so at some point today I'll be kegging up my "Victeron" hopfenweisse (which is on day 3 of dry hopping).
I'll then have to try and clean up my Fermzilla, because the yeast blowout has glued the lid on pretty hard.

Finally got round to this today. I'd intended on sticking it straight in the kegerator but the hop burn is pretty fierce (much worse than I'd expect for a 4oz dry hop, on par with some of my 12-ounce ones) so it'll be sitting in the keg under 12psi for a while before I tap it.

I have noticed the last few brews I'm getting a lot of hop matter from my whirlpool in the fermenter. Not sure why, it's not something I've experienced before, but might look to filtering in transfer. Wort clarity is the one thing I still don't seem to get quite right, suspect I'll need to bite the bullet and start crushing my own grain.

 

[VikeMan]

Wort clarity is the one thing I still don't seem to get quite right, suspect I'll need to bite the bullet and start crushing my own grain.

How is wort (or beer) clarity related to grain crush?

 

[HM-2]

How is wort (or beer) clarity related to grain crush?

Finer crush had more flour-like small particle size materials, which take longer to drop out/settle and are therefore more likely to still be in suspension after cooling and transfer.

At least, that's been my assumption so far, given that I can predict with a high degree of accuracy whether my wort is going to look like mud based on how fine my crush is. One particular supplier I use more out of convenience than desire frequently ships me malt that's about 15% course flour by my eye.


To be fair, this beer was particularly bad due to being 55% wheat malt.

 

[day_trippr]

Planning to brew another batch of Fantastic Haze clone tomorrow, got the rig loaded with RO water, measured out the grains for milling first thing in the morning, and have the water salts ready to go. Hoping to strike early!

Cheers!

 

[RCope]

I, too have everything set for brewing in the AM. Janet's Brown Ale, haven't had a nice brown in a long time.