What I did for beer today

[HM-2]

Just finished mashing a WCIPA. Started heating my strike water originally planning on doing a Best Bitter, but digging through my hop selection I've got a couple of open bags of Citra and Amarillo I'd like to use up so whipped up a super quick recipe.

6.4%

42.5% Czech Pilsner
42.5% Golden Promise
10% Barke Munich
5% Crystal T50

1.062 OG
1.012 FG

WHC Old English (2 packs)
65 IBU

10 IBU of Flex bittering extract @30
10g each Amarillo Cryo/Citra Cryo at 15 minutes
15g each Amarillo Cryo/Citra Cryo/Strata at 5 minutes
25g/25g/45g Amarillo Cryo/Citra Cryo/Strata at 75°C whirlpool
50g/50g/40g Amarillo Cryo/Citra Cryo/Strata dry hop

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Brew 22.5 litres of Erdinger Weissbier
2600g Pilsner malt
2000g Wheat malt
200g Munich pale
100g Acid malt
10g Magnum at 60 minutes
11g EKG at 15 minutes
Mangrove Jack M20 yeast
OG 1048 BHE 70% (always lower on wheat beers)

 

[Wigglebutts Brewery]

Still exhausted.. Yesterday was club’s (Foam on the Range) Iron Brewer event at Brew Hut LHBS. 9 brewers threw darts to determine their product style, re-throws if you’d take a special ingredient. 6 extract and 3 all grain brews, a T-storm passed to the north adding to the excitement. Brewing done by 230pm with a couple hours of post event following…
Brews are judged by popular vote at Club picnic in August.
I brewed an all grain London Porter that I’ll serve off a beer engine…

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Bottled 2.7 gallons of a 6% amber ale. Tasted delicious right out of the fermenter

Then I added yeast nutrient to a seltzer (technically, it's only a sugar wash until it gets flavoring) that is taking forever (after 12 days, it's dropped from 1040 to 1030).

 

[day_trippr]

A bit of a potpourri day in the brewery. Started by swapping out a kicked keg of my Juicy Bits clone for a keg of my all-Citra hazy...

Found a long "lost" keg sitting in my keezer without a label. I had filled it and a few other kegs with water as kegs kicked over the fall to keep the keezer "balanced" while I was recovering from another leg surgery. Once I started brewing again this February I gradually replaced the water-filled kegs with beer-filled kegs, but somehow lost track of this straggler. Good timing as I need two empty kegs for my new batch of Juicy Bits in a few days. Fired up the Mark II and cleaned that keg and the one that kicked last night...

Mixed up some fresh 25% Phosphoric Acid...

Checked my refractometer calibration with DI water. Dead nuts zero point zero...

Did a full calibration of my Apera PH60 meter.

Time to chill...

Cheers!

 

[hout17]

Brewed a half batch of Ron Pattinson's 1971 Boddington's recipe; I hit all of my numbers can't wait! Sorry for the bad lighting in the pic.

 

[T Murph]

Transferred my Murphy Brown Ale to a keg tonight.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Today I am brewing a Black Cab (London Taxi) Stout
3600g Maris Otter
300g Chocolate malt
200g Dark Crystal Malt
200g Naked Oats
150g Roasted Barley
60 m mash at 67C
24g Admiral at 60 minutes
35g First Gold at 15 minutes
Nottingham style yeast.

 

[MograhmDeadbraid]

Working on updating some of my paper written recipes into brewing software. Getting ready for my trip, knocking out some last minute ideas and gathering reading material. Planning my time in Milwaukee with a few beer stops on kind of rough trip.

Oh, and making sure my laptop is ready for work on my new website

 

[hout17]

Brewed a half batch of Ron Pattinson's 1971 Boddington's recipe; I hit all of my numbers can't wait! Sorry for the bad lighting in the pic.

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I was appalled at my photo so here is a much better one hopefully of the Bodds fermenting (it's already dropped 8 points since yesterday evening). It smells divine by the way!

 

[garzlok]

buy CO2.....search for leak(s)

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Getting an entry ready for drop off later.

 

[ClaudiusB]

I am working on our 2024 beer list with the help of an Altbier.

