What I did for beer today

[Hoppy2bmerry]

It took some time, and patience pays off. It’s alive.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I kept this little one from getting into hot water.

 

[JAReeves]

Kegged the lager, wort was from a hombrew club brew day at Scholb in Torrance. Just added some Hallertau Magnum after bringing it up to temp. Dry, lightly bitter, looking forward to cold and carbonated.

EDIT: Had more time than expected, so also kegged the Pale Ale. Also wort from Scholb, but this one got a WP and DDH of Galena.

 

[HutBrew]

Drove 75mi one way to buy a few secondary regulators. Guy selling them, flips auctioned storage units, he had a bunch of bar equipment from a unit, that was the “extra crap” that came with some appliances he wanted in a unit.

$50 for 3 regs- but I ended up with 4 for the same price.

We talked for a while, as he didn’t know what secondary regulators were or much about homebrewing in general.

He then asked if I wanted the “CO2 tanks” that went with them free of charge, otherwise his scrapper buddy was gonna take them.

He pulled out these three beauties and I just had to save them from being melted down like Woody and Buzz… at least that’s how I justified it to my lovely wife.

Not bad for a $50 FB Market Place haul!

 

[day_trippr]

"Winning!"

 

[HutBrew]

Just tested all the secondaries- they all function as they should!

Any ideas on how to “de-gross-ify” the inside of the regulators? Or will just leaving them on CO2 for a while kill off unwanted microbial hitchhikers?

They really aren’t bad looking, I just know they’ve been in a dusty storage place for years.

 

[seanjwalker1]

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Escargot!!

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Escargot !

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Escargot!!

Escargot !

It was too small for that.

 

[fluketamer]

after nipping at the keg all day and going through my homebrew junk i got the weird idea of mounting a tap inside my kegerator? i dont want to drill holes anywhere so i just clamped a shank onto one of the shelves in the door. i know its very last minute but its much more fun to pour out of than my picnic taps. now im thinking of the kitchen fridge next. if i dont have to drill holes the missus will prolly let me put a tap inside there.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Bottled up the remainder of piwo that didn’t make it past the first round of nationals.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Yesterday I brewed 10 litres of Citra Pale Ale
2000g Maris otter
200g Biscuit malt
100g Dextrose @ 10 minutes
30 minutes boil
13g Citra @ 30m
12g Citra @ 10 minutes
US05 equivalent yeast.

 

[Jack_0106]

I went to work....

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Called in sick (and made beer wort) ...

 

[fluketamer]

i transferred my taller kegs and bottles to my new minikegerator. i got this one to fit my 3.5 liter Amber PET barrel bottle growlers.

 

[Wrendelar]

Kegged the Cuckoo Laison, this beer is already crystal clear and tasted good still and chilled. Terminal gravity ended at 1.000 but it didn’t taste as dry. It’s carbing and should be ready this weekend.

cleaned fermenter and 1 corny and 1 oxebow PET keg

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Bottled my Amber Ale, then poured the stout I brewed this morning on top of the Amber's yeast cake.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Getting 5 entries for 2 comps ready to ship. Tomorrow I have more beer to bottle, and I checked on my APA and Kolsch. APA still chugging away and Kolsch is lagging -my fault for not making a starter with liquid yeast.

 

[balrog]

made a Goose Island Honkers Ale.
Sad that I cannot ever get the real thing to compare any more.

 

[Wrendelar]

Brewed the VonLola Imperial Porter just missed my numbers by .01 but that’s not the end of the world. Also dropped the oak spirals in 500ml of Elijah Craig Small Batch and made the vanilla bean tincture.

then the usual clean everything and get it ready for Monday where the Velvet Scoter Vienna Lager will get brewed.

 

[Beerstein]

I brewed what I'm calling an "Emergency Marzen." First attempt at pressure fermenting a lager.

 

[Bramling Cross]

I kegged two beers today.

Both were important beers because they weren't old favorites. Both were beers that pushed my knowledge and I was really on egg shells as to whether they'd come through.

Signs were positive. The helles tasted a lot like a beer that I would like to drink (first helles ever that I can say that about) and the brown stout verified that my new methodology for UK ales works on dark worts.

Looking forward to next friday when I can actually see what they're really made of.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Okay, I didn’t do the bottling because I was shopping for the rest of the ingredients for dinner and then cooking it. I’ll have ample free time on Sunday for that. The kolsch yeast is finally active and doesn’t stink like when I pitched it.

 

[Dgallo]

Dryhopped my wet hopped cold ipa last night. In boil I used mosaic and Columbus t90, whirlpool I used my homegrown wet hop Columbus and Cascade, and last night I dryhopped with my wet hop cashmere and some mosaic t90

 

[Dgallo]

Getting 5 entries for 2 comps ready to ship. Tomorrow I have more beer to bottle, and I checked on my APA and Kolsch. APA still chugging away and Kolsch is lagging -my fault for not making a starter with liquid yeast.

What comps?

 

[balrog]

Dryhopped my wet hopped cold ipa last night. In boil I used mosaic and Columbus t90, whirlpool I used my homegrown wet hop Columbus and Cascade, and last night I dryhopped with my wet hop cashmere and some mosaic t90 View attachment 828911

You're approaching the singularity point wherein the fermenter is top to bottom hops and the beer is only in between.

You'll need the Blichman FermenFrench Coffee Press attachment then.

 

[Dgallo]

You're approaching the singularity point wherein the fermenter is top to bottom hops and the beer is only in between.

You'll need the Blichman FermenFrench Coffee Press attachment then.

I’m hoping cold crashing will drop them too the bottom. 6.5 gallons in the fv hoping to actually yield 5 gallons lol

 

[BrewZer]

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Interesting way to flavor your escargot...

Meanwhile, I pulled a gravity sample from the Hobyob Ale and it's sitting at 1.016, or 6.04% ABV -- about where I wanted it. Flavor is grainy, wheat apparent, with slight sweetness and slight hoppy finish. I'm looking forward to another week or two in the fermenter to clear some corn out of the aroma and haze from the body.

 

[mac_1103]

Racked my fig stout onto some rum-soaked oak chips. All I can taste at this point is a very poweerful bitterness. Hope I didn't go overboard with the hops and it mellows after a couple of months.

 

[Cameronl]

I made my eHERMS system a little bit safer today by adding wet-location switches for the water and wort pumps.

Before:

 

[Dgallo]

Racked my fig stout onto some rum-soaked oak chips. All I can taste at this point is a very poweerful bitterness. Hope I didn't go overboard with the hops and it mellows after a couple of months.

Could be the wood chips too. They are very tannin heavy, can def add a bitterness