What I did for beer today

[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]

View attachment 828640View attachment 828635I kept this little one from getting into hot water.
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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

 

[mac_1103]

Could be the wood chips too

I think you misunderstood - it just went onto the wood chips today. I tasted the dregs after racking, so no contact with the wood, but maybe I was just tasting a lot of yeast and whatever hop material made it into the fermenter.

 

[Dgallo]

I think you misunderstood - it just went onto the wood chips today. I tasted the dregs after racking, so no contact with the wood, but maybe I was just tasting a lot of yeast and whatever hop material made it into the fermenter.

Gotcha. I thought you dumped the rum and the wood chips In the beer, like a tincture as the rum would have extracted the tannin from the chips already so you would have tasted it immediately if that happened.

That said if you’re tasting yeasty dregs, it def will come off bitter. I’m sure you’ll be fine after aging on the chips

 

[mac_1103]

I thought you dumped the rum and the wood chips In the beer, like a tincture as the rum would have extracted the tannin from the chips already so you would have tasted it immediately if that happened.

Still a real good point even if it's not applicable in this case. Unfortunately, I'm sure I won't remember this when I need to.

 

[Stanley Thomas]

Ground 10 #s 2 row malt 1 1/2 #s crystal malt for a batch of beer tomorrow.
My first all grain my recipe! Relax don't worry have a homebrew!!

 

[ba-brewer]

Move my kolsch style beer to keg, tasted like should turn out pretty good. In the carboy it looked way too dark but in the hydro tube it seems about right.

 

[seanjwalker1]

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

Geeze ! Do you like a little beer with your hops ? . Wanted to tell you, last weekend at this new taphouse they have Von Trapp pilsner and Dunkel ! First time I ever saw it here in Michigan and it's really a decent beer.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

What comps?

SNERHC and Sower’s cup

 

[Stanley Thomas]

Ground 10 #s 2 row malt 1 1/2 #s crystal malt for a batch of beer tomorrow.
My first all grain my recipe! Relax don't worry have a homebrew!

 

[Dgallo]

Congrats @Stanley Thomas on your first batch

 

[Stanley Thomas]

Turned out very well 5 hrs grain in till clean up!

 

[broot]

Tested a new diy glycol chiller build tonight. Got tired of switching frozen jugs of water on my last lager. cooled water quickly, but froze up the evaporator. Glycol should be here Thursday.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Dry hopped my APA last night and while doing that, the brew jacket rod and sleeve slipped out of the bung … bam into the fermonter. Ef ef ef. Starsan on my hands I reached into grab the unsanitary end which did not touch the beer, rinsed and dried it throughly. I had recently cracked my 3 gallon fmonster so I checked for a leak on this one. Whew, I only felt dampness from condensation. I should probably post this in don’t do that. This should go into a keg today.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

10 litres of Exmoor Gold
2000g Maris Otter
100g Dextrose
20g EKG @30m
15g EKG @15m
Yeast was Nottingham equivalent.
OG 1052

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Still more in the keg wish I could just drink the rest and call it good. GOOD.

 

[JAReeves]

Harvested the Saaz and the Old Mission. The Comet isn’t ready yet.

Old Mission

Saaz

 

[Brewer dad]

Brewed my first raw ale today, Kornol. Made a juniper infusion too, my kitchen smelled like a Christmas tree. Could definitely pick up the juniper in the sample I’m excited to see how it turns out.

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

Added my Irish Red to the secondary to free up my SSBrewtec for today's brew ..secondary is tem controled via heat pad and SS brewtech cool stix hooked to an inkbird controler and my red neck chiller.

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

Did some house cleaning, upgraded my brew cart,by making my power supply for my steam trap part of the stand,put away some equipment I no longer use, and made my R/O water for next weeks brewday then ordered my grain bill for a spiced holiday whit beir... now I've cracked open an Octoberfest for a afternoon of football watching.

 

[grampamark]

Kegged the Altbier I brewed a couple of weeks ago at the city house.

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Drank the very last bottle of my bourbonated imperial stout. Brewed in January, bottled in mid-February, it was pretty harsh until late June. Tasted AMAZING late July. Was saving the last bottle for weeks and weeks until I couldn't wait any more...

Sadly, it's not as good as it was back in July (tho certainly not bad). I suspect it's oxidation creeping in -- I'm using plastic buckets, and was still unable to resist peeking in the bucket when this one was brewing.