What I did for beer today

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Packed and shipped 2 entries and started researching Belgian golden strong ale recipes for my next brew, checking what ingredients I have on hand etc.

 

[ba-brewer]

Went about a month without brewing so needed to do some catching up. Yesterday brewed grampamarks' Alt, today brewed an IPA to clear out some old hops, Simcoe and Azacca.

Also trying to revive some frozen yeast, not sure if it working yet or not so will give it a little extra time before dumping the starter.

 

[Langerz]

Kegged my first 10 gallon batch and carbonating now. First time using my two new conicals (did a previous 5 gallon batch with one).

Overall went well but had an issue with one keg lid not wanting to seal. It has a bit of a dent right around the lid opening so I think I’m taking it out of beer rotation. I had another one available luckily.

Also need to think through clean up process. There’s a lot of parts in two conicals lol

 

[Graham H]

Installed a gas ball lock pass-through in my keezer collar. If I need to have CO2 outside the keezer (transferring beer or purging a keg) I no longer need to keep the keezer lid open. Just hook up a jumper from the outside ball lock to the keg and connect a spare gas QD to the inside ball lock. Leak checked everything and it’s holding pressure.

One odd thing—when I built the gas jumper I used Duotight fittings. One of them had a grey body but a very loose fitting black collet. I couldn’t get the EVA line to seat. I pulled apart the DT fitting and found it had a black o-ring and a light colored o-ring. Has anyone else seen this? Wondering if this is a new design.

 

[day_trippr]

Kicked a keg last night so this morning I swapped in a freshie and cleaned the kicked keg on the Mark II.
Then got everything staged and ready to brew my 9th batch of Juicy Bits clone tomorrow...

Cheers!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I had won some imperial yeast pouches, but they were out of the Belgian strain I wanted. It’s for a competition so I’m going to spin this up, and if I’m not successful I’ll need to pitch some dry stuff.

 

[day_trippr]

Was concerned high winds might cause power problems but went ahead and struck anyway. A bit later than planned, which is the norm these days.

No errors so far, but it's early

Fly sparge nearly done...

So far so slow but no effups...

[edit] If a 1 quart over-sparge is the biggest screw up today I'm golden

On to the whirlpooling!

[last edit]

Hop Blocker doing its job, nice bright wort going in the carboys...

...and leaving a crapton of hop mush behind.

All pitched and gassed up and ready to rock

Cheers!

 

[Langerz]

Got 13.5 inches of snow yesterday so spent my off time mostly cleaning the driveway. Afterwards I did my best to try to kick a keg celebrating a big Iowa State basketball win (that I didn't make it to because of the snow).

Tonight I need to decide if I'm brewing this weekend. It's a three day weekend and I want to get a batch done, but also a busy one and supposed to get more nasty weather between now and then.

 

[Dog House Brew]

I wish I had an indoor setup. Going down to zero next week and this weekend will rain/snow.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Gave my starter more wort today.

 

[Skeeter686]

Hop Blocker doing its job, nice bright wort going in the carboys...

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At first, I didn't notice the distortion at the top of the picture, and I was like "he's pouring his wort into an imaginary carboy!"

 

[Skeeter686]

I wish I had an indoor setup. Going down to zero next week and this weekend will rain/snow.

You and me both.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

The yeast is alive and hungry! Almost through the low gravity wort from earlier today, so I‘ll give the usual starter wort before I retire for the night. Now to put my recipe to “paper” so-to-speak and I’ll be ready for a brew day very soon.

 

[day_trippr]

At first, I didn't notice the distortion at the top of the picture, and I was like "he's pouring his wort into an imaginary carboy!"

Lol! Just before I posted that I actually wondered "Wth?!" myself

Cheers!

 

[ba-brewer]

Crashed my starter made from frozen yeast. It took a little long to get going but once it did seemed to proceed normally for the second step.

No room in the fridge the frozen yeast so had to purge the jars of old yeast slurry and do some cleaning of the jars.

Kegged or transferred a Czech lager that was fermented inside a keg since back in early dec that had been crashing for about a month. Keeping the fermentor keg cold and thinking about doing a serial ferment right on top of the yeast cake.

 

[HM-2]

Cold crashed my West Coast DIPA in preparation for dry hopping.

 

[Drunken Monkey]

Got up early and bought my wife a doz roses before she woke up. Because, I was planning to brew later this afternoon and she’s not keen on the smell. Mission accomplished

 

[tdf]

Kegged a steam beer, sampled and started a soft crash on a split batch ipa (wlp002 and cellarscience cali). Both taste great so far!

 

[T Murph]

In the process of transferring a pale ale to a secondary. Brewed 12/29

 

[JAReeves]

In the process of transferring a pale ale to a secondary. Brewed 12/29
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That place looks like home-brew Disneyland.

 

[lumpher]

Worked on my next keezer today. Already cut the boards and coated them with primer and a little color, even though internal collar. Got the internal collar sealed in place today, and getting ready to add the external collar after cleaning it up a little.

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Cleaned up the entire basement, and super-deep-cleaned the fermentation closet in my basement office.

 

[Novacor]

Attaboy Brewing in Frederick MD was giving away wort to home brewers today. Picked up 9 gallons that are boiling right now.

 

[MaxStout]

There's a silver lining to everything, even this cold af weather. I have four 5-gal buckets of free malt I got from a local brewery, so I took them out to an unheated shed to spend some weevil-killing quality time for several days (it's not expected to get above zero until Wed.).

 

[day_trippr]

Wait...the free malt came with free weevils? Was that why they were free?

 

[Skeeter686]

Wait...the free malt came with free weevils? Was that why they were free?

Well, who would actually pay for weevils? Of course they were free!

 

[Rish]

https://www.thailandunique.com/canned-edible-insects-bugs/canned-palm-weevils

 

[MaxStout]

Wait...the free malt came with free weevils? Was that why they were free?

Preventative measures. You never know when they will show up until the weevils wobble but they don't fall down.

 

[lumpher]

There's a silver lining to everything, even this cold af weather. I have four 5-gal buckets of free malt I got from a local brewery, so I took them out to an unheated shed to spend some weevil-killing quality time for several days (it's not expected to get above zero until Wed.).

I'm a little jealous. You got free protein AND free grain. I never get free adjuncts...

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Today I made 12 litres of Belgian Blonde
2400g Europils malt
300g Vienna malt
100g Melanoidin malt
100g Biscuit malt
300g Corn sugar @ 10m
45 minute boil.
25g EKG @45m
25g Saaz @15m
5g Coriander seeds @ 15m
15g Bitter orange peel @ 15m
Crossmyloof Belgian yeast @ 22C