 

[day_trippr]

Dry hopped 10 gallons of Julius clone, 6 ounces per 5 gallons, into soft-crashed fermentors.
Mega hop mush!

Cheers!

 

[leedspointbrew]

Added 2 drops of Bert's Beer Baster Azacca hop oil to a mediocre fizzy yellow homebrew as an experiment. Aroma much improved; flavor not so much.

 

[HM-2]

Dosed my impromptu WCIPA with Isinglass before heading overseas with work for a couple of days. I'll dry hop ot in my return

 

[Rish]

You're already overseas!

 

[day_trippr]

Kegged my 17th batch of Julius clone...

Cheers!

 

[tdf]

Kegged my 17th batch of Julius clone...

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Cheers!

Nice! Are you still making tweaks or pretty settled on the recipe/process?

 

[day_trippr]

To be honest I pretty much stopped changing things by the fifth batch or so. Mostly I was playing around with dry hop schedule but since Janish came out with the short and cool approach to dry hopping that's what I went with and have stuck with it since. The beer has been a solid favorite for a long time now...

Cheers!

 

[garzlok]

My 2" Hop Bong, Butterfly Valve, Clamps, and Gaskets arrived from BrewHardware while I was away on business....pretty excited to give it a whirl!

 

[Drinking Sensibly]

Kegged an Altbier

 

[catdaddy6676]

Just got my yeast starter going for tomorrow with wlp 810 (San Francisco lager)... I'll step it up in 12 hours

 

[HM-2]

Dry hopped my WCIPA

50g Cryo Citra
50g Cryo Amarillo
60g Strata

Not an especially typical WCIPA hopping bill and also a bit lower than I'd normally be shooting for (only 6g/L) but probably closer to 10 in reality accounting for the Cryo stuff.

Pretty excited about this one, it's smelling great.

 

[day_trippr]

Today I dry-hopped my 10th batch of Juicy Bits clone, then did a Star San purge of a pair of kegs for it to end up inside...

Cheers!

 

[Wigglebutts Brewery]

Bottled up a couple 12oz sixes for neighbor and a couple swing top bombers for 70th BDay party for another neighbor. All Vienna lagers, perfect for 90s we’re experiencing.

 

[Willy]

This is a thread intended for anyone that does anything related to home brewing. You can post any thing you want as long as it was what you did today. What I did was make a Stout. If you made a chiller, brew pot, ordered hops, ordered grain, brewed a beer, made your first beer, whatever... what did you do for beer today?

Today is Father's Day - so I am cooking up a Father's Day Nut Brown Ale.

I now keep photos in my wallet where my money used to be.

 

[MaxStout]

Bottled 4.5 gallons Sticke Altbier. Went from 1.070 to 1.014 (80% apparent att with Lalbrew Koln). Yeah, I had better than expected mash efficiency plus more boiloff, so what was to be a ~6% Alt is now 7.4%. Imperial Sticke Altbier!

 

[day_trippr]

Planning on a brew day Tuesday so I'm spinning up some 1318 from a stored over-build...

Cheers!

 

[flipster]

Finally I'm back from a week long vacation trip around the northern European countries: Sweden, Åland (look it up!) and Poland, and the subsequent business trip close to the Dutch border participating in a fair - and of course voting for the European elections.
I tasted some local beers all around there... although I had some Finish beer in Åland, because there's no local beer there because of the awful water taste from a brewers perspective (they even seem to import water for the coffee). The Polish cherry ale was very tasty, so I think about trying something similar in the near future by myself (the last try with fruits in a beer ended up gushing all over my kitchen table and sink.

And last but not least I bottled my Summer Lager /w ginger and orange peel.

Side note (without wanting to get (too?) political at this point), because I'm glad to share it and this is important to me, experience-wise: within the last two weeks I've started in Germany and I've been to Austria, Sweden, Åland (yes, kinda Finland), Poland, and the Netherlands - without the need of carrying my passport with me and being able to pay in 4 of these countries with the same currency. Being able to do that and just hop across borders to have a local beer there (and do some other stuff there as well) is totally awesome. So... I'm glad to be able to vote for this experience, because it's like a huge beer garden table: the more people sitting there and enjoying it, the better it gets.