What I did for beer today

[Deric]

Kegged a Best Bitter…

 

[seanjwalker1]

Been a bit lax around here lately; had the flu earlier this week (still getting over it) and not much done for beer. Mead, however, is an excellent thing to have when you're sick. Busy gal today, exchanged my 5lb co2 tank, kegged off my Comet Ale (an Elysian Men's Room Original Ale clone, kinda), and dry hopped the NEIPA for a competition coming up. Next I'm milling grain for the WF lager I'll brew tomorrow, and ferment on Lallemand Novalager. Was supposed to do it last weekend but forgetful me forgot about the 5th beer for the competition that still had to be brewed.

Hope you are feeling better !

 

[seatazzz]

Hope you are feeling better !

Now the husband has it. I hope I didn't whine and b*tch as much as he did when I had it. At least I got to have more fun with my temperature gun. It's not the 'rona, both of us tested negative; just your garden variety nasty flu bug that goes around this time of year.

 

[T Murph]

Wishing you and the hubs a speedy recovery. After all there is beer to consume.

 

[bracconiere]

i cleaned my boil kettle.... lol

 

[bwible]

Today’s Goodwill finds. I especially love the design of these martini glasses. .5L mug, I now have 3.

 

[seatazzz]

Kegged the WF Lager I fermented on Lallemand Novalager yeast last week. It was done in about 3 days, sat for another four to clean up, then got a nice gradual crash. Taste on kegging isn't phenomenal but definitely lacking the sulfur I get with other lager yeasts. 1.052 down to 1.010 for a nice 5.5%ABV. Should be ready to tap by Wednesday, I'll report back then. In other news, cleaned the ceiling fan in the bedroom; uck.

 

[brewbama]

Brewed a hybrid of sorts today. APA grain and hop flavors with English yeast and Best Bitter session strength.

 

[Ren06]

Brewing a no boil NEIPA with all Citra

 

[BrewMan13]

Got preparations ready to do a maibock tomorrow. Also recently did a little work on my very slowly progressing keggle conversion lol.

 

[day_trippr]

Kegged another batch of Fantastic Haze clone...

...and am now watching Bruins vs Lightning while kitting up for tomorrow's imperial chocolate stout brew...

Cheers!

 

[Roxhambrewshed]

I took advantage of lots of RO water from this monster at my best friend's Maple syrup operation.
Also, had to stick around for a taste of this year's liquid gold!

 

[grampamark]

Kegged the Wheat Ale I brewed a couple of weeks ago. I used a new to me keg. Changed the o-rings but didn’t pressure test it before transferring the beer. Doh. It leaks fairly quickly, but no amount of spraying, dunking, or listening has revealed the source. So, I retrieved another empty and pressurized it. So far, so good. I do have enough hardware to rig a liquid-to-liquid line to transfer, but I’m going to give the recieving keg a few hours, just to be sure.

 

[BeerAndTele]

Stovetop 2.5 gal BIAB batch today. It's my go-to.

2-row, golden promise, and a little crystal 60. Magnum, Centennial and Chinook.
Split into 2 fermenters: wlp001 Cal ale in one, wlp002 English ale in the other. Will dry hop both with Centennial and Chinook when the krausen falls.

Cheers.

 

[ba-brewer]

Brewed a best bitter today, 92% maris otter and 8% homemade invert#1, bittered with target and finished with goldings.

Also learned today my wort meter can measure snow.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Today’s Goodwill finds. I especially love the design of these martini glasses. .5L mug, I now have 3.

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It's so wonderful to know I'm not the only brewer who enjoys going on barbarian brew glass raids !!! My wife still scoffs and turns her nose up at my war bounty ! She just doesn't understand that to us it's priceless treasure !!

 

[seanjwalker1]

Stovetop 2.5 gal BIAB batch today. It's my go-to.

2-row, golden promise, and a little crystal 60. Magnum, Centennial and Chinook.
Split into 2 fermenters: wlp001 Cal ale in one, wlp002 English ale in the other. Will dry hop both with Centennial and Chinook when the krausen falls.

Cheers.

Love love love Golden Promise

 

[FloppyKnockers]

My Vittles Vault cracked for the last time, so I pulled the trigger and bent my chill plate down on my mini fridge to fit a standard bucket in there. The task was as easy as described, but without the ceiling mounts, the plate just kinda flops around back there.

I modeled some crude clips in SketchUp, saved as STL, and printed off a couple, then used some double stick tape to fasten them. Works really well! Can't upload STL files, but if I can PM it, I will upon request.

 

[VikeMan]

Prototype for a special project.

 

[T Murph]

I finished my work center peg board. Took most of the week due to delayed amazon deliveries.

 

[seatazzz]

Bottled off the mead I made last month using local raspberry honey, and champagne yeast for the first time. Came out a bit dryer than I expected, but still a very tasty drink. Not so dry that I need to backsweeten it, tastes like a good dry riesling to me. Going to let it sit in the bottles for another month then give some away, and save some for fall competitions.

 

[VikeMan]

Latest (last?) configuration of the hop dropper, now with all tri-clamp connections, eliminting NPT threads.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Latest (last?) configuration of the hop dropper, now with all tri-clamp connections, eliminting NPT threads.

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Very, very NICE!

I'm milling grain, getting ready for a brew this week.

 

[mac_1103]

Bottled my Dark Strong Ale. Hope it winds up tasting half as good as it looks.


It's going to be hard to wait another two months to drink this.

 

[bellhp]

Just bottled my latest batch of " Dobby the house bitter" .
Not sure about this one ... used yeast recovered from my homemade "Burton Union" system ... tasted a bit off ... not sour but not what I expected either . I'll let it carb up and then evaluate it again.
was going to use a different strain yeast on the next batch anyway.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

my homemade "Burton Union" system

Do have a picture to share? That sounds interesting.

Thank you!

 

[bellhp]

Do have a picture to share? That sounds interesting.

Lol , I wish it was interesting ... it was just a blowoff tube and a sanitized collection jar Sorry to disappoint .
I have been harvesting yeast from Trub at end of fermentation successfully but I thought maybe I would get better results harvesting from Krauzen via a caveman "Burton Union" . The yeast I harvested looked nice and clean , no hops etc . so I had hopes for the technique as my one gallon fermenters always blow off Krauzen anyway so might as well collect the yeast.
I'm not sure yet if it was a failure , will have to wait and see .

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Getting a couple entries ready for 8 seconds of froth in Wyoming. Bringing in competition prizes for my club’s brew off, and some yeast that is all mine. If you like to brew competitively the link is in my signature.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

3/30: weighed out grain, milled into mashtun and got the HLT filled and temp dialed in.

Today, 3/31: Mashtun filled with water and the mash has started!

On deck - a wheat brew. Half with be conditioned with tart cherries and the other half maybe straight up.

 

[T Murph]

That sounds good @OakIslandBrewery